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Deforestation boom in Gran Chaco raises alarm over Argentina’s forest law

Maxwell Radwin 14 Feb 2025
Women set out sprat to dry in the sun in Kigoma, Tanzania, near the shore of Lake Tanganyika.

Small-scale fishers’ role in feeding the planet goes overlooked: Study

Edward Carver 14 Feb 2025
Congolese troops in the eastern DRC during fighting with M23 in 2013. Image © MONUSCO/Clara Padovan via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

The key factors fueling conflict in eastern DRC

John Cannon 14 Feb 2025
Malir River near Damloti check dam, Karachi suburbs.

Ecology vs. development in Karachi: Interview with photographer Salman Baloch

Waqas Alam Angaria 14 Feb 2025

In the high Andes, a dream to restore a special forest takes root

Antonio José Paz Cardona 14 Feb 2025
A community ranger from the Biliqo-Bulesa Community Conservancy in northern Kenya, which receives support from the Northern Rangelands Trust, a USAID grantee. NRT’s grant was not reviewed by the GAO. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Across the world, conservation projects reel after abrupt US funding cuts

Ashoka Mukpo 14 Feb 2025

Two South American scientists win ‘environmental Nobel’ on human-nature divide

Shanna Hanbury 14 Feb 2025
Banner image of a rainforest in Borneo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Science aside, we need art & philosophy for global change: Epidemiologist

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2025
A bottom trawler works in Dutch waters of the North Sea.

Lawsuit is latest push to curb bottom trawling in protected European waters

Edward Carver 13 Feb 2025
Tropical botanist Andrea Bianchi examines a species of Anthocleista in Ngezi Forest Reserve. Unlike the species that grows in Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains, the ones he and colleagues found in Ngezi are armed with spines, more akin to a species that grows in West Africa. Image by Ryan Truscott for Mongabay.

Forest of rare trees in Zanzibar now earmarked for ‘eco-resort’

Ryan Truscott 13 Feb 2025
Banner image of a greater mouse-eared bat, courtesy of Daniel Whitby/BatCRU.

Researchers find two individuals of UK’s ‘loneliest bat’ species

Kristine Sabillo 13 Feb 2025

‘Truffle dogs’ help sniff out two new truffle species

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Feb 2025

Mammals, birds in Vietnam’s rare coastal forests revealed by camera traps

Carolyn Cowan 13 Feb 2025
Giant Rats: Wildlife crime's unexpected weapon | Wild Targets

How to train giant rats to fight wildlife trafficking?

Lucia Torres 12 Feb 2025
Dora rewards Nandera with a mixture of avocado, banana and pellets.

Meet the giant rats fighting wildlife trafficking

Lucia Torres 12 Feb 2025
A black flying fox (Pteropus alecto) feeding on a palm tree in Brisbane, Australia.

Declining biodiversity and emerging diseases are entwined, more study needed

Ruth Kamnitzer 12 Feb 2025
Juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in Chile.

Mass salmon deaths hit Scottish farms as government investigates

Francesco De Augustinis 12 Feb 2025
Banner image of coconut palm in Palmyra Atoll by USFWS/Andrew S. Wright via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Over half of Pacific atoll forests are coconut palm plantations — Study

Kristine Sabillo 12 Feb 2025

Petition calls on EPA to tighten pesticide rules to protect bees

Bobby Bascomb 12 Feb 2025
A long-tailed macaque in Bali, Indonesia.

Sun, sand and skulls: Bali tourism trade peddles threatened primate skulls

Spoorthy Raman 12 Feb 2025

More cable car controversy surfaces in Nepal’s western mountains

Abhaya Raj Joshi 12 Feb 2025

Bobcats benefit both human and ecological health, but their growing populations are often misunderstood

Mike DiGirolamo 11 Feb 2025
Banner image of an indri by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Singing lemurs found to be dropping beats just like King Julien

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2025
Zulkifli Dalimunthe pulls in the net he cast the previous morning.

Unchecked illegal trawling pushes Indonesia’s small-scale fishers to the brink

Tonggo Simangunsong 11 Feb 2025

Darfur’s women refugees lead reforestation of war-blighted Sudan–Chad borderland

Robert Bociaga 10 Feb 2025
Banner image of a snow leopard in snow by In India travel via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

‘Helicopter tourism’ in the Himalayas affecting Sherpas, wildlife

Mongabay.com 10 Feb 2025

Ecuador’s next debt-for-nature deal falls short of Indigenous involvement

Ana Cristina Alvarado 10 Feb 2025
A lion in a cage

Nearly 20,000 animals seized in global wildlife trafficking crackdown

Mongabay.com 10 Feb 2025

Rhino poachers imprisoned in back-to-back South Africa sentencing

Spoorthy Raman 10 Feb 2025

Study says land restoration worldwide can be funded with tiny fraction of global GDP

Liz Kimbrough 7 Feb 2025

In Brazil, free-flight lessons help teach macaws to survive in the wild

Suzana Camargo 7 Feb 2025
Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana) in California.

The world’s kelp needs help — less than 2% is highly protected

Alexandra Talty 7 Feb 2025

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