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A flock of Himalayan griffon vultures photographed on the runway of the Pokhara International Airport. Image courtesy of Hemanta Dhakal.

The man fighting to keep vultures and planes safe from each other in Nepal’s Pokhara

Mongabay.com 11 Aug 2025
A full-circle rainbow arcing over a vast oil palm plantation in Jambi, Indonesia, carved out of what was once native rainforest. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

The case for hope in environmental journalism

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Aug 2025

Participants in the negotiations on plastic pollution are determined to finalize a treaty

Anne Nzouankeu 11 Aug 2025
A gray wolf

Wolves’ continued spread in California brings joy, controversy & conflicts

Spoorthy Raman 11 Aug 2025
Indigenous participants at the Free Land Camp on April 10, where they discuss rights, territorial protection, and their role in COP30. Image by AP Photo/Eraldo Peres.

Indigenous alliance unveils Brazil’s first Native-led emissions strategy

Aimee Gabay 9 Aug 2025
Banner image: A lion guarding its territory in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. Image by Giles Laurent via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

World lion day: Why is the king of the savanna declining?

Kristine Sabillo 8 Aug 2025

How a gecko species defied extinction on a Galápagos island

Liz Kimbrough 8 Aug 2025

Sri Lanka plans restoring revoked protection for an important mangrove patch in the island’s North

Malaka Rodrigo 8 Aug 2025
Banner image of a white-backed vulture (Gyps africanus), which is among the Nuer peoples’ gaatkuoth birds (meaning “children of god”). Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

What we can learn from the Nuer people and their sacred birds

Mongabay.com 8 Aug 2025
Sunflower sea star in Knight Inlet, Canada. Image courtesy of Grant Callegari/Hakai Institute.

Scientists identify the bacterium behind billions of sea star deaths

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Aug 2025
Rex Mann. Image courtesy of the American Chestnut Foundation.

Rex Mann, American chestnut evangelist, died July 2, aged 81

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Aug 2025
Peatlands destruction in Riau.

Who is clearing Indonesia’s forests — and why?

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Aug 2025
A fisher casts a small fishing net to catch fish for his family outside Phnom Penh, 2024.

Displaced and dispossessed, Cambodia’s ethnic Cham fishers struggle to survive

Daniel Zak, Vutha Srey 7 Aug 2025
Supertree grove is part of the Gardens by the Bay (GBTB) urban park in Singapore, covering 105 hectares (260 acres). Image by Tien Tran (tientran0019) via Pixabay (Pixabay Content License).

How urban greening is helping Singapore bounce back from widespread forest loss

Mongabay.com 7 Aug 2025

Revealed: Brazilian state buys endangered angelsharks for school lunches

Fernanda Wenzel, Philip Jacobson 7 Aug 2025
Workers at the CEAGESP food warehouse in São Paulo sort shark meat for distribution. Image by Philip Jacobson/Mongabay.

Brazil serves potentially contaminated shark meat to children in public schools

Mongabay.com 7 Aug 2025

Strategies against deforestation across the Amazon Basin

Timothy J. Killeen 7 Aug 2025
A Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) ship.

World’s first industry-wide climate mandate could be launched with shipping vote

Edward Carver 7 Aug 2025
Nalá and her cub spotted on the banks of the Bermejo River in Argentina’s El Impenetrable National Park. Image courtesy of Pablo Luna.

Jaguar cub born in Argentina’s Gran Chaco after three decades

Shanna Hanbury 7 Aug 2025
Ed McNabb. Image courtesy of the Australia Wildlife Sound Recording Group (AWSRG).

Edward McNabb, pioneer of conservation bioacoustics died on May 7, aged 81

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Aug 2025

Restoration brings back fresh water, wildlife to degraded páramos in Ecuador

Ana Cristina Alvarado 7 Aug 2025
A fisher “foot fishing” on the reef flat of Anjouan at low tide.

Encouraging signs from a no-fishing zone in Comoros could inspire others

Malavika Vyawahare 6 Aug 2025

Czech zoo welcomes 4 rare Barbary lion cubs whose population is extinct in the wild

Associated Press 6 Aug 2025
mining equipment on fire

Cross-border operation cracks down on environmental crimes in the Amazon

Mie Hoejris Dahl 6 Aug 2025
Display and sale of fish maw during a cultural festival in Singapore.

Upmarket fish maw trade in Singapore & Malaysia includes endangered species: Study

Keith Anthony Fabro 6 Aug 2025
The sun rises on the Salween River, which serves as a vital lifeline for Karen communities on both sides of the Thai-Myanmar border. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Asia’s longest free-flowing river faces threats of dams and diversions

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2025
A male Walia ibex in Ethiopia. Image courtesy of Paul Scholte.

Ethiopia’s iconic Walia ibex faces extinction once again

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Aug 2025
Paul-Loiselle at the New York Aquarium. Image courtesy of Julie Larsen/Wildlife Conservation Society.

Paul V. Loiselle, champion of cichlids, died April 15, aged 79

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Aug 2025
Satellite imagery shows a house and cleared field on Karipuna Indigenous land. Image via Google Earth by Emilie Languedoc/Mongabay.

Invasion intensifies on Karipuna Indigenous land in the Brazilian Amazon

Shanna Hanbury 6 Aug 2025
Torres in the Amazon in 2024. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

She built a newsroom across 7 countries—Here’s how she did it

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Aug 2025

African bats require monitoring in protected areas, study finds

Blaise Kasereka Makuta 5 Aug 2025
Deforestation for oil palm plantation in Borneo, Indonesia.

Reversing deforestation relies on resource ownership (commentary)

Douglas Southgate, Brent Sohngen 5 Aug 2025

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