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A moray eel in the coral reefs

Can conservation change how the world sees the Strait of Hormuz? (commentary)

Iman Ebrahimi 9 Jul 2026

Lawmakers seek rights probe into Indigenous conflict at Indonesian timber firm

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jul 2026
Rothschild's giraffes at Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda. The Tilenga and Kingfisher fields lie close to the park. Image by Daryona via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Ugandan farmers sue TotalEnergies’ oil pipeline project in UK court

Elodie Toto 8 Jul 2026
Mohammed Abu Daya, right, collects data on a spinetail devil ray that fishers brought to shore in Gaza in 2015. Image courtesy of Mohammed Abu Daya and Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara.

The Gaza scientist still tracking manta rays from a war zone

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Jul 2026

NGO support can negatively impact allocation of Amazonian territorial rights, research finds

Aimee Gabay 6 Jul 2026
A greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus), pictured here in France.

War reveals the isolation of Iran’s scientists

John Cannon 6 Jul 2026

Dusky langurs start using new canopy bridge in Malaysia’s Penang Island

Naina Rao 6 Jul 2026

New data reveals surge in human rights abuses linked to transition minerals mining

Aimee Gabay 3 Jul 2026
A jimbu (Allium przewalskianum) in the Tibetan Plateau.

What’s jimbu? The herb that bolsters an iconic Nepali dish could also help save snow leopards

Bibek Bhandari 30 Jun 2026
A fisher offloads gear in front of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal operated by state-owned energy company PTT Public Company Limited at the Map Ta Phut Industrial Port in Rayong province, Thailand, on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. Once completed, the Burapa power plant will receive natural gas via pipeline from a terminal at the port. Image by Andy Ball for Mongabay.

Thai farmers fear water woes from planned LNG plant

Gerald Flynn 29 Jun 2026
Collage, Fritz Pinnow, contributor, and a soldier

Honduras taps armed forces to eliminate deforestation by 2029. Is it working?

Fritz Pinnow 27 Jun 2026

Old fire hoses become lifelines for Malaysia’s endangered langurs

Mongabay.com 23 Jun 2026
Mohammed Abu Daya, center, measures one of several spinetail devil rays (Mobula mobular) caught in Gaza in 2016, after spending time at sea collecting data with the fishers who caught them. Image by Wissam Nassar, ©Save Our Seas Foundation.

Studying giant devil rays through war in Gaza: Interview with Mohammed Abu Daya

Lyse Mauvais 22 Jun 2026
A herd of cattle in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state

Brazil curbs Amazon deforestation in Piripkura, but ranchers’ cattle linger

Aimee Gabay 22 Jun 2026
Mona Khalil in 2002 at in Tyre. Photo by Jihad Seqlawi/AFP/Getty Images

Mona Khalil, who left safety in Europe to protect sea turtles in Lebanon, was killed by an Israeli airstrike

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Jun 2026
The Tomachipán-Cumare road is an illegal trail used by dissidents as a strategic corridor. It has become an epicenter of violence. Image by Juan Carlos Contreras.

Death and exile: A war plagues Indigenous Jiw and Nukak in the Colombian Amazon

Pilar Puentes 19 Jun 2026
River near Penalosa in Colombia's Choco region. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

What’s at stake for the environment in Colombia’s upcoming election?

Aimee Gabay 19 Jun 2026

Monika Silva Koniuszek, 41, defended the everyday things corruption corrodes

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Jun 2026
Baboons at the village of Rooi Els, on the outskirts of Cape Town. Image by Barry Christianson for Mongabay.

In South Africa, a village learns to live with baboons — but it may be the exception

Barry Christianson 17 Jun 2026

In Rio Indio, farmers fight Panama Canal reservoir project — and displacement

Monica Pelliccia 16 Jun 2026
Wild horses gallop on the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Indian Reservation near McDermitt, Nevada. Image by AP Photo / Rick Bowmer.

U.S. defense spending on critical minerals surges in the last decade

Aimee Gabay 10 Jun 2026

Kenya’s former Chief Justice David Maraga arrested at protest of national park construction

Associated Press 9 Jun 2026
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

US set to hold latest oil and gas lease sale for Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Associated Press 5 Jun 2026
A rose-ringed parakeet carries a head of grain in Kathmandu Valley.

Nepal farmers struggle to access relief for wildlife crop damage

Suresh Bidari 5 Jun 2026
Phuon Keorasmey, 23, a prominent figure in Mother Nature Cambodia, is arrested on July 2, 2024. Image courtesy of Licadho.

Rights groups renew call to free jailed Cambodian environmental activists

Gerald Flynn 5 Jun 2026
Sok Pheap climbs a tree to tap resin.

Bengal tigers in Cambodia? Reintroduction plan raises questions

Arathi Menon, Andy Ball 4 Jun 2026
A Mongabay investigation team visited the Ucayali region of the Peruvian Amazon where Mennonites are illegally converting pristine forests in the Peruvian Amazon into agricultural land. Image by Romi Castagnino for Mongabay.

It’s time to engage Mennonite communities in reducing deforestation across Latin America (analysis)

Timothy J. Killeen 3 Jun 2026
Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) Critically endangered subspecies of the common chimpanzee. Guinea Conakry

Chimpanzees vs. a mega railway

Juan Maza 3 Jun 2026
Model of Jiaolong submersible at the Five-Year Achievements Exhibition. Image by N509FZ via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How we tracked China’s deep-sea mining fleet

Elizabeth Claire Alberts, Kara Fox 1 Jun 2026
Brooklyn Rivera. Photo courtesy of La Prensa,

Brooklyn Rivera, defender of Nicaragua’s Indigenous lands, dies in detention

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jun 2026
Banner image of Myanmar teak courtesy of EIA.

Luxury yacht maker Sunseeker pleads guilty to violating a US environmental law

Naina Rao 27 May 2026

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