only 27 left: we may lose Asiatic cheetahs because of this war. "I doubt that the government has any money left for the conservation of the cheetah” says Jamshid Parchizadeh in @mongabay.com: news.mongabay.com/2026/04/war-... 🧪🌍

A judge called Cody Roberts’ maiming and capturing of a wolf ‘cruel’ and ‘disturbing,’ but abided by the terms of a plea deal in sentencing the western Wyoming man to 18 months of probation. Roberts did not speak beyond answering procedural questions. wyofile.com/judge-senten...

Great news from #CMSCOP15: Proposals to include striped hyenas and giant otters on Appendix I and II to increase protections have been agreed to by consensus. We expect them to be adopted at the end of the COP. www.wcs.org/cms

new! Tiger tracks in Dzhugdzhurskii Reserve, ~400 miles north of tiger range & probably the northern-most record in half a century. Dispersing males can move huge distances & w/climate change warming boreal forests, deer move north + tigers follow... Source (in Russian): shorturl.at/uXPR0 🌍🧪🐅

Lures do not increase box-trapping success of an endangered felid in South Texas: wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Just because an area has more species doesn’t mean it’s healthier. In the case of sagebrush ecosystems in the Intermountain West, invasive species can increase species richness in birds—and it’s not necessarily a good thing.

Oh boy, looking forward to this one! youtu.be/yoJOWOnbvzU

Exciting news: A pack of endangered wolves were released into the wild in the northern Mexican state of Durango on Friday, thanks to collaboration between Mexico and the United States under the SAFE program. 🔗Read more: mexiconewsdaily.com/news/wolves-...

New record of dhole Cuon alpinus in Vietnam, yet apparent decline of the species across the country: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Watch this clip. Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.

Chimpanzees are not more aggressive than bonobos but target sexes differently www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Exploring the complexities of cooperative breeding: insights from African wild dog packs: zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

While we have mixed thoughts on the narrative presented in Kingdom (particularly with lion bias), the final “Making of” episode was phenomenal! It did an excellent job of highlighting key conservation issues and ongoing work done by ZCP and DNPW. Highly recommend watching it!

Article on our Gulf Coast canid paper. Our paper didn't confirm anything with Galveston Island coyotes. The local paper is making the connection here. There's a gradient of mean red wolf ancestry (13-38%) in coyote populations along the coast and our Ecosphere paper looked at morphology and ecology.

Originally from Corsica and Sardinia, European mouflon were introduced to the Hoge Veluwe. However despite being viewed as benign or beneficial, they’re a cause of controversy with wolf recovery in the region due to public outrage from this new source of mortality for them.

This photo, released by the US Department of Justice, purports to show George Church, left, and Martin Nowak on Jeffrey Epstein’s private island

YouTube content on wildlife engages audiences but rarely drives meaningful conservation action: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Painted dogs were previously regarded as an exception among canids for seemingly never engaging in frugivory. This new publication however, shows that like gray wolves, some individuals will take to snacking on fruit on rare occasions: www.canids.org/CBC/28/Afric...

A new study from the WCC's Integrative Ecology and Coexistence Lab reveals that the unique body traits and high survival of coastal coyotes along the Texas–Louisiana border allow them to carry red wolf ancestry decades after the species was extirpated from the region. Read more: bit.ly/3MCTBMw

Our new Ecosphere paper shows Gulf Coast canids are a wetland coyote ecotype shaped by red wolf introgression - tall, lanky, small‑headed, and big eared coyotes that eat lots of nutria and have high survival which helps preserve red wolf genetics. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Excited to see these results published! For anyone who has been curious about what is going on with canids in the Gulf Coast, and what they are, this is an excellent and comprehensive assessment: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Happy Groundhog Day! journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

Morphological assessment of the Common Barn Owl Tyto alba (Strigiformes: Tytonidae) supports three species: mapress.com/zt/article/v...

The Japanese Archipelago sheltered cave lions, not tigers, during the Late Pleistocene: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Density and Coexistence Patterns of an Apex Carnivore (Panthera pardus) and a Mesocarnivore (Caracal aurata) in Northern Congo Forests: www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/16...

Increasing Targeted Poaching of Lions for Trade Has the Potential to Pose an Existential Threat to the Species in Africa: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PRNP variant frequencies in Roosevelt and Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus canadensis) from Oregon and their implications for chronic wasting disease academic.oup.com/jhered/advan...

The January issue of the Journal of Wildlife Management is now available! Check out the featured article modeling the occupancy of predators, prey and livestock in the Himalayas, as well as other studies! Jump in 👉 https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19372817/2026/90/1?campaign=woletoc

One of the largest wildlife crossing projects in North America has finished in one year and under budget in Colorado.

Ancient DNA and dating evidence for the dispersal of hippos into central Europe during the last glacial: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Serval population status in the Greater Kafue Ecosystem, Zambia: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Merry Christmas everyone! As some of our older followers may know, Christmas is a time for us to get some new wildlife reading started. Big thanks to @jonathanslaght.com for the free signed copy! Look forward to diving in this week!

Bonelli’s eagles have been declining in Spain in recent years due to human-driven factors like poaching, poisoning and electrocution. But new research has revealed that the raptors experienced a baby boom during the COVID-19 lockdown.

A new bipartisan bill would extend the Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program and provide $1 billion through 2031 to build crossings that reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions.

Evidence of Holocene lions in Eastern Europe outside of Greece has always been very sparse, but it looks like some new evidence of their presence around the Black Sea was recently published: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The African golden cat, one of the rarest and least-seen species of cats, is now the focus of a massive 19-country conservation project. Scientists have partnered with ~8,000 local families where they will help as researchers, setting up camera traps, collecting data on this elusive species.

Yes, they’re still alive, and now we have a record of them still traveling with their mother!!! www.sooleader.com/local-news/n...

Guess who made the cut? www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/18/1...

Porcupines were persecuted as pests throughout much of the 20th century. Now wildlife managers are concerned that populations have failed to recover in the decades since state bounties were banned.

A marine subsidy reshapes the ecology of a large terrestrial carnivore: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Part 2 of our Endangered Species Act rollback coverage discusses the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s proposed plan to scrap the “blanket rule” for threatened species and replace it with species-specific protections.

Conservation dollars aren’t just protecting wildlife. New research finds that they are powering a $115.8 billion economic engine that supports more than half a million jobs and pays for itself many times over.

Proposed changes to the U.S. Endangered Species Act would overhaul how agencies list and delist species, define and exclude critical habitat and interpret “foreseeable future.”

this has happende three times and i think the Future is Wild did it best.

From the archives (but still painfully relevant): Possible Monkey Extinction Highlights the Risk to Africa’s Most Endangered Primate Group https://therevelator.org/red-colobus-extinction/

Albrecht, J., Bocherens, H., Hobson, K.A. et al. Dynamic omnivory shapes the functional role of large carnivores under global change. Nat Commun 16, 10896 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s414...