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The Andean cat is a rare and endangered species highly specialized to life in the high Andes. It’s estimated that around 2,000 mature individuals, living in fragmented populations, are spread very thinly over a vast alpine expanse in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru.

Endangered Andean cat is imperiled by climate change and its solutions

Sean Mowbray 10 Jul 2025
Brazil is focused on creating a navigable channel along the 43 km Pedral do Lourenção — rock formations in the Tocantins River. Image courtesy of Antonio Cavalcante/Ascom Setran-PA.

Brazil court halts plan to blast 35-km river rock formation hosting endangered species

Shanna Hanbury 10 Jul 2025

Suspicions surround international legal trade in Galápagos iguanas

Spoorthy Raman 10 Jul 2025

Mining spill highlights need to protect Zambia’s vital Kafue River & its fish

Ryan Truscott 10 Jul 2025
A male pygmy hippo calf was born at Tanganyika Wildlife Park, in the U.S. state of Kansas, on June 26, 2025. Image courtesy of Tanganyika Wildlife Park.

Rare pygmy hippo born in Kansas zoo offers hope for endangered species

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Jul 2025
Some Amazonian communities have reported harvests declining by up to 80% due to El Niño.

Iconic Brazil nut crop plunges after extreme drought, skyrocketing prices

Fernanda Wenzel, Karla Mendes 10 Jul 2025
The Geoffroy's Tamarin can be found in the Darién rainforest. Image by Concep Arroyo via Pexels.

Inside Panama’s gamble to save the Darién

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Jul 2025

Scientists describe three new frog species from Peruvian Andes

Kristine Sabillo 10 Jul 2025
Mamirauá and Amanã sustainable development reserves. Image by Daniel Marques via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Community patrolling reduces crime numbers in the Amazon, study shows

Fernanda Biasoli 10 Jul 2025
King penguin in Antarctica. Photo by N Butler / Mongabay

Antarctic coalition wins €1m prize for safeguarding a fragile frontier

Mongabay.com 9 Jul 2025
Snow leopard approaches camera trap, Kyrgyzstan. Photo credit: Panthera-SAEF-NAS-UW.

Culture and spirit belong at the center of wildlife conservation (commentary)

Beth Allgood, John Waugh, Craig Talmage 9 Jul 2025
Tropical forests in places like Costa Rica (pictured) can be an important source of livelihoods by attracting nature-oriented tourists. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Nearly half of tree species in Mexico and Central America threatened with extinction

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jul 2025
What it's like to live with tigers

What it’s like to live with tigers

Arathi Menon 9 Jul 2025
Fishers at Ataúro Island, Timor-Leste. Image by Cymo Tome via Unsplash.

A new data hub helps small-scale fishers adapt to climate change

Lee Kwai Han 9 Jul 2025

Out-of-range albatross makes a highlight in the revival of seabird watching in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 9 Jul 2025
Corals and fish in Lighthouse Reef atoll, Belize.

Restoration, protection aim to save Belize’s coral reef from extreme heat and disease

Marco Lopez 9 Jul 2025
African elephant in Namibia. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Can conservation go viral in Africa? Peter Knights thinks so.

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Jul 2025
Paddle boarders over a coral reef in Indonesia.

Will temperate seas act as refuge for coral reefs? Not in time, study says

Edward Carver 8 Jul 2025
A northern cassowary

Forest connectivity key to preserving PNG’s spectacular rainforest birds: Study

Carolyn Cowan 8 Jul 2025
Small islands in Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler. 

Listings of Indonesian islands renew fears of privatization for coastal communities

Basten Gokkon 8 Jul 2025

The aardvark and the melon (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 8 Jul 2025
Bulborox orchid

Bangladesh to save critically endangered orchids and trees

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2025
The Nepalese paper plant is used to make the traditional lokta paper.

Nepal sees positive outcome from reforestation project using local knowledge

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 8 Jul 2025
Squat lobsters and soft coral in the deep sea.

U.S. federal agency clears ways for deep-sea mining — and companies are lining up

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Jul 2025
Drought in Bangladesh.

Droughts are a ‘slow-moving global catastrophe,’ report finds

Liz Kimbrough 7 Jul 2025
A community member catching fish in the Fluvial Star of Inírida, where the Guaviare, Atabapo and Inírida rivers meet. Image courtesy of Camilo Díaz for WWF Colombia.

The guardians of the Amazon who work without pay — or fear

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Jul 2025
Wild Frequencies

Mongabay India podcast ‘Wild Frequencies’ wins audio reporting award

Mongabay.com 4 Jul 2025
A woman chants slogans during a march towards the Palace of Justice during the celebrations of "La Pachamama," or Mother Earth Day in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. The group´s protest that coincides with “La Pachamama Day” is also directed against a provincial constitutional reform they claim is an attempt against their ancestral rights to lands that the state aims to use for lithium mining. (AP Photo/R

In Latin America, energy transition stirs a rise in human rights lawsuits

Aimee Gabay 4 Jul 2025
Red panda photographed in Nepal

The forest guardians along Nepal-India border leading red panda conservation

Deepak Adhikari 4 Jul 2025
An alert sign: a stranded marine specimen documented by IEPA scientists along the Amapá coast. The case is part of ongoing efforts to monitor aquatic fauna.

Seismic noise from oil companies threatens Amazon River Mouth marine life

Rudja Santos 4 Jul 2025
A hunter in Nagaland with a gun and barking deer. Image courtesy of Satem Longchar.

Traditional hunting shifts with access to cheap guns in India’s Nagaland: Study

Shradha Triveni 4 Jul 2025
Riding through a locust swarm in Lekiji, Samburu County, Kenya.

Agencies race to prevent new food crisis as locusts return to northern Africa

Stephanie Achieng’ 3 Jul 2025

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