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A Bornean orangutan in a fruiting fig tree. Image courtesy of 1StopBorneo Wildlife.

Arboreal camera traps reveal wildlife feasting on Borneo’s fruiting fig trees

Carolyn Cowan 31 Jul 2025
Mobula munkiana rays in the Sea of Cortez. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

Guarding Mexico’s blue frontiers: A conversation with Alejandro González

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Jul 2025
The Indigenous Tompoun community celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day in 2024. Image courtesy of Tompoun Culture.

How Cambodia’s new environmental code undermines Indigenous peoples’ rights (commentary)

Rithy Bun 30 Jul 2025
Miners work at a legal mining concession in Huaypetue, Madre de Dios, Peru. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Mexico’s rising mercury trade fuels toxic gold mining in Latin America: Report

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jul 2025
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More than 10,000 species on brink of extinction need urgent action: Study

Liz Kimbrough 30 Jul 2025
Banner image of stream restoration being done in Aarhus, Denmark. Image courtesy of Casper Tybjerg/TTF.

Ambitious Denmark project starts farm-to-forest conversion

Kristine Sabillo 30 Jul 2025
Gharial hatchlings. Image courtesy of Surya P. Sharma.

Rising heat threatens female-male ratio of India’s unique gharial crocs

Mongabay.com 30 Jul 2025

Domestic cats pose interbreeding threat to little known wildcat ancestor

Mongabay.com 30 Jul 2025
Coral reef in the Sea of Cortez. Photo courtesy of Legacy Works.

Forget decrees; try patience. Martin Goebel plays the long game in conserving Baja California Sur

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Jul 2025
River in the Kosnipata valley, Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Empathy and spiritual ecology are a conservation solution and ‘radical cure’

Mike DiGirolamo 29 Jul 2025

Killing barred owls to save spotted owls

Bobby Bascomb 29 Jul 2025
Joseph Vargas and Wilma Abanil in their home

As gas giants move in, Philippine fishers fight for their seas and survival

Nick Aspinwall 29 Jul 2025

That ‘fish’ on the menu? In Brazil’s schools and prisons, it’s often shark

Philip Jacobson, Karla Mendes, Kuang Keng Kuek Ser 29 Jul 2025

Scientists & communities rush to save rare, diverse Brazilian grassland ecosystem

Letícia Klein 29 Jul 2025

Sri Lanka Supreme Court orders $1 bn payment in X Press Pearl marine disaster

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Jul 2025
Golden oyster mushrooms. Image by Jordan Cook via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Golden oyster mushrooms are crowding out native fungi in North America

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Jul 2025
A captive Sumatran tiger.

International Tiger Day: 3 stories of hope

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Jul 2025

Coral restoration after devasting Deepwater Horizon spill shows promise

Mongabay.com 28 Jul 2025
Person standing in front of a fallen tree.

Global warming is altering storms lightning, impacting tropical forests

Sean Mowbray 28 Jul 2025
A critically endangered Philippine pangolin and its pup. The demand for their scales has resulted in Pangolins being the most trafficked mammals.

To save pangolins, we need to change the narrative (commentary)

Araluen Schunmann 28 Jul 2025

To host UN climate talks, Brazil chose one of its poorer cities. That’s no accident

Associated Press 28 Jul 2025
A forest gardener waters vegetables in his forest garden in Kaffrine, Senegal.

A forest garden project attempts to expand into the Sahel

Victoria Schneider 28 Jul 2025
An adult female kākāpō (Strigops habroptila) in a tree at night. Kākāpō are nocturnal and flightless. Image by Andrew Digby/New Zealand Department of Conservation.

World Nature Conservation Day: How a large, flightless parrot rebounded from the verge of extinction

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jul 2025
Left: Ranger Claude, photographed by Brent Stirton. Right: Ranger Daniel, photographed by Virunga National Park.

Two rangers killed in a plane crash in DRC’s Virunga National Park

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Jul 2025
Mangroves in Raja Ampat.

Reversing damage to the world’s mangrove forests

Kristine Sabillo 25 Jul 2025
Black crowned crane (Balearica pavonina). Image by Saverio Savio via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

The sacred humans-bird connection in Ethiopia’s wetlands: Interview with Abebayehu Aticho

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 25 Jul 2025

2,000 species at high risk of extinction from natural disasters, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jul 2025
A part of Putumayo rainforest showing areas of deforestation.

Illegal roads expand in Colombia’s deforestation hotspots

Mie Hoejris Dahl 25 Jul 2025
Scimitar-horned oryx in Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Faunal Reserve in Chad. Image by Inyathi via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

US NGO signs deal to manage huge nature reserve in Chad

Ashoka Mukpo 25 Jul 2025
Sifting coffee beans in Porciuncula, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

‘Insignificant risk’ EUDR proposal threatens fight against deforestation, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jul 2025
A tiger-legged monkey frog in the Amazon tropical forest.

Where there’s political will, there’s a way to stop tropical deforestation, study finds

John Cannon 24 Jul 2025

Uruguay confronts a powerful new threat to its palm trees: A tiny red bug

Associated Press 24 Jul 2025

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