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Four new tarantula species found in India’s Western Ghats mountains

Liz Kimbrough 31 Dec 2024

An underground gold war in Colombia is ‘a ticking ecological time bomb’

Joshua Collins 31 Dec 2024

Sunken ships in Sri Lanka’s Colombo attract more fish than coral reefs

Malaka Rodrigo 31 Dec 2024

Mongabay’s most impactful investigations of 2024

Mongabay.com 31 Dec 2024

Companies banking on tech and collaboration to comply with EUDR

Sarah Brown 31 Dec 2024
Kayapó children play in the Rio Pequeno, near their village.

10 notable books on conservation and the environment published in 2024

John Cannon 31 Dec 2024
A chestnut-tailed starling in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh adopts new technology to fight wildlife crimes

Sadiqur Rahman 31 Dec 2024
The National Family Farm Coalition protests genetically engineered salmon at an event in Berea, Kentucky in August 2024.

Campaigners celebrate as firm making first-ever GMO fish ceases operations

Edward Carver 31 Dec 2024

A deadly parasite turns jaguar conservation into a human health priority

Sarah Brown 30 Dec 2024
Emergent rainforest tree in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler for Mongabay.

The Amazon in 2025: Challenges and hopes as the rainforest takes center stage

Alexandre de Santi 30 Dec 2024
A man in a red t-shirt gazes into the camera, squinting slightly against the light in Budjala territoire, Sud-Ubangi, Democratic Republic of Congo. Image by Francesco De Augustinis for Mongabay.

In DRC bid to grow more food, smallholders are overshadowed by industrial farming

Francesco De Augustinis 30 Dec 2024
Deforestation for soy plantations and cattle ranches endanger the habitats of Amazon primates and prevent their movement to new locations. Rivers further limit the ability of small primates to move. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Sea change for soy champion Brazil as it wrestles with EUDR compliance

Karla Mendes 30 Dec 2024

Tortoise protection culture prompts efforts to curb trafficking in Madagascar

Carolyn Cowan 30 Dec 2024
Eagle Route Approach Condor. Image by Natasha Pentin.

Indigenous runners complete seven-month journey for Mother Earth and solidarity

Natasha Pentin 30 Dec 2024

Southeast Asia in review: 2024

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 30 Dec 2024

Rainforest Outlook 2025: Storylines to watch as the year unfolds

Rhett A. Butler 30 Dec 2024
Three Tonkin snub nosed monkeys on a tree branch

Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys were found in only two places on Earth. Now it’s one

Sean Mowbray 27 Dec 2024
A canoe of Indigenous design in Colombia. Image by J.J. Javier via Nia Tero.

The particularities of the migratory movement in Venezuela, the Guianas and Suriname

Timothy J. Killeen 27 Dec 2024
A tiger-legged monkey tree frog

IPBES report highlights Indigenous & local knowledge as key to ‘transformative change’

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 27 Dec 2024

Conservationists and nature defenders who died in 2024

Rhett A. Butler 27 Dec 2024

Nepal PM sums up 2024 shift away from conservation: ‘Fewer tigers, less forest’

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Dec 2024
Cocoa Agroforestry

‘Uncertainty’ amid EUDR delay poses challenges for cocoa companies, farmers

John Cannon 27 Dec 2024
Members of the El Delgadito fishing community planting red mangroves.

After trial and error, Mexican fishers find key to reforesting a mangrove haven

Aimee Gabay 27 Dec 2024
A Himalayan leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros armiger)

Great Himalayan leaf-nosed bat finally confirmed in Bangladesh

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 27 Dec 2024

How the Sahel junta is responding to climate change amid political isolation

Robert Bociaga 27 Dec 2024

Rare new Guinean flower is ‘canary in a coal mine’ — but in an actual iron mine

Ryan Truscott 27 Dec 2024
An elephant stands in a river, dense forest on the bank beyond, the prow of a light aluminium boat visible in the foreground in Lac Télé Community Reserve, Republic of Congo. Image by Ryan Biller for Mongabay.

Congo’s ‘Garden of Eden’ withstands growing human pressure

Ryan Biller 27 Dec 2024
Traffic on Nepal's highway

Still no sweet spot in 2024 for Nepal in balancing conservation & development

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Dec 2024
The 2024 paper proposes Leopardus pardinoides, or the clouded tiger cat, as a new species. This small wildcat is found in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, south to Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Image courtesy of Johanes Pfleiderer. Article title - A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

Photos: Top new species from 2024

Liz Kimbrough 26 Dec 2024
Farmers squeezing sago palms in South Hakmahera.

Farmers cleave to sago as mining industry digs deeper in Indonesia’s Maluku

Mahmud Ichi 26 Dec 2024

Brazil’s Kadiwéu force international debate about authorship of Indigenous art

Júlia Moa 26 Dec 2024
An adult radiated tortoise

Massive tortoise rewilding in Madagascar’s spiny forest strives to save fraught species

Carolyn Cowan 26 Dec 2024

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