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Honduras declares ‘environmental emergency’ in Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve

Maxwell Radwin 13 Nov 2026
Shark meat on sale in Brazil is labeled as “cação,” a generic term whose true meaning is unknown to most Brazilians, surveys show.

Mongabay shark meat investigation shortlisted for two journalism awards in Brazil

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2026
A great fruit-eating bat (Artibeus lituratus). Image courtesy of Gledson Vigiano Bianconi.

Fruit bats emerge as unlikely allies in the Atlantic Forest restoration

Sibélia Zanon 13 Nov 2026
A sugar glider.

Animal cafes and exotic pet trade bring wildlife disease risks into public spaces

Arathi Menon 13 Nov 2026
Vivek Lanjawa capturing the natural gum coming out of the moringa tree

In India, volunteers map riverside trees to make a case for urban conservation

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2026

As incidents spike, Sri Lanka identifies 17 tuskers considered at high risk

Malaka Rodrigo 13 Nov 2026

Can an ancient European forest be saved while securing Poland’s border?

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2026

US renews push to open Pacific marine protected area to fishing

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Nov 2026
Farmers tend cropland in Mozambique. The 2015-2016 El Niño brought prolonged drought to southern Africa, reducing crop yields and impacting food security for millions of people. As climate change-induced drought intensifies, repeated annual crop losses lead to long-term economic hardships, impacting mental health including depression and anxiety, a set of conditions that has led to higher suicide rates among farmers in southern Africa.

Smallholder farmers struggle on El Niño frontline; will the world help?

Sean Mowbray 12 Nov 2026
Canoes in an inlet in Upemba National Park. Image by Justin Sullivan via Forgotten Parks.

Communities around DRC’s Upemba National Park say conservation comes at a cost

Dan Yessa 12 Nov 2026
Long-tailed macaques being held at Sookvannaseng Integrated's breeding farm in Bolikhamsai province, Laos. Image supplied by source.

Wildlife trade regulator CITES lifts sanctions against Laos, prompting conservation concerns

Gerald Flynn 12 Nov 2026
Cape fur seal glides through a kelp forest. Image courtesy of Helen Walne / Sea Change Project.

To boost conservation of kelp forests, start by naming them (commentary)

Swati Thiyagarajan, Helen Walne 12 Nov 2026

This ocean liner was the world’s fastest. It’s being sunk to make the largest artificial reef

Associated Press 11 Nov 2026

‘Developed nations are not honoring their commitments’: DRC negotiator on biodiversity finance

Latoya Abulu 11 Nov 2026

Genetic study describes two new species of Amazonian howler monkeys

Matthew Burkhart 11 Nov 2026
A 126-meter (413-foot), Dutch-flagged industrial fishing vessel in the Flanders Banks, a set of sandbanks off France and Belgium, in November 2024. There are two MPAs in Flanders Bank; both allow industrial fishing. Image © Lorraine Turci/Greenpeace.

Audit says Europe’s marine protected areas failing as 2030 deadline looms

Edward Carver 11 Nov 2026
The oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus), a species classified as critically endangered by the IUCN.

US companies apply to explore deep-sea mining in area bordering Pacific island states

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Nov 2026
Daybreak over a tributary of the Amazon River. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Brazil’s post-election challenge: What President Lula needs to change to keep the Amazon forest standing (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 11 Nov 2026

Funding shortages threaten search for critically endangered ‘Asian unicorn’

Mongabay.com 11 Nov 2026
Firefighting at Fingal, Tasmania in 2020.

Testing the next generation of wildfire tech: Interview with XPRIZE Foundation’s Andrea Santy

Abhishyant Kidangoor 11 Nov 2026

US brand StarKist suspends tuna sourcing from vessels accused of exploiting Indonesian fishers

Basten Gokkon 11 Nov 2026

In north India, women protect native bees in traditional home walls

Mongabay.com 11 Nov 2026
Proboscis monkey

Rising seas could reshape habitats for more than 40% of world’s land vertebrates

Carolyn Cowan 11 Nov 2026
A clay robber frog seen near the Boracéia Biological Station in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Investigation: Fungus may have killed Atlantic Forest amphibians in the 1970s and ’80s

Sean Mowbray 10 Nov 2026
An elephant in Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Beat it: Den Staat farmers in South Africa use drumming and fire to deter elephants

Bernard Chiguvare 10 Nov 2026
A Psychropotes dyscrita sea cucumber amid polymetallic nodules on the seafloor of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, located in the northeast Pacific Ocean. Image courtesy of Geomar Bilddatenbank via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

US stakes competing claims to Pacific seabed mining areas, challenging UN authority

Mike DiGirolamo 10 Nov 2026
Kazi Zenifar Azmiri participates in a duck satellite-tagging camp at Tanguar Haor, Bangladesh.

‘You need strong willpower’: IUCN’s Kazi Zenifar Azmiri on being a woman wildlife biologist

Usraat Fahmidah 10 Nov 2026
Conservationist Wayan Wardika in the farm.

A plan to save Bali’s vanishing fireflies takes root in organic farming

Mongabay.com 10 Nov 2026
Aerides crispa, an orchid species endemic to the Western Ghats, was among those rescued. Image © tspkumar via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Tens of thousands of orchids saved from road development in southern India

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Nov 2026
Seaweed farmer Jonalyn Rentuaya holds a line of dried seaweed. While many community members have left since the spill, Rentuaya remains, saying she is hopeful the sea can be rehabilitated. Image by Pippo Carmona for Mongabay.

A year after a wastewater spill in the Philippines, communities fight to save a dying sea

Pippo Carmona 10 Nov 2026
Rufous-naped Bellbird (Aleadryas rufinucha) in a tree in Papua New Guinea.

El Niño’s hidden toll on trees emerges years later in Papua New Guinea rainforest

Matthew Burkhart 9 Nov 2026
Forestry official looking at Asian elephant herd, Sarpang, Bhutan.

Rangers’ role must be built into biodiversity conservation commitments (commentary)

Madhu Rao, Nik Sekhran 9 Nov 2026

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