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Researchers identify 22 key areas for protecting struggling giant otters

Geraldine Santos 4 Jun 2025
Fish in Samoa.

Samoa’s new marine spatial plan protects 30% of the country’s ocean

Claire Turrell 4 Jun 2025
Sakda Khayankitphuanphon took reporters into the old mining tunnels to see the fluorite that Universal Mining seeks to extract from the mountains. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Mining company returns to haunt Thailand’s Karen communities as resistance mounts

Gerald Flynn 4 Jun 2025
women working in a field in Uganda

Peril and persistence define the path of Africa’s conservationists

Orji Sunday 3 Jun 2025
Emergent rainforest tree in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler for Mongabay.

The Tropical Forest Forever Facility needs more local and Indigenous focus (commentary)

Joe Eisen 3 Jun 2025
An Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea). These long-lived tortoises are found on both Assomption island and the neighboring island of Aldabra, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Image courtesy of Celina Chien/ Overstories.

Green groups oppose Qatari luxury resort near pristine world heritage site

Malavika Vyawahare 3 Jun 2025
Legal counsel with the 27 residents who were arrested at the North Maluku Regional Police headquarters, May 19

Police in Indonesia’s Halmahera Island charge 11 farmers in latest nickel flashpoint

Rabul Sawal 3 Jun 2025

EUDR risk classifications omit governance & enforcement failures, critics say

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Jun 2025

Critically endangered chameleon discovered outside its known habitat in Madagascar

Rivonala Razafison 3 Jun 2025

Brazil set to blast 35 km river rock formation for new Amazon shipping route

André Schröder 2 Jun 2025
Nontoxic dye released from an artificial upwelling experiment off the Canary Islands. That experiment, set to last weeks, ended after just one day when the pump failed. “To most of us that proved … the technical readiness of this approach is not there,” says Michael Sswat, a postdoctoral researcher at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, who was part of the research team.

Marine artificial upwelling, problematic climate solution slow to advance

Sean Mowbray 2 Jun 2025
Lions in Mozambique.

After terror attacks, Mozambique nature reserve faces ‘new reality’

Ashoka Mukpo 2 Jun 2025

A fragile win as Indonesia cancels high-risk mine permit after court ruling

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Jun 2025

Ecological crisis in Brazil’s Pantanal fuels human-jaguar conflict

Júlia Moa 2 Jun 2025

After 15 years, Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court blocks road upgrade in national park

Malaka Rodrigo 31 May 2025
Valmik Thapar. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters

Valmik Thapar, India’s tiger man, died on May 31st, aged 73

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 May 2025
Student from Gales Point primary school planting mangrove seedlings inside bamboo tube.

From local planting to national plan, Belize bets on mangrove recovery

Ruth Kamnitzer 30 May 2025
Dom Phillips interviewing Mariana Tobias, from the Macuxi people, at the Raposa Serra Do Sol Indigenous Territory, in northern Roraima state, in the Brazilian Amazon. © Nicoló Lanfranchi.

Dom Phillips’ posthumous book centers on collaborative work for saving the Amazon

Karla Mendes 30 May 2025

US pioneers restoration of deep water corals damaged by country’s worst oil spill

Liz Kimbrough 30 May 2025
Two lithodid crabs exhibiting mating behavior while perched on top of a basaltic rocky outcrop with an anemone (Liponema sp.) and a white sponge in the background.

Only a tiny % of the deep seafloor has ever been visually observed: Study

Edward Carver 30 May 2025
Areca leaves and plates.

With areca leaves and rice bran, Bangladesh replaces single-use plastic tableware

Abu Siddique 30 May 2025
A reticulated giraffe (Giraffa reticulata)

USAID cut curbs hopes at Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area

Solomon Yimer 30 May 2025

Mining companies use legal loopholes to move forward without environmental licensing off the Brazilian coast

Maurício Angelo and Lucio Lambranho (Observatório da Mineração) 30 May 2025
Under the new rules, the Brumadinho mining dam, which collapsed in 2019, killing 272 people, would be licensed under a simplified process. Image © Fernanda Ligabue/Greenpeace.

Ahead of hosting COP30, Brazil is set to weaken environmental licensing

Fernanda Wenzel 29 May 2025
A Javan gibbons (Hylobates moloch)

After years of silence, Indonesia moves to assess its iconic wildlife

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 29 May 2025
Residents of the village of Baraca gather at a mangrove restoration site.

Guinea-Bissau’s grassroots efforts offer a blueprint for global mangrove restoration (commentary)

Abdoulaye Ndiaye 29 May 2025
Polar bears near Churchill. Image by Kt Miller / polarbearsinternational.org.

Manage people more and bears less, say Indigenous elders in world’s ‘polar bear capital’

Gabe Allen 29 May 2025

Fighting back against Guinea-Bissau’s illegal chimpanzee trade

Yannick Kenné 29 May 2025
IBAMA raid to fight illegal mining in the Yanomami Indigenous Land in Roraima in December 2023. Image courtesy of IBAMA.

Amazon illegal gold mines drive sex trafficking in the Brazil-Guyana border

Elizabeth Oliveira 29 May 2025

US funding shortfall halts Nepal’s rhino census, sparks debate over methods

Deepak Adhikari 29 May 2025
Gopi Warrier in Kerala in May 2025. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Rigorous, not righteous: How Gopi Warrier helped build Mongabay India’s newsroom

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 May 2025

A new mall for the village: How carbon credit dollars affect Indigenous Guyanese

Clarissa Levy/Agência Pública 28 May 2025

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