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Sulphur-crested cockatoo on street lamp in Bondi, Sydney, Australia. Image by Sardaka via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Urban wildlife is changing from the inside out (commentary)

João Guerreiro 9 Jun 2026
Male and female Kongobatha spinosistyla in North Queensland. Image by Maurice Allan.

Three new ‘planking’ praying mantis species found in Australia and Papua New Guinea

Megan Strauss 8 Jun 2026
A view of Kigali, Rwanda’s capital. The book notes that Rwanda is one of the few African countries with official guidance on urban forests. Image by Pacifique Gatete via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

As African cities heat up, a new book argues trees are part of the solution

David Akana 29 May 2026
Yap conducts canopy bridge education. Image by Wong Hui Yi/Langur Project Penang.

Building bridges for human-wildlife coexistence: Interview with Yap Jo Leen

Philip Jacobson, Isabelle Leong 27 May 2026

Wild animal consumption on the rise in Central Africa, study finds

David Akana 21 May 2026
A female langur with her baby crosses an artificial canopy bridge called Numi’s Crossing along Lembah Permai road in the Tanjung Bungah area of George Town, Penang Island. Image by Mohd Rasfan / AFP.

In Malaysia, a bridge helps endangered langurs and humans coexist

Philip Jacobson, Isabelle Leong 20 May 2026
Gray Koala Sitting On A Tree Branch

How AI could save koalas

Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 May 2026

In Nepal’s capital, invasive flora crowd out native species

Mongabay.com 14 May 2026
The Indian pitta is vulnerable to collisions with glass surfaces in India. Image by Sinijose Jose via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

In India, few are tracking birds colliding with glass in buildings

Mongabay.com 5 May 2026

Suspected chemical pollution threatens Nairobi Nat’l Park & key water sources

Elodie Toto 5 May 2026
Raffles’ banded langur, courtesy of Andie Ang.

Singapore’s population of Raffles’ banded langur has doubled

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 May 2026
Children suffering from gastroenteritis due to heat at a hospital in Hyderabad, Pakistan, in May 2024. Image © Pervez Masih/AP Photo.

In Pakistan’s deadly heat, low-cost cooling tools offer a lifeline for pregnant women

Shanna Hanbury 23 Apr 2026

Vaupés River contamination identified near rapidly expanding Amazonian town

Aimee Gabay 21 Apr 2026
The cerulean warbler, a near-threatened species, breeds in North America and migrates thousands of miles to winter in the Andes Mountains of South America. It also makes stopovers all along the way. Image courtesy of Luke Seitz via Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Americas flyways atlas maps the routes of 89 at-risk migratory bird species

Adam Litchkofski 16 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

Compost, racoons and sea turtle predation in Costa Rica

Bobby Bascomb 25 Mar 2026

Deadly Indonesia landfill collapse a ‘serious warning’ of systemic failure

Naina Rao 20 Mar 2026
Tourists visit the Kusuma Bangsa Park in Nusantara. Image by Niken Sitoningrum/Mongabay Indonesia.

Indonesia court orders release of withheld impact studies on new capital

Niken D. Sitoningrum 19 Mar 2026
Flooding in HaT Yai, November 2010. Image by Government of Thailand via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Hat Yai’s floods are a warning for cities built against nature (analysis)

Pakamas Thinphanga, Richard Friend 19 Mar 2026
Ibama (Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources) conducting an operation to combat illegal gold mining in Indigenous territory in the state of Pará, Brazil.

Mining rush for critical minerals threatens Amazon land reform settlements

Sam Cowie, Cícero Pedrosa Neto, Isabel Harari 9 Mar 2026
Abu Dhabi port. Courtesy of the European Space Agency (ESA)

The power of cities over the seas

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Mar 2026
Kathy Jefferson Bancroft

Kathy Jefferson Bancroft, guardian of a stolen lake

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Feb 2026

Light pollution could worsen allergy seasons, new study suggests

Bobby Bascomb 5 Feb 2026

Australia’s land-use squeeze

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Jan 2026
Kirtida Mekani. Photo courtesy of Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame

Kirtida Mekani, Singapore’s tree lady, has died, aged 66

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jan 2026
Cathy Kuttle drive slowly through the Cape Town suburb of Noordhoek on a rainy winter evening.

Helping Cape Town’s toads cross the road: Interview with Andrew Turner

Barry Christianson 8 Jan 2026
The Indigenous Macaquiño community on the banks of the Vaupés River in Colombia’s Vaupés region. Image by Aimee Gabay/Mongabay.

Urban sprawl and illegal mining reshape a fragile Amazon frontier

Aimee Gabay 6 Jan 2026
A worker carries coal in buckets to burn bricks at a brick field in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Brickmaking keeps eating farmland as Bangladesh misses clean-build goal

Abu Siddique 2 Jan 2026
A spectacled cobra in India.

Rapid urbanization, habitat loss are forcing the snakes out in Dhaka

Tasmin Era 17 Dec 2025
kathmandu aerial view

Nepal’s cities must plan for resilience and inclusion for the future & nature (commentary)

Hitesh Raj Pant 11 Dec 2025
Where cars go to die: an auto graveyard.

A ‘Life After Cars’ can provide huge human health and environmental benefits

Mike DiGirolamo 2 Dec 2025
Tourists Bharat Lake Nepal

New riverside lake in Nepal wins hearts, but faces government opposition

Suresh Bidari 28 Nov 2025

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