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For Ugandan farmers, good fences make good neighbors — of elephants

Ashoka Mukpo 13 Jan 2025
radiated tortoise

How tortoise conservationist Hery Razafimamonjiraibe manages risks to antipoaching teams

Carolyn Cowan 10 Jan 2025

Companies banking on tech and collaboration to comply with EUDR

Sarah Brown 31 Dec 2024
A man in a red t-shirt gazes into the camera, squinting slightly against the light in Budjala territoire, Sud-Ubangi, Democratic Republic of Congo. Image by Francesco De Augustinis for Mongabay.

In DRC bid to grow more food, smallholders are overshadowed by industrial farming

Francesco De Augustinis 30 Dec 2024

Tortoise protection culture prompts efforts to curb trafficking in Madagascar

Carolyn Cowan 30 Dec 2024
Cocoa Agroforestry

‘Uncertainty’ amid EUDR delay poses challenges for cocoa companies, farmers

John Cannon 27 Dec 2024

How the Sahel junta is responding to climate change amid political isolation

Robert Bociaga 27 Dec 2024

Rare new Guinean flower is ‘canary in a coal mine’ — but in an actual iron mine

Ryan Truscott 27 Dec 2024
The 2024 paper proposes Leopardus pardinoides, or the clouded tiger cat, as a new species. This small wildcat is found in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, south to Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Image courtesy of Johanes Pfleiderer. Article title - A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

Photos: Top new species from 2024

Liz Kimbrough 26 Dec 2024
An adult radiated tortoise

Massive tortoise rewilding in Madagascar’s spiny forest strives to save fraught species

Carolyn Cowan 26 Dec 2024

New campaign seeks swifter justice for slain South African wildlife ranger

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Dec 2024
YEAR IN RAINFORESTS BANNER

The year in tropical rainforests: 2024

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Dec 2024

The state of carbon markets in 2024

John Cannon 23 Dec 2024

Across continents, Mongabay fellows share insights from reporting in the field

Michael Esquer, Swati Thapa, Tarinipre Francis 23 Dec 2024

Coral destruction for toilet construction: Interview with a Malagasy fisher

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 20 Dec 2024
Bright red flowers of a miracle clivia (Clivia mirabilis), hang in front of green foliage. Image courtesy Dave Garriock.

Poachers target South Africa’s ‘miracle’ plant with near impunity

Leonie Joubert 20 Dec 2024
Members of the Nadupoi Women Group gather for a group photo in Olooloitikosh village, Kajiado, Kenya. Image by Juliet Ojwang for Mongabay.

From Bhutan to Nigeria & Kenya, women endure climate change differently than men

Choki Wangmo, Juliet Akoth Ojwang, Karen Coates, Tarinipre Francis 20 Dec 2024

‘Killed while poaching’: When wildlife enforcement blurs into violence

Ashoka Mukpo 19 Dec 2024

Even for ‘progressive’ Danone, complying with EUDR is a challenge

Maxwell Radwin 19 Dec 2024

A port is destroying corals to expand. Can an NGO rescue enough to matter?

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 19 Dec 2024

‘Like you, I fear the demise of the elephants’

Ashoka Mukpo 17 Dec 2024
fishers carrying a boat back to shore after a fishing trip

‘Shifting baselines’ in Cabo Verde after 50 years of declining fish stocks

Edward Carver 16 Dec 2024

Armed conflict, not Batwa people, at heart of Grauer’s gorillas’ past decline in DRC park

Aimable Twahirwa, Latoya Abulu 16 Dec 2024
Second edition YOFAFA Conference in Yaounde. Image by Leocadia Bongben.

Young people in Africa call for a fair increase in funding for climate adaptation

Leocadia Bongben 16 Dec 2024

Study looks for success factors in African projects that heal land and help people

Ruth Kamnitzer 13 Dec 2024

Climate change fuels African floods that hit harder in vulnerable regions

Fanta Mabo 13 Dec 2024

Kenya embraces electric buses to combat air pollution

Stephanie Wangari 12 Dec 2024
A southern patas monkey (Erythrocebus baumstarki) sits on the branch of a tree in the Serengeti. Image courtesy Katie Sanborn.

Gum-eating Tanzanian monkey is AWOL, fueling extinction fears

Ryan Truscott 9 Dec 2024

Progress on rights complaint systems in Congo Basin but more needed, says group

Ashoka Mukpo 5 Dec 2024

Agroecology offers blueprint for resilient farming in northern Ghana

Caleb Ahinakwah 5 Dec 2024

DRC’s reliance on charcoal threatens forests and fuels armed conflict

Elodie Toto 5 Dec 2024

Namibian conservancies fight to block mining threat to rhinos

Victoria Schneider 2 Dec 2024

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