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Aerial photograph of the nickel processing facilities in Morowali.

Nickel expansion puts Indonesia’s biodiversity goals under pressure, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Aug 2026
George Bowey in an illegal cacao farm in the proposed Kwa National Park. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Cacao plantations in Liberia encroach into proposed Kwa national park

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2026
African savannah elephants, the biggest land animals on the planet, are socially advanced and highly intelligent mammals. Image by O’Connell’s & Rodwell.

On ivory, follow the trafficking networks and not the headlines (commentary)

Mary Rice 11 Aug 2026
Rokar Koang Commune, Kandal Province (Cambodia). Sand mining barges extract sand from the Mekong, May 2022.

Cambodia’s banned sand trade with Singapore appears to be back

Andy Ball 11 Aug 2026

Key Amazon cases reach Brazil’s Supreme Court following Lula’s defeats in Congress

Associated Press 11 Aug 2026
Ntoiye Kimorgo, a Maasai traditional healer and member of the Paran-affiliated Naretoi Group

Meet the Indigenous women restoring Kenya’s Mau Forest — and reshaping gender roles

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 11 Aug 2026
Whale slaughtering in Hvalfjörður, Iceland, July 2009. Image by Dagur Brynjólfsson via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Iceland to deport antiwhaling protest ship’s crew after they interfered with whale hunt

Alex Megerle 11 Aug 2026

Forest Restoration Solutions

11 Aug 2026
Adam Falk at Jahoo Gibbon Camp within Keo Seima Sanctuary in Cambodia. Photo courtesy of WCS.

What conservation looks like from the outside: A conversation with Adam Falk after his first year as CEO of WCS

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Aug 2026

Uzbekistan’s houbara releases serve hunting, not conservation, expert says

Naina Rao 11 Aug 2026
Mariano Cenamo. Photo by Renato Stockler / Folha Press

Mariano Cenamo, advocate for a sustainable Amazon bioeconomy, has died, aged 46

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Aug 2026
Indigenous representatives interviewed by Mongabay. Illustration by Nadiyah Suyatna.

‘This is what’s working’: Indigenous leaders on environment solutions in their communities

Latoya Abulu 9 Aug 2026

How Sri Lanka’s heirloom rice can preserve Indigenous farming and help manage disease

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 8 Aug 2026
Pokigron and Atjoni villages beside the Suriname River. Image courtesy of Wikimedia.

Suriname moves to evict Mennonites and illegal Amazon settlers

Maxwell Radwin 7 Aug 2026
An entrepreneur extracts banana fiber from the stems of banana plants in Pabna, west-central Bangladesh. Image by Md Hafijul Islam.

A banana byproduct transforms farm waste into profits in Bangladesh

Md Jahidul Islam 7 Aug 2026

How Mennonites in Belize built a land-buying machine taking over forests

Maxwell Radwin 7 Aug 2026

On the frontlines of conservation in Sumatra: Rangers safeguard Batutegi forest

Basten Gokkon 7 Aug 2026
Onions in jute sacks in Bogra.

Jute loses ground to plastic despite Bangladesh’s packaging law

Kamran Reza Chowdhury 6 Aug 2026
Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote. Photo courtesy of The Habari Network.

Environmental activists in Kenya concerned over billionaire’s planned oil refinery

Amina Chombo 5 Aug 2026

Malaysia implements total e-waste import ban to curb toxic trade

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2026

Investigation exposes Cambodia’s illegal wildlife trade linked to transnational crime

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2026

Mining threat persists in Raja Ampat, Indonesia’s ‘Amazon of the Seas’

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Aug 2026
Harvesting sorghum in Sudan in 2011. Image by Africa Renewal via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Global hunger levels fall but Africa still lags behind, UN report finds

Charles Mpaka 4 Aug 2026
Oriental pied hornbill

Carbon markets alone won’t keep Southeast Asia’s forests standing, study says

Carolyn Cowan 4 Aug 2026
Vietnam is now the top producer of robusta beans used in cheap and instant coffee blends, but it carries a huge cost for Vietnamese communities and forests. Image courtesy of Quinn Mattingly/Panos Pictures/Unfold Stories.

Cheap coffee is killing Vietnam’s priceless tropical forests (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 3 Aug 2026

Nicaragua’s gold boom is now encroaching on protected areas and Indigenous land

Maxwell Radwin 3 Aug 2026
Heavy machinery is used to excavate pristine beaches for diamond mining along South Africa’s West Coast. Image courtesy of Arthur Neumeier.

Documentary captures impacts of diamond mining along South Africa’s West Coast

Victoria Schneider 3 Aug 2026

Palm oil expansion reignites decade-old Indigenous land conflict in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong, Niken D. Sitoningrum 31 Jul 2026

US declines to protect endangered monkeys used in medical research

Bobby Bascomb 31 Jul 2026
Deforestation and the enteric fermentation from the cattle that supply its slaughterhouses comprise 97% of JBS' overall greenhouse emissions, according to the Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2022. Even so, these impacts were ignored by the company's climate targets. Image courtesy of Marcio Isensee e Sá/O Eco.

Before giant meat producer JBS expands to Nigeria, people deserve answers (commentary)

Felix Horne 31 Jul 2026
A basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus), an endangered species that uses Dogger Bank as a critical seasonal feeding ground and nursery. Image courtesy of Joost van Uffelen.

Wind farms join bottom trawlers and oil rigs in a protected North Sea sandbank

Christina Egerstrom 30 Jul 2026

Costa Rica banana plantation destroyed protected wetland, complaint alleges

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jul 2026

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