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The paving of the BR-319 highway would open the Amazon to further deforestation, affecting Brazil's rain cycle and endangering Indigenous communities. Image courtesy of the National Department of Transport Infrastructure (DNIT).

Brazil creates four Amazon reserves as plans to pave rainforest highway advance

Shanna Hanbury 22 Sep 2026

World Rhino Day: What does it take to save a species?

Mongabay 22 Sep 2026

Critics question oil and gas spending in Mexico’s proposed climate budget

Maxwell Radwin 22 Sep 2026
A herd of vicuña in Salar de Chalviri, Bolivia

Copper boom fueling energy transition puts Earth’s wildlands at risk

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 22 Sep 2026
Freediver and turtle

Tourism has the potential to reverse coral decline at Bali travel hotspot: Study

Carolyn Cowan 22 Sep 2026

Tight Brazil election challenges fragile gains for Amazon conservation

Fernanda Wenzel, Karla Mendes, Lucas Berti 21 Sep 2026
Beginning in the mid-2000s, poachers targeted elephants for their tusks, which were worth hefty sums on the black market. In some countries, including Zambia, governments and conservationists are trying to find new ways to combat poaching — like understanding motivations and trying to provide alternative, legal employment.

‘How did you come to be here?’ Study digs into origins of Zambian wildlife crime

Alex Megerle 19 Sep 2026
This infant Sumatran orangutan was separated from its mother when it was forcibly taken by hunters in the forest in Indonesia.

Five orangutans found in India face long road back home to Indonesia

Junaidi Hanafiah 18 Sep 2026
Empty chairs on stage at Sustainable Leather Forum, Paris, September 2026. Image by Elisângela Mendonça

Now exempt from EU deforestation rules, leather industry moves to repair reputation

Elisângela Mendonça 18 Sep 2026
A Tapanuli orangutan. Image © Bert Harris via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Tapanuli orangutans face mining, landslides, and fire threats — with no recovery plan

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Sep 2026
Pirarucu fish on a boat on the Jurua River. Image courtesy of Joao Campos-Silva.

Community-based conservation is a good climate investment in Brazil & beyond (commentary)

Ana Cristina Barros, Carlos Eduardo Viveiros Grelle, Katia Ribeiro Torres 17 Sep 2026
African dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis).

World’s smallest crocodile in high demand for bushmeat trade in Nigeria

Amir Sadiq 17 Sep 2026

Rescuers race against time as fires ravage orangutan habitat inside Indonesian oil palm concession

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Sep 2026

Exotic pet trade poses rising zoonotic disease risks in India

Mongabay.com 17 Sep 2026

Venezuela’s historic oil deal with the US reignites environmental, human rights concerns

Maxwell Radwin 16 Sep 2026

‘Big Cats’ highlights the remarkable power of photojournalism

Mike DiGirolamo 15 Sep 2026

Report links fishmeal production to decline in key species for Guinea-Bissau communities

David Brown 15 Sep 2026
A waste picker works amid thick smoke rising from the vast garbage mounds at Dhaka North City Corporation’s Aminbazar landfill in Savar. She was looking for plastic or other valuable recyclable items there.

Dhaka’s waste-to-energy project faces opposition from pollution-weary residents

Eyamin Sajid 15 Sep 2026
shark fin

Panama looks to science, fishers, and the law to protect its sharks and rays

Monica Pelliccia 14 Sep 2026
Participant in forest restoration in the Annamite mountains in Vietnam.

Biodiversity corridor payments boost household incomes in Vietnam’s Annamite mountains

Carolyn Cowan 14 Sep 2026

Lack of data hinders fight against environmental crimes in Angola, says environmentalist

David Tjyakala 11 Sep 2026
A pygmy marmoset.

Indigenous knowledge x tech in the search for a tiny Amazon monkey

Abhishyant Kidangoor 11 Sep 2026
The Amazon Fund finances a project by the Mamirauá Institute to support the sustainable management of pirarucu, one of the world’s biggest freshwater fish, in communities in the states of Pará and Amazonas. Image courtesy of Ricardo Oliveira/Mamirauá Institute.

Amazon Fund grantees fear a new funding freeze after Brazil’s election

Fernanda Wenzel 10 Sep 2026
Huge AI data center project blindsides water-stressed town in Brazil. Illustration by Giovana Abreu/Intercept Brasil.

Huge AI data center project blindsides water-stressed town in Brazil

Naira Hofmeister 10 Sep 2026
Sugi trees at Nikkō Tōshō-gū.

Japan wants to plant no-pollen trees to solve its hay fever crisis

Mongabay.com 10 Sep 2026
Mapuche Indigenous women prepare to commemorate the National Day of Indigenous People as part of celebrations of "We Tripantu," the Mapuche new year coinciding with the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, at the Original People's Ceremonial Park in Santiago, Chile, Monday, June 2023. Image by: AP Photo/Esteban Felix.

Indigenous land back in Chile brings mixed bag of environmental outcomes: Study

Aimee Gabay 9 Sep 2026
Donald Trump Jr. poses for photos following a morning of pheasant hunting at Hole in the Wall Lodge near Akron, Iowa, Saturday, October 27, 2017. Image by Jim Lee ©Sioux City Journal.

Vantara works with lobbyist tied to Trump Jr. and pro-hunting groups

Spoorthy Raman 9 Sep 2026
The western tragopan depends on undisturbed mountain forests for survival. Image courtesy of Jainy Maria.

Colorful Himalayan pheasants face a less rosy future under human pressure

Mongabay.com 9 Sep 2026
Lila Devi uses a traditional sickle to demonstrate how locals craft a jhapa.

Sickles, sarees and smoke: Women on the frontlines of Uttarakhand forest fires

Swati Thapa 8 Sep 2026
Chimpanzees at Mikeno Lodge in Virunga National Park, DRC. Image by Joseph King via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Indigenous peoples near Congo parks propose diverse solutions for the future of conservation

Blaise Kasereka Makuta, Latoya Abulu 8 Sep 2026

Indigenous territories maintain Amazon forest just as well as protected areas, study finds

Aimee Gabay 8 Sep 2026

Carbon credit financing emerges as Africa’s biggest bet for expanding clean cooking

Associated Press 8 Sep 2026

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