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A squirrel monkey in the Amazon.

Extractive industries threaten global goal to protect 30% of nature by 2030, report finds

Aimee Gabay 21 Oct 2026
Mount Ararat. Image courtesy of Ani Adigyozalyan via Unsplash.

Nature has a new Noah’s Ark moment at the biodiversity summit (commentary)

Glenn Hurowitz 21 Oct 2026
Banner image: The Javari River where it forms the border between Peru and Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

IUCN’s Madhu Rao on the world’s protected areas: Progress, pressures and the race to 2030

David Akana 21 Oct 2026
Maasai at the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Image by Omar Gurnah via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Finance and Indigenous rights top Africans’ agenda as biodiversity summit opens in Yerevan

Ashoka Mukpo, John Cannon, Latoya Abulu, Terna Gyuse 19 Oct 2026
A Williams electric blue day gecko (Lygodactylus williamsi). Image by Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay.

Conservation is bringing species back. Governments must help those gains last

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Oct 2026
Andean Cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruvianus). Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Nearly 90% of countries adopt biodiversity targets, but most remain off track

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Oct 2026
The Kila gold mine, on the northern edge of Nigeria’s Gashaka-Gumti National Park, before its closure in July 2026 by Nigeria’s National Park Service and the Africa Nature Investors (ANI) Foundation, with support from the Nigerian military. Image courtesy of the Africa Nature Investors Foundation.

Nigeria drove thousands of gold miners from a national park. But can it keep them out?

David Akana 17 Oct 2026

Africa’s monitored wildlife populations declined 80% since 1970, new report says

David Akana 7 Oct 2026
Minerva Hills National Park. Image courtesy of Nathan White/Tourism and Events Queensland.

Australia’s 30×30 conservation promise matters a lot, but how it’s achieved is key (commentary)

Tim Nicol 27 Aug 2026
Cape Three Points, Ghana. Image courtesy of Hεn Mpoano.

Illegal mining threatens Ghana’s first marine protected area

Mabel Adorkor Annang 12 Aug 2026
Aerial photograph of the nickel processing facilities in Morowali.

Nickel expansion puts Indonesia’s biodiversity goals under pressure, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Aug 2026
Adam Falk at Jahoo Gibbon Camp within Keo Seima Sanctuary in Cambodia. Photo courtesy of WCS.

What conservation looks like from the outside: A conversation with Adam Falk after his first year as CEO of WCS

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Aug 2026
A split-view image of an underwater seascape and coastline of Mussau Island, within the Manus Marine Protected Area, Papua New Guinea.

Melanesian nations announce intention to create massive ocean reserve corridor

Ashley Yeong 17 Jul 2026

New Indonesia roadmap aims to protect Indigenous knowledge for biodiversity

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Jul 2026

Conservation efforts by families displaced for national park sees success in DRC

Mongabay.com 19 Jun 2026
A mangrove-rich coastal landscape in Tanzania. Protecting and restoring mangrove ecosystems is a cornerstone of community-led marine conservation efforts across East Africa. Photo courtesy of Mwambao Coastal Community Network.

Africa’s community-led marine organizations on which 30×30 depends

David Akana 17 Jun 2026
The Eighty Mile Beach is a nesting site for the flatback turtle.

Australia establishes the first Sea Country Indigenous Protected Area

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Jun 2026
Gangala Yafali Mangusa Jr. poses for a photo after a community meeting on social cohesion within the Local Community Forest Concession (CFCL). Image by Jéremie Kyaswekera Kakule.

Descendants of people pushed out for DRC national park lead forest conservation efforts

Jérémie Kyaswekera 2 Jun 2026
An Australian flatback sea turtle (Natator depressus). Image by Dylan Goldspink.

Karajarri celebrate Australia’s first ‘Sea Country’ Indigenous Protected Area

John Cannon 14 May 2026
Green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) feeding on seagrass. Image courtesy of Liam McGuire via Ocean Image Bank.

With its first marine reserve, Ghana protects its ocean to secure its future (commentary)

Emelia Arthur 4 May 2026
A brown hairy dwarf porcupine (Coendou vestitus), La Ilusion Nature Reserve, Colombia.

As global 30×30 goal lags, Colombia shows how progress can be made

Ruth Kamnitzer 27 Apr 2026

10% of the ocean is protected. Now just 20% more to go

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Apr 2026
A shoal of batfish in Raja Ampat, Indonesia.

Ocean Equity Index aims to measure justice at sea

Edward Carver 26 Feb 2026

A new treaty comes into force to govern life on the high seas

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Jan 2026
Product of the women's keeping initiative. Photo credit: Felipe Rodriguez

Conservation’s unfinished business

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Jan 2026
A Samoan coral reef from the air. Image courtesy of Andy Estep.

Marine protected areas expanded in 2025, but still far from 30% goal

Shanna Hanbury 8 Jan 2026
Sperm whales inside Azores MPA Network. Image courtesy of Andy Mann/National Geographic.

Azores must respect its exceptional network of marine protected areas (commentary)

Enric Sala 5 Jan 2026
Part of the proposed the Great Koala National Park. Image courtesy of Paul Hilton/Earth Tree Images.

Conservation wins in 2025 that pushed us closer to the 30×30 goal

Bobby Bascomb 26 Dec 2025
Healthy reef off the coast of Panaon Island. Image courtesy of Danny Ocampo / Oceana.

Philippines’ newest marine protected area ‘sets inspiring example’ (commentary)

Antha Williams, Loren Legarda 16 Dec 2025
Aerial view of Australia coastline. Credit: James Donaldson

Study warns of major funding gap for 30×30 biodiversity goal

David Akana 11 Dec 2025
False killer whales in the Mediterranean. Image by Vincent Kneefel / Ocean Image Bank.

Why the BBNJ treaty on marine biodiversity matters more in the Mediterranean (commentary)

Camille Loth, Giuseppe Di Carlo 25 Aug 2025
Indigenous leaders at the first congress in Brazzaville. Image by Maribel Arango.

First congress of forest basin leaders results in call for direct financing

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 24 Jun 2025

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