Gorillas in Congo’s Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park scratch the ground for truffles, not for insects as long assumed, study says. With these findings, Gaston Abea becomes Ndoki's first Indigenous lead author of a peer-reviewed scientific paper. 🌍 bit.ly/4cwC3Ky

“Tropical rainforests don’t give up their secrets easily,” says WCS’s @emmastokeswcs.bsky.social. That makes the images from a recent camera trap project in Congo rewarding. They help us better understand the forests to protect them. #InternationalDayofForests 🌍 ▶️ bit.ly/3DjeDLr

Wolf populations in Europe have made a big comeback, increasing by almost 60 percent in a single decade, according to a new study. www.ecowatch.com/european-wol...

Wildlife photo of the week: storks at the Knepp estate, West Sussex, UK. Storks went extinct in the UK in the early 15th century, but are now making a comeback on rewilded land. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Scottish conservationists hope to convert a Highland sporting estate into a rewilding showcase after a mystery benefactor gave them more than £17.5m to buy it. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The release of beavers into English waterways is to be allowed for the first time in centuries, the UK government has announced. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Beavers reintroduced to a farm in the UK have saved it from drought, prevented flooding in the nearby village and boosted the local economy, according to the owner of the land. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A major camera-trap photography operation in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park led by photographer Will Burrard-Lucas and supported by WCS has captured outstanding images of some of the most charismatic but often rarely seen mammals. newsroom.wcs.org/News-Release....

Our WCS team in Gabon is supporting critical steps toward peaceful human-elephant co-existence there. bit.ly/3Dbr3VM 🌍

Sustainable management would seem to be the obvious way forward as an encounter between a dog and a wild boar spreads panic across Dartmoor. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

African lion numbers are declining as a result of decreases in prey populations, necessitating the need for increased prey protection measures to reverse this trend, a study says. news.mongabay.com/2025/02/stud...

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Wildlife photo of the week is a herd of bison in Elk Island national park, Alberta, Canada. The park’s herds play a vital role in bison rewilding efforts across North America and as far as Russia. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Reintroducing wolves in the Scottish Highlands could lead to an expansion of native woodland and lock up millions of tons of carbon, say researchers. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

great time with Minneapolis Audubon yesterday! Amazed that four years into the life of OWLS OF THE EASTERN ICE, this book can still coax upwards of 70 people from their normal routines to learn more 🦉🌍

Wildlife photo of the week is one of the four Lynx that were illegally released into the Cairngorms in January. All four were recaptured, but one subsequently died. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Marine scientists and economists have unveiled a comprehensive framework for Marine Prosperity Areas, which align human well-being with the restoration of designated marine and coastal environments. scripps.ucsd.edu/news/marine-...

This is not good news. If they rule out the reintroduction of Lynx, they need to outline a a system that controls herbivores, including sheep, to allow the restoration of forests, stop landslides, capture carbon and live up to the claim that Scotland will become a rewilded nation!

First Minister John Swinney has ruled out the reintroduction of lynx into the wild in Scotland (while attending the NFU conference!). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wildlife photo of the week is a Darwin’s frog at London zoo. It is one of more than 30 froglets of the endangered species born at the zoo after a dramatic rescue mission in which their parents were extracted from their fungus-threatened native habitat in Chile. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Crimes against wildlife are increasingly threatening biodiversity in Latin America, with almost 2,000 wildlife seizures and poaching incidents recorded over five years, according to a recent report. news.mongabay.com/2025/02/repo...

Scientists have confirmed the presence of the Asian small-clawed otter in Nepal for the first time in more than 185 years. The last confirmed sighting was in 1839. news.mongabay.com/2025/02/worl...

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an observation tower at Prek Toal Ramsar Site, on the edge of Tonle Sap in Cambodia. Egg collectors had decimated bird colonies here (stork, ibis, heron, cormorant, pelican). An effort to convert poachers to guards resulted in a spectacular rebound in numbers; a true conservation success story 🌍

The Republic of the Marshall Islands has announced the country’s first marine sanctuary. The area – bigger than the whole of Switzerland – will be fully protected from fishing. www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/...

LISTEN: Conservation funding is not enough to address the threats faced by coral reefs, says WCS’s Fahd Al-Guthmy. On the latest #WCSWildAudio, programs like Miamba Yetu, which Fahd manages, can help us save resilient reefs. 🌍 🔊 apple.co/3Wnlfim

The UK government is still working with Natural England to review options on species reintroduction, including beavers (insists government spokesperson). www.theguardian.com/environment/...

With only 143 known nests remaining on mainland New Zealand, authorities have warned that “without a serious turnaround” the yellow-eyed penguin could become locally extinct within just two decades. oceanographicmagazine.com/news/species...

Why did a bunch of crocodiles catch a ride in this boat? In July 2024, ecoguards from the Lac Télé Community Reserve in the Republic of Congo rescued a group of Congolese dwarf crocodiles from an illegal large-scale poacher and released them into the wild. 🌍 1/

I was astonished to spot 3 forest elephants on a roundabout in Glenrothes yesterday! They have the classic small round « cyclotis » ears and their backs curve upwards to the highest point above their hips!

In Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda, crop-raiding by elephants can destroy the incomes of farmers and pastoralists. Electric fences are one of the solutions currently being tested. news.mongabay.com/2025/01/for-...

One of the four Lynx illegally released into the Scottish Highlands has died, showing just why illegal animal abandonment is so irresponsible. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The Highlands of Scotland could support 400 lynx in the wild and there is strong support for their return among environmental groups. However, it has to be managed properly. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Over the past decade, the population of the critically endangered Siberian crane has increased by nearly 50%, according to the latest surveys. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Bumblebees in the UK have been found to be starting nests in the depths of winter due to climate change, say conservationists, increasing the likelihood that the nests will fail. www.bbc.com/news/article...

As human influence has expanded, so too have the ways in which the natural world has adapted. This apparently includes tuskless elephants and swallows that have shorter wings. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

don't even have a cover designed yet, but TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES from @fsgbooks.bsky.social/Allen Lane made @theguardian.com's list of "Books To Look Forward To In 2025"! 🦉🐅🌍 www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...

Biological corridors are vital for the survival of jaguars, with habitat loss increasingly restricting Latin America’s large mammal species to islands of habitat. news.mongabay.com/2025/01/cons...

Returning wolves and ocelots were just two of the good news wildlife stories in 2024. therevelator.org/wildlife-mvp...

Several whale species may live much longer than previously thought, according to new research. All the more reason for countries such as Iceland and Japan to halt whaling. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The state of South Australia is introducing measures to protect vulnerable species, and has banned the fishing of several endangered or critically endangered sharks and rays in its waters. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

The Swedish government has given the green light for five entire wolf families, a total of 30 wolves, to be killed in a hunt campaigners say is illegal under EU law. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

There was good news for some wildlife in 2024, as species that were once on the brink of extinction made a comeback. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Scientists have described hundreds of new species over the past year, including the world’s smallest otter in India and a new family of African plants. news.mongabay.com/2024/12/phot...

Wildlife photo of the week is a water vole peeking from the reeds in Kent, UK. Water voles continue to decline in their distribution across Britain, but there are signs of recovery in some regions, thanks to targeted conservation work. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

State officials in Alaska are proposing to kill 100 wolves a year to benefit moose, despite growing scientific research that killing predators doesn’t necessarily lead to more prey. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

Good news for water voles in the UK as reintroductions, habitat restoration and the eradication of American mink – the non-native predator responsible for water vole population crashes – are helping the creature recover from historic lows. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Good news from Peru, where researchers in the Alto Mayo region have discovered 27 species that are new to science, including a rare amphibious mouse. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Lot to learn from this impressive response!