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A Mongabay investigation finds gold mine expansion, cyclone damage, and rising fire risk squeezing the last stronghold of the Tapanuli orangutan, with no coordinated recovery plan in place.
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Six new calves born this year lifted Cambodia's critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphin population to 118, a rare bright spot after decades of decline driven mainly by illegal fishing gear.
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India's tiger population has rebounded to roughly 3,682 animals, but with a third now living outside protected reserves, a wave of attacks in Karnataka is testing how conservationists manage the spread into farmland.
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Whale populations have recovered since commercial whaling ended, but an increasingly efficient krill fishing fleet is competing for the same food source.
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The African dwarf crocodile has gone three decades without a conservation reassessment even as bushmeat markets increasingly target it.
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Nearly 2,000 feet of interlocking 'oyster castles' are breaking waves and rebuilding shoreline habitat in Laurel Bay.
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Gray whale numbers have halved in a decade as a warming Arctic starves them of food, and they still lack Endangered Species Act protection.
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El Nino-driven fires have burned tens of thousands of hectares in Indonesian Borneo this year, forcing rescuers to save orangutans suffering smoke exposure as their forest habitat disappears.
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Fewer than 30 giant ground pangolins remain in Kenya, and most of the recent deaths have come from electrocution on farm fences, not trafficking, pushing Maasai communities to start deactivating the fences' lower wires.
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A new rule that redefines what counts as 'harm' to endangered species under federal law took effect this week, despite 99% of public comments opposing it, prompting lawsuits from the Sierra Club and 20 states.
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Biologists riding along on Panama's industrial fishing boats are training crews to release sharks and rays caught as bycatch, as lawmakers debate a bill to protect the country's declining shark populations.
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Researchers have counted around 20 Ganges river dolphins living in Bangladesh's Buriganga River, one of the most polluted waterways on Earth, raising questions about how the species is persisting there.
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