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Amazon Mining Watch leverages artificial intelligence to map the impact of gold mining activities across all nine Amazonian countries.

A search engine for the planet opens to the public

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Apr 2026
Design by Grist / Carrie Johnson.

AI is a double-edged sword for Indigenous stewardship, say U.N. experts

Aimee Gabay 24 Apr 2026
Mountain gorillas continue to face serious threats as they lose habitat and are stalked by poachers who target them for their meat and body parts, or traffic their infants for zoos and entertainment.

Amid conflict and poaching, tech helps boost mountain gorilla numbers

Aimable Twahirwa 23 Apr 2026
Southern resident orcas, an endangered subspecies, are threatened by a decline in their food sources, noise pollution and vessel traffic.

AI tool listens for endangered orcas in real time to reduce human disturbance

Abhishyant Kidangoor 22 Apr 2026
Antipodean albatross (Diomedea antipodensis antipodensis) offshore from Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. Photo by Oscar Thomas (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How marine flyways could help save the world’s declining seabird population

Mike DiGirolamo 21 Apr 2026
Ivonne Kienast at Dzanga Bai

Studying the world’s largest gathering of forest elephants with sound and field observation

Rhett Ayers Butler, David Akana 19 Apr 2026
The cerulean warbler, a near-threatened species, breeds in North America and migrates thousands of miles to winter in the Andes Mountains of South America. It also makes stopovers all along the way. Image courtesy of Luke Seitz via Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Americas flyways atlas maps the routes of 89 at-risk migratory bird species

Adam Litchkofski 16 Apr 2026
A forest in Costa Rica. The country is considered a pioneer in a forest protection mechanism that has helped drastically reverse deforestation. Image by Rhett Butler.

Listening to forests reveals signs of recovery beyond tree cover

Abhishyant Kidangoor 16 Apr 2026
Misty morning in Borneo. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

10 forces that could reshape the future of the world’s forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Apr 2026
Koalas have been declared an endangered species in many states in Australia. The marsupial faces several threats to its survival. Image courtesy of Griffith University.

Koala on the road? AI signs could alert drivers in real time

Abhishyant Kidangoor 30 Mar 2026
Collage of a cloned jaguar

Lab-made jaguar: Is cloning a solution to extinction?

Julia Lima, Gustavo Fonseca, Letícia Klein 30 Mar 2026

A Kenyan ranger’s lasting imprint on Africa’s anti-poaching efforts

Lynet Otieno 27 Mar 2026
Elephants in Dzanga Bai in the Central African Republic. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Plenty of biodiversity data, but too few conservation answers

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Mar 2026

Flagship conservation platforms SMART and EarthRanger join forces in new tech partnership

Maxwell Radwin 17 Mar 2026
Massaha forest. Image by ZB.

How a community defended its ancestral forest from logging

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Mar 2026
A pack of lions in Botswana.

DNA fingerprinting convicts Zimbabwe lion poachers in landmark case

Spoorthy Raman 5 Mar 2026

Counting bats in the dark

Sam Lee 4 Mar 2026
A tigress in India.

New mapping approach predicts habitat availability for species conservation

Abhishyant Kidangoor 3 Mar 2026

Bringing Mongabay’s Amazon narco airstrip exposé to the stage

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Feb 2026
Asian tapir adult

In Thailand, old camera-trap photos shed new light on Asian tapirs

Carolyn Cowan 24 Feb 2026
Monarch Butterfly

Flying along with monarch butterflies

Abhishyant Kidangoor 24 Feb 2026

Scientists discover a new whale highway after tagging a pygmy blue whale by drone

Claire Turrell 18 Feb 2026
Stingray

Snooping on stingrays

Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 Feb 2026
Cattle stand near a wooded area smoldering in the Alvorada da Amazonia region in Novo Progresso, Para state.

Brazil gov’t builds map to help exporters comply with EU anti-deforestation rule

Karla Mendes 12 Feb 2026
Mangroves on Vanua Levu Island, Fiji. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

60 years of buried lessons on conservation projects from USAID have been saved

Mike DiGirolamo 10 Feb 2026
An AI image, posted on Facebook in October 2025, depicts a tiger in Africa; tigers are native to Asia.

AI-generated wildlife photos make conservation more difficult

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Feb 2026
A flowering rainforest tree in the Amazon.

Drone-mounted eDNA hints at richness of life in the rainforest canopy

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 Jan 2026
Farmers on a 1.6-hectare (4-acre) plot of oranges, avocado, maize and vegetables in Kenya.

Earth Rover Program seeks to track the world’s soil health

John Cannon 21 Jan 2026
Surviving mangroves after Odette storm hit a local beach in Barangay Cayhagan, Sipalay City, Negros Occidental, December 2021.

Democratizing AI for conservation: Interview with Ai2’s Ted Schmitt and Patrick Beukema

Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 Jan 2026
Rainforest rainbow in Sabah. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

AI-centered conservation efforts can only be ethical if Indigenous people help lead them (commentary)

McKalee Steen, Magali de Bruyn 9 Jan 2026
California redwood forest in December 2025. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

15 forces that could reshape conservation in the next 10 years

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Dec 2025

Sri Lanka looks to build disaster-resilient housing after devastating cyclone

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 27 Dec 2025

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