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Bobcats benefit both human and ecological health, but their growing populations are often misunderstood

Mike DiGirolamo 11 Feb 2025
Banner image of an indri by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Singing lemurs found to be dropping beats just like King Julien

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2025
Banner image of a snow leopard in snow by In India travel via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

‘Helicopter tourism’ in the Himalayas affecting Sherpas, wildlife

Mongabay.com 10 Feb 2025
A lion in a cage

Nearly 20,000 animals seized in global wildlife trafficking crackdown

Mongabay.com 10 Feb 2025

Rhino poachers imprisoned in back-to-back South Africa sentencing

Spoorthy Raman 10 Feb 2025

In Brazil, free-flight lessons help teach macaws to survive in the wild

Suzana Camargo 7 Feb 2025

Report reveals staggering levels of wildlife trafficking in Hispanic America

Spoorthy Raman 7 Feb 2025
Banner image of a roof rat (Rattus rattus) by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Surge in rat numbers linked to climate warming, urbanization: Study

Kristine Sabillo 7 Feb 2025
Banner image of “No Access,” a photograph of a Eurasian badger by Ian Wood/Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

Striking image of badger and graffiti twin wins top photography prize

Kristine Sabillo 7 Feb 2025

Kenya revives poisoning campaign to curb invasive Indian house crows

Gilbert Nakweya 6 Feb 2025

Vietnam and China partner on wildlife-friendly traditional medicine practices

Spoorthy Raman 6 Feb 2025
Banner image of crowned sifaka by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

EU legislators urge IMF to protect Madagascar forests against road projects

Kristine Sabillo 6 Feb 2025
A pair of orphaned orangutans in Sabah.

Indonesia targets 2.3m hectares of protected forests for food & biofuel crop production

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Feb 2025

Why is this endangered dolphin being killed to make “love perfumes”? | Wild Targets

Romi Castagnino 5 Feb 2025

Vietnam faces scrutiny for not sharing enough data on rhino horn trade

Victoria Schneider 5 Feb 2025
Asian small-clawed otter (Aonyx cinereus) photographed in a zoo.

World’s smallest otter makes comeback in Nepal after 185 years

Abhaya Raj Joshi 5 Feb 2025
INQUIRE, a dataset and evaluation tool, gauges how AI models perform when asked to extract extra information from wildlife photos captured by citizen scientists. The three images (above), showing hermit frogs caught in plastic trash, were clicked by citizen scientists and were used to train the dataset. Images by mferrla (left), anacarohdez (middle) and lexthelearner (right)/iNaturalist.

AI can already identify species in photos. Can it extract even more data?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 5 Feb 2025

A cattle ranch is the unlikely scene for saving a fox found only in Brazil

Letícia Klein 5 Feb 2025
Common pochard (Aythya ferina) photographed in Pakistan.

Better government policies could help as migratory birds lose habitat in Bangladesh

Pinky Akter 5 Feb 2025

Kenya wildfire threatens region of rare wildlife, plant species

Dann Okoth 4 Feb 2025
Amazonian manatees at a rescue center in Peru.

Amazonian manatees are gardeners of the forests, research shows (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 4 Feb 2025
Babu Krishna Karki with his camera photographing wildlife.

Military-backed conservation ‘without firing a single shot’: Interview with Nepal’s Babu Krishna Karki

Abhaya Raj Joshi 4 Feb 2025

Indian town trials virtual solar fences to reduce conflict with elephants

Mongabay.com 4 Feb 2025

Chimps remember, for years, the location of ant nests that provide food

Charles Mpaka 3 Feb 2025
In September, Moo Deng went viral, becoming famous for her playful, no-holds-barred attitude.

Has the Moo Deng craze helped wild pygmy hippos at all? (analysis)

Jeremy Hance 3 Feb 2025
Banner image of the underwater Borealis Mud Volcano, courtesy of Jørn Berger-Nyvoll/UiT.

Underwater volcano in Barents Sea reveals diverse marine life, study finds

Kristine Sabillo 3 Feb 2025
A Pacific wren (Troglodytes pacificus).

Indigenous knowledge helps explain bird population changes in Canada’s BC

Jane Palmer 3 Feb 2025
A mangrove pitta

How to tell if mangrove restoration is working? Listen to the birds

Carolyn Cowan 3 Feb 2025

Agriculture, illegal ranching and roads threaten the jaguar in Mesoamerica

Astrid Arellano 3 Feb 2025
Seized live turtles belonging to Pangshura tecta, Morenia petersi and Lissemys punctata species temporarily sheltered at the Forest Department enclosures before releasing them into the wild again.

Illegal trade is pushing Bangladesh’s freshwater turtles to the brink

Sadiqur Rahman 3 Feb 2025

The warming Arctic is now a carbon source, report finds

Liz Kimbrough 31 Jan 2025
Banner image of a black-tailed prairie dog by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

As global genetic diversity declines, conservation efforts offer some hope

Kristine Sabillo 31 Jan 2025

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