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Young male puma crosses a public road. The presence of pumas — aka cougars, mountain lions, etc. — push deer away from roads into less populated areas, reducing road collisions. Image by Nick Garbutt.

Cougars cut deadly vehicle-deer collisions in the U.S. by up to 76%, study shows

Starre Vartan 19 Aug 2026
Xray fin shark (wildlife trade)

Spotted by AI: seahorses and shark fins

Abhishyant Kidangoor 19 Aug 2026

Tapirs, bats and nests: How plastic infiltrates Amazonian wildlife

Tiago da Mota e Silva 18 Aug 2026

‘Remembering Wildlife’ shines a spotlight on the species we risk losing forever

Mike DiGirolamo 18 Aug 2026
The siruk, or Mindoro boobook (Ninox mindorensis), in Puerto Galera.

Elders, conservationists race to record fading sacred ties to Philippines’ endemic birds

Keith Anthony Fabro 18 Aug 2026

On an Indonesian island, an ancient ritual evolves to protect an endangered cockatoo

Basten Gokkon 18 Aug 2026

As an industry and a cooking ingredient, seaweed is gaining ground in Brazil

Letícia Klein 18 Aug 2026
Henry Carey holds up shells while diving for conch off the coast of McLean's Town, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas, in 2022.

Mobile queen conch hatcheries strive to help the species, engage Caribbean communities

André Habet 18 Aug 2026

Nepal’s newest national parks drive tiger recovery, but emerging concerns threaten progress

Mongabay.com 18 Aug 2026
A jaguarundi at a zoo in Germany.

Increasingly rare: Jaguarundi moves up a notch on the endangered species list

Sean Mowbray 17 Aug 2026
A Timor green pigeon (Treron psittaceus).

Only a few hundred Timor green pigeons may remain. There is still time to save them

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Aug 2026

Safeguarding passageways is the next step for India’s growing tiger populations

Mongabay.com 17 Aug 2026
Wollert (Leadbeater’s Possum) on Wurundjeri Country. Photo by Steven Kuiter

Logging and the slow disappearance of Australia’s large old trees (commentary)

David Lindenmayer 17 Aug 2026
Fisherpeople in Port St. Johns, Eastern Cape. Image courtesy of Aletta Harrison CC BY 4.0.

South Africa’s top court blocks Shell oil exploration off country’s Wild Coast

Victoria Schneider 17 Aug 2026
Dendroseris neriifolia

Is this the world’s loneliest tree?

Sam Lee 16 Aug 2026
Steve Smit. From his Facebook page

Steve Smit, South Africa’s “Monkey Man,” has died

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Aug 2026
Anden Condor

The king of the Andes: How a village learned to coexist with condors

Christina Noriega, Monica Wise Robles, Julia Lima 15 Aug 2026
Oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus), listed by the IUCN as a critically endangered species.

Global marine protected areas fail to safeguard most sharks and rays: Study

Madeline Shaw 14 Aug 2026
Sand cats are the only desert-dwelling wild feline.

Caught on camera: Sand cats may have a ‘sizable population’ in Qatar

Alex Megerle 14 Aug 2026
Ernita, farmer and member of women’s group Perbani, grows citrus trees on the perimeter of her oil palm farm, on the buffer zone of Tesso Nilo National Park, to drive away elephants. Image by Suryadi/Mongabay Indonesia.

How women farmers are helping elephants and forests in a Sumatran national park

Suryadi, Yenni Kwok 14 Aug 2026
A scarlet macaw (Ara macao)

How AI helps gather remote biodiversity data: Interview with Microsoft’s Juan Lavista Ferres

Abhishyant Kidangoor 14 Aug 2026
A golden-crowned sifaka in Madagascar. Image courtesy of Association Fanamby.

100 species on the brink get a $200m conservation lifeline

Shanna Hanbury 14 Aug 2026
Bulan and Badar.

Rescued from traffickers, reintroduced orangutan becomes mother in the wild

Ayat S. Karokaro 14 Aug 2026
Volunteers work in a vegetable field belonging to Tiyani Secondary School where the manure is thrown after gas is extracted. Image by Bernard Chiguvare.

South Africa school uses cattle dung to generate biogas for cooking meals

Bernard Chiguvare 14 Aug 2026
African savanna elephants in Namibia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

More people, farms, and drought could mean more elephant conflict in Southern Africa

David Brown 14 Aug 2026
A Visayan spotted deer (Rusa alfredi) in a zoo.

From one deer’s DNA, a road map emerges to save an endangered Philippine species

Pippo Carmona 14 Aug 2026
Jackie and Shadow caring for their egg in their nest in the Big Bear Valley in 2019

Big Bear Valley’s beloved bald eagle Jackie is dead

Spoorthy Raman 13 Aug 2026
A Timor green pigeon (Treron psittaceus).

Timor green pigeon nears extinction after decades of inaction, study warns

Timothy Mihocik 13 Aug 2026
Dead fish in the Kafue River near the town of Luanshya, Zambia, a day after the tailings dam spill, Feb. 19, 2025. Image by AP Photo/Richard Kille.

A mine polluted a Zambian river in 2025: Residents continue to live with the impacts

Victoria Schneider 13 Aug 2026

Indonesia’s wildfire season surges as haze spreads into Malaysia

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Aug 2026

Bat virus fragments turn up in fertilizer sold in Thai markets, study finds

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2026
Hemerson Dantas dos Santos Pataxó HaHaHãi and elders recorded their people’s medicinal knowledge in Brazil. From left to right: Marta Xavier de Oliveira, Maura Rosa Titiah Vieira, Hemerson Dantas dos Santos Pataxó HaHaHãi, Aniraldo Xavier Kariri-Sapuyá and Maria Creuza Fernandes Rodrigues Kariri-Sapuyá. Photos by Karla Mendes. Graphic design by Marilia Ferrari.

How a Brazilian Indigenous ethnobotanist & elders recorded their people’s medicinal knowledge

Karla Mendes 13 Aug 2026

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