Nature, conservation and the planet
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Trail cameras on Tasmania's Lungtalanana/Clarke Island have recorded echidnas at four sites, and an expert estimates a dozen or more may live there.
Lungtalanana/Clarke Island, Tasmania, Australia · · 2 min read
Rescuers on Indonesia's Bangka Island saved more than 90 of these venomous primates in a decade, but tin mining and power lines still keep them near extinction.
Bangka Island, Indonesia · · 3 min read
Scotland's nature agency has licensed up to 15 beaver families for the Loch Ness area over three years, with the first releases possible within weeks.
Loch Ness, Scottish Highlands, United Kingdom · · 3 min read
A Western Australian Museum study used old specimens and DNA to name two bandicoot species, one extinct, and found the quenda once lived near Adelaide.
Perth, Western Australia, Australia · · 2 min read
Four mother-and-baby pairs were among nine rescued orangutans released into Batu Nyambu, a 23,000-hectare protected forest in Indonesian Borneo.
Ketapang Regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia · · 2 min read
Tent-making bats in Latin America fold giant leaves into roosts and drop seeds from more than 100 plant species on the forest floor below.
Latin America (Mexico to Brazil) · · 2 min read
Surveyors at Castlemartin Range in Pembrokeshire, the only known Welsh site, found short-necked oil beetle larvae after surveys in 2022 and 2025 found only dead adults.
Castlemartin Range, Pembrokeshire, Wales · · 2 min read
In 2010, scientists described a new snub-nosed monkey from Kachin State, Myanmar. Hunters say it sneezes in the rain. It is Critically Endangered.
Kachin State, Myanmar · · 3 min read
In Osona, Spain, naturalists are offering roof tiles with a built-in nesting hole for the vulnerable little owl, and some have already been occupied.
Vic, Osona, Catalonia, Spain · · 2 min read
A fishing cat rescued with a dislocated jaw grew from 5 kg to 12 kg in rehab. A 200 g collar will now track how he fares on a Bangladesh tea estate.
Sylhet division, Bangladesh · · 2 min read
Chiricahua National Park charges nothing to get in. Here’s how to get there, which hikes to pick, when to go and what to bring.
Willcox, Cochise County, Arizona, USA · · 4 min read
Beaky Junior is the first chick to fledge from a new nest on a managed grouse moor in southern Scotland, the charity says, where golden eagles now number over 50.
Southern Uplands, Scotland, UK · · 2 min read
In Papua New Guinea's YUS region, more than 15,000 landowners created a community-managed conservation area, and a coffee cooperative pays local families.
Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea · · 3 min read
An ecologist in Australia's Northern Territory recorded the call of the little-known Arnhem sheath-tailed bat far east of any earlier detection.
Pungalina-Seven Emu Wildlife Sanctuary, Northern Territory, Australia · · 3 min read
Camera traps in Czechia's Lusatian Mountains recorded a DNA-confirmed male wildcat and a female who gave birth to at least three kittens in 2025.
Lusatian Mountains, Czech Republic · · 3 min read
Brazil's INPE confirmed to Hooray News its record-low 3,335 km² Amazon estimate, and an INPE chart shows slow forest collapse fell to 22% of the loss.
Brasília, Brazil · · 3 min read
Fauna & Flora says its team on Georgia's Rioni River has caught more critically endangered sturgeons in 2026 than in the previous eight years combined.
Rioni River, Georgia · · 2 min read
A study estimates almost 183,000 adult and sub-adult giant tortoises on Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles, where 19th-century exploitation left fewer than 1,000.
Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles · · 3 min read
Cameras and scat DNA confirmed the endangered Nabarlek at two Kimberley sites, the first mainland Dambeemangaddee Country detections in over 50 years, AWC says.
Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia · · 3 min read
At Elkhorn Slough, returning sea otters eat the burrowing crabs that chew marsh roots, and creek banks erode more slowly, though how much is debated.
Elkhorn Slough, California, USA · · 3 min read
A 15-person crew cut the two-meter dugong loose and carried it in a cargo net over a sandbar near Exmouth, in a gulf where every dugong counts.
Exmouth, Western Australia, Australia · · 2 min read
Maple, born at the Toronto Zoo to an endangered species with only a few thousand left in the wild, is now out meeting visitors and doing hippo things.
Toronto, Canada · · 2 min read
Zura's litter was on the Cheetah Cub Cam in 2021. Now she has five cubs in Virginia, and anyone can watch a vulnerable species' newest family.
Front Royal, Virginia, United States · · 2 min read
From about 300 animals in the 1970s to an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 today, the termite-eating marsupial shows predator control works, as long as it keeps going.
Western Australia, Australia · · 2 min read
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