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A sugar glider.

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

Arathi Menon 13 Nov 2026
Tanzanian police officer in dull green riot gear and helmet, pictured against the sky guarding waste dump site at Barrick Gold's North Mara mine. Image courtesy Catherine Coumans / Mining Watch.

Canadian extractive firms displaced 300,000 in Africa since 1996, report says

Ashoka Mukpo 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
One of the Watchers, or Tunyiungi va Lisima, poling a dugout on one of the region’s freshwater lakes, which local tradition considers the lakes to be sacred. Image courtesy of Kostadin Luchansky/AIB/NGOWP.

Angolan hunters protect Southern Africa’s internationally important wetland

Ryan Truscott 11 Nov 2026

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

Basten Gokkon 11 Nov 2026
Pangolin scales totaling 57 kilograms (123 pounds) seized from a perpetrator in South Kalimantan.

Investigation continues in Indonesia after first conviction in 3-ton pangolin trafficking case

Anggita Raissa 11 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

Peruvian authorities seize more than 3,000 tarantulas from suspected European traffickers

Spoorthy Raman 9 Nov 2026

India repatriates seized orangutan, raising hopes for five more

Mongabay.com 6 Nov 2026

Money laundering complaints target JBS, Barclays over profits linked to illegal deforestation

Shanna Hanbury 5 Nov 2026
marine iguana

Scientists call on Ecuador to stop the rising trafficking of Galápagos iguanas

Spoorthy Raman 4 Nov 2026

US couple sentenced for helping finance trade in rhino horn, puma bones, other wildlife parts

Naina Rao 3 Nov 2026
In March, IBAMA dismantled an illegal mining operation in the Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Territory in Roraima. This image from Operation Xapiri shows rocks resulting from bedrock blasting. After being crushed, the ore is processed using cyanide to separate the gold from other minerals.

Cyanide ponds from illegal mining threaten Amazon Indigenous territory

Elizabeth Oliveira 2 Nov 2026
Black kites with heads shaved to appear like vultures on sale at the Akodessewa Fetish Market. Image by Nico Arcilla.

Togo’s growing belief-based use trade sweeping up avian biodiversity, says study

Sean Mowbray 2 Nov 2026

US lawmakers urge Trump administration to oppose Colombia’s Amazon aerial spraying plans

Associated Press 30 Oct 2026

Legal loopholes and weak enforcement leave India’s exotic pet trade hard to police

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2026

In Suriname’s Amazon, the Wayana community struggling to keep gold miners at bay

Maxwell Radwin 29 Oct 2026
A watercolor by the Indigenous Wayana, Aimawale Opoya.

Suriname’s rich archaeological history may hold keys to conservation

Peter Speetjens 28 Oct 2026
Sunda pangolin

Pangolin scale lawsuit in Indonesia could shake up how wildlife traffickers pay

Carolyn Cowan 28 Oct 2026
Copper mine in Chile. Image by Tom Hegen

Photographer Tom Hegen’s aerial eye reveals the true scale of the critical mineral age

Carolyn Cowan 28 Oct 2026

New report maps widespread criminal presence across six Amazonian countries

Aimee Gabay 27 Oct 2026

Countries take first step toward global crackdown on environmental crime

Spoorthy Raman 27 Oct 2026

Baby orangutans in India expose illegal wildlife trade as experts question a billionaire’s zoo

Associated Press 27 Oct 2026
Man in Colombia. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

A rare victory for multilateralism in the fight against environmental crime (commentary)

Laura Waisbich, Melina Risso, Robert Muggah 26 Oct 2026
A male great hornbill approaches the nest in which its mate stays with the eggs or chicks.

Bangladesh’s hornbills face hunting risk during breeding season

Sifayet Ullah 26 Oct 2026

International Gibbon Day: Stories of threats and survival  

Mongabay 24 Oct 2026

COP17: Open letter urges governments to keep extractives out of protected areas

David Akana 23 Oct 2026

Death of iconic elephant in Sri Lanka pushes authorities to fast-track protection efforts

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 23 Oct 2026

Another mining-linked pollution incident raises alarm over Zambia’s Kafue River

Chisapi Kumbutso 22 Oct 2026
Illegal gold mining activity in the Pamong Besar River, Sangir, South Solok. Photo: Vinolia/Mongabay Indonesia.

Deadly gold rush continues as latest landslide kills four in Sumatra

Vinolia 22 Oct 2026

Rare Indonesian maleo birds face new threat from international exotic pet trade

Mongabay.com 22 Oct 2026

Six new calves offer hope amid ongoing threats to Cambodia’s Irrawaddy dolphins

Mongabay.com 20 Oct 2026

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