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Netherlands pledges $500 million to help conserve tropical forests

David Brown 28 Oct 2026

For Australia’s Indigenous Desert Alliance, caring for Country starts with a story

Mike DiGirolamo 20 Oct 2026

Iwi and community-led effort return kiwi to Wellington for first time in over a century

Mike DiGirolamo 29 Sep 2026

The Home Planet Fund succeeds by giving directly to local communities

Mike DiGirolamo 22 Sep 2026
Installation of the technical equipment of the Congoflux tower. Image by Fiston Wasanga/CIFOR.

What conservation rumors reveal about climate projects in the Congo Basin (commentary)

Fergus O’Leary Simpson, Kristof Titeca, Papy Bambu, Eric Abanati, Andre Malekani 7 Sep 2026

Land rights and mangroves entwine in a Brazilian quilombo’s resistance

Carolina de Marchi 13 Aug 2026
Miyawai forest planting in New York, U.S.

Popular Miyawaki reforestation method lacks evidence, study finds

Annelise Giseburt 13 May 2026
Schaller with a peccary. Courtesy of the George B. Schaller Archive.

George Schaller: The field biologist who helped redefine conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Apr 2026
Starting out as a terrestrial ecologist and environmental educator, Jessie Panazzolo is a proud carer of people who care for Mother Earth. In 2019, she founded the global community, Lonely Conservationists, a pioneering platform that provides resources, advocacy, and a voice to budding and burnt-out environmentalists. Advocating for the need to provide care to members of an often forgotten care-based industry, Jessie's websites, books, podcasts, and workshops are used to help budding and burnt-out conservationists around the world.

The ‘unfair’ job of being a conservationist in a world working against nature

Mike DiGirolamo 7 Apr 2026
Wallace's Passage between Gam and Waigeo islands in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Meaningful conservation demands truth, not just facts, says political ecologist

Mike DiGirolamo 31 Mar 2026

How elephants experience time, and what this tells us about protecting them

Mike DiGirolamo 10 Mar 2026
Turnbull NWR - Waterfowl Surveys.

‘An epidemic of suffering’: Why are conservationists breaking down?

Jeremy Hance 2 Mar 2026
Lisa Morehead-Hillman and Leaf Hillman, both Karuk, celebrate the removal of the dams on the newly exposed reservoir floor in 2024. The former head of the Karuk Natural Resources Department, Leaf spent two decades working with other Indigenous groups, environmental organizations and government officials to bring back the Klamath River. Image courtesy of Kiliii Yüyan.

Kiliii Yüyan puts Indigenous ‘Guardians of Life’ and their planetary stewardship in focus

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Feb 2026
Product of the women's keeping initiative. Photo credit: Felipe Rodriguez

Conservation’s unfinished business

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Jan 2026

In Chocó, river defenders say race for energy transition threatens lifelines

Euan Wallace 8 Dec 2025
Whānganui River

Pioneering policies and rights-of-nature rules win World Future Policy Awards

Mike DiGirolamo 14 Oct 2025
Mountain gorillas by Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo for Mongabay.

Mongabay staffer shares the joy and impact of wildlife photography

Mike DiGirolamo 30 Sep 2025
A black-and-white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata), an endangered species of ruffed lemur.

Rights of nature concept creates room for life, but it’s still ‘fuzzy’: Study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 25 Sep 2025
Lolita Cabrera (Maya K’iche’), an Indigenous rights activist from Guatemala. Photo by Jamie Malcom-Brown/ Cultural Survival.

Bridging Indigenous and Western knowledge with science and radio

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 24 Sep 2025
Chrome Hill in Yorkshire, England. Image by Tim Hill via Pixabay (Pixabay free content license).

England’s rewilding movement is gaining steam, Ben Goldsmith says

Mike DiGirolamo 12 Aug 2025
Beach on Mioskon Island in Raja Ampat. Photo by Rhett Bulter/Mongabay.

Unrestricted funding is key for frontline conservation groups: Mongabay podcast

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2025
Beach on Mioskon Island in Raja Ampat. Photo by Rhett Bulter/Mongabay.

This nonprofit connects frontline conservationists with funders, catalyzing impact

Mike DiGirolamo 1 Jul 2025
A model of a woolly mammoth at the Royal Victoria Museum, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 2018. Photo by Thomas Quine, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

‘De-extinction’ isn’t just misleading — it’s dangerous, ecologist says

Mike DiGirolamo 6 May 2025
Blue dart frog. Image by Rhett Butler.

The currency of impact: Why nonprofit models might be the future of serious journalism

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Apr 2025

Nature protection is part of fundamental law in Amazon countries

Timothy J. Killeen 11 Apr 2025
Reserva Narupa, Ecuador. Photo by Rhett Butler/Mongabay.

Why the nonprofit newsroom model is vital to Mongabay’s impact

Mike DiGirolamo 8 Apr 2025

How ‘ecological empathy’ can help humans reconnect with nature and shape a better world

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 11 Mar 2025

Justice for people, animals and the environment are inextricable, Arcus Foundation says

Mike DiGirolamo 28 Jan 2025
Rainforest in Boven Digoel. Image by Ulet Ifansasti for Greenpeace.

How nature protection and inspiring art are key to planetary health & preventing pandemics

Mike DiGirolamo 26 Nov 2024

Rappahannock Tribe first in US to enshrine rights of nature into constitution

Liz Kimbrough 22 Nov 2024

Mongabay celebrates 25 years with Jane Goodall at sold out event

Mike DiGirolamo 15 Oct 2024

Indigenous perspectives and a fossil fuel phaseout treaty featured at Climate Week

Mike DiGirolamo 8 Oct 2024

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