As climate change intensifies, scientists are becoming increasingly concerned about how animals will cope with a more unpredictable world. One way to gain insight is by studying how animals have ...

Long-tailed, neon green and among Costa Rica’s greatest wildlife wonders, the resplendent quetzal is an aptly named bird — ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Researchers ...

I moved to Costa Rica in 2016 without ever visiting first. Here are the things I wish I had known before my first trip – from ...

Legal action has been announced against Sloth World in Orlando after at least 31 of the exotic animals died before the ...

Environmental photography's most prestigious prize goes to an image captured not in the great outdoors, but in a lab ...

Costa Rica’s polluted rivers reveal a hidden environmental challenge, linking urban wastewater, farm runoff, beaches, ...

There have still been no legal consequences for the facility’s owner, despite the suffering caused by his actions.” ...

Costa Rica’s wildlife is being killed on highways at alarming rates, raising questions about conservation, tourism, and the ...

The Central Florida Zoo said more than a dozen sloths from Sloth World had been donated to them. The zoo is going to evaluate ...

The company kept importing more sloths. The deaths kept mounting, later state government necropsy reports indicate. One of ...

In his time spent in the lush canopies of Costa Rica's cloud forest, UConn Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology ...