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Barely making it: A conversation with ‘Eight Bears’ author Gloria Dickie

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Sep 2023
An uncontacted Indigenous community in Acre, Brazil.

New online map tracks threats to uncontacted Indigenous peoples in Brazil’s Amazon

Sarah Brown 27 Sep 2023
Seabirds on Redonda Island cliffs.

From rat-ridden to reserve, Redonda is an island restoration role model

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 27 Sep 2023
A herd of Asiatic elephants in Assam.

Video: Rice as a peace offering in India’s human-elephant conflict capital

Biswajit Das, Mongabay.com 27 Sep 2023
PFAS and other chemical pollution are posing a growing threat to the little auk (Alle alle) and other Arctic seabirds.

PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ harming wildlife the world over: Study

Sharon Guynup 26 Sep 2023
Participants in an eelgrass coring workshop gather sediment cores from an eelgrass meadow, which will be used to establish how long the carbon stored by eelgrass stays locked away.

First Nation and scientists partner to revive climate-saving eelgrass

Moira Donovan 22 Sep 2023

In São Paulo’s cityscape, community gardens prompt a new food paradigm

Sibélia Zanon 22 Sep 2023
Cattle in Pará state.

EU bill and new green policies spur progress on Brazil’s cattle tracking

André Schröder 21 Sep 2023
Rock gecko

For Vietnam’s rare reptiles, lack of captive populations may spell doom

Carolyn Cowan 21 Sep 2023
A Mojave Desert tortoise with an iButton attached to it.

How hot are the desert tortoises getting? iButtons help find the answer

Abhishyant Kidangoor 20 Sep 2023
A wildlife crossing over Highway 1 in Israel. Image by Hagai Agmon-Snir via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Can ‘road ecology’ save millions of animals?

Mike DiGirolamo 19 Sep 2023
Pierre Friedlingstein is a member of the IPCC and a climate professor.

‘We don’t have much time’: Q&A with climate scientist Pierre Friedlingstein

Sarah Brown 13 Sep 2023
Fisherfolk leader Lorene Gabayeron holding fish.

A Philippines NGO project aimed to protect villages from typhoons: What went wrong?

Keith Anthony Fabro 13 Sep 2023

Peru signs $20-million debt-for-nature swap with focus on Amazon rainforest

Maxwell Radwin 12 Sep 2023
Jerry Lotawa.

‘The forest is so much more than money’: Q&A with Fijian carbon project ranger Jerry Lotawa

Monica Evans 12 Sep 2023

Photos: Fiji’s first Indigenous-owned carbon credit project

Monica Evans 12 Sep 2023
Orphanage manager Claudia Andrione with older rhino orphans at the orphanage.

African Parks to rewild 2,000 rhinos from controversial breeding program

Jim Tan 11 Sep 2023
Young beaver grooming itself. Image courtesy of Cheryl Reynolds via Wikimedia Commons.

NASA satellites reveal restoration power of beavers

Jeremy Hance 11 Sep 2023
A sub-adult Bengal tiger on the river bank.

Sundarbans tiger and prey numbers rise amid Bangladesh conservation efforts

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 11 Sep 2023
Starfish on a tree reef raised out of the water.

Study finds old pear trees make for surprisingly rich reef habitats

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Sep 2023
An elephant in Cambodia.

A forest gave Cambodia’s captive elephants a new life. Now they’re paying it back

John Cannon 31 Aug 2023

Mongabay Explains: How high-tech tools are used for successful reforestation

Mongabay.com 30 Aug 2023

Off Mexico’s coast, world’s largest limpet is slipping into extinction

Sean Mowbray 30 Aug 2023
A rancher herds cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

How the Amazon’s ‘greatest devastator’ sold cattle to a Carrefour supplier 

Marina Rossi, Daniel Camargos, Hyury Potter 29 Aug 2023

Big promises to Indigenous groups from new global nature fund — but will it deliver?

Spoorthy Raman 29 Aug 2023
A red-tailed monkey in Mabira Central Forest Reserve.

Conservationists work to restore last remnant of a once-great Ugandan forest

Ryan Truscott 25 Aug 2023
Crowned eagles (Stephanoaetus coronatus), Uganda. Image by Rafael Vila via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Communities not the true threat to Mabira Forest: Q&A with Ugandan conservationist Achilles Byaruhanga

Ryan Truscott 25 Aug 2023
An orange-furred bat (Hipposideros fuliginosus) with dark grey wings being held up in the light against a dark background. Image courtesy of Diogo Ferreira.

Study: Tall trees and shade boost bat diversity on Africa’s cocoa farms

Sean Mowbray 17 Aug 2023
Katana Ngala in a boat during a coral restoration project.

‘All will be well’: Q&A with Kenyan fisher turned coral gardener Katana Ngala

Anthony Langat 17 Aug 2023

Can land titles save Madagascar’s embattled biodiversity and people?

Malavika Vyawahare 14 Aug 2023
Volunteers clearing plastic trash gathered from river barriers. Image courtesy of Sam Benchegjib.

For International Youth Day, three youth conservation success stories

Latoya Abulu, Laurel Sutherland 12 Aug 2023
A rhino in the orphanage at the Platinum Rhino project site.

World’s largest private rhino herd doesn’t have a buyer — or much of a future

Jim Tan 11 Aug 2023

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