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Asian golden cat caught on camera in Nepal.

Asian golden cat range expands, but declines continue amid rising threats

Sean Mowbray 7 Nov 2025
Video of a brown rat catching a bat at Segeberger Kalkberg. Image courtesy of Gloza-Rausch et al., 2025 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Europe’s under-pressure bats face ‘astonishing’ threat: Ambush by rats

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Nov 2025

Expedition charts Cook Islands seafloor, amid scrutiny over mining motives

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Nov 2025
Lyle’s flying fox

Vietnam’s protected areas fall short of safeguarding most bats, study finds

Carolyn Cowan 6 Nov 2025
People walking through Rothbury Estate. Image courtesy of John Millard.

Wildlife charities a third of the way to buying key UK nature refuge

Shanna Hanbury 5 Nov 2025
Blackchin tilapia

Thai agri giant CPF sues activist over claims linking it to invasive fish outbreak

Carolyn Cowan 4 Nov 2025
Long-tailed macaques living in the mountains of Cambodia's Battambang province

The price of a monkey

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Oct 2025

Night dives reveal hidden alliances between young fish and larval anemones

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 31 Oct 2025
Murina baletei. Image courtesy of D. Balete.

Six new tube-nosed bats described from the Philippines

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2025
Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba). Image by Dr. Wayne Trivelpiece via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

Norway’s proposal to double krill harvests raises tension at Antarctic conservation summit

Francesco De Augustinis 30 Oct 2025
A turkey moray in a coral reef in Mauritius.

In Mauritius, an NGO is tracking the sex life of corals to save them

Malavika Vyawahare 30 Oct 2025

Bird flu hits migrating cranes hard in Germany as the virus flares up

Associated Press 29 Oct 2025

With ‘terrifying’ trade in African hornbills, scientists call for increased protection

Spoorthy Raman 29 Oct 2025

Landmark conviction exposes Sri Lanka’s deep-rooted illegal elephant trade

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Oct 2025
Rüppell's vultures pictured in Kenya’s Masai Mara — these endangered birds raise only one chick per year. Image by Thomas Fuhrmann via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Colony of world’s highest-flying bird under threat in Uganda

Ryan Truscott, Musinguzi Blanshe 29 Oct 2025

In search of a real wild date (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 29 Oct 2025
A Bornean orangutan. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Why facts alone won’t save the planet

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Oct 2025
Austin and his technician, Nathan Tang, searching the sand dunes for insects at Death Valley National Park

California’s grand insect census

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Oct 2025

Virus outbreak deepens rift over return of Spix’s macaw to Brazil

Miguel Monteiro 28 Oct 2025
Visitors to a safari park in Gazipur enjoy a ride on an elephant.

Bangladesh to reintroduce captive elephants to the wild

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Oct 2025
A beaver explores its new home at Tásmam Koyóm in 2023.

California learns from its beaver reintroductions

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Oct 2025
Christmas Island shrew

In memory of the Christmas Island shrew

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Oct 2025
Shoebills are one of the endangered species that rely on Lake Victoria in Uganda. Image by Emilie Chen via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0).

Has Uganda done enough to prevent pollution of Lake Albert by oil drilling? (commentary)

Robert Agenonga 24 Oct 2025
White handed gibbon

International Gibbon Day: Spotlighting the overlooked, underprotected ‘lesser apes’

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Oct 2025
The Andean cat (Leopardus jacobita), an endangered species and one of the rarest felines in the Americas, in the central Andes of Chile. Image courtesy of Rodrigo Villalobos.

Researchers fear Chile copper project may threaten rare Andean cat population

Aimee Gabay 23 Oct 2025
The Pujada Nickel Mining Project leaves an open-wide brown pit, sandwiched between the Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary and Pujada Bay.

Nickel mining damage near UNESCO site stirs outrage in southern Philippines

Bong S. Sarmiento 23 Oct 2025
A harp seal on ice.

Arctic seals edge closer to extinction as sea ice vanishes

Keith Anthony Fabro 23 Oct 2025
An elephant in Assam's Kaziranga National Park. India's Assam state has one of the highest incidents of human-elephant conflicts.

AI system eavesdrops on elephants to prevent deadly encounters in India

Spoorthy Raman 23 Oct 2025
A snow leopard by Ismail Shariff/Snow Leopard Trust via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).

International Snow Leopard Day: Conservation and coexistence in India and Nepal

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Oct 2025
Christmas Island, Australia. Image by David Stanley via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)

Christmas Island shrew officially declared extinct: IUCN

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Oct 2025
Members of the Nazareth Baptist (Shembe) Church in South Africa wearing both wildlife skins and synthetic Heritage Furs provided in partnership with Panthera. Image courtesy of Gareth Whittington-Jones/Panthera.

Study reveals overlooked cultural threat to wildcats across Africa

Charles Mpaka 22 Oct 2025
Birds flock in the foreground against wind turbines at the Spearville Wind Farm Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, in Spearville, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Radar study shows when offshore turbines pose greatest risks to migrating birds

Edward Carver 21 Oct 2025

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