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‘Same dangerous project’: Fury after Indonesia revives disputed mine

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 May 2026
Image of women look after their cattle on the fringes of Bardiya National Park.

Rural women at increasing risk of human-wildlife conflict in Nepal

Mongabay.com 21 May 2026

Nepal proposes park for ‘problem’ tigers amid rising conflicts

Mongabay.com 21 May 2026
Elephants (Loxodonta africana) in Malawi in 2006. Image by st georges via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Electric fences help farmers and elephants coexist in Zambian borderlands

Ryan Truscott 20 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

Organized crime adds to environmental destruction in the Amazon, report finds

Aimee Gabay 18 May 2026
ount Elgon, Uganda. Image by Rod Waddington via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Elephants return to Mount Elgon side of Uganda after four decades

Benjamin Jumbe 18 May 2026

War on Iran may threaten conservation of the world’s rarest big cat

Mongabay.com 18 May 2026

Tensions rise in DRC mining region as community leaders arrested over protest

Elodie Toto 15 May 2026

In Thailand, burned sugarcane plantations become traps for leopard cat cubs

Ana Norman Bermúdez 15 May 2026
Installing an IFAW-supported temporary solar fence in Chikomeni chiefdom, within the Malawi-Zambia Transfrontier Conservation Area, to deter human-elephant conflict. Image courtesy of IFAW.

Radio and satellite alerts help Zambian farmers live with dangerous wildlife

Ryan Truscott 15 May 2026
A captive Persian leopard in a British zoo, 2005.

Endangered Persian leopards persist across borders, despite hunters and landmines

Kayleigh Long 15 May 2026
Gray Koala Sitting On A Tree Branch

How AI could save koalas

Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 May 2026
Banner image: Farmers Anna Zimba and her husband Phaniso Zgambo stand in front of a cement granary. Around 30 such granaries have been built within the farming communities that are near to Kasungu National Park, offering greater protection to stored maize from hungry elephants. Image by Ryan Truscott for Mongabay.

As elephants return in eastern Zambia, communities adapt to coexistence

Ryan Truscott 13 May 2026

Wetland destruction blamed for rise in croc attacks on Indonesia’s Bangka Island

Mongabay.com 13 May 2026
First Nations elders watch the Canada Day festivities in Calgary, Alberta

New data platform aims to reduce conflicts between First Nations and businesses in Canada

Olivia Ferrari 12 May 2026

A law to help Bolivian farmers may actually increase land grabbing, critics warn

Maxwell Radwin 11 May 2026
Pair of flamingos in Marawah Marine Biosphere Reserve, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Image courtesy of Maitha Bughanoom.

Arabian Gulf’s fragile marine ecosystem threatened by current crisis (commentary)

Razan Al Mubarak 11 May 2026
A European wildcat in Scotland, where 46 captive-bred wildcats have been released as part of an ongoing reintroduction project. The cats are repopulating former habitat in the Cairngorms mountain range in the eastern highlands.

The European wildcat hovers between recovery and local extinction

Sean Mowbray 11 May 2026
Indigenous communities face changes to their ways of life due to the presence of illegal economies. Image courtesy of Amazon Watch.

Crime affects 32% of Amazon Indigenous areas, says study

Yvette Sierra Praeli 11 May 2026

Paraguay expanded a reserve in the Gran Chaco. Why is deforestation still rising there?

Maxwell Radwin 8 May 2026
The male elephant that recently died in Rangamati.

Rise in elephant killings reveals conservation gaps in Bangladesh

Abu Siddique 7 May 2026
“For mothers and young elephants, Dzanga Bai becomes something of a playground and a very safe place,” says Yvonne Kienast, project manager and head researcher of the Dzanga Forest Elephant Project. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Rethinking conservation through elephants’ sense of time and memory

Mongabay.com 6 May 2026
Bullet found on the ground of the Guasu Guavira Indigenous territory in Paraná, southern Brazil.

Killings related to land conflicts double in Brazil, most in the Amazon region

Shanna Hanbury 5 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
RJ Nichole Ledesma. Via Facebook.

RJ Nichole Ledesma, chronicler of unsettled ground on Negros Island, was killed last month. He was 30.

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 May 2026
Raman enjoys calling Newfoundland, Canada, home as she loves being surrounded by the ocean. Image courtesy of Vimal Simha.

How Spoorthy Raman tells the world’s wildlife stories from a desk in the middle of the Atlantic

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 1 May 2026
Cabe at Gunung Mulu National

Borneo’s GIGANTIC bat caves

Izzy Sasada 30 Apr 2026
Moreangels Mbizah tracking lions in Chizarira National Park, Zimbabwe. Image courtesy of the Whitley Foundation.

Conservationist wins top award to protect lions and people in Zimbabwe

Ryan Truscott 30 Apr 2026
A fisher displays a meager catch at Goi Creek, Nigeria, in 2013, following oil spills in the area in years prior. Image by Milieudefensie via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Marine resource conflicts in Africa revolve mostly around access: Study

Edward Carver 29 Apr 2026
A sign marking the boundary of the Atlantic Lithium mine entering Ewoyaa village. Image by Maxine Betteridge-Moes for Mongabay.

As Ghana eyes lithium future, affected communities face uncertainty

Maxine Betteridge-Moes 29 Apr 2026
Some of the Conservation Optimism team at their summit last year. Image courtesy of Conservation Optimism.

Young conservationists are building hope & optimism despite challenging times (commentary)

Qazi Hammad Mueen, Taras Bains, Maria Hashmi, Erfan Firouzi 28 Apr 2026

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