Three original stories, Megan Brief's podcast episode, and five wildlife reports published September 22–24.
Week of
Sep 24, 2026
Selected reports
5
Regions on map
3
Issue summary
Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharjee shares a story of disappearing birds in Agartala, Megan Brief discusses human–wildlife coexistence, and Karen González Videla takes us into Kibale Rainforest. Five news reports cover drought, marine food webs, Himalayan flooding, wildlife trafficking, and seabird adaptation.
Issue
Untold Field Notes No. 1: Birds, drought, and coexistence
News
5 selected reports
Stories
3 Untold stories
Map
Where the stories lead
Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharjee shares what he has seen as birds and habitat disappear from his home city.
By Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharjee
In a north-eastern Indian town where old trees fall and ponds are filled overnight, the scarcest species isn't a bird at all. It's the birdwatcher, and noticing may be the simplest conservation there is.
Read the featureWildlife-crime research, photography, and conservation reporting across Africa, the Arctic, and Southeast Asia.
Episode 2 · 65 min
Megan Brief, Wildlife photographer & science communicator
From wildlife-crime research to documenting coexistence across Africa, the Arctic, and Southeast Asia — a photographer's path through conservation storytelling.
Five defining reports on drought, marine food webs, climate justice, wildlife trafficking, and the race to adapt.
Long-term photography in the Maasai Mara and a recycled-plastic dhow sailing the East African coast.
Karen Gonzalez Videla begins before the forest fully wakes, following chimpanzee calls through Uganda's Kibale Rainforest.
A single morning tracking chimpanzees, from first light to the packed camera bag.
Original stories, fieldwork, and selected news connect India, Nepal, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, and Australia.
Geography
This issue reaches India, Nepal, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, and Australia.
Topics
Birdlife, photography, plastic recovery, chimpanzee fieldwork, drought, marine food webs, and wildlife trafficking.
Untold News
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From Untold Field Notes No. 1: Birds, drought, and coexistence
