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Agroforestry offers market-based way to boost Amazon rains & farmer incomes (analysis)

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Feb 2026
A pair of hyacinth macaws (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus), listed as vulnerable by the IUCN.

Big biodiversity goals run up against small funding realities

John Cannon 25 Feb 2026
Study co-author Tom Hart changes the batteries on a remote camera. Penguin Watch’s camera network includes more than 77 cameras that monitor penguin colonies year-round, providing a wealth of data.

Penguins are breeding much earlier in a warming Antarctic, study finds

Ruth Kamnitzer 25 Feb 2026
Collage featuring cockfighting and a largetooth sawfish

Why is cockfighting a risk to Peru’s rarest fish?

Romi Castagnino 25 Feb 2026
A captive sand cat in Nushi, Pakistan. Illegal trade is occurring amid a paucity of information about population sizes of small cat populations, says Sheikh. “It's going under the radar to a big extent, and hardly anything is being done to actively stop it or to mitigate this threat.”

Big cats get the press, but small wildcats are being poached and trafficked in silence

Sean Mowbray 25 Feb 2026
Ikoots fishers haul a net into shore off the coast of Cuauhtémoc, San Mateo del Mar, Mexico. Overhead, frigatebirds attempt to steal fish from the net.

Indigenous Ikoots community prepares to relocate as the Pacific floods their town

Euan Wallace 25 Feb 2026
Bat in a cave in Myanmar

In Myanmar’s limestone hills, people and bats are often too close for comfort

Carolyn Cowan 25 Feb 2026
Fisherfolk at Lourenção Rocks on the Amazon’s Tocantins River.

Amazon riverfolk warn blasting rocks for shipping route will kill fisheries

Tiffany Higgins 25 Feb 2026
Asian tapir adult

In Thailand, old camera-trap photos shed new light on Asian tapirs

Carolyn Cowan 24 Feb 2026
Monarch Butterfly

Flying along with monarch butterflies

Abhishyant Kidangoor 24 Feb 2026
A lion in Africa.

Botswana shows how smarter cattle herding can save lions, reopen ancient wildlife pathways

Gloria Dickie 24 Feb 2026

Panama NGOs face lawsuits, asset seizures in fight over port construction

Maxwell Radwin 23 Feb 2026
Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus); the species is one of 19 cetacean species that spend time in the Azores.

Azores dodges proposal to overturn no-fishing zones in its giant new MPA network

Maria José Mendes 23 Feb 2026
Blue shark.

It’s electric: Scientists develop cheap way to keep sharks off fishing hooks

Edward Carver 23 Feb 2026

Mongabay Explains

23 Feb 2026
Smoke from a fire in Far North Queensland, Australia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

After logging bans, Australia turns to “forest thinning”. Does it reduce fire risk?

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Feb 2026

Giant tortoises return to Galápagos island 180 years after relatives went extinct

Bobby Bascomb 20 Feb 2026
Scientists at work against a backdrop of lab glassware.

In Thailand, a coral cryobank tries to buy time for dying reefs

Neelanjana Rai 20 Feb 2026

Migrant fishers’ deaths at sea tied to unchecked captain power, study shows

Basten Gokkon 20 Feb 2026

Loosely social animals at higher risk of decline than social species

Bobby Bascomb 19 Feb 2026

How seabird poop helped fuel ancient civilizations in Peru

David Brown 19 Feb 2026

Argentina considers weakening glacier safeguards in pursuit of critical minerals

Maxwell Radwin 19 Feb 2026

New study assesses geoengineering marine ecosystem risks, knowledge gaps

Ruth Kamnitzer 19 Feb 2026
A white-backed vulture in Zimbabwe. Image by Chris Collyer/ Birdlife Zimbabwe.

Africa’s vulture safe zones face tough test across vast landscapes

Sean Mowbray 19 Feb 2026

‘Ridiculous’ plan developed at Florida zoo saves wild rhino’s eyesight in Africa

Associated Press 18 Feb 2026

Researchers eye jaguar conservation wins under Brazil Indigenous stewardship project

James Hall, Karla Mendes 18 Feb 2026
Collage featuring a white-rumped shama (Copsychus malabaricus) and a poacher

The most desirable songbird in Indonesia is disappearing from the wild

Rizky Maulana Yanuar, Sandy Watt 18 Feb 2026

Scientists discover a new whale highway after tagging a pygmy blue whale by drone

Claire Turrell 18 Feb 2026
Atoll

Coral bleaching: How warming seas are transforming the world’s reefs

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Feb 2026
According to scientists, the enhanced protection for southern elephant seals is likely benefiting other species in their habitat. Image courtesy of Nico de Bruyn.

Southern elephant seals recover in Southern Africa, but global picture is mixed

Charles Mpaka 18 Feb 2026
A Pirahã family floating on a river, 2017.

Malaria outbreak among Indigenous Pirahã linked to forest loss, satellite data find

Aimee Gabay 17 Feb 2026
Urania leilus (Uraniidae)

That “butterfly” you saw? It was probably a moth

Romi Castagnino 17 Feb 2026

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