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The vanishing trail of Sri Lanka’s iconic tuskers calls for urgent action

Malaka Rodrigo 21 Mar 2025

Conservationists, fishing industry find balance on protecting African penguins

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Mar 2025
A ceremonial glacier graveyard in Iceland.

With climate change, cryosphere melt scales up as a threat to planetary health

Sean Mowbray 21 Mar 2025
Artisans fix nets at Chikombe Beach ahead of their trip to Mbenje Island – . Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

Fish-tracking robot aims to make fishing more sustainable in developing nations

Charles Mpaka 20 Mar 2025
Image of a painted woolly bat. Image by Abu Hamas via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Scientists cherish win against online ornamental trade in bats

Spoorthy Raman 20 Mar 2025

Brazil declares environmental emergency ahead of 2025 fire season

Shanna Hanbury 20 Mar 2025
A still from Turtle Walker.

How one researcher walked thousands of miles along India’s shores to conserve sea turtles

Priyanka Shankar 20 Mar 2025
Giant quiver tree, Namaqualand, South Africa. Image by Leonie Joubert.

Bleak future for Karoo succulents as desert expands in South Africa

Leonie Joubert 20 Mar 2025
In a vibrant green forestscape, a man in a blue t-shirt and gumboots stretches his arms across the dark bole of an enormous, extravagantly buttressed tree.. Image courtesy Andrea Bianchi.

‘3,000 year-old’ trees in Tanzania are new species

Ryan Truscott 20 Mar 2025

Ecuador must improve conditions for uncontacted Indigenous communities, human rights court rules

Maxwell Radwin 20 Mar 2025

Rep from American Samoa calls for opening protected Pacific waters to tuna fishing

Edward Carver 19 Mar 2025
Oil spill in Ecuador’s northwestern Esmeraldas municipality. Image courtesy of Eduardo Rebolledo Monsalve.

Esmeraldas oil spill in Ecuador devastates rivers and wildlife refuge

Shanna Hanbury 19 Mar 2025
The number of lions in the reserve had been rising since the introduction of three lions in 2012. The population now stands at between 80 and 100, according to the officials at the reserve

In Malawi reserve, contraceptives help balance lion and prey populations

Charles Mpaka 19 Mar 2025

Planned port project threatens protected Amazonian mangrove biodiversity and local livelihoods

Aimee Gabay 19 Mar 2025
A giant anteater in the Argentinian wetlands. Image courtesy of Rewilding Argentina.

World Rewilding Day: Four species bouncing back from the brink of extinction

Shanna Hanbury 19 Mar 2025
Image of a board at the entrance to Aravalli Biodiversity Park in New Delhi. Image by ccarlstead via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

New Delhi transforms degraded lands into biodiversity parks

Mongabay.com 19 Mar 2025

A new dawn for night parrots (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 18 Mar 2025
A northern elephant seal in Año Nuevo Island Reserve.

Seal ‘oceanographers’ reveal fish abundance in Pacific Ocean’s twilight zone

Spoorthy Raman 18 Mar 2025
Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) near the Tapajós river, next to Sawré Muybu Indigenous Land, home to the Munduruku people, Pará state, Brazil.

Officials share strategies to stop spread of illegal miners from Munduruku land

Aimee Gabay 18 Mar 2025
Logging operation for timber Brazilian Amazon.

EUDR compliance costs to be minimal, report finds — but industry disagrees

John Cannon 18 Mar 2025

Sri Lanka communities left gasping for climate mitigation support

Sahana David Menon 18 Mar 2025
Haze rising from an oil palm plantation and forest in Riau province.

Political appointments in Indonesian climate program spark outcry over accountability

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Mar 2025
Banner image of biochar by Thomas Diego Badia.

Cameroonians combat deforestation using cheaper charcoal alternative

Mongabay.com 18 Mar 2025
Winners of 2025 Future For Nature Awards. From left— Anthony Waddle, image by Yorick Lambreghts, Ruthmery Pillco, image by Eleanor Flatt, Kumar Paudel, image courtesy of Paudel.

Future for Nature Award 2025 winners conserve frogs, pangolins, dwarf deer

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Mar 2025

In a land where monkeys are seen as pests, Sri Lanka’s white langurs are winning hearts

Malaka Rodrigo 17 Mar 2025
Banner image of a kākāriki karaka at Pukenui/Anchor Island, courtesy of RealNZ.

Critically endangered parakeets get a new home on New Zealand island

Kristine Sabillo 14 Mar 2025

Searching for peace, finding hope: A new film explores rural conflict in Kenya

Leonie Joubert 14 Mar 2025
Banner image of a scarlet-rumped trogon (Harpactes duvaucelii) in Sumatra, courtesy of Panji Gusti Akbar.

Indigenous schools ensure next generations protect Borneo’s ‘omen birds’

Mongabay.com 14 Mar 2025
A monarch butterfly. Image by Sean Ewing via Pexels.

One in five butterflies lost in the US since 2000, study finds

Bobby Bascomb 14 Mar 2025
Before any dam is built, roads are needed, opening up the old-growth forest of the Cardamom Mountains. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

With biological and cultural diversity at literal crossroads in the tropics, a new approach is needed (commentary)

Karen Masters 13 Mar 2025
Iain Douglas-Hamilton seated on the ground, writing in a notebook, two elephants in the background. Image courtesy Save the Elephants.

Lives worth living: Elephants, Iain Douglas-Hamilton and the fight for coexistence

Leonie Joubert 13 Mar 2025
Fishers in Ghana carry their nets on the beach.

USAID funding cuts jeopardize creation of Ghana’s first Marine Protected Area

Victoria Schneider 13 Mar 2025

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