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Composite image. Left: Amazon rainforest - photo credit: Rhett A. Butler. Right: Burning forest in the Brazilian Amazon - image credit: Greenpeace

The year in rainforests 2021

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2021

Madagascar’s small fishers cheer new trawl-free zone, but do trawlers obey it?

Edward Carver 28 Dec 2021

Mongabay’s 10 most watched videos of 2021

Nanditha Chandraprakash 28 Dec 2021
Algal bloom in the Baltic Sea on July 20, 2019.

2021’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Callie Steffen, Douglas McCauley, Emma Critchley, Molly Morse 28 Dec 2021
Courtesy of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation

Edward O. Wilson, prominent biologist and author, has died at 92

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2021

Indonesia’s three most consequential forestry stories of 2021

Philip Jacobson 24 Dec 2021

10 notable books on conservation and the environment published in 2021

John Cannon 24 Dec 2021

Australia’s rainforest species gain ground through landscape linkages

Amanda Freeman 24 Dec 2021

‘Unprecedented’ fires in Madagascar national park threaten livelihoods and lemurs

Edward Carver 23 Dec 2021
Oil barrel Amazon

California is the world’s number one importer of Amazonian oil, report finds

Victoria Schneider 23 Dec 2021
Mapping activities Indigenous

Guyanese project to bolster Indigenous land rights draws funding — and flak

Carinya Sharples 23 Dec 2021

‘We scientists engage in soft diplomacy’: Q&A with Christine Wilkinson

Caitlin Looby 23 Dec 2021

How does political instability in the Mekong affect deforestation?

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 23 Dec 2021
Small-scale gold mining

Secrecy shrouds new gold mining deal in Guyana’s Marudi mountains

Laurel Sutherland 22 Dec 2021

Global ecosystem restoration progress: How and who’s tracking it?

Mike Gaworecki 22 Dec 2021

Top 15 species discoveries from 2021 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 21 Dec 2021

In search of wild spectacles and river journeys

Mike Gaworecki 21 Dec 2021
Kahuzi-Biega National Park rangers stand in formation at the park in October, 2016. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

Deadly raids are latest case of abuse against Indigenous Batwa in DRC park, groups say

Laurel Sutherland 21 Dec 2021

Holy loach! Fish missing for decades rediscovered in Turkey’s Batman River

Mongabay.com 21 Dec 2021

Mexican firm profits from reforestation, empowers Indigenous people

Maxwell Radwin 21 Dec 2021

New flavor of vanilla farming aims to stop deforestation in Madagascar

Rivonala Razafison 21 Dec 2021

Lockdown underscores Uganda’s overreliance on tourism to fund conservation

Nangayi Guyson 21 Dec 2021

Decline of threatened bird highlights planning importance of bison releases

John Cannon 21 Dec 2021

Congo Peatlands

Mongabay.com 21 Dec 2021
Winter reindeer

In the Arctic, Indigenous Sámi keep life centered on reindeer herding

Liz Kimbrough 20 Dec 2021

Want a wild bird on the hush-hush in Singapore? There’s a Facebook group for that

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 20 Dec 2021

Meet the fishing jaguars that have made this patch of the Pantanal their own

Dimas Marques 20 Dec 2021

Wildlife death toll from 2020 Pantanal fires tops 17 million, study finds

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2021

As climate-driven drought slams farms in U.S. West, water solutions loom

Saul Elbein 17 Dec 2021
Mushrooms

Scientists on a quest to map worldwide web of fungi beneath our feet

Carolyn Cowan 17 Dec 2021
The dumbo octopus is a species only found in the deep sea. Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2019 Southeastern U.S. Deep-sea Exploration.

Deep-sea mining regulator’s latest meeting on rules only muddies the water

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Dec 2021

How wildlife crossings in Canada are inspiring safer roads for global species

Shannon Kelleher 17 Dec 2021

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