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A tiger in the mangroves.

Media must help reduce conflict between tigers and people in the Sundarbans (commentary)

Mafizul Islam 6 Jun 2024

Amazon deforestation threatens one of Brazil’s key pollinators, study shows

Molly Herring 5 Jun 2024
In 2021, a resident of the small Ecuadorian town of Simiátug found a male frog putatively belonging to the long-lost species Atelopus guanujo.

A tale of two frogs: The tough uphill battle for rediscovered species

Katarina Zimmer 4 Jun 2024

Poachers claim to have killed one-third of all Javan rhinos, Indonesian police say

Jeremy Hance 31 May 2024
A middle-aged man in a dark gray shirt lifts an armload of water hyacinth. Image by Abd Almajed Alkarh for Mongabay.

From Egypt to Syria, ‘water cancer’ chokes waterways

Abd Almajed Alkarh, Lyse Mauvais 30 May 2024
Unlike most other felids, the jaguarundi is active during the day.

Elusive jaguarundi inspires biologists to share data across Latin America

Ruth Kamnitzer 30 May 2024
Two male specimen of the Devils Hole Pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis) photographed in the Devil's Hole, Nevada. Photo courtesy of Olin Feuerbacher/ USFWS (CC BY 2.0)

A tiny desert fish hits a 25 year population high in one of Earth’s harshest environments

Liz Kimbrough 30 May 2024

Rewilding efforts throw a lifeline to Brazil’s most trafficked endangered bird

James Hall 30 May 2024

Analysis: Michelin’s no-deforestation claims in Indonesia rubber plantation a stretch

Stefano Valentino 30 May 2024

Mysterious, at risk, understudied flat-headed cat lacks conservation focus

Sean Mowbray 29 May 2024
Smooth-coated otters in Borneo.

On World Otter Day, an uphill struggle for these creatures in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 May 2024

Max sentence request for Javan rhino poacher too low, experts say

Jeremy Hance 24 May 2024

Otter-preneurs: Female sea otters lead the way in tool use for survival

Liz Kimbrough 24 May 2024
A shark in French Polynesia.

18 years on, how are sharks faring in French Polynesia’s shark sanctuary?

Amélie David 24 May 2024

Fishers decry ‘underhanded’ new initiative to protect Mexico’s vaquita

Daniel Shailer 24 May 2024
The James's flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi)

Green credentials of electric vehicles come under fire

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 23 May 2024
Sharks in the coral reefs of Jardines de la Reina, Cuba.

Undercover in a shark fin trafficking ring: Interview with wildlife crime fighter Andrea Crosta

Philip Jacobson 16 May 2024
oriental pied hornbill

New database unveils the role of Asian hornbills as forest seed dispersers

Carolyn Cowan 15 May 2024
a western chimpanzee in a tree

Setback for Guinea mine that threatens World Heritage chimp reserve

Ashoka Mukpo 15 May 2024

Hold my ointment: Wild orangutan observed healing wound with medicinal plant

Basten Gokkon 14 May 2024
An Iranian cheetah.

Final cheetah conservationists freed in Iran, but the big cat’s outlook remains grim

Kayleigh Long 13 May 2024
A caracal.

Ridiculously rare photo catches Asian caracal swimming a river in India

Jeremy Hance 10 May 2024
A pangolin fitted with a radio transmitter prior to re-release.

On foot and by drone, radio tracking helps rehabilitate pangolins in Vietnam

Claudia Geib 10 May 2024
A fishing cat caught on camera wandering through a shrimp farm in Thailand, where wildcats can run into conflict with local communities.

Saving Asia’s fishing cat means protecting threatened wetland habitat

Sean Mowbray 9 May 2024
A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) hangs from the trees. Fewer than 100,000 orangutans remain on Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesian company defies order, still clearing peatlands in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 May 2024

CITES halts Ecuador’s shark trade; trafficking persists amid lack of transparency

Carlos Chunga 6 May 2024

New study says conservation works, providing hope for biodiversity efforts

Liz Kimbrough 1 May 2024

Education & research bring Rio’s dolphins back from the brink of extinction

Sarah Brown (words) & Kashfi Halford (video) 30 Apr 2024

Bioacoustics and AI help scientists listen in on elusive Australian cockatoos

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 Apr 2024
Clouded leopard

Borneo and Sumatra megaprojects are carving up clouded leopard forests

Carolyn Cowan 29 Apr 2024

A single gang of poachers may have killed 10% of Javan rhinos since 2019

Jeremy Hance 26 Apr 2024
Silvia Vetancourt holds out a coin purse she is crocheting from cabuya fiber on the path to Plaza Gutierrez, Ecuador. Photo by Liz Kimbrough.

Women weave a culture of resistance and agroecology in Ecuador’s Intag Valley

Liz Kimbrough 25 Apr 2024

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