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In Chile, drought and human expansion threaten a unique national park

Michelle Carrere 17 Nov 2022
The doll orchid is threatened due to extensive collection for the ornamental plant trade. Image courtesy of Bhathiya Gopallawa.

Whether humans can survive climate change is the wrong question (commentary)

John Reid 17 Nov 2022
The writhed hornbill, a Philippines endemic species. Image by Olaf Oliviero Riemer via Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0).

Escape into nature’s soundscapes

Mike Gaworecki 16 Nov 2022

It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s a killing field at Brazil’s airports

Dimas Marques 16 Nov 2022

Critics cite threats to communities, mangroves from El Salvador airport plans

Maxwell Radwin 15 Nov 2022
An African penguin standing sleepily in a patch of green. Image by Alberto Ziveri via Flickr (BY-SA 2.0)

Breeding success raises hopes for future of endangered African penguin

Ryan Truscott 15 Nov 2022

Stem cells may make ‘impossible possible’ for near-extinct Sumatran rhino

Basten Gokkon 15 Nov 2022
Neddy Mulimo. Image courtesy of Sarah Marshall.

Support rangers to protect wildlife & habitats for the future (commentary)

Neddy Mulimo 14 Nov 2022

Should more wildlife trade be legal and regulated? It’s complicated, say scientists

James Fair 11 Nov 2022

No requiem for sharks just yet as nations push to protect species from trade

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Nov 2022
Fires near the community of Quitunuquiña in the municipality of Roboré in the department of Santa Cruz. Photo courtesy of Claudia Belaunde.

Bolivian protected areas hit hard by forest fires

Iván Paredes Tamayo 10 Nov 2022
Jayna DeVore and Simon Ducatez approaching Hiraanae motu.

Rat killers in paradise: An eradication program remakes a tropical atoll

David Helvarg 10 Nov 2022

How Mitsubishi vacuumed up tuna from a rogue Chinese fishing fleet

Annelise Giseburt 10 Nov 2022
river forest

Deforestation is pushing Amazon to ‘point of no return’: WWF report

Maxwell Radwin 9 Nov 2022

Here come the sunbirds: New species from Indonesia’s Wakatobi Islands

Basten Gokkon 9 Nov 2022

Amid Mexico’s Day of the Dead, a fish declared extinct comes back to life

Liz Kimbrough 8 Nov 2022

Report unveils ties between Indonesian conglomerate Sinar Mas and Canada’s Paper Excellence

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Nov 2022

‘There are solutions to these abuses’: Q&A with Steve Trent on how China can rein in illegal fishing

Philip Jacobson 3 Nov 2022
A deckhand on the Long Xing 626 in DOF’s Atlantic fleet displays what experts who reviewed the image identified as a blue shark (Prionace glauca) in this photo posted to Facebook. The animal on the ground is a leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea).

Exclusive: Shark finning rampant across Chinese tuna firm’s fleet

Philip Jacobson, Basten Gokkon 1 Nov 2022
Person holding cardboard sign saying Stop EACOP", concealing lower half of their face. Photothèque AT via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

As banks fund oil pipeline, campaigners question their environmental pledges

Thomas Lewton 1 Nov 2022
Fishermen making hilsa nets.

Saving the economically important hilsa fish comes at a cost to Bangladesh fishers

Abu Siddique 28 Oct 2022

Why fish are disappearing from Amazonian waters

Cícero Pedrosa Neto, Fábio Zuker from Agência Pública 27 Oct 2022
A white-nosed saki.

To save threatened Amazon primates in Brazil, turn them into the main attraction

Sean Mowbray 27 Oct 2022

To save the Amazon, scientists are listening to its rich sounds

Sibélia Zanon 27 Oct 2022
A feral Moluccan cockatoo.

Survey finds thriving online market for Indonesian birds in Philippines

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 26 Oct 2022
A tiger-legged monkey tree frog.

Humans are decimating wildlife, report warns ahead of U.N. biodiversity talks

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Oct 2022
Pits dug by the bears.

It’s no Yeti, but Tibetan brown bear’s presence in Nepal is no longer a myth

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Oct 2022
A North Atlantic right whale. Image by Moira Brown and New England Aquarium via Wikimedia Commons.

Wrong trend for right whales amid ‘devastating’ population decline

Mongabay.com 25 Oct 2022
Plastic pieces found inside a dead shearwater.

Plastic impacts a grossly underestimated ‘one-two punch’ for seabirds: Study

Sean Mowbray 20 Oct 2022
Conservation Response Unit team in Cot Girek pose while also trying to control Marni the elephant.

Life in the awe-and-terror-inspiring vicinity of the Sumatran elephant

Philip Jacobson 20 Oct 2022
A family clears overgrown aquatic weeds in a wetland.

Habitat loss, climate change threaten Bangladesh’s native freshwater fishes with extinction

Rafiqul Islam 20 Oct 2022
An orangutan under treatment.

Severe malaria cases in rescued orangutans raises concerns for wild populations

Sean Mowbray 20 Oct 2022

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