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Mozambique safari operator wins conservation award at COP17

David Akana 23 Oct 2026
Banner image: The Javari River where it forms the border between Peru and Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

IUCN’s Madhu Rao on the world’s protected areas: Progress, pressures and the race to 2030

David Akana 21 Oct 2026
Sheep in pasture at Flag Hill Farm in Vershire, VT. Image by Erik Hoffner for Mongabay.

Sustainable silvopasture is popular with US farmers despite waning financial supports

Erik Hoffner 21 Oct 2026

Mozambique’s Maputo National Park showcases biodiversity and shelters migratory birds

Wilson Odhiambo 20 Oct 2026
Atlantic blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) in Louisiana

Recycled glass offers a potential new tool to restore a vanishing coastline

Fernanda Biasoli 20 Oct 2026
Wisye Sahambangung, front, and other women from Rhizopora work in a muddy mangrove area in Sarawet on Sept. 2, 2026. Image courtesy of Wisye Sahambangung.

Indonesian women cash in on mangrove restoration: Interview with community leader Wisye Sahambangung

Annisa Dinulislam 17 Oct 2026
Nyaradzo Auxilia Hoto rose from a frontline ranger with Zimbabwe’s Akashinga to a leadership role as a sergeant before becoming a biodiversity officer. Photo courtesy of Akashinga.

The uplifting story of one of Zimbabwe’s pioneering women rangers

David Akana 16 Oct 2026
Bioluminescent mushrooms (Mycena chlorophos) at Hachijo Botanical Park, Japan. Image by self via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

World Mushroom Day: From food to plastic replacement

David Brown 15 Oct 2026
A Peruvian artisanal fisher poses with a jumbo flying squid. Image courtesy of National Society of Artisanal Fishing of Peru (SONAPESCAL).

From paper parks to lasting protection, here’s what works in marine conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Oct 2026

Two rare pregnancies spark hope for Sumatran rhinos — but also concerns about inbreeding

Basten Gokkon 14 Oct 2026
Project team members prepare juvenile bull kelp for transplanting in Clayoquot Sound. Image courtesy of Graeme Owsianski/Redd Fish Restoration Society.

First Nation-led effort replants kelp forests in Clayoquot Sound

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Oct 2026
Darwin’s rheas

Rheas are back to Chilean Patagonia

Julia Lima, Romi Castagnino 10 Oct 2026

Sri Lanka elephant found with a gunshot wound. How can tuskers be protected?

Malaka Rodrigo 9 Oct 2026
Northern sea otters (Enhydra lutris ssp. kenyoni) in a kelp forest in Strathcona

Science, Indigenous knowledge team up to restore Canada’s kelp. (Sea otters help, too.)

Jennifer Cole 6 Oct 2026

‘There could be local extinction’: The fight to protect Indonesia’s orangutans as El Niño fuels fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Oct 2026

How to grow $25K into community-led conservation: Interview with Tanzania’s Mwambao

David Akana 2 Oct 2026

Wind turbine taller than the Eiffel Tower aims to boost German electricity production

Associated Press 1 Oct 2026

Indonesia’s new peatland agency faces questions over what it will do differently

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Oct 2026
Baird's tapirs (Tapirus bairdii) are the largest native land mammals in Central and South America. They are endangered and habitat loss is one of its biggest threats. Image by user Rhododendrites via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

In Panama’s Darién forest, Indigenous communities test a new way to fund conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Sep 2026
Adult southern mountain yellow-legged frogs in the headstarting facility at the Los Angeles Zoo.

New releases a leap forward for endangered frog in southern California

Ruth Kamnitzer 30 Sep 2026
Lions (Panthera leo). Image by Julie Larsen © Wildlife Conservation Society.

Turning vulnerable livestock into four-eyed beasts helps protect them in Zimbabwe

Cecil Dzwowa 30 Sep 2026
Jaco Muller. Image courtesy of the Rhino Momma Project.

Jaco Muller turned his 15-year-old son’s idea into 197 rhino births

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Sep 2026
Eastern Grey Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus) with a joey in its pouch on the beach at Trial Bay in New South Wales, Australia.

As Australia’s kangaroo numbers rise, record cull renews calls for other control methods

Cooper Williams 28 Sep 2026

Cheetah cubs at Prague Zoo are doing well after a period of strong storms and their mother’s illness

Associated Press 25 Sep 2026
GCF and team members observe giraffes in the capture funnel.

First Angolan giraffes return to Bicuar National Park after 25 years

Alex Megerle 23 Sep 2026

In Peru’s high Andes, restoring ancient ecosystems could help protect water security

Euan Wallace 23 Sep 2026

The Home Planet Fund succeeds by giving directly to local communities

Mike DiGirolamo 22 Sep 2026
Freediver and turtle

Tourism has the potential to reverse coral decline at Bali travel hotspot: Study

Carolyn Cowan 22 Sep 2026
Rainbow over the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Britain’s Prince William reveals finalists for Earthshot environmental prize

Associated Press 18 Sep 2026
anteater Argentina

A giant anteater’s return in Argentina offers a case for letting nature restore itself

Sean Mowbray 17 Sep 2026

Indigenous leader Raoni receives palliative care in Brazil after cancer diagnosis

Associated Press 15 Sep 2026
Saruni, a male giant ground pangolin

Electric fences that kill and the Maasai trying to save Kenya’s last giant pangolins

Pauline Kairu 15 Sep 2026

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