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Conservationists got delayed access to court-ordered inspection of Nairobi National Park

Lynet Otieno 24 Jul 2026

Winners of the annual Mangrove Photography Awards: See the photos

Bobby Bascomb 24 Jul 2026
Four African wild dogs were spotted in Malawi’s Kasungu National Park in July after more than 10 years. Image courtesy of the International Federation for Animal Welfare.

First sighting of African wild dogs in Malawi national park in more than 10 years

Ryan Truscott 24 Jul 2026
Beavers are restoring stretches of North Fork Toutle River in the U.S. state of Washington. Image by GrandTetonNPS via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Beavers restored a volcano-scarred river. Now it’s at risk again

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2026
For some animals, roadways act like fences, and they don’t even attempt to cross. Others, like bears, moose and bighorn sheep, and some smaller species, may attempt to cross, though it may prove deadly. Image by Jane Palmer.

How to stitch a massive wildlife corridor through the Rocky Mountains

Jane Palmer 22 Jul 2026
Tigers in Rajasthan, India. The country is a stronghold of wild tigers, and the report found that most of the wild tigers smuggled into Cambodia came from India.

Report reveals Cambodia’s appetite for tigers, rhinos and other endangered wildlife

Spoorthy Raman 21 Jul 2026
White-bellied pangolins captured in southeastern Nigeria and destined for trade. Image courtesy of Alex Moore.

Pangolin DNA study links local wild meat markets to global trafficking networks

Shanna Hanbury 21 Jul 2026
A black-faced black spider monkey (Ateles chamek) crossing one of the multilayered bridges. Image courtesy of Sergio Leal.

Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

Suzana Camargo 21 Jul 2026

Scientific & traditional knowledge are key for effective & community-centered conservation (commentary)

Charudutt Mishra 20 Jul 2026

Beavers flourish in tidal habitats in the Pacific Northwest, study finds

David Brown 17 Jul 2026
Under difficult circumstances when food is scarce, capuchin monkeys alter their behavior.

How Costa Rica’s extreme climate changes the social behaviors of white-faced capuchin

Adam Litchkofski 17 Jul 2026

Gray whales are suffering catastrophic population decline in the Pacific Ocean

David Brown 16 Jul 2026
Likweli, a new-to-science species of colobus monkey described from the DRC. Image courtesy of Bernard Bonanga.

New colobus monkey, ‘Likweli’, confirmed in DRC

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Jul 2026
An adult cheetah spotted at a monitoring site in Limpopo Province. In the background is a still closed trap cage, which was placed there during the census to capture cheetahs for collaring. Image courtesy of the Ashia Cheetah Conservation.

South Africa’s free-roaming cheetahs in steep decline, first national census finds

Victoria Schneider 15 Jul 2026
Polar bear mother with two cubs on a snowy sandbank in northern Alaska.

‘Bear-dar’ aims to give Arctic communities a heads-up on nearby polar bears

Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 Jul 2026
Investigators with Agent C Wildlife Initiative documented a baby pangolin available for sale in Vientiane's Dongmakkhay Market. Pangolins are repeatedly sold for their meat, scales and sometimes for making wine. Image supplied by Agent C Wildlife Initiative.

Laos’s illegal wildlife shops keep growing despite enforcement, investigators find

Gerald Flynn 15 Jul 2026

The US government says habitat destruction no longer counts as ‘harm’ to endangered species

Bobby Bascomb 14 Jul 2026
Gus Mills with a cheetah. Sourced via the Endangered Wildlife Trust

Gus Mills, hyena expert and ‘the cheerful pessimist of the Kalahari’, has died

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Jul 2026

Celebrating World Chimpanzee Day

David Brown 14 Jul 2026

Small-scale farming, logging eclipse megaprojects as top threats to Tapanuli orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Jul 2026
A rhesus macaque eats an orange in Kathmandu. Image by Rachid H via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Monkey vs machine: Nepal tests AI to fight crop-raiding macaques

Praveen Kumar Yadav 13 Jul 2026

Pangolin habitat at risk in Pakistan

Mongabay.com 13 Jul 2026
A red ruffed lemur in Madagascar.

Official tied to commercial breeding to represent US at global wildlife trade meeting

Spoorthy Raman 11 Jul 2026
Lydia Möcklinghoff with a giant anteater. From her social media.

Lydia Möcklinghoff, champion of the giant anteater, has died in a plane crash. She was 45

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Jul 2026
A western chimpanzee at Tacugama.

Conserving Sierra Leone’s western chimpanzees: Interview with Tacugama’s Willie Tucker

Patricia Sia Ngevao 10 Jul 2026
Pallas’s cat, also known as the manul, roam widely across Central Asia and are present in 16 countries. Image by Richard Gillin via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Meme-face Pallas’s cat traverses a complex conservation landscape

Sean Mowbray 10 Jul 2026
Beavers act as ecosystem engineers, building dams that can transform small rivers into more complex wetlands that can support higher levels of biodiversity.

Beavers brought a volcanic wasteland back to life. Now it’s under threat

Isabel Gil 10 Jul 2026
A numbat in Western Australia. Image by © Kym Nicolson via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0).

Once endangered, Australia’s numbat is making a hopeful recovery

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Jul 2026
Tanjung Priok Customs officers inspect pangolin scales intended to be smuggled to Cambodia. Image courtesy of Tanjung Priok Customs.

Suspect charged and manhunt continues over Jakarta 3-ton pangolin scales case

Anggita Raissa 10 Jul 2026
The rescued tiger at Khulna Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center. Image courtesy of the Bangladesh Forest Department.

Bangladesh gets ready for its first release of tiger rescued from poachers’ trap

Abu Siddique 10 Jul 2026

Nepal’s Rhino translocation success in numbers masks habitat struggles

Mongabay.com 10 Jul 2026

How effective are canopy bridges really?

Bobby Bascomb 9 Jul 2026

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