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Pattie Gonia. Image by Evan Benally Atwood, courtesy of Pattie Gonia.

Drag artist Pattie Gonia on why nature advocacy needs joy to succeed

Mike DiGirolamo, Basten Gokkon 20 Jan 2026
Cody James brand pirarucu cowboy boots, made from exotic fish leather that stands up to wear, at Boot Barn.

Cowboy boots made from pirarucu leather fund Amazon’s sustainable fishery

Jenny Gonzales 12 Jan 2026
Bob Weir. From his website.

Bob Weir, a musician who took the environment seriously

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Jan 2026
Tell Hicks, from his Facebook page.

Tell Hicks, reptile artist

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Dec 2025
Baobab Alley in Madagascar. Photo by Rhett Butler.

Pioneering primatologist in Madagascar shares decades of conservation wisdom

Mike DiGirolamo 18 Nov 2025
When art turns into a sustainable treasure

When art turns into a sustainable treasure

Julia Lima, Fellipe Abreu, Sibélia Zanon 1 Oct 2025
DJ Edwin Carrasco, known in the artistic world as Tayta Bird, recording sounds of a rainforest.

DJs inspired by nature

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Oct 2025
Mountain gorillas by Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo for Mongabay.

Mongabay staffer shares the joy and impact of wildlife photography

Mike DiGirolamo 30 Sep 2025
DJ Edwin Carrasco, known in the artistic world as Tayta Bird, recording sounds of a rainforest.

Meet the DJs of nature, inspired by biodiversity

Manuel Fonseca 15 Sep 2025
River in the Kosnipata valley, Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Empathy and spiritual ecology are a conservation solution and ‘radical cure’

Mike DiGirolamo 29 Jul 2025
Sebastião Salgado. Courtesy of Instituto Terra

Photographer Sebastião Salgado (1944-2025) planted a forest and grew a global movement

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 May 2025

Jim Brandenburg, conservation photographer, died April 4th, aged 79

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 May 2025

Abel Rodríguez, artist who drew a vanishing forest from memory, died April 9, age unknown

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 May 2025
Eunice Paiva (L, on the sofa) and Rubens Paiva (on her left) surrounded by their children and an unknown person.

‘I’m Still Here’ Eunice Paiva’s pivotal role in Brazil’s Indigenous & environmental rights

Luiz Antônio Araujo 13 Feb 2025

Brazil’s Kadiwéu force international debate about authorship of Indigenous art

Júlia Moa 26 Dec 2024
Ailton Krenak

It’s not the end, we have several possible futures: Interview with Indigenous author Ailton Krenak

Jaqueline Sordi 30 Jul 2024
Students at the Gora Dhangmari Forest Primary School display clay sculptures they made for a final project in art class.

Dhaka international symposium gathers at the intersection of art & climate crisis

McKenna Johnson 29 Jul 2024
Some of the artists with the art installation

Mongabay investigation is turned into art for World Press Freedom Day event

Karla Mendes 27 May 2024

Innovative Nepali PSA seeks emotional connection to save red pandas

Abhaya Raj Joshi 24 May 2024

Brazil’s Indigenous women launch a national audiovisual network

Julia Lima, Matheus Lopes Quirino 6 Mar 2024

A feathered cape bridges past and present for Brazil’s Indigenous Tupinambá

Matheus Lopes Quirino 4 Mar 2024

Indigenous women filmmakers form collective, using cameras to fight for rights

Matheus Lopes Quirino 23 Jan 2024
A group of Murujuga custodians formed the group Save Our Songlines to stop the future destruction of rock art using the law.

Australia crackdown on climate protesters grows amid fight against gas project

Tessa Fox 31 Oct 2023
Pink river dolphins.

Fishing ban extension raises hopes for iconic Amazon pink river dolphin

Pérola de Farias Pedro 16 Oct 2023

Brazilian Indigenous artists take the forest to the world

Matheus Lopes Quirino 29 Aug 2023

‘They will not put us in a display case’: Q&A with Indigenous artist Daiara Tukano

Mariana Della Barba 15 Mar 2023
Marselus Selu plays traditional bamboo musical instruments.

In Indonesia’s Flores, a lifelong bamboo flautist looks to the next generation

Ebed de Rosary 27 Dec 2022
Watercolor drawing from Janet Marsh’s Nature Diary

Wildlife lover and artist records 5 decades of change on iconic U.K. river

Rebecca Branford and Sue Branford 7 Sep 2022
A Geoffroy's spider monkey.

Can celebrities and social media influencers really ‘rewrite extinction’?

James Fair 9 May 2022
Bears Ears is known for its stunning cliff dwellings that serve as a backdrop for thousands of sacred, cultural and archaeological sites. Tribes also still use the area to hunt and gather food.

With protections restored, tribal council charts new path for Bears Ears

Caitlin Looby 2 May 2022
A mural depicting Indigenous faces stretches across a wall in the historic center of Manaus, in the Brazilian state of Amazonas.

History on the walls: Graffiti brings Manaus’s Indigenous roots to light

Ana Ionova 19 Apr 2022

Photography, nature, truth and war: Q&A with top photographer Ami Vitale

Erik Hoffner 6 Apr 2022

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