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Goose Island Archipelago is a cluster of tree-covered islands with wild, rocky beaches located off the central coast of British Columbia.

Reciprocity, not extraction: Centering an Indigenous approach to forestry

Mike DiGirolamo 28 Apr 2026

Antipodean albatross (Diomedea antipodensis antipodensis) offshore from Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. Photo by Oscar Thomas (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How marine flyways could help save the world’s declining seabird population

Mike DiGirolamo 21 Apr 2026

A coyote in Chicago. Image courtesy of Cook County Coyote Project.

Coexisting with America’s growing urban coyote population is easier than you think

Mike DiGirolamo 14 Apr 2026

Starting out as a terrestrial ecologist and environmental educator, Jessie Panazzolo is a proud carer of people who care for Mother Earth. In 2019, she founded the global community, Lonely Conservationists, a pioneering platform that provides resources, advocacy, and a voice to budding and burnt-out environmentalists. Advocating for the need to provide care to members of an often forgotten care-based industry, Jessie's websites, books, podcasts, and workshops are used to help budding and burnt-out conservationists around the world.

The ‘unfair’ job of being a conservationist in a world working against nature

Mike DiGirolamo 7 Apr 2026

The WeMUNIZE program in Nigeria, significantly disrupted by aid cuts, used digital record keeping and community engagement to increase early childhood immunizations. Image by KC Nwakalor for USAID/Digital Development Communications via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

‘We will not know what we lost’: Conservation fallout a year after USAID shutdown

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Mar 2026

How elephants experience time, and what this tells us about protecting them

Mike DiGirolamo 10 Mar 2026

Mt. Taranaki, New Zealand, captured March 16, 2022. Image courtesy of Planet Labs PBC.

How the ‘wrong story’ ends up harming nature, and how we can change it

Mike DiGirolamo 3 Mar 2026

Bringing Mongabay’s Amazon narco airstrip exposé to the stage

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Feb 2026

Lisa Morehead-Hillman and Leaf Hillman, both Karuk, celebrate the removal of the dams on the newly exposed reservoir floor in 2024. The former head of the Karuk Natural Resources Department, Leaf spent two decades working with other Indigenous groups, environmental organizations and government officials to bring back the Klamath River. Image courtesy of Kiliii Yüyan.

Kiliii Yüyan puts Indigenous ‘Guardians of Life’ and their planetary stewardship in focus

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Feb 2026

Mangroves on Vanua Levu Island, Fiji. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

60 years of buried lessons on conservation projects from USAID have been saved

Mike DiGirolamo 10 Feb 2026

Coastline of Big Sur in California. In 2013, a group of researchers found eggs of California condors in the coastal redwoods of Big Sur contaminated with DDT, even though the pesticide has been banned in the U.S. since 1972. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Writer Megan Mayhew Bergman on science, emotion, and the lasting power of ‘Silent Spring’

Mike DiGirolamo 3 Feb 2026

An olive tree and grove. Image by Dimitris Vetsikas via Pixabay.

Europe’s olive grove crisis affects nature & culture, but has solutions

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Jan 2026

Pattie Gonia. Image by Evan Benally Atwood, courtesy of Pattie Gonia.

Drag artist Pattie Gonia on why nature advocacy needs joy to succeed

Mike DiGirolamo, Basten Gokkon 20 Jan 2026

Many companies meet climate pledges on paper — not on the ground, analyst says

Mike DiGirolamo 18 Feb 2025

Indigenous communities in Sarawak left in the dark about hydropower proposal

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 9 Jul 2024

A ranger planting a tree.

Wild by nature: Ecological restoration brings humanity and biodiversity together

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 12 Dec 2023

A man carries relief items.

Climate loss & damage fund ‘the furthest thing imaginable from a success’

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 28 Nov 2023

Rainforest in Gabon. Photo credit: ZB

What would it cost to protect the Congo Rainforest?

Mike DiGirolamo 29 Aug 2023

Exploring New Guinea’s extraordinary natural and cultural richness

Mike DiGirolamo 5 Jan 2022

The Top Positive Environmental News Stories from 2021

Mike DiGirolamo 23 Dec 2021

Representative animation of the soil formation process

Fighting climate change is a dirty job, but soils can do it | Problem Solved

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Nov 2021

11 Mongabay investigations in two years. Here’s what we found

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Sep 2021

Flooded forest in the Amazon

We’ve crossed four of nine planetary boundaries. What does this mean?

Mike DiGirolamo 8 Sep 2021

The women on the front lines of safeguarding the Amazon

Mike DiGirolamo 26 Aug 2021

News and Inspiration from Nature's Frontline.

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During prolonged floods, many residents of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta are unable to grow and harvest crops. NGOs have stepped in to help with basic food supplies and cash during times of crisis. Image courtesy of Anh Duong Community Development and Support Center.

[DO NOT REUSE] Image by Ben Cherry. Courtesy of Netflix/Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.

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