Almost Famous Animals News

An ocelot hiding in a tree in the Pantanal, Mato Grosso state, Brazil.

NGOs launch novel community projects to conserve Mexico’s ocelots

Sandra Weiss 20 Aug 2025

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

Black, white and unique: the Malayan tapir struggles for recognition

Kate Mayberry 7 Sep 2016

Pet trade’s “cute” and “adorable” label endangers the slow loris

Linda Lombardi 25 Aug 2016

Pulling the stunningly unique painted terrapin back from the brink

Diane Toomey 17 Aug 2016

Out of sight, out of mind: Asia’s elusive Fishing Cat in trouble

Sean Mowbray 11 Aug 2016

Malayan Sun bear: bile trade threatens the World’s smallest bear

Claire Asher 1 Aug 2016

Unknown, ignored and disappearing: Asia’s Almost Famous Animals

Laurel Neme 6 Jul 2016

Local and global forces unite to save Madagascar’s Radiated Tortoise

Karen Johnston 16 Dec 2015

Trouble in Paradise: saving the endangered Turks & Caicos Rock Iguana

The Maned wolf: Saving South America’s largest canid

Sean Mowbray 7 Dec 2015

Chinese Giant Salamander: millions farmed, nearly extinct in the wild

Claire Salisbury 13 Nov 2015

The Black-faced Spoonbill: Asia’s beloved wading bird fights for space

Doug Meigs 2 Nov 2015

The Long-beaked Echidna: can we save the earth’s oldest living mammal?

Andrew L. Mack 26 Oct 2015

The maleo: a success story for Indonesia’s strange pit-digging bird

Jonathan C. Slaght 19 Oct 2015

The Muriqui: Brazil’s critically endangered “hippie monkey” hangs tough

Elizabeth Devitt 12 Oct 2015

What is a bettong?

Jennifer Huizen 5 Oct 2015

Africa’s unloved vultures headed for extinction?

William H. Funk 28 Sep 2015

The Cat Ba Langur: a primate walks the razor’s edge of extinction

John R. Platt 31 Aug 2015

Pangolins in Peril: rallying the world to curb the global China trade

Sharon Guynup 24 Aug 2015

A diamond in the marsh: Saving the Lake Alaotra Gentle Lemur

Claire Salisbury 17 Aug 2015

Feline Unseen: The African Golden Cat

Sean Mowbray 10 Aug 2015

A “singing swinging” lesser ape: the Siamang

Jeremy Hance 3 Aug 2015

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