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America's 806 wilderness areas—110 million acres larger than California—face a climate crisis. Now Indigenous stewardship could reshape how we protect them.
Divers off Japan discovered an oddly marked sea squirt in 2017—a creature so unusual it had never been formally documented by science.
Meet the kākāpō: flightless, heaviest, and clumsiest parrot on Earth. This New Zealand oddity has forgotten how to fly—and nearly everything else.
Trump's closest allies are quietly embracing solar power—a stunning reversal that contradicts the president's public stance against renewable energy.
Smithsonian researchers are bringing Panama's iconic golden frogs back from the brink of extinction—releasing them into specially designed wild enclosures for the first time.
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Meet LiLou: the therapy pig who's been calming anxious flyers at San Francisco International Airport for years—the world's first certified airport therapy animal.
The Jane Goodall Institute is honoring the legendary primatologist with a special birthday tribute, celebrating her transformative 91-year legacy in conservation.
Ecosystems shifted centuries before we started measuring them. Now scientists are mining memory, language, and daily practice—not databases—to understand what we missed.
Kazakhstan is planting 37,000 seedlings to restore tiger habitat before the big cats return to the region.
Every summer in a Belgian town, 1,000 virgin queen bees take flight for their "wedding"—a deadly ritual where males die after mating mid-air.
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A Brisbane bus driver became an unlikely hero when he spotted a koala dodging traffic—and stopped his bus to rescue it.
African conservation leaders converge in Nairobi to answer a critical question: why does record funding fail to stop biodiversity collapse and climate change?
A tiny marsupial thought lost to its range has surfaced hundreds of kilometers away, offering hope for this critically threatened species.
Every 200 metres, a fruit tree transforms bare hedgerows into thriving ecosystems. Today, planting continues at Low Park's new apple and damson orchard.
Coastal cities hold the ocean's fate in their hands—yet ocean protection debates ignore them entirely, focusing instead on national governments and treaties.
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A baby macaque named Punch-kun abandoned by his mother at Japan's Ichikawa City Zoo couldn't make friends—until zookeepers gave him a stuffed orangutan. The unlikely pair became an internet sensation.
Male whales improve their mating success with age—and their singing voice is the secret weapon.
A deaf woman's hearing dog became her lifeline when she fell on black ice—lying across her legs and barking until help arrived.
A Providence man's driveway snow removal turned into a reptile rescue when he discovered a frost-bitten giant lizard. The female tegu, named Frankie, survived despite severe dehydration and frostbite.
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Elephants need safe passages to roam—and a groundbreaking project is mapping migration routes to prevent deadly conflicts between giants and communities.
Older male humpbacks are winning the mating game. As whale populations recover, senior males increasingly outcompete younger rivals to father the next generation.
The Toledo Zoo's newborn giraffe Eugene isn't your typical spotted calf—his perfectly parted black hair tuft has already won over fans worldwide.
Waitrose is pulling mackerel from shelves by April 29 over overfishing fears—a rare move by a major UK supermarket.
Ancient DNA reveals Ireland's goats have roamed the island for 3,000 years. A new study proves today's Irish Goats are genetically linked to Bronze Age herds.
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Mongabay's website traffic exploded in 2025: 111 million visitors, up 46%, with pageviews jumping 72%. But these numbers only scratch the surface of its true reach.
The "fire tiger" of Thai legend is real—and nearly impossible to spot. Asia's golden cat ranks among the world's rarest wildcats.
A soccer ball struck a seagull mid-flight. What happened next: a player performed CPR to save its life.
The Cocoa Police Department's new K9 officer Kyra brings more than crime-fighting skills—she's got serious dance moves that have her coworkers grooving.
A four-eared cat named Dobby went viral on Reddit, leaving skeptics wondering if AI had created him. He's real—and twice as good at ignoring you.
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After 17 years extinct in the wild, Panama's brilliant golden frogs are hopping home. Conservationists are finally reintroducing the fluorescent amphibians to their native ecosystem.
A bottlenose dolphin in Venice's lagoon has flipped the script on wildlife management—scientists say humans are the real problem.
A lone bottlenose dolphin named Mimmo turned Venice's canals into a research goldmine this summer, revealing conservation strategies for protecting marine mammals in urban waters.
Australia's native mammals face a deadly trade-off: hunt for food or hide from feral cats and foxes. Most can't do both and survive.
A Portuguese fisher's desperate question cuts to the heart of a conservation crisis: "Where are we going to fish now?" New marine protections in the Azores are squeezing out generations of tradition.
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A Florida zoo team pulled off a veterinary first, saving a diseased rhino that locals thought was lost.
A Goa sanctuary is giving orphaned monkeys a second chance at life. Here's how you can make a difference.
Every summer in Chimay, Belgium, 1,000 virgin queens mate in mid-air—a fatal encounter where males literally lose their lives to reproduce.
Fish populations in China's Yangtze River have more than doubled in two years since a sweeping 10-year fishing ban began in 2021, proving large-scale government action can restore damaged ecosystems.
Decades of dams, mining, and overfishing nearly killed the Yangtze River. Now, a surprising recovery offers hope that even devastated ecosystems can bounce back.