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India’s forgotten vegetables offer a glimpse into what global diets are missing

Mongabay.com 29 Oct 2026
Clouded leopard

‘Action on the ground’ in Laos is needed to recover large mammals, protect more species

Carolyn Cowan 29 Oct 2026
Manaus woke up shrouded in smoke on Oct 17. In the background, the Negro River is barely visible on the horizon. Image courtesy of Juliana Pesqueira/Amazônia Real.

Amazon fires trap Manaus in smoke as authorities target arsonists

Tiago da Mota e Silva 26 Oct 2026
An elephant in Queen Elizabeth National Park. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

At Yerevan’s COP17 biodiversity summit, a steep climb ahead for ‘30 by 30’ target

Ashoka Mukpo 26 Oct 2026
Lin Kuang-li stands among his Ch’ing-hsin oolong tea plants in Longyanlin village

Taiwan’s tea growers let nature take back control as climate pressures mount

Aylin Ho 26 Oct 2026
“Cooking gas cylinder…”: An artist draws cooking gas cylinders on a roadside fence near a gas retail outlet in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, where the use of LPG for cooking has risen in the last decade. Image by Ini Ekott for Mongabay.

5 million Nigerians gain clean cooking access annually, but it’s not enough, experts say

Ini Ekott 26 Oct 2026
The Arazaire community is split in two, bisected by the Inambari River. On the river's left bank, where residents once had agricultural plots, forest, and ceremonial lagoons, the landscape is now dominated by mercury-laden ponds and deforestation.

Amazon communities lose water as mining and deforestation reshape rivers

Vanessa Romo 23 Oct 2026

Death of iconic elephant in Sri Lanka pushes authorities to fast-track protection efforts

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 23 Oct 2026

Two decades after crash, Nepal still searching for new generation of conservation visionaries

Mongabay.com 23 Oct 2026

World Snow Leopard Day: Community action and new science foster coexistence with humans

Naina Rao 23 Oct 2026
Sheep in pasture at Flag Hill Farm in Vershire, VT. Image by Erik Hoffner for Mongabay.

Sustainable silvopasture is popular with US farmers despite waning financial supports

Erik Hoffner 21 Oct 2026
: Cacao (Theobroma cacao). Image courtesy of mwintirew via iNaturalist (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Heavy rains during critical period of cacao cultivation hit Ghana’s yields

Victoria Schneider 21 Oct 2026

Anatomy of a land grab: the law, likes, and legislator behind an Indigenous land invasion in Brazil

Aimee Gabay, Elisângela Mendonça 19 Oct 2026
Banner image: A worker pruning fruit trees in South Africa in 2007. Image by Trevor Samson / World Bank via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Farmworkers’ health matters: South Africa looks to alternatives for chemical pesticides

Anna Weekes 19 Oct 2026
Adriana Hora dos Santos harvests oysters from a mangrove forest near Areia Branca, a former traditional village that is now a neighborhood of Aracaju. Photo by André Cherri / V.U.E.L.A.

‘Enclosed river:’ Women shellfish gatherers fight for access to mangroves in Brazil

Carolina de Marchi 16 Oct 2026
Parrotfish in a seagrass meadow in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Image courtesy of Benjamin Jones.

Seagrass meadows may offer coastal communities a more nutritious catch than reefs

Rajeev Tyagi 16 Oct 2026
Bioluminescent mushrooms (Mycena chlorophos) at Hachijo Botanical Park, Japan. Image by self via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

World Mushroom Day: From food to plastic replacement

David Brown 15 Oct 2026
Vehicles navigate a flooded road in Mozambique’s Maputo province in January 2026. Forecasters warn that the developing El Niño could bring heavier rainfall and flooding to parts of East and Southern Africa. Image by AP Photo.

Act before El Niño: Expert worries about deepening hunger in East and South Africa

David Akana 14 Oct 2026
Fishers pose with squid on a Chinese squid-fishing vessel.

Chinese squid tied to labor abuses finds an easy route into Western markets

Francesco De Augustinis 14 Oct 2026
Volunteers harvest tea leaves in Shenkeng district, Taiwan. During the harvest season, groups of women from the Shenkeng community will move from plantation to plantation, working in a centuries-old spirit of mutual assistance across farms. Experts contend that teas picked by hand are much less likely to be damaged and produce a finer product. Image by Michael O. Snyder for Mongabay.

Photos: Taiwan’s tea revival blends ancient terraces with new climate adaptations

Michael O. Snyder 13 Oct 2026

Indonesia says it no longer needs forests for rice. What happens to projects underway?

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Oct 2026

Ethiopian highlands yield a new species of egg-eating snake

Naina Rao 9 Oct 2026

Counterfeit seeds threaten African farmers’ crops and climate resilience: Study

David Brown 8 Oct 2026
Angelshark, commonly called peixe anjo in Brazil, (“angel fish” in Portuguese), continues to be sold at stalls in the Porto Alegre Public Market. Image courtesy of Alex Rocha/PMPA.

Endangered angelshark is still traded in Brazil despite import ban

Fernanda Wenzel 8 Oct 2026

Uncertainty mounts as Suriname struggles to evict illegal settlers in the Amazon

Maxwell Radwin 5 Oct 2026
A resident is extinguishing a fire at Talang Turunan Gajah using simple tools. Photo: Muhammad Akbar/Mongabay Indonesia.

As fires spread, Indonesia’s rubber growers draw on traditional ways to fight back

Taufik Wijaya 2 Oct 2026
Giraffes roam Kenya’s open savannas, part of the rich wildlife that draws visitors and makes ecotourism an important source of revenue for conservation and local communities. Image by Angela Scott.

From ‘community-based’ to ‘community-led conservation’ in Kenya: Interview with Dickson Kaelo

David Akana 1 Oct 2026

Tokyo records historic 35-day rain streak driven by El Niño and stalled fronts

Naina Rao 30 Sep 2026
Lions (Panthera leo). Image by Julie Larsen © Wildlife Conservation Society.

Turning vulnerable livestock into four-eyed beasts helps protect them in Zimbabwe

Cecil Dzwowa 30 Sep 2026
Children belonging to the Karamojong ethnic group in Karamoja, Uganda, help with household chores.

Uganda pastoralists turn to wild plants as food shortages bite, study finds

Kingsley Charles 29 Sep 2026

Bhutan recognized for eliminating dog-transmitted rabies ahead of World Rabies Day

Naina Rao 29 Sep 2026
A Malala drift area resident feeding his goats

Farmers in South Africa’s Limpopo face unpredictable rainfall, uncertain futures

Bernard Chiguvare 25 Sep 2026

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