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argeting demand for rhino horn-based products must complement efforts to protect rhinos from poaching. Image by Geranimo via Unsplash.

As a medicine, study finds rhino horn useless — and potentially toxic

Juliette Portala 3 Sep 2024
A Spix’s macaw at São Paulo Zoo in Brazil. The species’ return to its native habitat, from which it was declared extinct, has been bittersweet: the rewilding program has been a technical success, but bureaucratic wrangling threatens to stall future releases. Image courtesy of São Paulo Zoo. Used in article 'Institutional conflict puts successful Spix’s macaw reintroduction at risk'.

Institutional conflict puts successful Spix’s macaw reintroduction at risk

Bernardo Araujo 16 Jul 2024
Spix’s macaws in a specially built enclosure at São Paulo Zoo in Brazil. The zoo currently holds 27 of the birds, with a maximum capacity of 44. But this on its own wouldn’t be enough to supply the rewilding target of 20 birds per year. Image courtesy of São Paulo Zoo. Used in article 'For ‘extinct’ Spix’s macaw, successful comeback is overshadowed by uncertainty'

For ‘extinct’ Spix’s macaw, successful comeback is overshadowed by uncertainty

Bernardo Araujo 15 Jul 2024
Common brown lemur

Madagascar lemurs, tortoises seized in Thai bust reveal reach of wildlife trafficking

Carolyn Cowan 28 Jun 2024
Whale cutting in Hvalfjörður in the west of Iceland.

Icelandic government grants new license to whaling company to hunt 128 fin whales

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Jun 2024
Pneumonia in bighorn sheep induces coughing which can be detected acoustically. Image by Noah Israel/Wikimedia Commons.

The potential for tracking wildlife health & disease via bioacoustics is great (commentary)

Jesse Turner 10 Apr 2024

Report: Rising slaughter of small whales and dolphins threatens ocean balance

Elizabeth Fitt 6 Mar 2024
By Aqqa Rosing-Asvid - Visit Greenland - File:Finhval.jpg, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47954017. Image courtesy of Aqqa Rosing-Asvid via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

Iceland’s whaling paradox (commentary)

Micah Garen 13 Oct 2023

Conservationists urge caution as Nepal to gift more rhinos to China

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Sep 2023
Two fin whales hunted in Iceland in 2009.

International outcry as Iceland lifts ban on what could be last whale hunt

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 1 Sep 2023
Loris

When “cute” is cruel: Social media videos stoke loris pet trade, study says

Carolyn Cowan 27 Jun 2023
The harpoon or catcher ship Hvalur 8 arrives at the whaling station in Hvalfjörður, West Iceland. Two fin whales are tied to the starboard side of the ship. Image by Arne Feuerhahn / Hard to Port.

‘No future’: Iceland cancels whale hunt over animal welfare concerns

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Jun 2023
Octopuses are widely recognized as having high intelligence and complex inner lives. Photo by Pia B. published to the Creative Commons via Pexels.

Conservation must acknowledge animal sentience (commentary)

Nicole Roberts 19 May 2023

In Sri Lanka, activists push for ban on using human contraceptive jabs on animals

Hassaan Shazuli 8 Mar 2023
A man carries a feral dog.

Himalayan community takes initiative to help dogs, wildlife and itself

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Dec 2022
Wader chick

Probe finds Vietnam faltering in bid to curb wildlife trade, animal suffering

Carolyn Cowan 23 Nov 2022
Long-tailed macaques roam free across the Angkor Wat temple complex

Alleged macaque-smuggling ring exposed as U.S. indicts Cambodian officials

Gerald Flynn 18 Nov 2022

Dog shooting highlights Sri Lanka’s need for stricter animal cruelty laws

Hassaan Shazuli 14 Oct 2022
Bua Noi in her enclosure

Thai zoos come under scrutiny again as tourism rebounds from COVID-19

Shannon Brault 10 Oct 2022
Two chimpanzees in the wild

Trafficked: Kidnapped chimps, jailed rhino horn traffickers, and seized donkey parts

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2022
A right whale and its calf.

U.S. charts course for adopting ropeless fishing to reduce whale deaths

John Cannon 21 Sep 2022
A fish market in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Fish-farming practices come under scrutiny amid surge in aquaculture

Nick Rodway 6 Jul 2022

Zoo animals not immune to Sri Lanka’s economic rout as food prices surge

Malaka Rodrigo 14 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 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
A Bornean orangutan in Indonesia

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

Jim Tan 1 Apr 2022

Campaigners against dog meat trade take on one Indonesian city at a time

Eko Widianto 7 Mar 2022

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

Ryan Truscott 24 Feb 2022

Meet Magali, the conservation warrior rescuing Peru’s rainforest animals: Video

Liz Kimbrough 26 Nov 2021

Think that GIF of the smoking chimp is funny? The chimp wasn’t laughing

Tina Deines 17 Nov 2021

‘The images are confronting’: Q&A with animal photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Oct 2021

Faroe Islands to evaluate traditional hunt after slaughter of 1,400 dolphins

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Sep 2021

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