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📖 Simon Pooley’s 'Discovering the Okapi' is a fascinating deep dive into one of the world’s most elusive mammals—and the complex human histories that shaped its Western “discovery.”
Chloe Hodgkinson has reviewed 'Discovering the Okapi' in Oryx 🖊️
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Read the full story in our latest blog and the open‑access Conservation News piece published in Oryx—The International Journal of Conservation: 'First documented movement of a whale shark between Madagascar and Seychelles':
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A new discovery in the western Indian Ocean has reshaped our understanding of whale shark movements 🌊
Researchers from the Madagascar Whale Shark Project and the Marine Conservation Society Seychelles have confirmed the same individual whale shark travelling between Madagascar and Seychelles🐋
Read the full story on the Oryx blog: www.oryxthejournal.org/blog/camera-...
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A Chinese pangolin has been recorded for the first time in Kon Ka Kinh National Park, Vietnam—an exciting discovery that extends the species’ known range and highlights the Park’s incredible biodiversity ⛰️
🔓️ Read the full article, Open Access, in Oryx here: doi.org/10.1017/S003...
🔴 New research in Oryx assesses Astragalus centralis as Critically Endangered under the IUCN Red List criteria.
With only a single known declining population, the species urgently requires habitat protection, ex situ propagation, conservation translocation and regulated grazing.
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Today, its rich mosaic of habitats face mounting threats from land-use change, invasive species and overexploitation. This issue features research on rediscovered endemic Brazilian species, hybridization threatening primate conservation, and the first record of the elusive bush dog in Minas Gerais.
🌳The latest issue of Oryx focuses on one of the world’s most diverse yet vulnerable biomes—the Atlantic Forest. Once spanning 1.3 million km² across Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, this biodiversity hotspot has lost nearly 90% of its original vegetation.
You can read Fernández-Llamazares et al.'s article, Open Access:
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📸 Photos by Joan de la Malla
A global study combining data with insights from Indigenous and local communities across three continents has revealed that commonly observed bird species today are smaller-bodied than those remembered from past decades, highlighting the avian biodiversity crisis and the importance of collaboration.
Read more about the Partula story in the Oryx blog, and in Gerlach et al.'s article, 'Re-establishment of Partula tohiveana tree snails in French Polynesia after 40 years of extinction in the wild':
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🐌Justin Gerlach's blog post traces the remarkable journey of Partula conservation from the near‑total collapse of wild populations in the 1970s, following the introduction of the predatory rosy wolf snail, to successful reintroduction efforts.
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Jo et al.'s open‑access article is available in Oryx: doi.org/10.1017/S003...
Jo et al. have produced the first comprehensive distribution map for South Korea’s endangered long‑tailed goral.
For this elusive, cliff‑dwelling species, they combined species distribution modelling with three years of rigorous field surveys across the Baekdudaegan Mountains ⛰️
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Borzée et al. report that the IUCN World Conservation Congress adopted a resolution on 9 October 2025 to guide global amphibian conservation.
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📣 Oryx Conservation News:
Henriques et al. report on the rapid rise of an international ant pet trade and call on CITES Parties to act 🐜
Read about it in their Oryx piece here:
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Photo by Tao Yuan on Unsplash.
You can read the Conservation News piece, Open Access, in Oryx here: doi.org/qkgk
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🪼 Taklis' Conservation News piece in Oryx reports a significant aggregation of mauve stinger jellyfish (Pelagia noctiluca) in the Pagasetic Gulf, central Greece, observed in May 2025.
🦆 Poland has strengthened legal protection for five bird species—the common pochard, tufted duck, Eurasian coot, Eurasian woodcock and hazel grouse—by removing them from the game list!
Full protection takes effect today, January 2026 🎉
📖 Read about it in Marchowski & Chara's piece: doi.org/qkgn
🐈 Jakher et al.'s Conservation News piece in Oryx shows the first photographic confirmation of the melanistic leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) in the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve.
Read the Conservation News piece, Open Access, in Oryx here: doi.org/qkgg
Fankem et al.'s article, recently published in Oryx, places an estimated ≈11,787 great apes across the ~11,000 km² Dja‑Ngoyla Complex in south‑eastern Cameroon, where western lowland gorillas and central chimpanzees live in sympatry.
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🌿Read about the first confirmed records of Catasetum arietinum in Paraíba, extending this rare Brazilian orchid’s known range.
The findings highlight the fragility of these forest remnants and the need for expanded botanical surveys and conservation efforts in under‑studied areas.
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You can read more about the establishment of this group in Oryx's Conservation News piece by De Smedt et al.:
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🗞️ The IUCN SSC has launched a Woodlouse Specialist Group. Woodlice are a group of 4,100+ species that drive litter decomposition, nutrient cycling and soil water retention, and yet have been largely overlooked in conservation planning🪵