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A hawksbill turtle

As a megaport rises in Cameroon, a delicate coastal ecosystem ebbs

Elodie Toto 5 Apr 2024

How to ‘stop mining before it starts’: Interview with community organizer Carlos Zorrilla

Liz Kimbrough 4 Apr 2024

Spotted softshell turtle release boosts reptile conservation in Vietnam

Carolyn Cowan 4 Apr 2024

‘The Javan tiger still exists’: DNA find may herald an extinct species’ comeback

Christopel Paino, Rahmadi Rahmad 4 Apr 2024

Cerrado mammals change their habits to escape humans, study shows

Fernanda Wenzel 2 Apr 2024
The ventral, lateral and dorsal views of the single specimen of Negros fruit dove collected in the Philippines in 1953.

DNA analysis of rare Philippine fruit dove sheds new light on a 70-year mystery

Mikael Angelo S. Francisco 29 Mar 2024
A mountain biker.

Adventure tours with tigers? Nepal’s proposed policy changes raise alarm

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Mar 2024
Long-tailed macaques living in the mountains of Cambodia's Battambang province

Cambodian official acquitted in trial that exposed monkey-laundering scheme

Gerald Flynn 29 Mar 2024
A rhino in Chitwan National Park.

Nepali experts question rhino relocation within park for population balance

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Mar 2024
Shoebill

Study identifies species with a long history but short future amid threats

Carolyn Cowan 28 Mar 2024
A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) hangs from the trees. Fewer than 100,000 orangutans remain on Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Report links pulpwood estate clearing Bornean orangutan habitat to RGE Group

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Mar 2024
A Cao-vit gibbon in a tree.

Smaller population estimate underscores urgency of saving Cao-vit gibbon

Carly Nairn 27 Mar 2024
jaguar cub

Jaguar release offers a lifeline to Gran Chaco’s lonely big cats

Sarah Brown 27 Mar 2024
Researcher Alain Senghor K. Ngute looking at a photo of a millipede on a laptop, and making notes on a clipboard on the desk in front of him. Image by Haimdu Mnendendo.

Tanzania’s ‘mountain of millipedes’ yields six new species

Ryan Truscott 26 Mar 2024
African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana). Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons.

Conservation comeback in Central African Republic’s Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park (commentary)

Dodé H.M. Houehounha / Ichu G. Ichu / Paul Telfer / Felin Twagirashyaka / Jennica Betsch / Jean Hugé / Baudouin Michel / Cédric Vermeulen 26 Mar 2024
A tiger in Sundarbans.

Despite investment in conservation, Bengal tigers still struggling in Bangladesh

Farhana Parvin 25 Mar 2024
Amazon river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis). Image courtesy of WWF Sweden.

Ancient giant river dolphin species found in the Peruvian Amazon

Liz Kimbrough 20 Mar 2024
Nilgais are the largest antelope species in Asia.

Comeback on the cards for Asian antelope declared extinct in Bangladesh

Rafiqul Islam 20 Mar 2024
Manu Road Peru

Road paving in a Peruvian bird paradise threatens wildlife and ecotourism

Erik Iverson 19 Mar 2024
Irrawaddy dolphins come up for air

Irrawaddy dolphin death in Thailand’s Songkhla Lake underscores conservation needs

Carolyn Cowan 19 Mar 2024
turtles Peru

In Peru, conservationists and authorities struggle to get turtle eggs off the menu

Ryan Biller 18 Mar 2024

Not just polar bears — climate change could push African rhinos to extinction

Anna Dulisse 14 Mar 2024

Palm oil deforestation persists in Indonesia’s Leuser amid new mills, plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Mar 2024
The number of oribis (Ourebia ourebi), small, floodplain-bound antelopes, declined by 47%.

Big problems for little animals when floodwaters rise, study finds

Charles Mpaka 14 Mar 2024

Peru’s illegal pet monkey trade is also an infection superhighway

Carla Ruas 14 Mar 2024
A small, bright green chameleon with pale orange patches on its head, clinging to a matching stalk with its tail curled tightly. Image courtesy Christophe Bernier.

New ecoregion proposed for Southern Africa’s threatened ‘sky islands’

Ryan Truscott 13 Mar 2024
Oryx dammah

Gundi tool gets conservation hardware and software talking the same language

Abhishyant Kidangoor 12 Mar 2024

Norway pension fund breaks with U.K. conglomerate Jardines over endangered orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Mar 2024

Riverine communities join forces to preserve threatened Amazon turtles

Sibélia Zanon (text) and Julia Lima (video and photos) 11 Mar 2024

Indonesian gold mine expanding in ‘wrong direction’ into orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Mar 2024
Wildfire on Kangaroo Island, Australia.

Studies still uncovering true extent of 2019-20 Australia wildfire catastrophe

Mongabay Haze Beat 11 Mar 2024
Two chimpanzees interacting playfully.

No joking: Great apes can be silly and playfully tease each other, finds study

Spoorthy Raman 8 Mar 2024

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