Many conservationists dedicated to protecting the endangered Andean cat have never seen one in the wild, with the species ...

In 2013, when Sandra Altherr, co-founder of the German NGO Pro Wildlife, began looking into the reptile trade in Europe, she ...

Biologist Mike Ross, balanced in a canoe beneath a star-filled sky in central Zambia, slaps the water with a net attached to ...

A zoo in the U.S. state of Kansas has welcomed the birth of a healthy baby pygmy hippopotamus, raising hope for a species ...

A vital Amazonian superfood suddenly vanishes, leaving thousands of Indigenous and extractivist families reeling.

Few conservationists have shaped the public conversation around wildlife protection quite like Peter Knights. Best known for ...

As shiny, pearl-like white plastic pellets rode wave after wave and piled up on the beaches of Thiruvananthapuram in India’s ...

After Hurricane Iris decimated the coral reef at Laughing Bird Caye National Park in 2001, many wrote off the UNESCO World ...

Just four months after Mongabay reported on a dramatic surge in diagnoses of respiratory illness near Indonesia’s ...

Colombia’s Constitutional Court has issued a historic ruling, finding in favor of Indigenous leaders who say their ...

Young birder Lahiru Walpita begins most of his days at dawn by scanning the skies for seabirds along the coastline in ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. On ...