Shanna Hanbury

Shanna Hanbury

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Shanna Hanbury covers breaking news on climate and conservation for Mongabay. Previously she specialized in data-driven and investigative reporting on Latin America, with a focus on the Amazon rainforest, for The Guardian, BBC, Open Democracy, Time Magazine, National Geographic and many more. She is based between Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Barcelona, Spain and has been a regular contributor for Mongabay since 2019.

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Beto Marubo in Vale do Javari, Brazil, in 2022. Image courtesy of Beto Marubo.

Indigenous representatives still excluded from COP30 decision-making, says leader

Shanna Hanbury, Karla Mendes 22 Jul 2025
Ana Toni, CEO of COP30, photographed in June. Image courtesy of Paulo Pinto/Agência Brasil.

As Brazil expands oil, COP30 head urges rich nations to phase out fossil fuels first

Karla Mendes, Shanna Hanbury 16 Jul 2025
A man fans himself on a hot day in Retiro Park in Madrid, Spain, on June 28, 2025. Image © Paul White/AP.

Extreme heat kills at least 2,300 in European cities, study estimates

Shanna Hanbury 14 Jul 2025
Purple and gray Wellington’s solitary corals. Image courtesy of Inti Keith/Charles Darwin Foundation.

Coral once feared extinct rediscovered in the Galápagos after 25 years

Shanna Hanbury 11 Jul 2025
Brazil is focused on creating a navigable channel along the 43 km Pedral do Lourenção — rock formations in the Tocantins River. Image courtesy of Antonio Cavalcante/Ascom Setran-PA.

Brazil court halts plan to blast 35-km river rock formation hosting endangered species

Shanna Hanbury 10 Jul 2025
The giant otter Coco and her pups. Image courtesy of Sebastian Navajas/Rewilding Argentina.

Giant river otter returns to Argentina after almost four decades

Shanna Hanbury 3 Jul 2025
A saiga antelope at the Stepnoi Sanctuary in Russia. Image by Andrey Giljov via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Kazakhstan to donate 1,500 wild saiga to China after 75 years of local extinction

Shanna Hanbury 2 Jul 2025
The critically endangered Alta Floresta Titi monkey (Plecturocebus grovesi) crossing one of the bridges in February 2025. Image courtesy of NZCBI.

Endangered primates use new canopy bridges in a Brazilian Amazon city

Shanna Hanbury 1 Jul 2025
Workers prep poultry at the meatpacking company JBS in the Brazilian state of Paraná. Image by Eraldo Peres/Associated Press.

Meatpacking giant JBS debuts on NYSE six months after $5m Trump donation

Shanna Hanbury 25 Jun 2025
Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) in flight. Image by Alexas Fotos via Pexels.

Golden eagle spotted in England for first time in more than a decade

Shanna Hanbury 12 Jun 2025
Aerial view of eucalyptus logs. Image courtesy of Tamás Bodolay/Repórter Brasil.

Eucalyptus boom in Brazil’s Cerrado dries up springs, forces out smallholders

Shanna Hanbury 6 Jun 2025
Cape Orange National Park on the Amazonian coast of the state of Amapá. Offshore oil block 59 is located 160 kilometers (99 miles) away. Image © Victor Moriyama/Greenpeace.

Brazil advances with plan to drill oil at the mouth of the Amazon River

Shanna Hanbury 26 May 2025
On the left, rainforest deforestation for an oil palm plantation in Sabah, Malaysia. On the right, soy fields next to Gran Chaco forest in Bolivia. Images by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

EU anti-deforestation law could overlook big violators, NGO warns

Shanna Hanbury 23 May 2025
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Beijing in May. Image courtesy of Ricardo Stuckert/Brazil government.

Brazil & China move ahead on 3,000-km railway crossing the Amazon

Shanna Hanbury 21 May 2025
An okapi at Bronx Zoo in the United States. Image by Ryan Schwark via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Endangered Species Day: Three animals on the path to recovery

Shanna Hanbury 16 May 2025
The 113-million-year-old hell ant fossil found in Brazil. Image courtesy of Anderson Lepeco.

World’s oldest ant fossil found in Brazil, dating back 113 million years

Shanna Hanbury 15 May 2025
Forest fires in the state of Pará in the Brazilian Amazon. Image © Victor Moriyama/Greenpeace.

Brazil antideforestation operation blacklists more than 500 farms in the Amazon

Shanna Hanbury 15 May 2025
More than 100 vultures were killed in a poisoning attack by poachers in May 2025. Image courtesy of the Endangered Wildlife Trust.

Mass South Africa vulture poisoning kills 123; 83 others rescued

Shanna Hanbury 9 May 2025
A purple axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum). Image by Raphael Brasileiro via Pexels.

Hope for endangered axolotls as captive-bred group survives in wild

Shanna Hanbury 5 May 2025
Jaguar siblings in Poconé, Brazil. Image by Bernard Dupont via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Study suggests there are more jaguars in the Amazon than previously thought

Shanna Hanbury 1 May 2025
Pará Governor Helder Barbalho celebrates after signing the deal with the LEAF Coalition of corporations at New York Climate Week in September 2024. Image courtesy of SEMAS.

Brazil prosecutors dispute $175m Amazon Rainforest carbon credit deal

Shanna Hanbury 29 Apr 2025
Coral bleaching in Ningaloo, Australia, in February 2025. Image courtesy of Daniel Nicholson/Ocean Image Bank.

Ongoing global coral bleaching event affects 84% of world’s reefs

Shanna Hanbury 23 Apr 2025
Two North Atlantic right whales photographed in the Bahamas. Image courtesy of Jero Prieto/Pelagic Life.

Critically endangered right whales spotted in the Bahamas for first time

Shanna Hanbury 21 Apr 2025
The pied tamarin (Saguinus bicolor) is one of the world’s most endangered monkeys. Image courtesy of Diogo Lagroteria.

New refuge helps protect Amazon’s most endangered monkey, but gaps remain

Shanna Hanbury 18 Apr 2025
The Cuyaba dwarf frog (Physalaemus nattereri) inflating its rear end to scare away predators. Image courtesy of Felipe Bittioli.

Most frogs in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands to lose habitat by 2100: Study

Shanna Hanbury 17 Apr 2025
Damage from the wind pictured in Beijing. Image from 飞蟹子/Weibo.

Typhoon-strength winds sweep across northern China, killing cyclist

Shanna Hanbury 15 Apr 2025
Jaguar siblings in Porto Jofre in the Brazilian Pantanal. Image by Bernard Dupont via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Jaguar tourism in Brazil’s Pantanal needs new rules to avoid collapse: Study

Shanna Hanbury 8 Apr 2025
Bonobos in the DRC’s Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve. Image courtesy of Maud Mouginot.

Bonobos combine calls in ways that resemble human language, study finds

Shanna Hanbury 8 Apr 2025
Scientists on a British Antarctic Survey ship measure the conditions of the ACC. Image courtesy of Michael Meredith.

Melting Antarctic ice could weaken world’s strongest ocean current, study warns

Shanna Hanbury 8 Apr 2025
A Eurasian pygmy owl by Erik Karits via Pexels.

Eurasian pygmy owl confirmed in Spain for the first time

Shanna Hanbury 7 Apr 2025

Brazil declares environmental emergency ahead of 2025 fire season

Shanna Hanbury 20 Mar 2025
Oil spill in Ecuador’s northwestern Esmeraldas municipality. Image courtesy of Eduardo Rebolledo Monsalve.

Esmeraldas oil spill in Ecuador devastates rivers and wildlife refuge

Shanna Hanbury 19 Mar 2025

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