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A Sunda slow loris (Nycticebus coucang), a related species, on a branch at night in central Sumatra, Indonesia (illustrative; not a Bangka slow loris). Photo: Dick Culbert, Dec. 30, 2013, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nycticebus_coucang,_the_Sunda_Slow_Loris_(11662803076).jpg

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A Slow Loris Feared Extinct, and Missing From Science Since the 1930s, Is Still Living on Indonesia's Bangka Island

A new study in the journal Spixiana documents more than 90 Bangka slow lorises rescued on Bangka Island since 2015, 86 of them released, providing what the authors call compelling evidence that a primate listed as Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct) persists across the island. They urge a reassessment of its status and new conservation and breeding programs.

Just News Desk · 22 October 2026

An adult Great Lakes piping plover on a Lake Michigan beach south of Seney National Wildlife Refuge, Michigan, watching while its chicks were banded, June 2012. Photo: Mike McCarthy, Seney Natural History Association, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0). Source page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piping_Plover_Adult_(Charadrius_melodus)_(7686098084).jpg

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Great Lakes Piping Plovers Post a Fifth Straight Record Season, With 99 Pairs and 184 Fledged Chicks

The endangered Great Lakes population of piping plovers grew to 99 breeding pairs in 2026, the most since federal listing in 1986, and fledged a record 184 chicks, according to the National Audubon Society. Plovers nested on Cat Island in lower Green Bay for the first time in 75 years, though the population remains short of its recovery goal of 150 pairs.

Just News Desk · 20 October 2026

A Northern Quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus) peering through grass at night between Mareeba and Cairns, Queensland, used for species identification; not one of the animals released at Mt Zero-Taravale. Photo: Wildlife Explorer, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0). Source page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dasyurus_hallucatus_-Queensland-8.jpg

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Northern Quolls Return to a Feral-Predator-Free Haven in North Queensland

Australian Wildlife Conservancy has released the first 18 endangered Northern Quolls into a 950-hectare feral-predator-free fenced area at Mt Zero-Taravale Wildlife Sanctuary on Gugu Badhun Country, the first step in a multi-year plan that it expects could grow the population to as many as 300, according to a 6 October 2026 press release.

Just News Desk · 12 October 2026

A northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita) standing on sand in Souss-Massa National Park, Morocco, used for species identification; not one of the birds in the Catalonia project. Photo: Charles J. Sharp, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). Source page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Northern_bald_ibis_(Geronticus_eremita).jpg

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Fifteen Northern Bald Ibises Follow a Microlight Over the Pyrenees to a New Colony in Catalonia

Fifteen young northern bald ibises, hand-raised by human foster mothers and led south behind a microlight aircraft, were handed over on 13 September to Fundació Alive's colony at the Aiguamolls de l'Empordà in Catalonia, where the first group of the endangered birds was released into the wild in March, according to the Austrian Waldrappteam and Fundació Alive.

Just News Desk · 12 October 2026

View northeast across Kāneʻohe Bay toward Mokoliʻi from Waiāhole Beach Park, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi. Habitat context for the acoustic-enrichment field site; not a photograph of the experimental speakers or autonomous cameras. Photo: Famartin, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). Source page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2021-10-06_09_58_30_View_northeast_across_K%C4%81ne%CA%BBohe_Bay_towards_Mokoli%CA%BBi_(Chinaman%27s_Hat)_from_Wai%C4%81hole_Beach_Park_in_Waik%C4%81ne,_Oahu,_Hawaii.jpg

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Healthy Reef Sounds Draw Four to Fourteen Times More Larval Fish in Kāneʻohe Bay

In Kāneʻohe Bay, Oʻahu, Scripps and Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology researchers found that nighttime playback of healthy reef soundscapes attracted four to fourteen times more settlement-stage fish larvae than silent controls across three spawning deployments in 2023 and 2024, according to a Scientific Reports study published 26 June 2026.

Just News Desk · 3 October 2026

Historical plate of a male Ghana cuckooshrike (Lobotos lobatus), also called Western Wattled Cuckooshrike, by Nicolas Huet and Jean Gabriel Prêtre, 1838. Public-domain species illustration for identification; not a photograph of the June 2026 Taï bird and not Bartlett/Ditzel field imagery. Source page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lobotos_lobatus_male_1838.jpg

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Researchers Document Ghana Cuckooshrike in Taï Forest After 13-Year Gap

In June 2026, International Bird Conservation Partnership researchers Stephanie Bartlett and Paulo Ditzel photographed and filmed a Ghana cuckooshrike in Côte d'Ivoire's Taï National Park, the first documented record of the Vulnerable Upper Guinea canopy bird since 2013, according to Search for Lost Birds and Mongabay.

Just News Desk · 2 October 2026

Close portrait of a common ostrich (Struthio camelus) at Whipsnade Zoo, United Kingdom. Illustrative species photograph, not of the birds released at Gadabedji. Photo: William Warby, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0). Source page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Struthio_camelus_portrait_Whipsnade_Zoo.jpg

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Niger Returns North African Ostriches to the Wild After Two Decades

On 2 September 2026, eight North African ostriches (five females and three males) were released into Niger's Gadabedji Biosphere Reserve, the first reintroduction there after the subspecies vanished from the country's wild landscapes in 2004, according to Niger's official press agency and Sahara Conservation.

Just News Desk · 27 September 2026

Banana trees in Amhara Region, Ethiopia, illustrating species Halima Kedir and neighbors have planted in Berbere district. Photo: Radosław Botev, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0 PL). Species landscape photograph, not of Kedir's plot. Source page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Banana_trees_Ethiopia_(1).jpg

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Ethiopian Farmer Who Planted Thousands of Trees Turns Neighbors Into Allies

In Berbere district, Oromia, Halima Kedir has planted thousands of banana, olive and grevillea trees despite early ridicule; WaterAid Ethiopia reports about 55,000 indigenous seedlings distributed across the area with an 85 percent reported success rate, part of a wider ECOSAVE restoration effort rooted in the Oromo practice of guddifachaa.

Just News Desk · 21 September 2026

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