Mongabay.com

Mongabay.com

About

Mongabay staff writers occasionally publish stories under "Mongabay.com". These articles are generally short news updates.

RSS
1182 stories

Only 12 vaquita porpoises remain, watchdog group reports

Mongabay.com 8 Mar 2018
Quilombo people in Brazil in this file photo from 2000. Photo courtesy Brazil Ministry of Culture.

Brazilian ‘quilombo’ community entitled with 220,000 hectares of rainforest

Mongabay.com 7 Mar 2018

Jaguar numbers rising at field sites, WCS says

Mongabay.com 7 Mar 2018
Screen cap from video shot by Akshay Kumar

Epic battle between tiger and sloth bear caught on film

Mongabay.com 3 Mar 2018
Earlier reports based on satellite data suggested that the Danger Islands could be home to several penguin "supercolonies." However, heavy pack ice is common around the Danger Islands, even in austral summer, making difficult to access this area to conduct a comprehensive survey. Credit: Rachael Herman, Louisiana State University, © Stony Brook University

Penguin mega-colony discovered using satellites and drones, raising scientists’ hopes

Mongabay.com 3 Mar 2018
Sudan. Courtesy of the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya.

Last of its kind: sole surviving male northern white rhino is gravely ill

Mongabay.com 3 Mar 2018

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, March 2, 2018

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2018

New thumbnail-sized pygmy squid discovered in Australia

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2018

‘S.O.S.’ carved out of former plantation shines a light on palm oil-driven deforestation

Mongabay.com 1 Mar 2018

Five-year sentences for elephant poachers in Republic of Congo

Mongabay.com 28 Feb 2018

New study: Radar reveals bats are a bellwether of climate change

Mongabay.com 28 Feb 2018

African Parks to manage gorges, rock art and crocodiles of Chad’s Ennedi

Mongabay.com 27 Feb 2018

DRC breaches logging moratorium for Chinese-owned companies

Mongabay.com 23 Feb 2018

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, February 23, 2018

Mongabay.com 23 Feb 2018

‘Adaptation Bangladesh: Sea Level Rise’ film shows how farmers are fighting climate change

Mongabay.com 22 Feb 2018

Seychelles announces two new marine protected areas the size of Great Britain

Mongabay.com 22 Feb 2018

‘Photo Ark’ a quest to document global biodiversity: Q&A with photographer Joel Sartore and director Chun-Wei Yi

Mongabay.com 21 Feb 2018

Protected areas with deforestation more likely to lose status in Brazilian state

Mongabay.com 18 Feb 2018

Four Indonesian farmers charged in killing of orangutan that was shot 130 times

Mongabay.com 18 Feb 2018

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, February 16, 2018

Mongabay.com 16 Feb 2018

Watch: A minke whale’s view of the Antarctic

Mongabay.com 16 Feb 2018

East Africa’s Albertine Rift needs protection now, scientists say

Mongabay.com 15 Feb 2018

New population of extremely rare ‘red handfish’ discovered off Tasmania

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2018

Duterte orders navy to fire on foreign poachers in Philippine waters

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2018
Protesters in Ecuador. Photo by Kimberley Brown/Mongabay.

Environmental defenders increasingly targeted, data shows

Mongabay.com 13 Feb 2018

Bridgestone aims for full sustainability by 2050

Mongabay.com 13 Feb 2018

Illegal ‘white gold,’ South Africa’s abalone, pouring into Hong Kong: TRAFFIC

Mongabay.com 13 Feb 2018

The ozone layer is still getting thinner, new study finds

Mongabay.com 12 Feb 2018

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, February 9, 2018

Mongabay.com 9 Feb 2018

Orangutan shot 130 times in Indonesia, in second killing reported this year

Mongabay.com 7 Feb 2018

2018 Tyler Prize awarded to two US-based biological oceanographers

Mongabay.com 6 Feb 2018

Robbery or retribution? Police investigate death of prominent conservationist in Kenya

Mongabay.com 6 Feb 2018

News and Inspiration from Nature's Frontline.

Yo Yaj at Songkhla Lake, Thailand
Videos
Articles
Podcasts

you're currently offline