4+ hour, 28+ min ago  (1196+ words) In a remote area of French Guiana, a 29-year-old woman was attacked by a harpy, considered the world’s largest eagle, in October 2023. In an area with extensive tracts of preserved forest, such interactions between humans and wildlife are extremely rare…...

4+ hour, 7+ min ago  (1210+ words) COSTA RICA: Dawn is yet to break when primatologist Susan Perry and her field research team move through Costa Rica’s tropical dry forest for a day in the field studying Central American white-faced capuchin monkeys. Despite the darkness, the forest…...

4+ hour, 59+ min ago  (1210+ words) When Jerald Mahusay was a kid, he and his friends saw turtle eggs so often, they treated them like toys. “We were always playing with the eggs,” Mahusay recalled of his childhood in Santo Niño, a village in the Philippines…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (341+ words) Gray whales are experiencing a potentially catastrophic population decline, a sharp reversal from what had been considered a conservation success. As of July 6, 2026, there were 145 gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) stranding deaths in the Pacific, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (879+ words) Thinking of America’s iconic wild creatures and places usually brings images of Yellowstone or Denali National Park to mind, or the many wilderness areas scattered across multiple states, but the collective imagination generally passes over the East Coast, with its…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (939+ words) The stealthy and increasingly persistent presence of an exotic species — the giant river prawn— in Brazil’s coastal ecosystems has been raising numerous alarms among scientists, fishers and environmental managers. Introduced in the country in the late 20th century to supply the…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1063+ words) Mulugana is the founder of the Niani Youth Development organization whose mission is to educate local youth. He wants to make a change in the community, to help residents conserve the environment. Mulugana is afraid the next generation may not…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (477+ words) A traditional food source for Amazonian communities, freshwater turtles have been included in Brazil’s list of fauna threatened with extinction for the first time. The cágado-iaçá, or six-tubercled Amazon River turtle, had its risk elevated from near threatened to endangered…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago  (454+ words) How do you spot polar bears in the vast, and often dark, wilderness of the Arctic? This AI-driven radar system scans the landscape to spot approaching polar bears. The technology was developed by the nonprofit Polar Bears International in collaboration…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago  (727+ words) news - Mongabay Bill Montevecchi showed what seabirds could tell us about the sea If you liked this story, share it with other people. - Bill Montevecchi spent more than five decades showing how seabirds could reveal changes in the North Atlantic,…...