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

Sarah Brown 26 Jun 2024

Elon Musk could avert global species extinction with only a portion of his wealth

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jun 2024

Fraud and corruption drive illegal wildlife trade in the Amazon

Carla Ruas 18 Jun 2024
A white-headed vulture, soaring wings outstretched against a clear blue sky. (Trigonoceps occipitalis) at Mole National Park, Ghana. Image by Nik Borrow via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Action plan to save West African vultures targets threat from belief-based use

Sean Mowbray 18 Jun 2024
Black-headed parrots (Lorius lory) are illegally traded freely in the market around the PT IMIP Morowali Nickel Smelter Industry, Central Sulawesi. Photo: Riza Salman/Mongabay Indonesia.

In eastern Indonesia, forest bird trade flies quietly under social media radar

Riza Salman 11 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

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

Jeremy Hance 31 May 2024
Elephants

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

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 May 2024

Max sentence request for Javan rhino poacher too low, experts say

Jeremy Hance 24 May 2024

Innovative Nepali PSA seeks emotional connection to save red pandas

Abhaya Raj Joshi 24 May 2024
Sharks in the coral reefs of Jardines de la Reina, Cuba.

Undercover in a shark fin trafficking ring: Interview with wildlife crime fighter Andrea Crosta

Philip Jacobson 16 May 2024
A pangolin fitted with a radio transmitter prior to re-release.

On foot and by drone, radio tracking helps rehabilitate pangolins in Vietnam

Claudia Geib 10 May 2024

CITES halts Ecuador’s shark trade; trafficking persists amid lack of transparency

Carlos Chunga 6 May 2024
Sonam Tashi Lama from Red Panda Network receives the Whitley Award from Princess Anne, patron of the Whitley Fund for Nature in London. Image courtesy WFN.

Owl conservationist Raju Acharya wins Whitley Award in hat trick for Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 3 May 2024
Dendrobium longicornu orchid flower.

It’s tough to be a wild orchid: Interview with conservation biologist Reshu Bashyal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Apr 2024

A single gang of poachers may have killed 10% of Javan rhinos since 2019

Jeremy Hance 26 Apr 2024
Male Javan rhino calf named Luther with his mother in 2020.

New calf, same threats: Javan rhinos continue to reproduce despite perils

Jeremy Hance 19 Apr 2024
Savannah elephants at Majete NP, Malawi. Image by Peter Steward via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Malawi police arrest elephant poachers in Kasungu National Park

Charles Mpaka 18 Apr 2024
A tapir amid a harvested cornfield in northern Mato Grosso, west-central Brazil, in a transition area between the Cerrado and the Amazon.

Tapirs in Brazil’s Cerrado inspire research on human health & pesticides

Michael Esquer 10 Apr 2024

Rewilding program ships eggs around the world to restore Raja Ampat zebra sharks

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Apr 2024

‘The Javan tiger still exists’: DNA find may herald an extinct species’ comeback

Christopel Paino, Rahmadi Rahmad 4 Apr 2024
Long-tailed macaques living in the mountains of Cambodia's Battambang province

Cambodian official acquitted in trial that exposed monkey-laundering scheme

Gerald Flynn 29 Mar 2024
A farmer in a rice field.

Beneath the surface, a toxic tide threatens Bangladesh’s water lifeline

Mahadi Al Hasnat 28 Mar 2024
African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana). Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons.

Conservation comeback in Central African Republic’s Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park (commentary)

Dodé H.M. Houehounha, Ichu G. Ichu, Paul Telfer, Felin Twagirashyaka, Jennica Betsch, Jean Hugé, Baudouin Michel, Cédric Vermeulen 26 Mar 2024

Nepal’s release of endangered crocs into historical habitat raises concerns

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Mar 2024
turtles Peru

In Peru, conservationists and authorities struggle to get turtle eggs off the menu

Ryan Biller 18 Mar 2024

Peru’s illegal pet monkey trade is also an infection superhighway

Carla Ruas 14 Mar 2024

Java rice farmers suffer crop failure as copper mine pollutes local irrigation

Asad Asnawi 11 Mar 2024
Wildfire on Kangaroo Island, Australia.

Studies still uncovering true extent of 2019-20 Australia wildfire catastrophe

Mongabay Haze Beat 11 Mar 2024

Rehabilitation of Guatemalan fauna highlights opacity of illegal wildlife trade

Sandra Cuffe 7 Mar 2024
A juvenile northern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca leonina) held in a cage outside a gas station in Cambodia. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Impunity for Cambodia’s exotic pet owners as trade outpaces legislation

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 7 Mar 2024

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