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Mangrove Forests Are Now Growing Worldwide for the First Time in 40 Years
A new Tulane-led study in Science finds mangrove area has rebounded since the early 2000s, with denser, healthier "closed-canopy" forests now expanding across the tropics.
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A California Condor Flew Into Oregon for the First Time in 122 Years
Condor B9, released by the Yurok Tribe in 2022, covered 380 miles in four days — becoming the first California condor recorded in Oregon since 1904.
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Papua New Guinea Just Protected an Ocean Area the Size of the UK
The new Bismarck and Solomon Seas reserves cover more than 77,000 square miles, instantly making PNG one of the world's biggest ocean protectors and shielding a stretch of the Coral Triangle.
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Kruger National Park Turns 100 — A Century of Protecting Africa's Big 5
South Africa's flagship park has spent a hundred years protecting nearly 5 million acres of bushveld and the lions, leopards, elephants, rhinos, and buffalo that depend on it.
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Red-Ruffed Lemur Triplets Born at Georgia Park Boost Critically-Endangered Species
Taylor, Red and Marjorie — born to lemur parents Val and Doug — are the third straight litter for the pair, joining only 590 red-ruffed lemurs in captivity worldwide.
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Wildflowers That Eat Lead: The Pansies Cleaning Up Old British Mines
A rare class of UK wildflowers known as metallophytes is quietly pulling lead, zinc and cadmium out of old mining soils — and saving councils millions in remediation costs.
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23 Right Whale Calves Born in 2026 — Most in a Single Season Since 2009
NOAA documented 23 mom-calf pairs along the U.S. Southeast coast this season, with 20 returning mothers and birth intervals trending back toward the healthy 3–4 year range.
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Critically Endangered Mountain Bongos Caught on Trail Cam in Kenya
Trail cameras have captured fresh footage of mountain bongos — one of the world's rarest forest antelopes — in a stretch of Kenyan highlands where they were feared extinct, a major win for a species reduced to fewer than 100 wild animals.
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Wild Horses Are Back: Mongolia's Takhi Now Top 1,000 in Their Homeland
Once extinct in the wild, Przewalski's horses now number more than 1,000 in Mongolia — half the global population — thanks to a 50-year reintroduction effort that began with just a dozen captive ancestors.
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New Zealand Parakeet Pair Produces 55 Chicks, 10% of Wild Population
Nacho and Trixie, a breeding pair of critically endangered orange-fronted parakeets at the Isaac Conservation and Wildlife Trust, have hatched 55 chicks in two years — a tenth of the entire species.
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Namibia Locks In $63M for Africa's Largest Community Conservation Deal
A new agreement called Namibia for Life secures $63 million to protect 100 community conservancies and 280,000 people, the first Project Finance for Permanence deal in Africa.
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26 Chicks Hatch From the World's First Artificial Eggs
Colossal Biosciences hatched live chickens inside 3D-printed titanium shells — a breakthrough that could help bring back the giant moa.
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Vietnam's Rarest Monkey Triples Its Numbers in Two Decades
A new census reveals 160 Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys now live in Vietnam's Khau Ca forest — more than three times the number counted in 2002.
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Plant Last Seen in 1967 Rediscovered in Australian Outback by Chance Photo
Bird bander Aaron Bean uploaded a shrub photo to iNaturalist — and a botanist instantly recognized Ptilotus senarius, missing for nearly six decades.
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California Gray Wolves Hit Modern Record: 55 Wolves, 9 Packs Across the State
A century after the last wild wolf was killed in California, state biologists confirmed 55 wolves and nine packs roaming the state — the highest count in modern history.
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Indonesia's First Native-Born Giant Panda Cub Set for Public Debut
Satrio Wiratama — nicknamed "Rio" — is healthy, climbing on his mother, and almost ready to meet the public, marking a milestone for Indonesia's conservation partnership with China.
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South Africa Restores 13,000 Acres of Habitat for Critically Endangered Frog
A decade-long IUCN-led campaign cleared invasive pines from the Klein Swartberg mountains, bringing the global home of the rough moss frog back to life.
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Wild Donkeys Return to Eastern Mongolia After 65 Years
After more than six decades of absence, the endangered Asiatic wild ass — known locally as khulan — has re-established a population in eastern Mongolia's sweeping steppe.
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Krithi Karanth Becomes First Indian Named Nat Geo Explorer of the Year
The wildlife scientist's work has reached 7,000 villages, 100,000 people, and 72,000 schoolchildren — and just earned her conservation's most coveted title.
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Kiwi Birds Visit New Zealand Parliament for First Time After 250-Bird Wellington Comeback
A citizen-led campaign has now released 250 kiwi into hills around Wellington — and to mark the milestone, wild kiwi were welcomed inside Parliament for the first time in history.
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Four Endangered Mountain Bongos Return to Kenya From European Zoos
Four critically endangered mountain bongos arrived safely at Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy this week — fresh "founders of new genetic lines" for one of Africa's rarest antelopes.
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UNESCO Sites Now Shelter a Third of the World's Tigers and Pandas
A new UNESCO report finds that wildlife populations have stayed stable inside designated sites even as global numbers crashed by nearly three-quarters since 1970.
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Six Grassroots Conservationists Win 2026 'Green Oscars'
From Himalayan salamanders to Galápagos petrels, the 2026 Whitley Awards handed £420,000 to six grassroots leaders quietly turning the tide for endangered wildlife.