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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
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

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

Carolyn Cowan 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
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
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
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
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

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

Ana Norman Bermúdez 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
A. rugioperculatus activity observed in Florida.

Invasive whiteflies pose a new threat to Bangladesh’s cash crops

Abu Siddique 15 May 2025

Sumatran tiger protection needs more patrols, tougher penalties, study finds

Basten Gokkon 15 May 2025
A crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis), incredulous that its habitat may be able to coexist with oil palm crops without affecting commercial productivity. Image by Alain Rival/TRAILS.

Borneo project hopes to prove that forests and oil palms can coexist

Louise Hunt 15 May 2025
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Banten Province, Indonesia.

Flawed energy road map may block Indonesia’s coal exit, critics warn

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 May 2025
Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica

Indonesian pangolin trafficking prosecution reveals police involvement — and impunity

Ayat S. Karokaro 14 May 2025
Cambodian journalist Ouk Mao has faced physical and legal threats for his continued reporting on environmental crimes in Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. Image by Nehru Pry / Mongabay.

Attacks on Cambodian environmental journalist continue to pile up

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 12 May 2025

A migrating flycatcher returning to the same Sri Lankan garden sparks interest in birders

Malaka Rodrigo 11 May 2025
Aeta women read a book.

Viral standoff at Philippines’ Mt. Pinatubo exposes decades of Indigenous exclusion

Michael Beltran 9 May 2025
Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur (Microcebus berthae) is endemic to Madagascar. Image courtesy of Matthias Markolf.

Top 25 most threatened primates highlighted in new report urging action

Malavika Vyawahare 8 May 2025
Tsimi Judith harvesting the Gnetum (okok) in the village of Minwoho, Lekié, Center Region, Cameroon.

Report shows policy gaps in safeguarding the carbon rights of forest communities

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 8 May 2025

Indonesia’s gas bet poses risks for economy, health and climate

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 May 2025
Nepali lawyers Padam Bahadur Shrestha and Dilra Khanal in front of Nepal's Supreme Court. Image by Dipendra Dungana.

Meet the Nepali lawyers defending nature one case at a time

Deepak Adhikari 7 May 2025
The rescue team carries a deer rescued from an artificial amusement park.

Bangladesh cracks down on illegal wildlife captivity — but what happens after?

Abu Siddique, Sadiqur Rahman 6 May 2025
Ridzki in Jambi in 2022.

How Mongabay Indonesia grew into a trusted environmental voice: Interview with Ridzki Sigit 

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 May 2025

Indonesia’s deforestation claims under scrutiny over ‘cherry-picked’ data

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 May 2025

Kumana, a historic national park in eastern Sri Lanka, emerges as leopard stronghold

Malaka Rodrigo 5 May 2025
Limbu locals stage protest against the project. Image courtesy of Mukkumlung Protection and Struggle Committee.

Cable car project in Nepal under fire for flawed environmental review

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 5 May 2025

Mother Nature Cambodia activists denied bail by Supreme Court

Gerald Flynn 2 May 2025
A wild boar at Parsa National Park.

Study reveals untold, and unprotected, wildlife wealth of Nepal’s Madhesh province

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 May 2025
Banner Image: Reshu Bashyal receives the Whitley Award from Princess Anne, patron of the Whitley Fund for Nature in London. Image courtesy WFN.

Reshu Bashyal becomes fourth Nepali in as many years to win Whitley Award

Abhaya Raj Joshi 1 May 2025

Landslide deaths again highlight safety failures in Indonesia’s nickel industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 May 2025

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