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A worker repairs used electronic equipment at an electronics repair shop in Kuala Lumpur, 2017.

Malaysia clamps down on toxic trade with total e-waste import ban

Ashley Yeong 20 Jul 2026
Women and youth entrepreneurs in Kenya receiving training in clean cooking techniques. Image courtesy of UNDP Kenya.

Clean cooking expands at record pace in Africa, but lags behind population growth

Ini Ekott 20 Jul 2026

White-rumped vulture returns to a Cambodian sanctuary after a decade’s absence

Naina Rao 20 Jul 2026
Following FDA rangers during arrest of a migrant cacao worker in Grand Gedeh, Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Something strange is happening in Liberia

Ashoka Mukpo, Juan Maza 19 Jul 2026
A collage featuring Ashoka Mukpo, a Mongabay reporter, and a cocoa bean

Why are forests vanishing in southeastern Liberia?

Juan Maza, Ashoka Mukpo 18 Jul 2026
Ronald Sanabria. From his Facebook account.

Ronald Sanabria sought to make tourism more sustainable

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Jul 2026
Packaging cocoa beans in Grand Gedeh, Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

The vanishing forests on Liberia’s cocoa frontier

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Jul 2026

From Mardi Gras to marsh: Glass Half Full turns party glass into Louisiana coastline

Liz Kimbrough 16 Jul 2026
Aerial view showing cattle confinement in the Brazilian Amazon, one of the ecosystems affected by illegal deforestation. Image courtesy of Fernando Martinho/Goldman Environmental Prize.

Meat giant JBS silently ditches bolder environmental targets in latest review

Shanna Hanbury 16 Jul 2026
A tannery in Cáceres, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Image © Ricardo Funari/Lineair/Greenpeace.

European Commission excludes leather from landmark deforestation law

Shanna Hanbury 16 Jul 2026

War heightens isolation of Iran’s scientists

Mongabay.com 16 Jul 2026
Baobab (Adansonia digitata) in Mapungubwe National Park, Limpopo.

Like ‘climbing Kilimanjaro’ without help: Interview with a Limpopo conservationist

Bernard Chiguvare 15 Jul 2026
The Katas Raj Temples and the pond, 2014.

No corporation can buy the ‘right to destroy’: Interview with activist Raja Waseem Ahmed

Muhammad Talal 15 Jul 2026
Drone capturing a raptor in flight over the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

How Brazil’s federal fiscal policy hinders Amazon Rainforest conservation (commentary)

João Gabriel de Araujo Oliveira 15 Jul 2026

How a spiritual practice is preserving Benin’s mangroves

Mongabay.com 15 Jul 2026
Investigators with Agent C Wildlife Initiative documented a baby pangolin available for sale in Vientiane's Dongmakkhay Market. Pangolins are repeatedly sold for their meat, scales and sometimes for making wine. Image supplied by Agent C Wildlife Initiative.

Laos’s illegal wildlife shops keep growing despite enforcement, investigators find

Gerald Flynn 15 Jul 2026

Ecuador’s Amazon coffee farmers get ahead of Europe’s deforestation rules

Sibélia Zanon 14 Jul 2026

Small-scale farming, logging eclipse megaprojects as top threats to Tapanuli orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Jul 2026
A Chile-run anti-drug operation seized 108 tons of controlled substances impregnated in wood planks from sawmill trees sourced in the Bolivian Amazon and other regions. Image courtesy of APG Noticias.

How narcos moved 108 tons of timber infused with drugs from Bolivia to Chile

Iván Paredes Tamayo 13 Jul 2026
The Matarbari coal power plant and deep seaport.

Fossil fuel-based mega projects displace locals in Bangladesh, pushing youth out

Eyamin Sajid 13 Jul 2026

Pangolin habitat at risk in Pakistan

Mongabay.com 13 Jul 2026
A red ruffed lemur in Madagascar.

Official tied to commercial breeding to represent US at global wildlife trade meeting

Spoorthy Raman 11 Jul 2026
Tanjung Priok Customs officers inspect pangolin scales intended to be smuggled to Cambodia. Image courtesy of Tanjung Priok Customs.

Suspect charged and manhunt continues over Jakarta 3-ton pangolin scales case

Anggita Raissa 10 Jul 2026
The rescued tiger at Khulna Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center. Image courtesy of the Bangladesh Forest Department.

Bangladesh gets ready for its first release of tiger rescued from poachers’ trap

Abu Siddique 10 Jul 2026

Lawmakers seek rights probe into Indigenous conflict at Indonesian timber firm

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jul 2026
Indigenous peoples sing and dance as they participate in an opening ceremony as part of the People's Summit offsite from the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 12, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. Image by AP Photo/Fernando Llano.

A fraction of promised climate money reaches Amazon communities: Interview with Latimpacto’s leaders

Beverley Choo 8 Jul 2026

Thai rubber smallholders race to meet new EU deforestation rules

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2026
Anti-poaching officers and Forest rangers in Pu Mat

‘A targeted, data-driven approach’: Interview with Vietnam’s antipoaching unit

Campbell Rusden 7 Jul 2026
Patches of deforested land observed from the air within the Kakataibo Indigenous Reserve. Image courtesy of AIDESEP.

Roads, loggers close in on an unprotected refuge for isolated Kakataibo

Aimee Gabay 7 Jul 2026
Yellow-billed kites are found across Africa and play an important role in keeping ecosystems healthy as one of the most common scavengers.

Belief-based use increasing threat to yellow-billed kite, an important African scavenger

Sean Mowbray 7 Jul 2026
A greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus), pictured here in France.

War reveals the isolation of Iran’s scientists

John Cannon 6 Jul 2026

Dusky langurs start using new canopy bridge in Malaysia’s Penang Island

Naina Rao 6 Jul 2026

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