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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’s new licensing accord is a gateway to forest destruction via the BR-319 highway (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 20 Aug 2025
Equipment used in deep-sea mining. Photo by Richard Baron/The Metals Company

Deep-sea mining is a false solution to our challenges (commentary)

Pradeep Singh 19 Aug 2025
A jackdaw feeds from various bowls containing food.

Are crows really street smart? Science confirms the genius of corvids (commentary)

Deyatima Ghosh 19 Aug 2025
White rhyolite spires on the shores of Jodogahama Beach in Miyako, Japan. These spires are estimated to be around 45 million years old and form a natural version of a Japanese garden. This beach is part of Sanriku Fukkō National Park. It was incorporated into this national park as a reconstruction effort following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Image by Mike DiGirolamo for Mongabay.

Don’t quit: A podcaster’s charge to listeners & fellow humans (commentary)

Mike DiGirolamo 15 Aug 2025
Kavantissa, a regal tusker considered Sri Lanka’s largest elephant, stands more than 3 meters (10 feet) in height. He faces the risk of being killed due to his habit of roaming close to human settlements. Image courtesy of Gimantha.

It’s time to update the language of human-wildlife interactions (commentary)

Tracie McKinney 14 Aug 2025
Flooded forest in the Amazon

Remedy frameworks can improve sustainable forestry certifications & right past wrongs (commentary)

Marc Jessel 11 Aug 2025
Although operations like Green Shield are useful, experts say that they are not the solution for combatting illicit activities in the Amazon in the long run, as activities such as illegal mining continue to expand. Image courtesy of the UAE Ministry of Interior.

Formalizing small-scale gold mining can reduce environmental impacts & crime (commentary)

Robert Muggah 7 Aug 2025
Deforestation for oil palm plantation in Borneo, Indonesia.

Reversing deforestation relies on resource ownership (commentary)

Douglas Southgate and Brent Sohngen 5 Aug 2025
A muntjac.

Bhutan’s new farm fencing program could be costly for wildlife (commentary)

Sangay Wangchuk 4 Aug 2025
Hoatzin in Peru. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

We need a revolution in environmental communications (commentary)

Enrique Ortiz 1 Aug 2025
The Indigenous Tompoun community celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day in 2024. Image courtesy of Tompoun Culture.

How Cambodia’s new environmental code undermines Indigenous peoples’ rights (commentary)

Rithy Bun 30 Jul 2025
A woman prepares a field for paddy farming after harvesting foxtail millet.

Indigenous knowledge & agroecology must be at the center of food system transformation (commentary)

Juan Lucas Restrepo 29 Jul 2025
A critically endangered Philippine pangolin and its pup. The demand for their scales has resulted in Pangolins being the most trafficked mammals.

To save pangolins, we need to change the narrative (commentary)

Araluen Schunmann 28 Jul 2025
Mangrove forest in the Philippines. Image courtesy of the National Blue Carbon Action Partnership (NBCAP).

Blue carbon ecosystems are key for protecting the Philippines from climate shocks (commentary)

Jurgenne H. Primavera / Rona Joy Loma / Emily Richardson 22 Jul 2025
Mamiraua reserve. Image courtesy of Thiago A. Lacerda via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Community patrols can slash environmental crime by 80% (commentary)

Caetano Franco 21 Jul 2025
A view from Saint George on the island of Antigua and Barbuda. Image by docshiznit via Wikimedia Commons.

Small island nations provide big environmental solutions but need finance partners (commentary)

Gaston Browne 15 Jul 2025
Data from transmitters helped the team identify corridors that are critical for the movements of the thick-billed parrots, which are endangered birds endemic to Mexico.

How drug cartels destroy the last habitat of Mexico’s thick-billed parrot (commentary)

Andrew-James Anthony 14 Jul 2025
Snow leopard approaches camera trap, Kyrgyzstan. Photo credit: Panthera-SAEF-NAS-UW.

Culture and spirit belong at the center of wildlife conservation (commentary)

Beth Allgood / John Waugh / Craig Talmage 9 Jul 2025
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with his environmental and climate change minister, Marina Silva on his first day in office on Jan. 1.

Why is Lula still silent on Brazil’s ‘Bill of devastation?’ (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 8 Jul 2025
Eurasian brown bear courtesy of Magnus Lundgren/Swedensbigfive.org.

Sweden needs a rights of nature legal framework (commentary)

Emil Siekkinen 26 Jun 2025
Every humphead wrasse has unique facial markings with distinctive black lines around the eyes and squiggly patterns on the face.

Vanishing giants: The Indian Ocean’s biggest fish need saving (commentary)

Melita Samoilys 25 Jun 2025
Amazon rainforest in Ecuador. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

On World Rainforest Day, the world confronts an unprecedented wave of tropical forest loss

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jun 2025
Humpback whales in French Polynesian waters. The intensity and duration of marine heat waves could have widespread effects on marine biodiversity, increasing the likelihood of species displacement and mortality. Image by Toby Matthews / Ocean Image Bank.

Whales still aren’t ‘eating all the fish’ (commentary)

Peter Corkeron 18 Jun 2025
A coal miner walking barefoot through heaps of coal dust at a coal mine and processing plant, Jharkand, India. Image courtesy of Rajesh Kumar Singh / Climate Visuals Countdown.

At COP30 & beyond, the fight for climate justice must end corporate impunity (commentary)

Pablo Fajardo 17 Jun 2025
A toco toucan in a Brazilian forest. Experts confirm the fact that homogenous plantations, or monocultures, have a much lower diversity of species when compared to the environment that has been destroyed to make way for them. Image by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay.

It’s time to pay the true value of tropical forest conservation (commentary)

André Aquino / João Rezende 12 Jun 2025
Sailboat at night. Image by Johannes Plenio via Unsplash.

Stars & lighthouses: Marine conservation that blends Pacific Islander wisdom and Western knowledge (commentary)

Angelo Villagomez 11 Jun 2025
A moray eel in the coral reefs of the Daymaniyat Islands, Oman.

When our oceans can’t breathe, a sea change is needed (commentary)

Fred Boltz / Jeffrey Griffin 9 Jun 2025
A tokay gecko.

Environmental crimes are often hidden by ‘flying money’ laundering schemes (commentary)

Andrea Crosta 6 Jun 2025
Exploratory oil drilling in the Amazon. Image courtesy of Colin Dunlop.

Why Brazil should abandon its plans for oil and gas in Amazonia (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 5 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
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
Image courtesy of Lucy Calderón/EcoLogic Development Fund.

Conservation tech without Indigenous knowledge and local context has limits (commentary)

Marco Acevedo 28 May 2025

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