Mammals

New research shows when human actions started to fragment elephant habitat in Asia and how that could help conservation efforts.

This remarkable species lives in forests of towering trees. Locals call it the “ghost of the forest,” because it’s so hard to find and moves so quickly.

This month Links From the Brink has a pack of good-news stories about wild, endangered felines.

New research finds that at least 254 bat species face pressure from hunters, and that could push some of them into extinction.

Researchers have found PFAS in the bodies of wild animals everywhere they’ve looked. Now they’re beginning to understand the health effects.

New research shows that these ecosystem engineers can be an “ally in stopping the decline of biodiversity.”

This year we bid farewell to two lost frogs, the Chinese paddlefish, a plant from New Hampshire, and many others.

This will be a critical year for several endangered and threatened species, as well as a time of opportunity for others.

Environmentalists and journalists tend to describe beavers in the ways they benefit humans. It’s time to change that perception of nature.

Lost in much of the coverage of the region’s water woes is the ecological crisis caused by prolonged drought, climate warming and development.