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A snow leopard in the Himalayan landscape.

Himalayan catfight looms as tigers, leopards venture into snow leopard land

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Feb 2023
Common bluestripe snapper in the Coral Triangle. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Machine learning makes long-term, expansive reef monitoring possible

Basten Gokkon 23 Feb 2023
Ismail in Mount Gede, Indonesia, cutting dead twigs to be used as firewood.

Updated guide gives practical advice for buyers of tropical forest carbon credits

John Cannon 9 Feb 2023
A black bear stands onshore looking at four tundra swans on the water.

Peatland restoration in temperate nations could be carbon storage bonanza

Jeremy Hance 9 Feb 2023
A leopard cub on a tree branch.

With climate change, Nepal’s leopards get a bigger range — and more problems

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Jan 2023
A puffin flying.

For threatened seabirds of NE Atlantic, climate change piles on the pressure

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 Jan 2023
Mangrove restoration.

Biodiversity, human rights safeguards crucial to nature-based solutions: Critics

Sahana Ghosh 18 Jan 2023
A tiger leaping.

The tiger in the snow: Cameras capture abundance of life in a Himalayan refuge

Abhaya Raj Joshi 13 Jan 2023
An Arctic fox.

Protecting canids from planet-wide threats offers ecological opportunities

Sean Mowbray 10 Jan 2023
A clownfish in the Red Sea. Image by Cinzia Osele Bismarck via Ocean Image Bank.

On climate & biodiversity, where are we, post-COP15? (commentary)

Zoë Quiroz Cullen 4 Jan 2023
Illustration of a Stellar's sea cow.

Extinct sea cow’s underwater engineering legacy lives on today, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Dec 2022
A young jaguar.

Brazil’s Pantanal is at risk of collapse, scientists say

Sharon Guynup 20 Dec 2022
A boat in a salt marsh.

Global study reveals widespread salt marsh decline

Sean Mowbray 19 Dec 2022

Mongabay’s Conservation Potential series investigates: Where do we need to protect biodiversity?

Liz Kimbrough 19 Dec 2022
Residents of Hanging Site.

In Sierra Leone’s fishing villages, a reality check for climate aid

Ashoka Mukpo 15 Dec 2022
Wildebeest in the savannas.

Counterintuitive: Large wild herbivores may help slow climate change

Tim Vernimmen 13 Dec 2022
A green lizard.

Threatened cloud forests key to billions of dollars worth of hydropower: Report

John Cannon 13 Dec 2022
An orange-tip butterfly.

Climate change is hammering insects — in the tropics and everywhere else: Scientists

Jeremy Hance 9 Dec 2022
A howling wolf

Animating the Carbon Cycle: Earth’s animals vital allies in CO2 storage

Mark Hillsdon 8 Dec 2022
Peatland restoration.

Scientists plead for protection of peatlands, the world’s carbon capsules

John Cannon 7 Dec 2022
A bee on a flower.

Human justice element is key to stemming biodiversity loss, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Dec 2022
Yellow eared parrot, (Ognorhynchus icterotis) photographed in Jardin, Antioquia, Colombia. Image by Félix Uribe via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Biodiversity credit market must learn from carbon offset mistakes (commentary)

Francisco Benedito, Mariana Sarmiento 30 Nov 2022
A harpy eagle.

Bird declines boost case for transformative biodiversity agreement in Montreal

John Cannon 29 Nov 2022

Despite pledges, obstacles stifle community climate and conservation funding

John Cannon 23 Nov 2022
Lowland forest

Myanmar communities decry disempowerment as forest guardians since 2021 coup

Carolyn Cowan 17 Nov 2022
A tiger-legged monkey tree frog.

Humans are decimating wildlife, report warns ahead of U.N. biodiversity talks

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Oct 2022
Fishmongers in the Ndji village market get by with very little. Image by Yannick Kenné.

“Largest of its kind” dam in Cameroon faces backlash from unimpressed fishmongers

Yannick Kenné 13 Oct 2022
Elizabeth Azzuz and Margo Robbins, leaders of the Cultural Fire Management Council, have been helping Yurok Tribal members burn their land to improve the growth of basket materials and other traditional plants. Photo by Jane Braxton Little for Mongabay

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, five inspirational conservation stories in the U.S.

Latoya Abulu 10 Oct 2022
A Charonias theano butterfly

Trouble in the tropics: The terrestrial insects of Brazil are in decline

Jeremy Hance 5 Oct 2022
Endangered black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes). Image courtesy of Kimberly Fraser/USFWS.

Will the Uinta Basin Railway derail U.S. climate change efforts? (commentary)

Sammy Herdman 3 Oct 2022
A right whale and its calf.

U.S. charts course for adopting ropeless fishing to reduce whale deaths

John Cannon 21 Sep 2022
Fire near the Manicoré River in Amazonas state in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

How close is the Amazon tipping point? Forest loss in the east changes the equation

Liz Kimbrough 20 Sep 2022

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