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African palm civet (Nandinia binotata), Nouabale-Ndoki NP. Elusive yet abundant, nocturnal African palm civets are widely hunted for bushmeat in many parts of Africa. Image courtesy of Will Burrard-Lucas/WCS.

Elusive wildlife shows up for photographer’s camera traps in Congo

Spoorthy Raman, Victoria Schneider 26 Feb 2025
Image of a Madras hedgehog by Santhosh Krishnan13 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The rarely seen Madras hedgehog in India is also poorly studied

Mongabay.com 26 Feb 2025

Decline of Cambodia’s native bees spells trouble for country’s farming future

Anton L. Delgado 25 Feb 2025
Stephen Kenduiwo holds a round green seed up to the camera. Image by Patrick Shepherd/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Seeds of 19 African tree species added to Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Anne Nzouankeu 25 Feb 2025

First Niger Delta red colobus monkey videos reflect community conservation success

Spoorthy Raman 25 Feb 2025
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

Colombia’s cattle traceability bill awaits approval as deforestation spikes

Maxwell Radwin 25 Feb 2025
Image of an aardvark, a nocturnal ant-eating mammal found in sub-Saharan Africa. Image by Theo Kruse via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Study confirms that ant-eating aardvarks have a craving for buried melons

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Feb 2025
A 2023 expedition along the Uatumã River documented biodiversity loss linked to the Balbina dam. In 2024, a survey of the undammed Jatapu River revealed a region teeming with life. Image courtesy of the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA).

Endemic fish wiped out in Brazilian Amazon hydroelectric dam area, study finds

Sarah Brown 25 Feb 2025

Baja California tourism poses mounting challenges for conservation, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 24 Feb 2025
Smallholder cacao farmers at work in Brazil.

Aiding natural pollination can boost cacao yields & climate resilience

Sean Mowbray 24 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
Estelle Mariam from Daraina, 27, mother of two, pans soils in the dried up riverbank in Andranotsimaty. Image by Rivonala Razafison/Mongabay.

Chanel wanted ‘responsible’ gold. It turned to a protected area in Madagascar

Malavika Vyawahare, Rivonala Razafison 21 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

Conservation in wealthy nations may worsen global biodiversity loss, study finds

Shanna Hanbury 21 Feb 2025
Banner image of Agroecotettix silverheelsi from Texas courtesy of JoVonn Hill.

16 new-to-science grasshopper species found in US, Mexico deserts

Kristine Sabillo 21 Feb 2025

Wisdom, the world’s oldest known bird at 74, has a new chick

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Feb 2025

India’s Adani withdraws from controversial Sri Lanka wind power project

Malaka Rodrigo 21 Feb 2025

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

Aldem Bourscheit 20 Feb 2025

Illegal seabed dredging surges as Indonesia resumes sand exports

M Ambari, Yogi Eka Sahputra 20 Feb 2025

Thermal drones detect rare tree kangaroos in Australia

Shreya Dasgupta 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
Banner image of Taranaki Maunga by Robin van Mourik via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Taranaki Maunga, New Zealand mountain, declared a ‘legal person’

Kristine Sabillo 20 Feb 2025

Researchers eye marsupial recovery with first IVF kangaroo embryo

Bobby Bascomb 19 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
Liberia is home to three species of pangolin, which are also referred to scaly anteaters. This tree pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) is listed as Endangered while the other two - the giant pangolin (Manis gigantea) and long-tailed pangolin (Manis tetradactyla) - are listed as Vulnerable. Image by Sharp Photography, sharpphotography.co.uk via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How ‘country palm’ could help pave the way toward a sustainable palm oil future in Liberia

Louise Hunt 18 Feb 2025

Things are looking up for near-extinct Siberian cranes (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 18 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

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