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What it's like to live with tigers

What it’s like to live with tigers

Arathi Menon 9 Jul 2025
Small islands in Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler. 

Listings of Indonesian islands renew fears of privatization for coastal communities

Basten Gokkon 8 Jul 2025
A community member catching fish in the Fluvial Star of Inírida, where the Guaviare, Atabapo and Inírida rivers meet. Image courtesy of Camilo Díaz for WWF Colombia.

The guardians of the Amazon who work without pay — or fear

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Jul 2025
A young oil palm plantation in Sierra Leone next to community land. Image courtesy of Maja Hitij.

Two-year investigation confirms majority of community grievances in Socfin plantations

Victoria Schneider 7 Jul 2025
A woman chants slogans during a march towards the Palace of Justice during the celebrations of "La Pachamama," or Mother Earth Day in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. The group´s protest that coincides with “La Pachamama Day” is also directed against a provincial constitutional reform they claim is an attempt against their ancestral rights to lands that the state aims to use for lithium mining. (AP Photo/R

In Latin America, energy transition stirs a rise in human rights lawsuits

Aimee Gabay 4 Jul 2025
Riding through a locust swarm in Lekiji, Samburu County, Kenya.

Agencies race to prevent new food crisis as locusts return to northern Africa

Stephanie Achieng’ 3 Jul 2025

African Parks earns over $7 million from carbon credit sales in Benin and CAR

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Jul 2025

Study urges legal protection for Sulawesi’s endangered bear cuscus amid habitat loss

Basten Gokkon 3 Jul 2025

As Thailand’s fishing cats face habitat loss & conflict, experts seek resolution

Carolyn Cowan 3 Jul 2025
Young activists risk all to defend Cambodia’s environment

Young activists risk all to defend Cambodia’s environment

Andy Ball, Marta Kasztelan 2 Jul 2025

Ancient eco-friendly pilgrimage brings modern threats to Sri Lanka wildnerness

Malaka Rodrigo 1 Jul 2025
Banner image of buildings in New York, U.S., by Dietmar Rabich via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

104 companies linked to 20% of global environmental conflicts, study finds

Kristine Sabillo 30 Jun 2025
A dhole in India.

Nepal launches plan to boost science, awareness to save dholes

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jun 2025

After USAID cut, Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area aims for self-sufficiency

Solomon Yimer 27 Jun 2025

WWF’s top leader acknowledges reforms in wake of abuse allegations

David Akana 27 Jun 2025
Graphic image by Sara Arredondo – Baudó Agencia Pública.

Indigenous guards: The shield of Colombia’s Amazon

Daniela Quintero Díaz 26 Jun 2025

Nicaragua government tied to illegal land invasions in wildlife refuge, documents suggest

Maxwell Radwin 26 Jun 2025

In Ecuador’s Amazon, Big Oil exploits Indigenous communities in the absence of the state

Emilia Paz, Miño, Isabela Ponce 26 Jun 2025
Person kneeling in gold mine extraction site

Organized crime & gold trade are increasingly connected, report shows

Fernanda Wenzel 25 Jun 2025

Brazil’s Indigenous Akroá Gamella reclaim and restore their land, one patch at a time

Felipe Duran 25 Jun 2025

Panama boosts protections in the Darién Gap, but deforestation threats still loom

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jun 2025

UN calls out Indonesia’s Merauke food estate for displacing Indigenous communities

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jun 2025
The community-based management of Pirarucu (Arapaima gigas), a once-endangered fish whose populations have recovered by more than 600% after decades of overexploitation by commercial fisheries. The programme consists of zoning floodplain lakes into ‘reserves’ and ‘harvest’ areas. The programme has not only stabilised populations but led to an increase in the harvest as the mean size of captured fish has increased by almost 50% over the last two decades. Credit: Bernardo Oliveira / Instituto Juruá

In the Brazilian Amazon, sustainability policies clash with development goals

Timothy J. Killeen 20 Jun 2025
Perenco’s offshore platform in Gabon.

Report exposes safety complaints preceding fatal Perenco explosion in Gabon

Elodie Toto 19 Jun 2025
Boats sporting "No Dam" parade down the Salween River along the Thai-Myanmar border in March 2025. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Specter of dams and diversion looms over Southeast Asia’s Salween River

Gerald Flynn 19 Jun 2025
British journalist Dom Phillips on a 2022 trip to the Brazilian Amazon.

Finishing Dom Phillips’ posthumous book was ‘the hardest thing emotionally’ co-authors say

Karla Mendes 18 Jun 2025
A female elephant with her calf on agricultural land in northeastern Bangladesh.

Bangladesh plans new ‘protected area’ for elephants in its conflict-prone northeast

Abu Siddique 18 Jun 2025
Amazon rainforest. Credit: Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

‘World’s largest’ carbon credit deal under fire as Amazon prosecutors seek repeal

Carla Ruas 17 Jun 2025

Artificial nests help a rare Brazilian parrot bounce back

Mongabay.com 16 Jun 2025
Mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) in Virunga National Park.

‘Culture & nature are one’: Interview with Mudja Chief Bitini Ndiyanabo Kanane

Blaise Kasereka Makuta 13 Jun 2025
jaguar

Jaguar recovery unites Brazil and Argentina in conservation effort

Sarah Brown 11 Jun 2025
A great white shark in Mossel Bay, South Africa. Image courtesy of Esther Jacobs.

Death of tagged white shark on bather protection gear in South Africa sparks debate

Victoria Schneider 11 Jun 2025

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