Almost Famous Animals News

Photo of the captive bay cat in 2008.

On the trail of Borneo’s bay cat, one of the world’s most mysterious felines

Jeremy Hance 15 Apr 2024

California condor flying

Thanks to the Yurok Tribe, condors will return to the Pacific Northwest

Rachel Fritts 21 Sep 2021

What the Mauritius kestrel can teach us about wildlife reintroductions

Marlowe Starling 20 Sep 2021

Reptile traffickers trawl scientific literature, target newly described species

Pavel Toropov 26 May 2021

One year on: Insects still in peril as world struggles with global pandemic

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2020

At-risk Cerrado mammals need fully-protected parks to survive: Researchers

Sharon Guynup 20 Oct 2020

Brazilian frog believed ‘extinct’ for 50+ years, found with eDNA testing

Peter Yeung 6 Oct 2020

‘Saving sun bears’: Q&A with book author Sarah Pye

John Cannon 29 Jun 2020

Amazon river dolphin risks extinction if Brazil moratorium not renewed

Peter Yeung 16 Jun 2020

Extinct in the wild, a Brazilian bird makes a tentative return to the jungle

Pedro Biondi 2 Dec 2019

Camera trap study reveals Amazon ocelot’s survival strategies

Claire Asher 10 Sep 2019

In the belly of the beast: journalist delves into wildlife trafficking

Gloria Dickie 4 Dec 2018

Dress like a polar bear: learning to love muskoxen at 15 below zero

Gloria Dickie 25 Sep 2018

Hunting, fishing causing dramatic decline in Amazon river dolphins

Claire Asher 13 Jun 2018

Pangolins on the brink as Africa-China trafficking persists unabated

Sharon Guynup 8 May 2018

Sharp-eyed Mongabay readers spot a jaguarundi (commentary)

Glenn Scherer 16 Mar 2018

Beyond polar bears: Arctic animals share in vulnerable climate future

Gloria Dickie 7 Mar 2018

Meet the ‘Almost Famous Animals’ that deserve more conservation recognition

Mike Gaworecki 7 Mar 2017

The Spirit of the Steppes: Saving Central Asia’s saiga

Elizabeth Devitt 27 Feb 2017

The clouded leopard: conserving Asia’s elusive arboreal acrobat

Linda Lombardi 9 Feb 2017

Resurrected Jeypore ground gecko faces second death sentence

Fiona Broom 7 Feb 2017

Bright lights, big city, tiny frog: Romer’s tree frog survives Hong Kong

Asher Elbein 3 Feb 2017

Newscast #9: Joel Berger on overlooked ‘edge species’ that deserve conservation

Mike Gaworecki 10 Jan 2017

All I want for Christmas… a wildlife researcher’s holiday wish list

Glenn Scherer 20 Dec 2016

Vanishing point: Bumblebee bat is world’s smallest; it’s also at risk

Jeremy Hance 13 Dec 2016

From loathed to loved: Villagers rally to save Greater Adjutant stork

Diane Toomey 6 Dec 2016

A dam shame: the plight of the Mekong giant catfish

Claire Asher 30 Nov 2016

Silent soldiers of the extreme, or why I’m glad I’m not a wild yak

Joel Berger 22 Nov 2016

Where have all the lutungs gone? Mystery monkeys fast disappearing

William H. Funk 18 Nov 2016

Asia races to save the Critically Endangered helmeted hornbill

Roz Evans 7 Nov 2016

The binturong or bearcat (Arctictis binturong). Photographed in Cambodia by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

What is a binturong?

Carly Nairn 13 Oct 2016

The Myanmar snub-nosed monkey: discovered and immediately endangered

Sean Mowbray 4 Oct 2016

Philippine Bleeding-heart doves flutter at the brink, but NGOs respond

Claire Salisbury 20 Sep 2016

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