Stories

In encouraging news, the eastern monarch butterfly population nearly doubled in 2025, according to a new report announced in Mexico. The population wintering in central Mexico's forests occupied 4.42 acres, up from 2.22 acres during the previous winter. While monarchs occupied nearly twice as much forest habitat as last year, populations remain far below the long-term average.

WWF's Emily Mills on the innovations in mapping technologies that are changing conservation

Today tigers are found in just about 8% of the places they lived in just a couple of hundred years ago. Increasing global tiger range is critically important for restoring nature loss and must happen in a way that benefits local communities.

Now open source, the SpeciesNet platform saves time and saves wildlife

Some insects not only survive freezing temps for months at a time but can move about in the snow due to their ability to “supercool” their bodies below the freezing temperature of water. Explore how these critters have adapted to survive the winter. 

A new WWF report focuses on the Southwest Indian Ocean region, revealing how widespread community-led management efforts are working towards effective and equitable governance across Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania, South Africa, and Kenya.

Many animals are active during the winter months, searching for food, finding mates, starting families, or on the move. For this reason, the winter is a great time to look for signs of wildlife and a fun excuse to brave the cold.

In a historic decision, The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC)—one of five global tuna regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) responsible for conserving and sustainably using highly migratory fish stocks, particularly tuna, in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean—has adopted the first-ever Conservation and Management Measure on Crew Labour Standards within a tuna RFMO. This groundbreaking measure ensures enhanced protection for the welfare, safety, and rights of crew members working across the WCPFC-managed fisheries, setting a significant global precedent for labor rights in the fishing industry.

Tropical, sheltered waters are the perfect place for humpbacks to breed and raise their vulnerable calves. But mothers and their babies will soon set off on a perilous journey.

HoneyRose Smith, a second-year journalism major from Oakland, Calif., was selected as the winner of an essay writing competition. She will receive a $10,000 scholarship and a year-long mentorship with WWF’s Communications and People & Culture teams to help launch her career.

Once the temps drop and snowflakes begin to fall, it’s easy to assume that insects have simply disappeared. And while many do vanish from our view, a significant number of temperate species survive these harsh months by harnessing some truly radical behavior.

Illegal trade poses an enormous threat to sea turtles, which are trafficked for their meat, eggs, shells, and other parts. And stopping it isn’t easy.

Slow lorises are a study in contradictions. With wide eyes and furry bodies, these slow-moving, pint-sized primates look like cuddly stuffed animals.

Wildlife provides vital benefits to people in innumerable ways, from pollinating plants so we have food to eat to dispersing seeds so forests can help regulate our climate. However, new WWF-led research shows that these important contributions are vastly underrepresented across science and policy discussions.

The Great Sea Reef that hugs Fiji’s northwestern shores is a biodiversity hotspot and deeply important to the country and its people.

The interwoven effort to save reefs, corals, and a modern but traditional way of life

Capturing the complex, often uneasy coexistence between humans and elephants in southwest Zambia

SH2 is “the gold medalist of all hyenas,” says Lise Hanssen, director of Namibia’s Kwando Carnivore Project.

Gain some distance and you’ll see how much oceans define the dominant color of Earth.

In the summer of 2018, I traveled to Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula to study the gliding tree frog.

The world was on lockdown, but the local pond didn’t get the memo.

The slaughter of millions of American bison is one of the great tragedies in US history.