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Camera trap image of an adult male and a baby gorilla in Ebo Forest.

Study highlights elusive Cameroonian gorillas, and the threats encircling them

Ryan Truscott 10 Aug 2022
An Asian elephant in a forest in Bangladesh

Bangladesh struggles to protect the last of its last wild elephants

Rafiqul Islam 9 Aug 2022
A chimpanzee digs a well as another adult chimpanzee with an infant watches.

Chimps digging wells shows learned behavior that may help amid climate change

Manon Verchot, Sanshey Biswas 28 Jul 2022
Thuza and Kusasa the white rhinos.

White rhino conservation project attempts paradigm shift by including local community

Ryan Truscott 19 Jul 2022
Park rangers walk next to a fenceline

Smart Parks, the Dutch technologists tackling poaching with technology

Jim Tan 20 Jun 2022

With sea ice melting, glacial ice could be a lifeline for polar bears

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Jun 2022
A mother sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) and her calf

Noise pollution spooks whales the way predators would, study finds

Grace Hansen 7 Jun 2022
A persian leopard. Image via Peoples Trust for Endangered Species.

Protect Persian leopards, and their defenders, for World Environment Day (commentary)

Jane Goodall and Hedieyeh Tehrany 3 Jun 2022
A cheetah cub. Thirty-six rescued cheetah orphans went on to be selected for release during the CCF’s rehabilitation project. Image courtesy of the Cheetah Conservation Fund.

Rehabilitation research returns orphaned cheetahs to the wild

Sean Mowbray 1 Jun 2022
Tourists petting a tiger cub at Doc Antle's Myrtle Beach Tiger Safari in South Carolina, U.S. Antle faces federal charges for wildlife trafficking.

Year of the Tiger: Illegal trade thrives amid efforts to save wild tigers

Sharon Guynup 31 May 2022
A gray wolf in Yellowstone National Park.

Yellowstone’s wolves defied extinction, but face new threats beyond park’s borders

Grace Hansen 31 May 2022
A Bengal tiger in Nepal's Chitwan National Park.

Tiger-centric conservation efforts push other predators to the fringes

Abhaya Raj Joshi 24 May 2022
Team guiding a sedated rhino into a crate for translocation. Image by Casey Pratt / Love Africa Marketing.

Bull run: South Africa marks latest rhino relocation to boost populations

Charles Mpaka 9 May 2022
Humpback whales have made a remarkable recovery from the days when they were targeted by whaling vessels, but global whale populations are starting to struggle as food resources shift and deteriorate.

What’s popping? Humpbacks off South Africa, new acoustic study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 May 2022
A giant panda, a species endemic to China, which has benefited from extensive conservation funding and efforts.

Lessons from panda conservation could help Asia’s other, overlooked, bears

Spoorthy Raman 9 May 2022
Sonam Tashi Lama from Red Panda Network receives the Whitley Award from Princess Anne, patron of the Whitley Fund for Nature in London.

Q&A with Whitley Award winner Sonam Tashi Lama

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 May 2022
A critically endangered Cao-Vit gibbon (Nomascus nasutus) swings on a tree.

Wildlife don’t recognize borders, nor does climate change. Conservation should keep up

Jim Tan 28 Apr 2022
A Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus).

Côte d’Ivoire’s chimp habitats are shrinking, but there’s hope in their numbers

Manon Verchot 25 Apr 2022
A Bornean orangutan in Indonesia

How many orangutans does $1 billion save? Depends how you spend it, study finds

Jim Tan 1 Apr 2022
Wild bison, taking over Europe and North America, will once again roam England

Wild bison, taking over Europe and North America, will once again roam England

Claire Turrell 31 Mar 2022

Call for COVID rules that reduced infections in gorilla parks to remain

Ryan Truscott 24 Feb 2022

The small cats nobody knows: Wild felines face intensifying planetary risks

Sean Mowbray 17 Feb 2022

The chimp doctor will see you now: Medicating apes boost the case for conservation

Manon Verchot 16 Feb 2022

In prioritizing conservation, animal culture should be a factor, study says

John Cannon 1 Feb 2022

The Years of the Tiger: The demand for tigers and the price they pay (commentary)

Chris Slappendel 28 Jan 2022

Wild cat trade: Why the cheetah is not safe just yet (commentary)

Patricia Tricorache and Tomas Maule 12 Jan 2022

Top 15 species discoveries from 2021 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 21 Dec 2021

Lockdown underscores Uganda’s overreliance on tourism to fund conservation

Nangayi Guyson 21 Dec 2021

How wildlife crossings in Canada are inspiring safer roads for global species

Shannon Kelleher 17 Dec 2021

Uganda’s ‘Dr. Gladys’ honored by U.N. for work linking conservation and health

Malavika Vyawahare 13 Dec 2021

Translocation brings white rhinos to Rwanda, a new land for an old species

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Dec 2021

DNA assessment confirms Gabon as last stronghold of forest elephants

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Nov 2021

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