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A ray swims over seagrass in Australia.

As ocean acidification ramps up, experts call for speedy ocean protection

Sean Mowbray 26 Jun 2025
Tyler Kartzinel’s research highlighted the gaps in DNA reference databases in tropical biodiversity hotspots.

DNA sequencing to meet global biodiversity goals: Interview with Tyler Kartzinel

Abhishyant Kidangoor 25 Jun 2025
Indigenous leaders at the first congress in Brazzaville. Image by Maribel Arango.

First congress of forest basin leaders results in call for direct financing

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 24 Jun 2025
bird Colombia

In Colombia, bird-watching brings tourism and a love for conservation

Charlie Cordero 23 Jun 2025

Red tape fouls a coastal community’s fight to protect fjords in Chilean Patagonia

Ana Cristina Alvarado 23 Jun 2025
Industrial trawlers and small-scale fishers compete for space near the port of Dakar in Senegal.

UN Ocean Conference makes progress on protecting marine waters

Edward Carver 19 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
A southern white rhino explores its surrounding after translocation from South Africa to Rwanda's Akagera National Park. Image © Gael Vande Weghe.

Seventy southern white rhinos arrive at their new home in Rwanda from South Africa

Graeme Green 10 Jun 2025

Traditional bug oil finds modern value through new research in the Amazon

Sarah Brown 13 May 2025
A fall armyworm rests upon a maize leaf it has just destroyed

Solutions needed as climate change & land use fuel global crop pest menace

Sean Mowbray 7 May 2025
An Inga leader from the Yunguillo reserve, José Homero Mutumbajoy is the human rights and peace coordinator for OPIAC. Image courtesy of José Homero Mutumbajoy.

‘Colombia’s Amazon peoples provide solutions’: Interview with José Homero Mutumbajoy

Latoya Abulu 1 May 2025
Split shot in the waters of San Benedicto, Mexico. Credit: Enric Sala/National Geographic Pristine Seas

Protecting coastal waters may be the best investment you’ve never heard of, says Kristin Rechberger

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Apr 2025

Agroforestry can reduce deforestation, but supportive policies matter, study finds

Carolyn Cowan 21 Apr 2025
Scarecrow to protect a fields and crops. Image by Tulsi Rauniyar for Mongabay..

Photos: The volunteers standing guard at one of Nepal’s human-wildlife frontiers

Tulsi Rauniyar 9 Apr 2025
A tagged vulture in Zambia as part of ongoing population monitoring efforts. Malasa says she hopes the findings of the recent report can galvanize conservation support for vultures across Africa. Image courtesy of BirdWatch Zambia.

Conserving vultures in Southern Africa may provide substantial economic gain: Report

Sean Mowbray 7 Apr 2025
Roots and nodules of a lab-grown yam plant. Image courtesy of Asrat Amele / IITA.

Farmers turn to living ‘yam sticks’ to grow their crop and spare the forest

Mark Hillsdon 3 Apr 2025
Harvested American ginseng.

As US agroforestry grows, federal funding freeze leaves farmers in the lurch

Sarah Derouin 1 Apr 2025
mangrove conservation

Colombia’s women clam collectors protect Pacific mangroves and mollusks

Catherine Ellis 1 Apr 2025
Using renewable energy solutions like solar to power irrigation and other processes along the agriculture value chain is helping countries in the region to lower production costs by avoiding high operations and maintenance costs associated with diesel-powered generators like here in Rwamagana, a district from Eastern Rwanda. The World Resources Institute (WRI)is currently supporting initiatives that integrate renewable energy into agricultural value chains in Africa. Image by Aimable Twahirwa.

Smallholder agriculture blossoming with the use of renewables in Africa

Aimable Twahirwa 31 Mar 2025

Sri Lanka calls for five-minute surveys to identify crop-raiding animals

Malaka Rodrigo 11 Mar 2025

In the drylands of northern Kenya, a ‘summer school’ for young researchers

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Mar 2025
A herder minding his goats in Isiolo County, Kenya. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Pastoralists know every landscape has a history: Interview with Gufu Oba

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Mar 2025
Stephen Kenduiwo holds a round green seed up to the camera. Image by Patrick Shepherd/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Seeds of 19 African tree species added to Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Anne Nzouankeu 25 Feb 2025
Masked Tree Frog (Smilisca phaeota) in the Ecuadorian Choco.

An Ecuadorian hotspot shows how forests can claw back from destruction

Ruth Kamnitzer 24 Feb 2025
A bottom trawler works in Dutch waters of the North Sea.

Lawsuit is latest push to curb bottom trawling in protected European waters

Edward Carver 13 Feb 2025
frailejon tree paramo Ecuador

In Ecuador, a mountain shrub could hold the key to restoring a precious ecosystem

Christina Noriega 5 Feb 2025
The San Gerónimo community in the nearby province of Oxapampa, department of Pasco. Image by Guillermo Carlos Gómez via Wikimedia Commons.

Early results suggest communities stop logging during basic income pilot project

Sonam Lama Hyolmo and Latoya Abulu 27 Jan 2025
Janet Nyakiru Abwoli, Kasese district, Uganda. Image by Innocent Kiiza for Mongabay.

In Uganda, a women-led reforestation initiative fights flooding, erosion

Innocent Kiiza 23 Jan 2025

Birdwatchers rally behind endemic hummingbird, spurring conservation movement in Mexico

Tamara Blazquez Haik 23 Jan 2025

Amazon communities reap the smallest share of bioeconomy profits

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Jan 2025
A tiger-legged monkey tree frog

IPBES report highlights Indigenous & local knowledge as key to ‘transformative change’

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 27 Dec 2024
Sani Lodge run by the Kichwa Indigenous community at Sani Isla. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Sani Isla: A Kichwa community that found alternatives to oil in conservation and tourism

Ana Cristina Alvarado 24 Dec 2024

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