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Elephant society is dynamic and very complex. Image by O’Connell’s & Rodwell.

Male African elephants develop distinct personality traits as they age, study finds

Leocadia Bongben 25 Feb 2025
Masked Tree Frog (Smilisca phaeota) in the Ecuadorian Choco.

An Ecuadorian hotspot shows how forests can claw back from destruction

Ruth Kamnitzer 24 Feb 2025
Researchers examine a dead olive ridley at Cox's Bazar Beach.

Conservationists suspect fishing nets, increased tourism for sea turtle deaths in Bangladesh

Abu Siddique 24 Feb 2025
Yellow-breasted bunting

How birds deepen our awareness of nature: Interview with Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok

Carolyn Cowan 24 Feb 2025
An endangered eastern chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii).

DRC government directive triggers panic in ape sanctuaries amid ongoing conflict

Spoorthy Raman 21 Feb 2025

Study links African lion survival to prey availability

Charles Mpaka 21 Feb 2025

‘Silent killing machines’: How water canals threaten wildlife across the globe

Aldem Bourscheit 20 Feb 2025
A Chinese pangolin in Guangdong, China

Pangolin burrows are biodiversity magnets in burnt forests, study shows

Spoorthy Raman 20 Feb 2025

Vicuña poop creates biodiversity hotspots as glaciers retreat rapidly

Sean Mowbray 20 Feb 2025
The team that developed the kit has put it into the hands of conservationists to collect samples from lakes across Vietnam.

Can a new DNA test save the world’s rarest turtle?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 19 Feb 2025
An ocelot walks tentatively into a pre-release enclosure.

Getting rewilding right with the reintroduction of small wildcats

Sean Mowbray 18 Feb 2025

Conservation groups look for new strategies, tech to halt vaquita decline

Maxwell Radwin 17 Feb 2025

Wave of arrests as Madagascar shuts down tortoise trafficking network

Rivonala Razafison 17 Feb 2025
A fisherman poses with a crocodile belonging to PT Perkasa Jagat Karunia that was recaptured.

Order restored in Indonesia as fishers recapture scores of farmed crocodiles

Yogi Eka Sahputra 17 Feb 2025

Conservation education is about people too: Interview with Gabon’s Léa Moussavou

Fanta Mabo 14 Feb 2025
Malir River near Damloti check dam, Karachi suburbs.

Ecology vs. development in Karachi: Interview with photographer Salman Baloch

Waqas Alam Angaria 14 Feb 2025

In the high Andes, a dream to restore a special forest takes root

Antonio José Paz Cardona 14 Feb 2025
Tropical botanist Andrea Bianchi examines a species of Anthocleista in Ngezi Forest Reserve. Unlike the species that grows in Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains, the ones he and colleagues found in Ngezi are armed with spines, more akin to a species that grows in West Africa. Image by Ryan Truscott for Mongabay.

Forest of rare trees in Zanzibar now earmarked for ‘eco-resort’

Ryan Truscott 13 Feb 2025

Mammals, birds in Vietnam’s rare coastal forests revealed by camera traps

Carolyn Cowan 13 Feb 2025
Dora rewards Nandera with a mixture of avocado, banana and pellets.

Meet the giant rats fighting wildlife trafficking

Lucia Torres 12 Feb 2025
A black flying fox (Pteropus alecto) feeding on a palm tree in Brisbane, Australia.

Declining biodiversity and emerging diseases are entwined, more study needed

Ruth Kamnitzer 12 Feb 2025
A long-tailed macaque in Bali, Indonesia.

Sun, sand and skulls: Bali tourism trade peddles threatened primate skulls

Spoorthy Raman 12 Feb 2025
A lion in a cage

Nearly 20,000 animals seized in global wildlife trafficking crackdown

Mongabay.com 10 Feb 2025

In Brazil, free-flight lessons help teach macaws to survive in the wild

Suzana Camargo 7 Feb 2025

Report reveals staggering levels of wildlife trafficking in Hispanic America

Spoorthy Raman 7 Feb 2025

Kenya revives poisoning campaign to curb invasive Indian house crows

Gilbert Nakweya 6 Feb 2025
A pair of orphaned orangutans in Sabah.

Indonesia targets 2.3m hectares of protected forests for food & biofuel crop production

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Feb 2025
Asian small-clawed otter (Aonyx cinereus) photographed in a zoo.

World’s smallest otter makes comeback in Nepal after 185 years

Abhaya Raj Joshi 5 Feb 2025
INQUIRE, a dataset and evaluation tool, gauges how AI models perform when asked to extract extra information from wildlife photos captured by citizen scientists. The three images (above), showing hermit frogs caught in plastic trash, were clicked by citizen scientists and were used to train the dataset. Images by mferrla (left), anacarohdez (middle) and lexthelearner (right)/iNaturalist.

AI can already identify species in photos. Can it extract even more data?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 5 Feb 2025

A cattle ranch is the unlikely scene for saving a fox found only in Brazil

Letícia Klein 5 Feb 2025
Common pochard (Aythya ferina) photographed in Pakistan.

Better government policies could help as migratory birds lose habitat in Bangladesh

Pinky Akter 5 Feb 2025

Kenya wildfire threatens region of rare wildlife, plant species

Dann Okoth 4 Feb 2025

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