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brown spider monkey Colombia

Forest corridors protect Colombia’s critically endangered brown spider monkey

Sean Mowbray 2 Jul 2025
jaguar

Jaguar recovery unites Brazil and Argentina in conservation effort

Sarah Brown 11 Jun 2025
An individual  of a newly discovered gecko species in Nepal now named Karan's bent-toed gecko after veteran Nepali herpetologist Karan Bahadur Shah. Image courtesy of Santosh Bhattarai,

Three new gecko species described in Nepal: Interview with herpetologist Santosh Bhattarai

Abhaya Raj Joshi 21 Mar 2025
A Bharatpur Metropolitan City truck ferries municipal waste inside the Barandabhar forest in Chitwan. Image by Rajesh Ghimire.

Chitwan city using Indo-Nepal wildlife corridor for waste dump

Rajesh Ghimire 11 Mar 2025

Agriculture, illegal ranching and roads threaten the jaguar in Mesoamerica

Astrid Arellano 3 Feb 2025
Fresh forest clearance inside Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary signals the beginning of an infrastructure project that will bisect the forest. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

New transmission lines cut a Cambodian rainforest sanctuary in half

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 27 Nov 2024

From prison psychologist to wildlife whisperer: Interview with Susan Eirich

Liz Kimbrough 18 Sep 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

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

Ryan Truscott 28 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
Elephants

Exploring the science of Asian elephants: Interview with Sanjeeta Sharma Pokharel

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 May 2024
Clouded leopard

Borneo and Sumatra megaprojects are carving up clouded leopard forests

Carolyn Cowan 29 Apr 2024
Elephant and calf in Moremi National Park, Botswana. Image by serenea_tang via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Analysis of largest elephant surveys ever shows stable population, but disturbing trends

Jim Tan 9 Apr 2024

Rewilding in Argentina helps giant anteaters return to south Brazil

Sarah Brown 12 Feb 2024
A wolverine. Image courtesy of MBarrueto via the Creative Commons, CC 2.0.

Let’s give the wary wolverine some space (commentary)

Gabe Schepens 12 Jan 2024
A group of elephants observed during the 2022 KAZA aerial survey. Photo courtesy of Dylan Blew and Ty-Mason James/KAZA Elephant Survey.

Count, connect, conserve: Southern Africa elephant survey points the way (commentary)

Russell Taylor / Robin Naidoo / Lisa Steel / Michael Knight / Steven A. Osofsky 3 Jan 2024
Sloth bear in Nepal

No safe space for Nepal’s sloth bears outside protected areas, study finds

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Nov 2023
Community tree nursery

How scientists and a community are bringing a Bornean river corridor back to life

Carolyn Cowan 22 Nov 2023
An endangered Texas ocelot (Leopardus pardalis)

Texas ocelot breeding and reintroduction may offer new route to recovery

Erik Iverson 21 Nov 2023
Cattle and zebras share grazing land inside the Enonkishu Conservancy, southern Kenya. Image by David Njagi for Mongabay.

A mobile solution for Kenyan pastoralists’ livestock is a plus for wildlife, too

David Njagi 6 Nov 2023

Road upgrade through remote Tanzanian park threatens wildlife (commentary)

Tim Caro 31 Aug 2023
Long-tailed macaque. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Skepticism as Cambodia expands protected areas by more than a million hectares

Gerald Flynn 29 Aug 2023
An Old English Longhorn at Knepp. Disturbance from large herbivores has restored this landscape by reactivating natural processes that foster healthy ecology.

From debt to diversity: A journey of rewilding, carbon capture and hope

Elizabeth Fitt 9 Aug 2023
Virtual fencing collars emit a warning sound when an animal approaches the invisible boundary. If the animal does not respond to the sound, the collar will deliver a small electric shock. Image courtesy of Vence.

Virtual fences can benefit both ranchers and wildlife

Ruth Kamnitzer 19 Jul 2023
Tigers in Nepal. Photo credit: DNPWC/NTNC/Panthera/WWF/ZSL

Tigers cross borders but struggle to move safely within Nepal, study suggests

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Jun 2023
A Bornean orangutan in Indonesia

Why did the orangutan cross the toll road to Indonesia’s new capital city?

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Jun 2023
A lioness with cubs

Return of the lions: Large protected areas in Africa attract apex predator

Petro Kotzé 13 Jun 2023
A Baird's tapir walking at night through her natural habitat.

Rewilding animals could be key for climate: Report

Liz Kimbrough 30 Mar 2023
A swimming cougar in British Columbia.

Island-hopping cougars redraw boundaries of big cats’ potential range

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Mar 2023
Jake Strouf and his wife were driving in the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge when they got the rare sighting of ocelots crossing the road. Image courtesy of Jake Strouf.

In South Texas, watch out for ocelots crossing roads (commentary)

Sharon Wilcox 13 Mar 2023
Aplastodiscus leucopygius.

Restore linked habitat to protect tropical amphibians from disease: Study

Sean Mowbray 8 Feb 2023
A capped langur crosses a canopy bridge.

Wildlife at risk in Bangladesh as roads run rampant through protected forests

Maksuda Aziz 21 Dec 2022