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DNA analysis of Asiatic wild dogs scat in India reveals wild prey preference

Mongabay.com 25 Aug 2026
Cleared land at an industrial oil palm plantation at Tripa peat swamp in Aceh province.

Palm oil firms kept zero-deforestation pledges, but forests saw little extra benefit

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Aug 2026
Aerial view of the Cuanavale river, which runs through the Angolan Highlands and joins the Cuito River. Image courtesy of Zach Vincent for National Geographic.

Angola’s peatlands highly underestimated, new study suggests

Victoria Schneider 21 Aug 2026
Japanese fire-bellied newt (Cynops pyrrhogaster).

How ‘gentle power’ can preserve traditional biodiversity in Tokyo

Annelise Giseburt 21 Aug 2026

Sloth bears help shape India’s dry forests as unlikely seed dispersers

Mongabay.com 20 Aug 2026
Lizulu Market in Malawi's capital, Lilongwe

Indigenous food sovereignty is one of the most overlooked conservation strategies (commentary)

Gemma Sethsmith, Brijlal Chaudhari 18 Aug 2026

As an industry and a cooking ingredient, seaweed is gaining ground in Brazil

Letícia Klein 18 Aug 2026
Malawian farmer Laston Mchiswe watering cabbage that he will sell to markets in the nearby city of Blantyre to earn money for food for his own family. Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

Land crisis and ‘green revolution’ practices trap millions of Malawi’s farmers

Charles Mpaka 18 Aug 2026
A migrant worker in a cacao farm in Grand Gedeh, Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

‘Cocoa fever’ in Liberia’s Grand Gedeh is wiping out native forests

Mongabay.com 18 Aug 2026
Olga Muthambe, Mozambican social activist and Executive Director of the NGO Hikone Moçambique. Image courtesy of Olga Muthambe.

‘To speak of agroecology is to speak of farmers’ autonomy’: Interview with Olga Muthambe

Far Vubil 14 Aug 2026
African savanna elephants in Namibia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

More people, farms, and drought could mean more elephant conflict in Southern Africa

David Brown 14 Aug 2026

Bat virus fragments turn up in fertilizer sold in Thai markets, study finds

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2026

Nepal enlists AI to help fight against crop-raiding macaques

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2026
Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon in Mato Grosso.

Brazil Supreme Court upholds laws that led to downfall of Amazon soy moratorium

Associated Press 12 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
George Bowey in an illegal cacao farm in the proposed Kwa National Park. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Cacao plantations in Liberia encroach into proposed Kwa national park

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2026

In India, sacred groves serve as vital nurseries for future forests

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2026

How Sri Lanka’s heirloom rice can preserve Indigenous farming and help manage disease

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 8 Aug 2026
Pokigron and Atjoni villages beside the Suriname River. Image courtesy of Wikimedia.

Suriname moves to evict Mennonites and illegal Amazon settlers

Maxwell Radwin 7 Aug 2026
An entrepreneur extracts banana fiber from the stems of banana plants in Pabna, west-central Bangladesh. Image by Md Hafijul Islam.

A banana byproduct transforms farm waste into profits in Bangladesh

Md Jahidul Islam 7 Aug 2026

How Mennonites in Belize built a land-buying machine taking over forests

Maxwell Radwin 7 Aug 2026

On the frontlines of conservation in Sumatra: Rangers safeguard Batutegi forest

Basten Gokkon 7 Aug 2026
A Himalayan griffon, Central Zoo, Kathmandu.

Nepal zoo bird flu outbreak raises alarm for national parks

Abhaya Raj Joshi, Mukesh Pokhrel 6 Aug 2026
Harvesting sorghum in Sudan in 2011. Image by Africa Renewal via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Global hunger levels fall but Africa still lags behind, UN report finds

Charles Mpaka 4 Aug 2026
Vietnam is now the top producer of robusta beans used in cheap and instant coffee blends, but it carries a huge cost for Vietnamese communities and forests. Image courtesy of Quinn Mattingly/Panos Pictures/Unfold Stories.

Cheap coffee is killing Vietnam’s priceless tropical forests (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 3 Aug 2026
A local community takes part in a tree plantation project in 2018.

Bangladesh plans to plant 250 million trees. Keeping them alive will be harder

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Aug 2026

Land records reveal how Mennonites are reshaping Belize’s forests

Maxwell Radwin 31 Jul 2026

Sri Lanka prepares for impending El Niño with traditional and new approaches

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 31 Jul 2026

Palm oil expansion reignites decade-old Indigenous land conflict in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong, Niken D. Sitoningrum 31 Jul 2026
Deforestation and the enteric fermentation from the cattle that supply its slaughterhouses comprise 97% of JBS' overall greenhouse emissions, according to the Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2022. Even so, these impacts were ignored by the company's climate targets. Image courtesy of Marcio Isensee e Sá/O Eco.

Before giant meat producer JBS expands to Nigeria, people deserve answers (commentary)

Felix Horne 31 Jul 2026

Costa Rica banana plantation destroyed protected wetland, complaint alleges

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jul 2026

Report: Indonesian authorities weaponize laws to silence environmental and Indigenous defenders

Naina Rao 30 Jul 2026

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