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New alert system can track changes in grasslands, farms, temperate forests

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jan 2025
right whale breaching

Right whales can live to 130, but in North America they die young

Edward Carver 10 Jan 2025
A Hooded Pitohui (Pitohui dichrous) from Papua New Guinea.

Indonesia’s voracious songbird trade laps up rare and poisonous pitohuis

Spoorthy Raman 10 Jan 2025
radiated tortoise

How tortoise conservationist Hery Razafimamonjiraibe manages risks to antipoaching teams

Carolyn Cowan 10 Jan 2025

‘Nightmare’ fire threatens iconic Madagascar national park

Malavika Vyawahare 10 Jan 2025

Bonobo numbers in DRC park stable, but signs of decline appear

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Jan 2025

Near-extinct Siberian crane is recovering thanks to habitat protection

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Jan 2025
a fly mid-pollination

Warming threatens flies more than bees, raising pollination concerns

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jan 2025
A moray eel in the coral reefs of the Daymaniyat Islands, Oman.

2024’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Alfredo Giron, Ana K. Spalding, Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, Asha de Vos, Cinda P. Scott, Josheena Naggea, Juan José Alava, Olivia Milloway, Rita Maria el Zaghloul 8 Jan 2025
What singing lemurs can tell us about the origin of music

What singing lemurs can tell us about the origin of music

Sam Lee 8 Jan 2025
An Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, Wales.

Atlantic puffins are perilously attracted to artificial light

Spoorthy Raman 7 Jan 2025
An orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Indonesian company defies order, plants acacia in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jan 2025

U.S. reports first human death from H5N1 bird flu

Mongabay.com 7 Jan 2025

India’s latest forest cover report hints at countrywide degradation

Mongabay.com 7 Jan 2025
Narwhal image by Газпром нефть via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

We need a North Pole Marine Reserve to secure a healthy future for Arctic waters (commentary)

Dr. Graeme Chesters 6 Jan 2025
Eurasian wolf (Canis lupus) courtesy of Staffan Widstrand/Swedensbigfive.org.

Sweden’s wolf hunt starts, aims to halve population

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Jan 2025
A bottlenose wedgefish (Rhynchobatus australiae).

New evidence spells massive trouble for world’s sharks, rays and chimaeras

Spoorthy Raman 2 Jan 2025

Conservation corridors provide hope for Latin America’s felines

Antonio José Paz Cardona 2 Jan 2025
Hamba_ASliwa. A male black-footed cat stalking prey in winter 2019. Black-footed cats eat mostly small mammals and birds. Their keen sight and agility mean they are extremely successful hunters. Photo by Alexander Sliwa.

Meet Africa’s most lethal cat: the black-footed cat

Romina Castagnino 2 Jan 2025

South Australia bans fishing of many sharks and rays in its waters

Mongabay.com 2 Jan 2025
Zeeshan Mirza examines a new tarantula species found in India's western Ghats

Four new tarantula species found in India’s Western Ghats mountains

Liz Kimbrough 31 Dec 2024

Mongabay’s most impactful investigations of 2024

Mongabay.com 31 Dec 2024
Kayapó children play in the Rio Pequeno, near their village.

10 notable books on conservation and the environment published in 2024

John Cannon 31 Dec 2024

Camera traps reveal first jaguar in northwestern Ecuador forests in years

Kristine Sabillo 31 Dec 2024

Road to recovery: Wild animals staging a comeback in 2024

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Dec 2024
A chestnut-tailed starling in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh adopts new technology to fight wildlife crimes

Sadiqur Rahman 31 Dec 2024
The National Family Farm Coalition protests genetically engineered salmon at an event in Berea, Kentucky in August 2024.

Campaigners celebrate as firm making first-ever GMO fish ceases operations

Edward Carver 31 Dec 2024

A deadly parasite turns jaguar conservation into a human health priority

Sarah Brown 30 Dec 2024

Tortoise protection culture prompts efforts to curb trafficking in Madagascar

Carolyn Cowan 30 Dec 2024

Southeast Asia in review: 2024

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 30 Dec 2024
Banner image: A sea turtle swims over a coral reef off the coast of Australia. Image by Jordan Robins via Ocean Image Bank.

Marine protection efforts in 2024 were still a drop in the ocean

Bobby Bascomb 30 Dec 2024

‘Wild Frequencies’: Podcast miniseries from India explores wild animal sounds

Mongabay.com 30 Dec 2024

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