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Kenya investigates mysterious deaths of 15 elephants in Amboseli

Lynet Otieno 29 Jul 2026
Tigers are territorial and must strike out to find their own territory when they leave their mothers at 18 months-two years of age and adult cats require large home ranges, making safe pathways between protected areas critical for their survival. Image © Steve Winter/Big Cat Voices.

India’s tiger numbers are rising. Protecting their pathways is next

Nirmal Ghosh 28 Jul 2026
A pair of orphaned orangutans in Sabah.

Major orangutan study finds Sumatran population fell nearly 20% despite slower forest loss

Hans Nicholas Jong, Junaidi Hanafiah 27 Jul 2026
A desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) in Joshua Tree National Park. Image courtesy of Mojave Land Trust.

California solar project threatens Mojave wildlife corridor, scientists say

Hyeyoon Cho 24 Jul 2026
Jefferson Salamander (Ambystoma jeffersonianum)

Why a New England city is building tunnels to protect an imperiled salamander

Alex Megerle 22 Jul 2026
For some animals, roadways act like fences, and they don’t even attempt to cross. Others, like bears, moose and bighorn sheep, and some smaller species, may attempt to cross, though it may prove deadly. Image by Jane Palmer.

How to stitch a massive wildlife corridor through the Rocky Mountains

Jane Palmer 22 Jul 2026
A black-faced black spider monkey (Ateles chamek) crossing one of the multilayered bridges. Image courtesy of Sergio Leal.

Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

Suzana Camargo 21 Jul 2026
A split-view image of an underwater seascape and coastline of Mussau Island, within the Manus Marine Protected Area, Papua New Guinea.

Melanesian nations announce intention to create massive ocean reserve corridor

Ashley Yeong 17 Jul 2026
A bull elk reintroduced to Kentucky. Image courtesy of Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife.

‘Beasts of the East’ chronicles the unheralded restoration successes of America’s eastern wildlife

Erik Hoffner 16 Jul 2026

How effective are canopy bridges really?

Bobby Bascomb 9 Jul 2026

A win-win, animal crossings make roads safer for wildlife and people

Mongabay.com 9 Jul 2026

Dusky langurs start using new canopy bridge in Malaysia’s Penang Island

Naina Rao 6 Jul 2026
A Florida panther.

Wildlife’s unpredictable movements make climate-change planning difficult

Gloria Dickie 1 Jul 2026

One mountain lion changed the food web in a California suburb, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jun 2026

How leopards and wolves share the same Himalayan valley: Study

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jun 2026
A yellow-bellied wattle-eye (Platysteira concreta), a bird of the rainforest understorey, sits on its nest in the Tai National Park. Image courtesy of Michele Menegon.

‘Rare animals, photography and Instagram’ could help an Ivorian rainforest

Ryan Truscott 23 Jun 2026

Old fire hoses become lifelines for Malaysia’s endangered langurs

Mongabay.com 23 Jun 2026
Christine Kouman with a slender-snouted crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus). Image courtesy of Agata Staniewicz.

Côte d’Ivoire’s tree-climbing crocodile needs to be protected, scientist says

Ryan Truscott 19 Jun 2026
Leopard (Panthera pardus) in Taï National Park, Côte d’ivoire in 2026. Image courtesy of OIPR/EBURCO.

The quest to reconnect imperiled rainforest in West Africa

Ryan Truscott 15 Jun 2026
Shoebill stork (Balaeniceps rex), Murchison Falls NP, Uganda. Image by Kyla Marino via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

East African Crude Oil Pipeline threatens wetlands, wildlife corridors: Report

Victoria Schneider 12 Jun 2026
Great Cumbung Swamp

Indigenous organization buys wetland property in Australia to help conserve it

Megan Strauss 12 Jun 2026
These sheep, photographed on a highway in Canada, may have been drawn to the road by deicing salt. Image by Ben Goldfarb.

The long and winding road to safe highways: Inside the global movement to reconnect habitat

Ben Goldfarb 10 Jun 2026
The Yavarí-Tapiche Territorial Corridor from above on the Peruvian side, near the Peru-Brazil border.

In Peru and Brazil, extractivism threatens Indigenous people in isolation: Report

Aimee Gabay 5 Jun 2026
A desert pampas cat (Leopardus garleppi). A genetic study caused researchers to raise an alarm over a small, unique, dry mangrove-adapted population being genetically unhealthy, putting it at risk for local extinction. Image courtesy of the Peruvian Desert Cat Project.

Genetic study reveals extinction risk for unique mangrove-adapted pampas cat

Sean Mowbray 5 Jun 2026
Yap conducts canopy bridge education. Image by Wong Hui Yi/Langur Project Penang.

Building bridges for human-wildlife coexistence: Interview with Yap Jo Leen

Philip Jacobson, Isabelle Leong 27 May 2026
The composition of Queensland’s rainforests would change without cassowaries dispersing seeds, and some plants may become greatly restricted or even threatened with extinction. Image by the Gondwana Rainforest Trust.

Amid efforts to save Australia’s southern cassowaries, their numbers remain unknown

Cooper Williams 26 May 2026
The Common wombat (Vombatus ursinus) frequents the western side of Cawleys Bridge, and it is hoped the bridge will reinforce the wombat population in Royal National Park. Image courtesy of Simone Cottrell / DCCEEW.

Above an Australian highway, a bridge reconnects wilderness for quolls, koalas and other animals

Starre Vartan 22 May 2026
Elephants (Loxodonta africana) in Malawi in 2006. Image by st georges via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Electric fences help farmers and elephants coexist in Zambian borderlands

Ryan Truscott 20 May 2026
A female langur with her baby crosses an artificial canopy bridge called Numi’s Crossing along Lembah Permai road in the Tanjung Bungah area of George Town, Penang Island. Image by Mohd Rasfan / AFP.

In Malaysia, a bridge helps endangered langurs and humans coexist

Philip Jacobson, Isabelle Leong 20 May 2026
ount Elgon, Uganda. Image by Rod Waddington via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Elephants return to Mount Elgon side of Uganda after four decades

Benjamin Jumbe 18 May 2026
Installing an IFAW-supported temporary solar fence in Chikomeni chiefdom, within the Malawi-Zambia Transfrontier Conservation Area, to deter human-elephant conflict. Image courtesy of IFAW.

Radio and satellite alerts help Zambian farmers live with dangerous wildlife

Ryan Truscott 15 May 2026
A captive Persian leopard in a British zoo, 2005.

Endangered Persian leopards persist across borders, despite hunters and landmines

Kayleigh Long 15 May 2026

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