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Missing fisheries observer Samuel Abayateye.

Two years later, no closure for family of missing Ghanaian fisheries observer

Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda 29 Oct 2025
Abu Nessma at the café by the sea.

‘A very successful story’: An Egypt tribe welcomes tourists & protects its coast

Victoria Schneider 27 Oct 2025
Fishers with a net at Lake Victoria in Kenya.

Africa’s largest freshwater lake could be site of Kenya’s nuclear power plant

Elodie Toto 8 Oct 2025

Egyptian activists rally to halt hotel project at pristine protected beach

Victoria Schneider 30 Sep 2025
Fishers with their canoes in São Tomé.

São Tomé and Príncipe commits to creating a marine protected area network

Victoria Schneider 19 Sep 2025
Women planting mangroves in Uyombo.

‘It doesn’t make sense’: Marine biologist on Kenya’s proposed nuclear power plant

Elodie Toto 29 Aug 2025

Killings on Kenya’s Lake Naivasha raise questions over coast guard role

Joseph Maina 21 Aug 2025

Scientists trial chlorine as gentler alternative to antibiotics to fight coral disease

Rivonala Razafison 2 Jul 2025
Artisanal fishermen fishing in Senegalese waters, not far from Madeleine Island.

Illegal fishing and its consequences: the human toll of migration in Senegal

Elodie Toto 30 Jun 2025
Waziri Mpogo of Tanzania's Mafia Island places sea cucumbers from his ranch in a bucket. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Down on the ranch with Mafia Island’s free-range sea cucumbers

Ashoka Mukpo 12 May 2025
Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur (Microcebus berthae) is endemic to Madagascar. Image courtesy of Matthias Markolf.

Top 25 most threatened primates highlighted in new report urging action

Malavika Vyawahare 8 May 2025
Great white sharks seen around Seal Island in False Bay, Cape Town, South Africa before they disappeared from the area. Image courtesy of Chris Fallows.

Loss of great white sharks triggers domino effect down food chain, study shows


Victoria Schneider 23 Apr 2025
Fishermen in the ocean near Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Image by UN Photo/Milton Grant via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Tanzania’s marine reserves offer long-term benefits to communities, study finds

Mark DeGraff 24 Mar 2025
Fishers in Ghana carry their nets on the beach.

USAID funding cuts jeopardize creation of Ghana’s first Marine Protected Area

Victoria Schneider 13 Mar 2025

Where do illegal lion parts come from? A new tool offers answers

Malavika Vyawahare 13 Dec 2023
A herd of wild elephants in Thailand.

How wild elephants solve puzzles may help humans resolve wildlife conflicts

Malavika Vyawahare 31 Oct 2023

Newly described gecko from Madagascar a master of disguise

Malavika Vyawahare 14 Sep 2023

Green gains: Localized efforts leave a mark, notably in drier areas, study shows

Malavika Vyawahare 24 Jul 2023

Nearly 30% of all tree cover in Africa may be outside of forests, study says

Malavika Vyawahare 2 Jun 2023
A hornbill flies in a tropical forest.

Report: Leaders’ vow to slow forest loss rings hollow ahead of climate talks

Malavika Vyawahare 1 Nov 2022
A tiger-legged monkey tree frog.

Humans are decimating wildlife, report warns ahead of U.N. biodiversity talks

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Oct 2022
A Madame Berthe's mouse lemur. Image courtesy of Matthias Markolf.

World’s smallest primate is fading into extinction, scientists fear

Malavika Vyawahare 29 Sep 2022
Logging in Borneo.

Industrial mining’s tropical deforestation footprint spills beyond concessions

Malavika Vyawahare 14 Sep 2022
Drought in India.

What’s the chance of meeting Paris climate goal? Just 0.1%, study says

Mongabay.com 29 Aug 2022
A rubber farmer taps a rubber tree

Rubber used by leading European tire makers linked to forest loss in Africa: Report

Malavika Vyawahare 6 Jul 2022
A handful of peanuts.

Book Review: ‘Slaves for Peanuts’ gets to the troubling roots of a beloved snack

Malavika Vyawahare 23 Jun 2022
African buffalo in Kenya. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Latest ‘plan for the planet’ calls for protecting 44% of land, home to 1.8b humans

Malavika Vyawahare 14 Jun 2022
A rendition of D. xiezhi head-to-head butting. Image courtesy of Xiao Cong Guo and Yu Wang.

‘Strange’ giraffoid fossil shows giraffes evolved long necks to win mates: study

Malavika Vyawahare 6 Jun 2022
(Banner Image: An aerial view of the flooding at the Air Force Base in Durban. Image courtesy of South African National Defence Force.)

South Africa declares national emergency as flood toll crosses 440

Malavika Vyawahare 19 Apr 2022
Rosewood stacked for river transport in Madagascar, 2010.

Madagascar’s insistence on using seized rosewood rattles conservationists

Malavika Vyawahare 29 Mar 2022

Stamping out savanna fires doesn’t bolster carbon sink by much, study finds

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2022

Where trafficked pangolins originate is a puzzle, hobbling efforts to save them

Malavika Vyawahare 18 Feb 2022

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The last photo taken between Rhett Butler and Jane Goodall--who shared a friendship for nearly 15 years--at the Forbes Sustainability Leadership Summit. Photo by Sofia Negron.
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