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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
Nigeria's Parks chief, Ibrahim Musa Goni. Photo, African Nature Investors Foundation.

Nigeria’s parks chief stresses conservation gains amid struggle to protect wildlife

David Akana 20 Oct 2026

Anatomy of a land grab: the law, likes, and legislator behind an Indigenous land invasion in Brazil

Aimee Gabay, Elisângela Mendonça 19 Oct 2026
Banner image: A worker pruning fruit trees in South Africa in 2007. Image by Trevor Samson / World Bank via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Farmworkers’ health matters: South Africa looks to alternatives for chemical pesticides

Anna Weekes 19 Oct 2026
The Kila gold mine, on the northern edge of Nigeria’s Gashaka-Gumti National Park, before its closure in July 2026 by Nigeria’s National Park Service and the Africa Nature Investors (ANI) Foundation, with support from the Nigerian military. Image courtesy of the Africa Nature Investors Foundation.

Nigeria drove thousands of gold miners from a national park. But can it keep them out?

David Akana 17 Oct 2026
Endemic to Colombia, Lehmann’s poison frog (Oophaga lehmanni) is a critically endangered species threatened by the pet trade.

Legal gaps allow rampant pet trade, poaching reptiles and amphibians towards extinction

Spoorthy Raman 16 Oct 2026
An Egyptian vulture in Chad. Image courtesy of Sahara Conservation.

Vulture conservation project to target illegal killing and poisoning in Chad

Sean Mowbray 16 Oct 2026
In the Los Ángeles community within the Monte Verde territory in Bolivia’s Santa Cruz department, the Indigenous Chiquitano people confront and evict the invaders. Image by Edy Yobanny Velasco.

New tool reveals siege on Indigenous lands in Bolivia’s Amazon

Nelfi Fernández Reyes 15 Oct 2026
Long-tailed macaques living in the mountains of Cambodia's Battambang province

Cambodia was told to clean up its monkey trade. Regulators say it still hasn’t

Gerald Flynn 15 Oct 2026
African elephants (Loxodonta africana) in Luangwa Valley, Zambia. Image by GRID-Arendal via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Thailand seizes ivory shipment from Zambia, to launch DNA investigation

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Oct 2026

Chinese social media used to promote illegal wildlife trade in Laos

Mongabay.com 14 Oct 2026
Some species of Amazon turtles, such as the yellow-spotted river turtle (Podocnemis unifilis), are part of the diet of many Amazon people.

Researchers uncover hidden routes and patterns of Amazon wildlife trade

Fernanda Wenzel 14 Oct 2026
The Makhado mine’s coal-handling and processing plant (CHPP). Image courtesy of MC Mining.

South African coal mine advances amid legal challenge and mounting water concerns

Elaine Mills 14 Oct 2026
Fishers pose with squid on a Chinese squid-fishing vessel.

Chinese squid tied to labor abuses finds an easy route into Western markets

Francesco De Augustinis 14 Oct 2026
The Jalisco mud turtle, endemic to the Jalisco and Colima states in Mexico, is a freshwater turtle found in rivers and wetlands.

Solutions to the risks posed by the global pet trade could be enacted quickly

Mike DiGirolamo 13 Oct 2026

Indonesia returns 20 green sea turtles to the ocean after Bali smuggling raid

Associated Press 13 Oct 2026

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