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A yellow-fronted canary from South Africa. The songbird tops the list of wild birds exported from Africa to Asia.

Nearly a million birds shipped from Africa to Asia in 15 years; canaries top the list

Spoorthy Raman 15 Apr 2026
A student goes to school wearing a mask in the haze that blankets the city of Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan in 2017.

Indonesia braces for possible ‘Godzilla El Niño’ as fire season escalates early

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Apr 2026
A pygmy long-fingered possum (Dactylonax kambuayai), photographed in 2023. Image courtesy of Jon Hall/mammalwatching.com.

‘Rediscovered’ species in Papua spotlight importance of Indigenous knowledge

John Cannon 15 Apr 2026
View of the landscape where the reforestation corridor project is located in eastern Madagascar.

A reforestation corridor in Madagascar offers a future for lemurs and locals

Marina Martinez 14 Apr 2026

In Brazil, unfinished water project leaves Indigenous villages without safe water

Felipe Medeiros, Adriana Amâncio 14 Apr 2026
In this Aug. 23, 2020 file photo, cattle graze on land recently burned and deforested by cattle farmers near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil. The cattle industry in Brazil is a major driver of destruction of the Amazon rainforest, a fact documented by the World Bank and numerous academic studies. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

EUDR is starting to steer company actions, despite slow progress: Report

Constance Malleret 14 Apr 2026
Phil Lyver (second from left) and Tuawhenua kaumatua (elders). Image by Manaaki Whenua/Landcare Research.

Māori knowledge shows climate change domino effects on forest food chains

Monica Evans 14 Apr 2026
A squat lobster in the deep sea.

Deep-sea wildernesses are more important than the promise of seafloor mining (analysis)

Andrew D. Thaler 14 Apr 2026
Schaller with a peccary. Courtesy of the George B. Schaller Archive.

George Schaller: The field biologist who helped redefine conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Apr 2026
Kute Hero (right) abandoned his traditional pastoralist livelihood for fishing after most of his livestock perished during a severe drought. Image by Christopher Clark for Mongabay.

In northern Kenya, a shifting Lake Turkana reshapes traditional livelihoods

Christopher Clark 14 Apr 2026
Of the 500 timber species growing in Bangladesh, boilam is one of the tallest. Image by Mohammad Minhaj Uddin.

Conservation efforts help an endangered dipterocarp spread roots in Bangladesh

Sadiqur Rahman 14 Apr 2026
Emmanuel de Merode at an airstrip near Salonga National Park in DRC in March 2026. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Can nature outcompete war in Eastern Congo?

Rhett Ayers Butler, David Akana 13 Apr 2026
Visitors report seeing kalij pheasants (Lophura leucomelanos), a forest-dependent native species, around the reforestation site. Image by Mprasannak via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

30-year Himalayan project shows power of community-led forest restoration

Shradha Triveni 13 Apr 2026

Colombia’s main river redraws the map of little-known night monkeys

Manuel Fonseca 13 Apr 2026

Repeated failures expose gaps in Indonesia’s nickel waste management

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Apr 2026
African elephant. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Living with wildlife, bearing the cost

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Apr 2026
Doug Allan. Royal Scottish Geographical Society

Doug Allan, wildlife cameraman who filmed animals in extreme environments

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Apr 2026

Venezuela’s new mining law could spell disaster for the Amazon, critics warn

Maxwell Radwin 10 Apr 2026
Kenyan Christians gather to worship under the trees. Image by AGWM Africa.

Christianity can be an ally for Kenyan conservation (commentary)

Peter Rowe 10 Apr 2026
Sunset over the tropical Pacific Ocean off Hawai‘i. The new study points to the climactic interconnectivity of the world’s warming oceans, where humid heat waves often originate, and faraway terrestrial landscapes, where humid heat waves can threaten public health.

Tropics take the brunt as hotter oceans drive large-scale humid heat waves: Study

Adam Litchkofski 10 Apr 2026
Palm trees, which make up 20% of the trees in the Amazon, grow mixed among various tree and grass species in the southern Peruvian Amazon lowlands of Manu National Park.

Novel research finds unexpected climate resilience in up to 36% of Amazon forest

Justin Catanoso 10 Apr 2026
Waved albatross (Phoebastria irrorata). Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Half of seabirds are declining. Protecting marine flyways could help save them

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Apr 2026

Giant otters, river sentinels, now listed as threatened migratory species

Gustavo Faleiros 9 Apr 2026
Little Rock Creek Lake, with El Capitan in the distance, in the Bitterroot Range, Montana. Image courtesy of Magicpiano via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Invasive plant drives ecological change in America’s gigantic Selway–Bitterroot Wilderness (commentary)

Lyle Lewis 9 Apr 2026
A Mediterranean moray (Muraena helena). Image ©gianfrs via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Creating the North Atlantic’s largest MPA network: Interview with Azores President José Manuel Bolieiro

Maria José Mendes 9 Apr 2026
Coffee and cocoa production around Virunga National Park are seen by some proponents of the Green Corridor as activities that can help reduce pressure on forest resources. In Salonga National Park, officials are already encouraging cocoa and coffee cultivation as alternative livelihoods for surrounding communities. Photo: Virunga National Park.

From Virunga to Kinshasa, the DRC embarks on a bold conservation gamble

David Akana 9 Apr 2026
Flowers of the lue billy goat weed (Ageratum houstonianum), locally called neelo gandhe. Image by The Cosmonaut via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5 CA).

Invasives take over native plant spaces in Nepal’s cities

Bibek Bhandari 9 Apr 2026
Kushki (male) is one of the last surviving Asiatic cheetahs from northeastern Iran’s Miandasht Wildlife Refuge.

War on Iran disrupts efforts to save the Asiatic cheetah, world’s rarest big cat

Kayleigh Long 9 Apr 2026
Fishers in Dunga on the shores of Lake Victoria. Image by Achieng’ Otieno for Mongabay.

On the shores of Lake Victoria, a youth-led campaign to revive a wetland

Achieng’ Otieno 9 Apr 2026
This plant is classified as a halophyte, or capable of surviving in high-salinity environments. Image by Vengolis via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

In Indonesia, a coastal vine used as medicine now signals ecological decline

Christopel Paino 9 Apr 2026

Chile’s ancient conifers host underground web of life that sustains forests: Study

Sofia Moutinho 9 Apr 2026
In 2023, women working at the Salala plantation told Mongabay their managers often tried to pressure them into sex. Ashoka Mukpo/Mongabay.

Second progress report shows little action on World Bank redress plan at Liberian plantation

Victoria Schneider 9 Apr 2026

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