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A yellowtail dascyllus

Damselfish-assisted repair of wounded corals surprises scientists

Shradha Triveni 2 Sep 2026
For the Iraya, the forest is a largely unwritten living archive.

The race to document Indigenous knowledge to protect Philippines’ birds

Mongabay.com 2 Sep 2026

Southeast Asia’s oak trees highly threatened as report warns of lack of protection

Mongabay.com 2 Sep 2026

Togo cosponsors proposal to review commercial whaling ban

Victoria Schneider 1 Sep 2026
Selumo (Jackiopsis ornata) trees, left, in a village in East Tebing Tinggi, Riau province, Indonesia. Planted by communities to demarcate land boundaries, these trees are also desired for their appearance. Image courtesy of Maryani.

Rooting tree seed production in local knowledge boosts forest restoration outcomes (commentary)

Zu Dienle Tan, Ahmad Muhammad, Sigit Sutikno, Nur Estya Binte Rahman 1 Sep 2026
The number of cuttings this Hive Ecosystem team manages to plant in a day is dizzying. This project is halfway toward its original goal of planting spekboom across nearly 5,500 hectares (nearly 13,000 acres). Image by Leonie Joubert for Mongabay.

South Africa’s new gold rush: Spekboom restoration speeds up, but it’s a bumpy road, insiders report

Leonie Joubert 1 Sep 2026
Woodland caribou live in the boreal rainforests across Canada and parts of the U.S., surviving on lichens growing on centuries-old trees.

As British Columbia mulls continued wolf-killing to save caribou, critics say habitat loss is the real threat

Spoorthy Raman 1 Sep 2026
Saltpans in Walvis Bay, Namibia. Image courtesy by David Stanley via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Namibia greenlights controversial project to dredge phosphate from seabed

Jemima Beukes 1 Sep 2026
Mangroves and Shorebirds in the Lamu area, Indian Ocean Coast of Kenya. Image by GRID-Arendal/Peter Prokosch via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

UN fund for sharing biodiversity benefits struggles for attention — and money

Mactilda Mbenywe 1 Sep 2026
An agroforestry tour during a workshop at the Permaculture Paradise Institute in Lilongwe, Malawi. Image by Emilie Vansant.

Growing Indigenous food trees in East Africa fights malnutrition and biodiversity loss

Claudia Geib 31 Aug 2026
A remotely operated vehicle explores brine pool formations in the Orca Basin, Gulf of Mexico. Image courtesy of Ocean Exploration Trust/Nautilus Live.

Gulf of Mexico’s unique Orca Basin shouldn’t become a carbon dump (commentary)

Craig R. McClain 31 Aug 2026

Indigenous rangers pull killer ‘ghost nets’ from Australia’s northern coast

Liz Kimbrough 31 Aug 2026
A Sumatran orangutan.

Gold miners breach a crucial refuge for rescued Sumatran orangutans

Junaidi Hanafiah 31 Aug 2026
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This rare wild cow is making a comeback

Sandy Watt 31 Aug 2026
The superb fairywren is one of 30 endemic Australasian wrens.

Superb fairywrens disappearing in Australia’s capital: Conserving insects could help save them

Cooper Williams 31 Aug 2026
Dead sei whales (Balaenoptera borealis) in a remote fjord of Central Patagonia in 2015

Scientists use satellites to track whale strandings in remote places from space

Manuel Fonseca 31 Aug 2026
A view of the presidential palace in Indonesia's new capital, Nusantara. Image courtesy of Leah Varjacques.

Recording a rainforest before Indonesia’s new capital changes it

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Aug 2026
Loyiso Dunga working to map indigenous community cultural connections in the Wild Coast, South Africa. Image courtesy of Loyiso Dunga.

‘You can’t protect what you don’t know:’ Interview with marine scientist Loyiso Dunga

Alexandra Talty 31 Aug 2026
Indianthus virgatus growing along the shaded bank of a stream in lowland forest. Image courtesy of Vishnu et al., 2026 (CC BY-NC 4.0).

‘Lost’ for 170 years, rare plant recorded in Sri Lanka

Naina Rao 31 Aug 2026
Lionfish hunted

Turning the tables on invasive lionfish: How Honduran divers are fighting back

Fritz Pinnow, Sandy Watt 29 Aug 2026
A southern mountain caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) from the Columbia North herd. The herd is one of three remaining within the Syilx Okanagan Nation territory, and, with an estimated population of 185, the one considered most viable.

First Nations in Canada call for emergency order to protect southern mountain caribou

Ruth Kamnitzer 29 Aug 2026

Global sea surface temperatures reach a record high, again

Bobby Bascomb 28 Aug 2026
A critically endangered female red handfish (Thymichthys politus) at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in Hobart, Tasmania.

As Photo Ark turns 20, Joel Sartore photographs 18,000 animal species

Liz Kimbrough 28 Aug 2026
Hà Đình Đức with the great softshell of Hồ Gươm. Photo by ZNews Vietnam

Hà Đình Đức, guardian of Hanoi’s legendary turtle, died at 86

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Aug 2026
Sea cucumbers are harvested beyond Pemba Island in Tanzania. Here, a sea cucumber rancher displays part of his harvest from a ranch on Mafia Island. Image by Ashoka Mukpo/Mongabay.

A sea cucumber venture in Zanzibar seeks to balance business and conservation

David Akana 28 Aug 2026
An Australian eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus).

The conservation population of Australia’s endangered eastern quoll welcomes joeys

Paul Harvey 28 Aug 2026

Singapore made a crow-friendly city. Now it wants to shoot them

Mongabay.com 28 Aug 2026
Long-house at Sungai Utik, an Iban community in West Kalimantan that has successfully defended its customary forests against loggers. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

Community programs linked to lower forest loss in Indonesia’s Borneo during COVID-19

Basten Gokkon 28 Aug 2026
Angora goats, which produce mohair. Image © Samantha Reinders.

South Africa’s new gold rush: Big money, high stakes in emerging spekboom restoration sector

Leonie Joubert 27 Aug 2026

Costa Rica to require wildlife crossings for roads when they impact fauna

Bobby Bascomb 27 Aug 2026
Minerva Hills National Park. Image courtesy of Nathan White/Tourism and Events Queensland.

Australia’s 30×30 conservation promise matters a lot, but how it’s achieved is key (commentary)

Tim Nicol 27 Aug 2026
The first ever release of white-lipped peccary into Piedras Blancas National Park. Photo by Ian Rock

13 peccaries sail home to heal a Costa Rican forest

Liz Kimbrough 27 Aug 2026

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