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Aerial photo of the March for Water held in Cuenca on Sept. 16. Image via @czamoramatute on X.

100,000 Ecuadorians protest Canadian mining project threatening key water source

Shanna Hanbury 19 Sep 2025
The Buenavista Indigenous Guard employs spiritual, political, and educational approaches that involve men, women and children. Image courtesy of the Siona Indigenous community.

Landmines and violence in Colombian Amazon confine Indigenous Siona families

Mongabay.com 18 Sep 2025
A hunter in Colombia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

146 environmental defenders were killed or disappeared last year

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Sep 2025

Canada’s mining companies destroy biodiversity with impunity, Indigenous journalist reports

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 16 Sep 2025

Indonesia reopens Raja Ampat nickel mine despite reef damage concerns

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Sep 2025

Indonesia’s giant Java seawall plan sparks criticism & calls for alternatives

Basten Gokkon 11 Sep 2025
Vian Ruma from his Facebook page.

Vian Ruma, Indonesian activist, found dead. Aged 30.

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Sep 2025

Death of activist critical of geothermal project raises alarm in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Sep 2025
Island in the South Pacific, Fiji. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Top court delivers a ‘huge’ climate win for island nations

Mike DiGirolamo 9 Sep 2025
A Save The Elephants researcher studies elephants at Lake Jipe in Kenya. Image courtesy of Wildlife Conservation Network.

African wildlife conservation is local communities’ burden (commentary)

Kendi Borona 9 Sep 2025

African leaders push for climate investment at Ethiopia summit

Associated Press 9 Sep 2025
Ethiopia's Abiy Ahmed and TK Kenya's William Ruto at the Africa Climate Summit in Addis Ababa. Image courtesy Africa Climate Summit. (Public Domain)

Leaders pitch homegrown solutions at Africa Climate Summit — and $100b to back them

David Akana 9 Sep 2025
A view of oil palm groves on the Socapalm plantation from the village of Apouh. Image by Yannick Kenné for Mongabay.

Palm oil giant Socapalm still planting on disputed land in Cameroon as villagers seek redress

Victoria Schneider 9 Sep 2025
Statue of Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt. Photo by Rhett Butler/Mongabay.

To save humanity and nature we must tackle wealth inequality, says Cambridge researcher

Mike DiGirolamo 3 Sep 2025
Jorkporlorsue town, surrounded by rubber trees owned by Salala Rubber Corporation. Image by Ashoka Mukpo/Mongabay.

Liberian communities await justice at Salala rubber plantation after World Bank complaint

Victoria Schneider 29 Aug 2025
Shark meat is prepared for distribution at CEAGESP in São Paulo city,

Mongabay shark meat exposé sparks call for hearing and industry debate

Philip Jacobson, Karla Mendes, Lucas Berti 26 Aug 2025
Waste burning in the Maldives. Open burning of plastic is a cheap way of reducing waste volume, but the practice is rife with health and environmental risks.

Global South bears growing burden of health threats from plastic burning

Mongabay.com 25 Aug 2025
Magar people stage protest against the Tanahun Hydropower project. Image by Sanjog Laapaa Magar, INWOLAG.

Development banks under fire for backing disputed Nepal hydropower project

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 22 Aug 2025
Elephants are one of the species that have bounced back after Namibia’s independence in 1990.

Climate change tests the resilience of people and desert-adapted wildlife in Namibia

Petro Kotzé 21 Aug 2025
A fisherman cleans the plastic waste caught in his net.

New coalition focuses on ‘reuse’ to tackle top polluter Indonesia’s plastic waste problem

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2025
The First Gen tanker off the shores of Santa Clara, October, 2024.

Philippine fishers struggle as LNG ‘superhighway’ cuts through biodiversity hotspot

Mongabay.com 20 Aug 2025
An ocelot hiding in a tree in the Pantanal, Mato Grosso state, Brazil.

NGOs launch novel community projects to conserve Mexico’s ocelots

Sandra Weiss 20 Aug 2025

Respite, for now, for bird migration hotspot at heart of Sri Lanka’s wind power dispute

Malaka Rodrigo 20 Aug 2025
Banner image of an adult and baby orangutan at Betung Kerihun National Park in Indonesian Borneo, by Sabar Minsyah via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

World Orangutan Day: Ongoing threats & habitat loss haunt these great apes

Kristine Sabillo 19 Aug 2025
Banner image of a reindeer calf in 2009 at a Gabna Sámi village in Sweden, by Silje Bergum Kinsten/norden.org via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.5 DK).

Deadly Nordic heat wave made 10 times worse by climate change: Study

Kristine Sabillo 19 Aug 2025
White rhyolite spires on the shores of Jodogahama Beach in Miyako, Japan. These spires are estimated to be around 45 million years old and form a natural version of a Japanese garden. This beach is part of Sanriku Fukkō National Park. It was incorporated into this national park as a reconstruction effort following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Image by Mike DiGirolamo for Mongabay.

Don’t quit: A podcaster’s charge to listeners & fellow humans (commentary)

Mike DiGirolamo 15 Aug 2025
Cattle in Switzerland.

Will we still eat beef in 50 years?

John Cannon 15 Aug 2025

As climate change burdens grow, community mental health alarm bells ring

Petro Kotzé 14 Aug 2025
Yellowfin tuna, one of the seven major commercial tuna species, attempt to outswim a seine net in the Seychelles. Fishing is the second largest industry on this small Pacific Island, and like many other Pacific Islands, it faces major revenue losses as tuna shift their migration patterns into the high seas due to climate change.

How will fisheries change in a hotter world? Experts share

Claudia Geib 13 Aug 2025
Banner image of a school of grunts (Pomadasys incisus) in the Teno-Rasca Marine Strip by Diego Delso via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Goldman Prize winner’s shift from engineer to activist in Tenerife, Canary Islands

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2025
Shark meat on sale in Brazil is labeled as “cação,” a generic term whose true meaning is unknown to most Brazilians, surveys show.

Brazil’s shark meat problem

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2025
Rainbow over the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

People on nature’s frontlines aren’t waiting for miracles, says author Alan Weisman

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Aug 2025

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