Panna Tiger Reserve Conservation in India successfully doubled the native population of tigers in the decade before the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study reveals. In 2010, the nations that make up the remaining range countries of the tiger set a target to double the number of wild tigers worldwide—a goal called Tx2—10 at the St. … Read more
Brown Hairstreak (Thecla betulae) – by Iain H Leach / Butterfly Conservation Numbers of rare butterfly eggs have skyrocketed in South Wales after landowners let their hedgerows grow wild. Volunteers for the UK nonprofit Butterfly Conservation have counted record tallies of Brown Hairstreak eggs this winter around the Welsh county of Carmarthenshire. The success, they … Read more
A Fish and Wildlife Service biologist holds a handful of endangered Topeka shiners – credit, Kimberly Emerson / USFWS Across Iowa, a tiny fish has inspired an enormous conservation program that has seen hundreds of ponds restored to their natural state. Though originally for the sake of this small federally-endangered fish, the lakelets soon demonstrated … Read more
Schatborn, Peter. “Young Lion Resting” (2017). In The Leiden Collection Catalogue, 4th ed. via Sotheby’s Yesterday, Sotheby’s oversaw the record $18 million sale of a drawing by Rembrandt: one of 6 drafts he made of lions, and the only one to have resided in private hands. Those hands belong to Dr. Thomas S. Kaplan and … Read more
– credit, Virunga National Park The Bageni family has a pair of blue balloons outside their mailbox, after this Congolese gorilla clan welcomed twins. Now numbering 59 individuals, the twins were born to an adult female named Makufu, who will be closely monitored during the babies’ childhood. Mountain gorillas are a critically-endangered subspecies of the … Read more
Volunteers, staff, and contractors removing derelict fencing – credit, American Prairie The largest private land conservation project in America passed a milestone of rewilding the Great Plains last year. The nonprofit American Prairie recently celebrated the new year with a report that it had successfully removed the 100th mile of derelict barbed wire fencing on … Read more
Greater one horned rhino – CC 4.0. Nejib Ahmed India’s rhino stronghold of Assam reported zero deaths due to poaching among its populations of greater one-horned rhinos in 2025. The success replicates that seen in 2023, another year in which poachers claimed no rhinos. Himanta Biswa Sarma, the Chief Minister of the state of Assam, … Read more
The Galapagos rail – credit, Carlos Espinosa Centuries after they were made famous by Charles Darwin, and a century after they had become plagued by invasive rats and cats, the Galapagos Islands are well on their way to recovery. Few events could better capture that recovery than the recent reappearance of the beautiful blue Galapagos … Read more
Lesser Antillean Iguana – credit, © Andrew Snyder / Re:wild The small and uninhabited islet of Prickly Pear East is not what you might describe as a romantic holiday destination, but for the Lesser Antillean iguana, it has proved to be just that. Thanks to an ambitious program of cross-Caribbean matchmaking, a new population has … Read more
Supplied – Taronga Conservation Society An Australian zoo credited with saving 7 native species from extinction aims to continue its vital work by rewilding a 3,050-acre tract of farmland. The aim of planting a Box-Gum tree fores across the cleared land that would act as a corridor to help connect existing wildlife habitats. The Taronga … Read more