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A rare right whale spotted off Ireland resurfaces near Boston

Bobby Bascomb 17 Dec 2025
Community members gather as a tagged Mekong giant catfish (Pangasianodon gigas) is prepared for release in the Cambodian stretch of the Mekong River.

Earth’s freshwater fish face harsh new climate challenges, researchers warn

Stefan Lovgren 17 Dec 2025
Izzy Sasada and orangutan

Orangutans rescued undergo re-training to return to the wild

Izzy Sasada, Sam Lee 17 Dec 2025

Mining controversies: The hidden toll of green energy

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 17 Dec 2025
A spectacled cobra in India.

Rapid urbanization, habitat loss are forcing the snakes out in Dhaka

Tasmin Era 17 Dec 2025

In Peru, community-led camera trapping boosts conservation and ecotourism

Astrid Arellano 16 Dec 2025
A child touches a freshly caught albacore tuna in Vairao, Tahiti, French Polynesia, in January 2024. Image by AP Photo/Daniel Cole.

Pacific fisheries summit gives a boost to albacore & seabirds

Edward Carver 16 Dec 2025
Ocelot in Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas, Brazil.

New study points to private land as key to Atlantic Forest recovery

Sibélia Zanon 16 Dec 2025
Previously undetected in other protected areas, a tigress known as SWT001F was the first individual tiger captured on camera in Thailand's Sisawat Non-Hunting Area in 2024. Panthera, Thailand's DNP and other partners are working to monitor and protect Indochinese tigers and their prey in this region where camera traps have shown tigers are using Sisawat forest as a corridor. Currently plans exist to propose the adjoining forest area to the east as an extension of Sisawat.

Hope for tigers grows as Thailand safeguards a key link in their habitat

Gloria Dickie 16 Dec 2025
A double-hooked blue shark.

Brazilian government serves shark to infants, prisoners and more: How Mongabay broke the story

Mike DiGirolamo 16 Dec 2025

West and Central Africa tackle coastal erosion

Adrienne Engono, Carolle Ahodekon, Charles Kolou, Christophe Assogba, Roland Klohi, Rosie Pioth 16 Dec 2025
Tree Aid’s efforts as part of the Great Green Wall has resulted in planting nearly 28 million trees in the region so far.

Navigating the complex world of reforestation efforts

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Dec 2025
The endangered African penguins (Spheniscus demersus)

South Africa considers site near African penguin colony for third nuclear power plant

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Dec 2025
Musofa arrived at the Javan Rhino Study and Conservation Area (JRSCA). Image courtesy of Ujung Kulon National Park Authority.

Indonesia’s 1st Javan rhino translocation ends in death, in conservation setback

Basten Gokkon 16 Dec 2025

‘Internet of Animals,’ a unified wildlife tracker, set to resume after hiatus

Abhishyant Kidangoor 16 Dec 2025
A pair of Galápagos yellow warblers. The increasing human population and the number of vehicles are impacting these birds and their behaviour. Image by Çaglar Akçay.

Noisy traffic is making Galápagos’ yellow warblers angry

Mongabay.com 15 Dec 2025
A logging worker stands on Mukula logs

New technologies offer hope in fight to save the world’s imperiled rosewoods

Katarina Zimmer 15 Dec 2025
Artisanal fishers pull in a fishing net.

Artisanal fishers in Liberia question benefits of new tracking devices from government

Edward Blamo 15 Dec 2025

In the Amazon, lack of transparency and corruption undermine the environment

Timothy J. Killeen 15 Dec 2025

Cyclone Ditwah takes heavy toll on Sri Lanka’s biodiversity-rich Central Highlands

Malaka Rodrigo 15 Dec 2025
A tree kangaroo.

Malaysian companies dominate PNG forest-clearance permits: report

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 15 Dec 2025
A cordycep dealer.

The vanishing pharmacy: How climate change is reshaping traditional medicine

Liz Kimbrough 15 Dec 2025

Birds, bugs and butterflies netted in global seizures by Interpol

Spoorthy Raman 12 Dec 2025
Herders cross the Lungasamba pass with their yaks. Image by Chyamtang-Kathmandu Welfare Society.

Nepal Indigenous leaders refile writ petition against hydropower project

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 12 Dec 2025

Study finds more ‘laggards’ than ‘leaders’ among high seas fisheries managers

Edward Carver 12 Dec 2025
Forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) inhabit the dense rainforests of Central Africa.

Top-down projects, exotic trees, weak tenure: Congo Basin restoration misses the mark

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 12 Dec 2025
A mother and infant Tapanuli orangutan were directly sighted in the Lumut Maju peat swamp forest in North Sumatra. Image by Junaidi Hanafiah/Mongabay-Indonesia.

Sumatran flood disaster may have wiped out a key Tapanuli orangutan population, scientists fear

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Dec 2025
Smoke from wildfires fills the air over Lake Tefé in the Amazon. Image courtesy of Miguel Monteiro.

The Amazon’s lakes are heating up at ‘alarming’ rate, research finds

Shanna Hanbury 11 Dec 2025

Elephant seals can recognize the voices of their rivals

Bobby Bascomb 11 Dec 2025

Global manta and devil ray deaths far exceed earlier estimates: Study

Keith Anthony Fabro 11 Dec 2025

Africa’s wildlife has lost a third of its ‘ecological power,’ study says

Malavika Vyawahare 11 Dec 2025
Mangroves within the Douala-Edéa Wildlife Reserve.

As fish catches fall and seas rise, Douala’s residents join efforts to restore mangroves

Ngala Chimtom 11 Dec 2025

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