In early March, a trail camera located in Ujung Kulon National Park in western Indonesia captured a rare female Javan ...
Over time, this single ancestral introduction evolved into over 20 distinct species of endemic loulu. As Hawai‘i’s only native palm, loulu is featured in numerous Hawaiian chants and legends. Vast ...
The Jambi Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) has reported that critical ecosystems within the Bukit Tigapuluh National Park (TNBT) landscape are ...
From the vaquita – the world's rarest marine mammal – to the Sumatran rhino, discover the species facing extinction across the world ...
CINCINNATI - With the survival of a species on the line, Cincinnati Zoo scientists are hoping to mate their lone female Sumatran rhino with her little brother. The desperation breeding effort with the ...
Dr. Klinger is the author of “Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes.” Over the past 15 years, it has often been said that China has a stranglehold on global supplies of ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Isabel Esterman is Mongabay’s managing editor for Southeast Asia, overseeing reporting across one of the world’s most complex environmental and ...
The Sumatran rhino is the smallest and hairiest of all rhino species, adapted for life in dense rainforest. Traits shaped by evolution offer little defense against habitat loss, fragmentation, and ...
The Sumatran rhino looks like it wandered out of another era and somehow got lost in the present day. Smaller than its African cousins, covered in coarse reddish hair, and rarely seen by humans, it ...
On the vast expanse of the Siberian steppe 14,000 years ago, a 2-month-old wolf pup gobbled down some woolly rhinoceros flesh. Moments later, its underground den collapsed, killing the pup and its ...