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A Verreaux’s sifaka dancing.

World Lemur Day: How can we save these primates’ forest homes?

David Brown 30 Oct 2026
Bin Maya Gurung spins wool on the rooftop of the enterprise’s headquarters in Naya Padampur on May 19, 2026.

Given a chance, women-led microenterprises uplift Nepali communities & conservation

Emma White 30 Oct 2026
A Morelet’s crocodile (Crocodylus moreletii) rests in the wetlands near Tecolutla, Mexico. The species is native to the Atlantic regions of Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. Image by Rafael Rodríguez Mesa.

Aztec methods and crocodiles: How biologists are restoring mangroves in Mexico

Laura Allen 30 Oct 2026
A group of volunteers walk towards a tree mapping area.

How citizen scientists are mapping Pune’s trees, with hopes of a greener future

Stephin Thomas 30 Oct 2026
A leopard in the Central Zoo, Nepal.

After Botswana, Nepal tries artificial scent marking to fend big cats off villages

Deepak Adhikari 30 Oct 2026
Deforested area in Serra do Pingano, Angola. Image by Raffael Ernst – Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung via Green Heart of Africa.

Angola designates Serra do Pingano as a protected area amid rapid forest loss

David Tjyakala 30 Oct 2026
Botswana’s previous governments said relocating the San would improve living conditions and ease the delivery of public services. Justice Minister Nelson Ramaotwana says those policies “have failed thus far.” Image courtesy Michael Taylor/Anthropos Africa.

A historic land restitution process offers new hope for Botswana’s Indigenous San

David Akana 30 Oct 2026

Legal loopholes and weak enforcement leave India’s exotic pet trade hard to police

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2026
A New Zealand long-tailed bat (Mystacina tuberculata). Image © hrubbo via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Bat Week: Celebrating ecologically important, poorly understood mammals

David Brown 30 Oct 2026

Zambia’s edible insect tradition offers a potential boost to food security

David Brown 29 Oct 2026
A giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis)

Between revered and hunted: The journey of human-otter coexistence in the Amazon

Sarah Brown 29 Oct 2026
A tiny sampling of tropical beetle diversity displayed at the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. Image by H. Zell/CC 3.0.

If we don’t start counting insect populations, we won’t know what we’re losing (commentary)

Prayan Pokharel 29 Oct 2026
A fisher with an outboard motor on Pemba island, Tanzania. Image courtesy of Adrian Ponsard/WCS.

‘Design conservation with those who will live with it’: 30 by 30 in Africa

Sasha Nunneley 29 Oct 2026
Burned forest area in Mozambique's Zambézia province. Image by Far Vubil.

Fires and weak monitoring hinder reforestation efforts in Mozambique

Far Vubil 29 Oct 2026

Fishing cat rescue-and-release offers potential model for conservation in Bangladesh

Naina Rao 29 Oct 2026

Fishers in eastern Indonesia struggle as rough seas keep them ashore

Basten Gokkon 29 Oct 2026
Clouded leopard

‘Action on the ground’ in Laos is needed to recover large mammals, protect more species

Carolyn Cowan 29 Oct 2026
A koala.

‘Historic win’: Australian state approves national koala park despite controversial funding

Paul Harvey 29 Oct 2026

Eradicating invasive bass gives endangered South African fish room to recover

Barry Christianson 28 Oct 2026

US public lands tracker highlights the collective impact of Trump policies

Bobby Bascomb 28 Oct 2026
Wildfires are devastating, but fire can also be a rejuvenating force for many organisms and landscapes.

As wildfires rage, Canadian researchers study the life that comes after

Anna Dulisse 28 Oct 2026
Md. Mizan Mia, a resident of Katanishar village of Sarail subdistrict, calms his 9-month-old female Sarail hound at his residence. Image by Kamran Reza Chowdhury.

A rare hound with a storied past faces an uncertain future in Bangladesh

Kamran Reza Chowdhury 28 Oct 2026
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This flower smells like rotting flesh

Izzy Sasada 28 Oct 2026
Eurasian Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) at Kalaibiami I, Rivers state, Nigeria. Image © Adedotun Ajibade via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

As the sea swallows a Nigerian community, migratory bird habitat disappears

Amir Sadiq 28 Oct 2026
Sunda pangolin

Pangolin scale lawsuit in Indonesia could shake up how wildlife traffickers pay

Carolyn Cowan 28 Oct 2026

Artificial nests help Hong Kong’s rare cockatoos cope with a ‘housing crisis’

Mongabay.com 28 Oct 2026

A Thai rescue center gives injured leopard cat cubs a second chance

Mongabay.com 28 Oct 2026
A persian leopard. Image via Peoples Trust for Endangered Species.

Persian leopards hang on in the Caucasus despite landmines

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Oct 2026
A vendor in Pakistan pushes his cart through smog in Lahore

In Pakistan’s Punjab, toxic air threatens wildlife amid a monitoring blind spot

Muhammad Talal 27 Oct 2026

Baby orangutans in India expose illegal wildlife trade as experts question a billionaire’s zoo

Associated Press 27 Oct 2026
A file photo shows a green sea turtle on a coral reef in Tañon Strait, a protected seascape between the Philippine islands of Negros and Cebu. Image courtesy of Tañon Strait Philippines.

The Philippine lawyer who beat an oil giant: Rose Liza Eisma-Osorio on defending Tañon Strait

Maverick Avila 27 Oct 2026

Five new mussel species reveal how much biodiversity US rivers still conceal

Liz Kimbrough 27 Oct 2026

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