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An illegal araucaria logging station uncovered inside the Mangueirinha Indigenous Territory, in Brazil’s Paraná state. Image courtesy of IBAMA.

Brazilian police arrest Indigenous chief accused of logging endangered trees

Shanna Hanbury 8 Sep 2025

‘Independent’ auditors overvalue credits of carbon projects, study finds

Carla Ruas 8 Sep 2025
In this file photo, men and women carry bananas and fish from the port in Leticia, Colombia.

How climate change could affect production of the world’s favorite fruit, the banana

Fernanda Biasoli 8 Sep 2025
A structure built by one of the isolated communities in Loreto, Peru. Image courtesy of ORPIO

Isolated tribes under threat as Peru votes down Yavarí Mirim Indigenous Reserve

Maxwell Radwin 8 Sep 2025

Guatemala closes oil field, increases security in Maya Biosphere Reserve

Maxwell Radwin 5 Sep 2025
Gurung women harvesting foxtail millet. Image by Sonam Lama Hyolmo/Mongabay.

New report recommends ways to increase women’s access to funding

Aimee Gabay 5 Sep 2025
A cocoa pod opened by hand. Exclusion of smallholder farmers from markets, a potential consequence of the EUDR, could result in loss of income leading to environmental harms but also exacerbate existing problems including child labor on cocoa farms. “These risks are known,” says Rainforest Alliance’s Fanny Gauttier. “That's something that we have highlighted many times.”

EUDR implementation comes laden with potential unintended consequences

Sean Mowbray 4 Sep 2025

Report sees $20B in revenue for Amazon REDD+ projects despite unmet promises

Carla Ruas 4 Sep 2025
Elephant in Madikwe, South Africa. Image by Debbi via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Elephant culling plan in South Africa faces backlash over welfare concerns

Shanna Hanbury 4 Sep 2025

Report links world’s top banks to social & environmental harms from mining

Aimee Gabay 3 Sep 2025
A Sumatran rhino with a four-day-old calf. This critically endangered species is the smallest of all rhinos, with an estimated 34-47 individuals surviving in the wild.

Latest rhino assessment finds two species recovering, but three continue to decline

Spoorthy Raman 3 Sep 2025

Indigenous Khasis struggle to sustain forest-based livelihoods in Bangladesh

Sadiqur Rahman 3 Sep 2025
Statue of Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt. Photo by Rhett Butler/Mongabay.

To save humanity and nature we must tackle wealth inequality, says Cambridge researcher

Mike DiGirolamo 3 Sep 2025

New model reveals hidden dynamics of Indonesia’s booming songbird trade

Basten Gokkon 2 Sep 2025

Scientists reconfirm rare shark sightings after 50 years in PNG

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Sep 2025
Dust on the floors of residents’ houses in Teluk Sepang, Bengkulu.

Censured Sumatra coal plant blamed for sickening children in Indonesia’s Bengkulu

Elviza Diana 1 Sep 2025

‘Let’s understand the value of the forest’ says Liberia’s Silas Siakor

Ashoka Mukpo 1 Sep 2025
A woman walks through a forest in Liberia. Image by Open Government Partnership via Flickr (CC BY-2.0).

Liberia has a new plan to protect its rainforests. Can it work?

Ashoka Mukpo 1 Sep 2025
Image courtesy of Burung Indonesia/Jihad.

On Java’s Mount Slamet, two former trappers find new calling as bird protectors

L. Darmawan 31 Aug 2025
Black grouper at Palancar Reef, Cozumel, Mexico.

Cruise industry expansion collides with Cozumel’s coral reef

Fritz Pinnow 30 Aug 2025
Long Moh community member Kuleh and SAVE Rivers staff Samban Tugang at carbon workshop April 2025. Image courtesy of Fiona McAlpine / Borneo Project.

Carbon offset markets are unfair to communities in Borneo & beyond (commentary)

Fiona McAlpine 29 Aug 2025
A protestor sums up INC-5.2’s failure with the slogan: “Consensus kills ambition.”

As plastics treaty talks break down, are there paths to a breakthrough?

Charles Pekow 29 Aug 2025
Banner image of an Encephalartos horridus in a greenhouse under natural sunlight. Image courtesy of Takashi Nobusawa/Hiroshima University.

Scientists decode the unusual silver-blue color of an ancient South African plant

Kristine Sabillo 29 Aug 2025
A rhino in South Africa.

Tracking rhino horn trade: Interview with International Rhino Foundation’s Nina Fascione

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 Aug 2025
Critically endangered African forest elephants act as seed dispersers in the rainforest, taking the seeds far, far away from the mother plants.

As forest elephants plummet, ebony trees decline in Central Africa’s rainforests

Spoorthy Raman 29 Aug 2025
A camera trap image of a southern red muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak) in Temburong.

Brunei built Southeast Asia’s longest bridge. What does this mean for wildlife?

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 29 Aug 2025

Thailand’s living floral heritage takes root in a park of rare and ancient trees

Ron Emmons 28 Aug 2025
Flowers and leaves of the Vanda thwaitesii.

After 160 years, an old drawing leads scientists to a long-lost Sri Lanka orchid

Malaka Rodrigo 28 Aug 2025
Shark meat is prepared for distribution at CEAGESP in São Paulo city,

Mongabay shark meat exposé sparks call for hearing and industry debate

Philip Jacobson, Karla Mendes, Lucas Berti 26 Aug 2025
Natalie Kyriacou holding a Tasmanian devil. Image courtesy of Natalie Kyriacou.

The honesty, humor and wonder of ‘Nature’s Last Dance,’ from Natalie Kyriacou

Mike DiGirolamo 26 Aug 2025
A white rhino in a community conservation area with tourists in the background. Image courtesy of James Ward / Rewild Safaris.

The safari industry’s ‘conservation-washing’ is a growing problem (commentary)

Tom LaRock 26 Aug 2025
Gray parrot. Image by L.Miguel Bugallo Sánchez via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

African gray parrots get complete protection in DR Congo

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Aug 2025

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