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Helni Gopi (left) with her companions bringing a variety of their harvests back from the pampa forest.

Indigenous rights advocates petition to overturn Indonesian conservation law

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 May 2025

West Sulawesi erupts in protest over sand mining for Indonesia’s new capital

Wahyu Chandra 22 May 2025
Community rangers guard elephants in Sera Conservancy, Northern Rangelands, Kenya.

Wildlife crime crackdown in jeopardy worldwide after US funding cuts

Carolyn Cowan, Philip Jacobson, Spoorthy Raman, Charles Mpaka, Hans Nicholas Jong, Gerald Flynn 22 May 2025
A forest fire burns in Valparaíso, Chile, in February 2024. Image courtesy of the Gobierno de Chile via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0 CL)

Tropical forest loss hit new heights in 2024; fire a major driver in Latin America

Ruth Kamnitzer 21 May 2025
Oils extracted from macaúba palm fruits can be used in a wide range of industrial processes, including foods cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.

Brazil bets on macaúba palm to make renewable diesel and aviation biofuel

Sean Mowbray 21 May 2025

Chile draws road map for peace in Mapuche land conflict, but concerns remain

Maxwell Radwin 21 May 2025

Extreme heat, violent storms: How Rio de Janeiro is facing its new climate reality

Ambiental Media 21 May 2025

In New Guinea, megadiverse lowland forests are most at risk of deforestation

Carolyn Cowan 21 May 2025
Goiano, in front, started the land reform movement and has been the subject of death threats and corruption claims.

Delay in land reform fuels new wave of settlers and violence in the Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 21 May 2025
Sandhya Sekar in Kerala, India in 2025; Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

How Mongabay India took root: Interview with Sandhya Sekar

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 May 2025

Study finds fast traffic noise is infuriating Galápagos warblers

Spoorthy Raman 20 May 2025
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Cilegon city, Banten Province, Indonesia.

As Indonesia phases out coal, what happens to people & environments left behind?

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 May 2025
Chrystal Mantyka-Pringle leading cultural mapping exercises with Tr'ondek Hwech'in First Nation citizens Ryan Petersen and Zack Everitt at the community’s Land of Plenty cultural camp in 2019. Image courtesy of Elaine Cordon.

An alternative approach to bridge Indigenous knowledge and Western science for conservation (commentary)

Chrystal Mantyka-Pringle, Natasha Ayoub, Katie Fraser 20 May 2025
A herder minding his goats in Isiolo County, Kenya. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Crisis hits community-led conservation group in northern Kenya

Ashoka Mukpo 20 May 2025
The proximity with non-Indigenous culture and lack of economic alternatives make some young Mundurukus turn to illegal mining.

From chickens to cassava, Brazil’s Munduruku seek alternatives to mining

Fernanda Wenzel, Karla Mendes 20 May 2025
cattle Brazil

New forest loss data beef up Amazon deforestation case against Casino Group

Carla Ruas 20 May 2025
Relatives of people injured by army gunfire at Munjenje, Lualaba Province, DRC. Image courtesy of CASMIA.

Soldiers raid village as tensions flare over DRC’s Kamoa mine expansion

Didier Makal 20 May 2025

German supermarket palm oil linked to Indigenous rights abuses in Guatemala

Maxwell Radwin 19 May 2025
A Yucatán black howler monkey

Protection is only the beginning: Creating connection through Belize’s Maya Forest Corridor

Ruth Kamnitzer 19 May 2025
Puff Adder, a venomous snake from Africa, topped the list of vertebrates with the highest risk of being invasive in the U.S.

Venomous snakes, freshwater fish among legally traded species most likely to become invasive in US

Spoorthy Raman 19 May 2025
A sarus crane photographed in Lumbini. Image by Mukesh Pokhrel.

Concrete sprawl in Buddha’s birthplace in Nepal threatens sarus cranes

Mukesh Pokhrel 19 May 2025

How extreme droughts could redefine the future of Amazonian fish

Tiago Mota e Silva 19 May 2025
Cambodian journalist Ouk Mao has been placed under court surveillance for exposing deforestation linked to a powerful mining company. Image by Nehru Pry / Mongabay.

Cambodian environmental journalist Ouk Mao arrested

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 16 May 2025
: President Luis Arce received a gift from a member of the United States of Kailasa in Bolivia. It was in 2024 at the event for the anniversary of CIDOB in Santa Cruz. Image courtesy of El Deber.

Bolivia expels members of fake nation Kailasa over Indigenous land lease scandal

Iván Paredes Tamayo 16 May 2025
Jandhen Gurung, 82, with her juniper leaf collection. Image by Durga Rana Magar.

In Nepal, centuries-old Buddhist incense tradition faces overharvesting, climate threats

Durga Rana Magar 16 May 2025

Study unveils mystery of monkey yodeling — and why humans can’t compete

Liz Kimbrough 16 May 2025

China drops pangolin formulas from approved TCM list, but concerns remain

Keith Anthony Fabro 16 May 2025
Tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum)

Radio tags help reveal the secret lives of tiger salamanders

Abhishyant Kidangoor 16 May 2025

Indigenous conservationists lead the fight to save Mentawai’s endangered primates

Ana Norman Bermúdez 15 May 2025

New study maps the fishmeal factories that supply the world’s fish farms

Edward Carver 15 May 2025
Greater adjutant storks photographed in Assam, India.

In India, folklore is a tool that helps women save the greater adjutant stork

Angana Chakrabarti 15 May 2025
Palm oil farmer

Profit imbalance in palm oil industry risks environmental compliance, report says

Carolyn Cowan 15 May 2025

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