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An elephant in Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Beat it: Den Staat farmers in South Africa use drumming and fire to deter elephants

Bernard Chiguvare 10 Nov 2026
Two women walk together at a marathon race.

Is your gym attire setting you up for health problems?

Ouma Elvine Tina 10 Nov 2026
A Psychropotes dyscrita sea cucumber amid polymetallic nodules on the seafloor of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, located in the northeast Pacific Ocean. Image courtesy of Geomar Bilddatenbank via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

US stakes competing claims to Pacific seabed mining areas, challenging UN authority

Mike DiGirolamo 10 Nov 2026
Kazi Zenifar Azmiri participates in a duck satellite-tagging camp at Tanguar Haor, Bangladesh.

‘You need strong willpower’: IUCN’s Kazi Zenifar Azmiri on being a woman wildlife biologist

Usraat Fahmidah 10 Nov 2026

Greta Thunberg arrives at UN climate talks saying ‘everything we love is at stake’

Associated Press 10 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

Sri Lankan wildlife photographer Ravindralal Anthonis urges respect for elephants over good shots

Malaka Rodrigo 9 Nov 2026
A house crow in Pokhara, Nepal.

Human-crow relations show strain as Kathmandu observes annual day of the crow

Gobinda Pokharel 9 Nov 2026

Guatemala faces a human rights court over violent evictions of Indigenous communities

Maxwell Radwin 6 Nov 2026

‘Stringing me along’: After 7 years, trial in Indigenous forest guardian killing delayed again

Karla Mendes 6 Nov 2026
Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Tourism, Rebecca Miano, met with officials from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and other conservation partners ahead of presiding over the launch of a $160 million conservation-focused fund, Image courtesy of Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS).

Kenya launches $160 million conservation initiative to support communities and biodiversity

Lynet Otieno 6 Nov 2026

Extreme heat is creating a workplace health crisis in Bangladesh’s garment industry

Mongabay.com 6 Nov 2026

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

Shanna Hanbury 5 Nov 2026
A village in the Tumucumaque Indigenous Park. Image courtesy of Kamikia Kisedje, Nia Tero/Iepé Archive.

This entire Indigenous territory didn’t get to vote in Brazil’s elections

Shanna Hanbury 5 Nov 2026
Forestry Commission officials and European trade representatives in Sefwi Wiawso, Ghana. Image courtesy of European Forest Institute via Flickr.

How Ghana’s new license to sell sustainable timber improves institutions & cooperation (analysis) 

Chris Beeko 5 Nov 2026

AI tiger-warning system rooted in local knowledge stalls for lack of support

Mongabay.com 5 Nov 2026
Collage for the story: Anatomy of a land grab: the law, likes, and legislator behind an Indigenous land invasion in Brazil

Revealing Amazon land grabs targeting an uncontacted community

Aimee Gabay, Juan Maza 4 Nov 2026
A water tap in the Cacique Chicão settlement in Recife's Ibura neighborhood.

Water rationing in Recife, Brazil, falls along racial lines

Adriana Amâncio, Áthila Galindo, Yamini Benites 4 Nov 2026

Human-wildlife coexistence with wolves in Europe requires a holistic approach

Mike DiGirolamo 3 Nov 2026

Brazil election sparks threats to reinvade Indigenous Amazon territory

Aimee Gabay 3 Nov 2026
A member of the Tigrayan community looking at a traditional forest church, a major center of Christianity in the world located in Desa’a forest in the Ethiopian Afromontane region, an iconic and endangered area of biodiversity in East Africa. Image courtesy of © UNEP/Sosina Mengistu.

UN recognizes ongoing restoration work inside Ethiopia’s Desa’a forest amid conflict

Elodie Toto 3 Nov 2026
Elephants spotted by one of the camera traps. Image courtesy of Harmony with Wildlife.

Payment scheme in Botswana pays communities to coexist with wildlife

Anna Weekes 3 Nov 2026

The RSPO closed the case on First Resources. Indonesian forests kept falling for palm oil (commentary)

Tom Johnson 3 Nov 2026

Two public servants in Brazil removed after threatening to poison Indigenous people

Karla Mendes 2 Nov 2026
A member of the Sámi Indigenous people tends a reindeer in Sweden.

Indigenous peoples and local communities solidify decision-making powers at COP17

Latoya Abulu 2 Nov 2026
A rancher with his cattle herd in Mato Grosso state.

Ranchers in Brazil ordered to leave home of Indigenous people living in voluntary isolation

Aimee Gabay 2 Nov 2026
Small-scale fishers cast their nets in the waters off the coast of Gambia in March 2025. Image by AP Photo/Grace Ekpu.

New index tracks countries’ vulnerability to conflict between large and small-scale fishers

Edward Carver 2 Nov 2026
The “Mwani Mamas” of Mwani Zanzibar work in the shallow coastal waters, where seaweed farming provides an important source of income for women and their families. These farmers are at the heart of Zanzibar’s seaweed economy. Image courtesy of Kevin Gaines/Kelp Ark.

Zanzibar’s seaweed farmers seek better future through science and partnership (commentary)

Mariam Mwinyi, Jenny Krusoe, Lisa Kurbiel 2 Nov 2026
Asian black bears

Ecotourism may deter hunters, but also keeps wildlife away, Laos study suggests

Carolyn Cowan 2 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
Tesifying at a hearing, Mayerly López from Colombia, Marco Manobanda, an Indigenous fish-farmer from Las Naves, Ecuador. Image courtesy of Earthworks.

Environmental defenders testify about attacks in Latin America linked to Canadian mining companies

Annie Burns-Pieper 31 Oct 2026

The women who won’t let go: Female-led resistance to development harms across Asia

Kannikar Petchkaew 30 Oct 2026

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