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Spix’s macaws in a specially built enclosure at São Paulo Zoo in Brazil. The zoo currently holds 27 of the birds, with a maximum capacity of 44. But this on its own wouldn’t be enough to supply the rewilding target of 20 birds per year. Image courtesy of São Paulo Zoo. Used in article 'For ‘extinct’ Spix’s macaw, successful comeback is overshadowed by uncertainty'

For ‘extinct’ Spix’s macaw, successful comeback is overshadowed by uncertainty

Bernardo Araujo 15 Jul 2024
Jaguar in a river in Mexico. Photo credit: Gerardo Ceballos

Shrimp farms threaten Mexico’s mangroves and the jaguars that inhabit them

Sarah Brown 11 Jul 2024

In Peru, conservationists and archaeologists unite to save a threatened gecko

James Hall 10 Jul 2024

Frog ‘saunas’ may help threatened frogs fight off deadly fungus

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jul 2024

Africa’s great ape sanctuaries are feeling the heat from climate change

Tina Deines 5 Jul 2024

Across Mexico, World Cup infrastructure threatens biodiversity and communities

Alice Pistolesi, Monica Pelliccia 2 Jul 2024

Study: A third of Africa’s great apes at risk from mining of transition metals

Anna Dulisse 28 Jun 2024
Red diamond rattlesnakes, native to southwest California in the U.S. and Baja California in Mexico, are important predators in their ecosystems.

Studying snakes without rattling them? There’s now tech for that

Abhishyant Kidangoor 28 Jun 2024
The four-person field research team.

34,000-year-old termite mounds in South Africa are still being used

Ruth Kamnitzer 28 Jun 2024

‘Explorer elephants’ in transfrontier conservation area offer solution to tree damage

Ryan Truscott 28 Jun 2024

Camera-trap study brings the lesula, Congo’s cryptic monkey, into focus

Ruth Kamnitzer 27 Jun 2024

Reintroduction project brings golden parakeets back to the skies of Brazil’s Belém

Sarah Brown 26 Jun 2024
A dragonfly perched on a leaf in Thailand.

Reimagining insect research: Interview with Roel van Klink and Leandro Nascimento

Abhishyant Kidangoor 24 Jun 2024

Peru puts endemic fog oasis under protection

Dan Collyns 19 Jun 2024

Indigenous people in the Amazon are helping to build bridges & save primates

Suzana Camargo 19 Jun 2024
The Florida corridor would preserve myriad landscapes and ecosystems. Image by Ethan Coyle/Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation.

To conserve large landscapes like the Florida Wildlife Corridor, payments for ecosystem services could be key (commentary)

Joshua Daskin and Jen Guyton 19 Jun 2024

Fraud and corruption drive illegal wildlife trade in the Amazon

Carla Ruas 18 Jun 2024
A greater necklaced laughingthrush (Pterorhinus pectoralis).

Nepal’s legal barriers hinder genetic research, forcing scientists to improvise

Abhaya Raj Joshi 14 Jun 2024

In Brazil, conservationists try to save one of the world’s most endangered cats

Sarah Brown 13 Jun 2024
A fire salamander, vulnerable on the IUCN list.

Know your salamander: To conserve amphibians, study their intelligence (commentary)

Deyatima Ghosh 13 Jun 2024

Death of Umi sparks concern over electric threat to Sumatran elephants

Teguh Suprayitno 12 Jun 2024
Exhausted black kites

Black days for black kites in Bangladesh’s growing capital city

Sadiqur Rahman 10 Jun 2024
A Javan rhino spotted on camera trap in Ujung Kulon National Park.

Javan rhino poacher gets 12 years in record sentence for wildlife crime in Indonesia

Jeremy Hance 7 Jun 2024
A tiger in the mangroves.

Media must help reduce conflict between tigers and people in the Sundarbans (commentary)

Mafizul Islam 6 Jun 2024

On a remote island, Honduras plans mega-prison in an unstudied reserve

Maxwell Radwin 5 Jun 2024

Amazon deforestation threatens one of Brazil’s key pollinators, study shows

Molly Herring 5 Jun 2024
In 2021, a resident of the small Ecuadorian town of Simiátug found a male frog putatively belonging to the long-lost species Atelopus guanujo.

A tale of two frogs: The tough uphill battle for rediscovered species

Katarina Zimmer 4 Jun 2024

Poachers claim to have killed one-third of all Javan rhinos, Indonesian police say

Jeremy Hance 31 May 2024

Scientists and farmers restore Aztec-era floating farms that house axolotls

Aminetth Sánchez 31 May 2024
Unlike most other felids, the jaguarundi is active during the day.

Elusive jaguarundi inspires biologists to share data across Latin America

Ruth Kamnitzer 30 May 2024
Two male specimen of the Devils Hole Pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis) photographed in the Devil's Hole, Nevada. Photo courtesy of Olin Feuerbacher/ USFWS (CC BY 2.0)

A tiny desert fish hits a 25 year population high in one of Earth’s harshest environments

Liz Kimbrough 30 May 2024
A rainbow lorikeet

Indigenous people and NGO grow a wildlife corridor in the world’s oldest rainforest

Claire Turrell 30 May 2024

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