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

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 23 Oct 2026
A man rides a bicycle through thick haze caused by wildfires in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Oct. 23, 2026.

Indonesians allege social media posts on wildfires and haze are being censored

Winda Charmila 23 Oct 2026
Women from the Missão Tiriyó village in the Tumucumaque Park Indigenous Territory. Image courtesy of the Iepé Institute archive.

Two Indigenous Brazilians denied their language interpreter at election voting booth

Shanna Hanbury 23 Oct 2026

Two decades after crash, Nepal still searching for new generation of conservation visionaries

Mongabay.com 23 Oct 2026
Photos from the day La Rose was filed in 2019. Image courtesy of Our Children’s Trust.

Ahead of landmark climate trial in Canada, Indigenous youth eye impacts in the North

Elizabeth Rusch 23 Oct 2026

World Snow Leopard Day: Community action and new science foster coexistence with humans

Naina Rao 23 Oct 2026
Sánchez Mercado on a field trip. His research evaluates the dynamics of morichales, as well as their potential as carbon sinks that can be easily replicated in the tropical belt. Image courtesy of Miguel Angel Sánchez-Mercado.

Water, carbon & the ‘tree of life’: Interview with Venezuela’s guardian of morichales

Diego Ávila Muskus 22 Oct 2026

Facing pushback on data centers, tech giants are promising hosts more money and fewer secrets

Associated Press 22 Oct 2026
A squirrel monkey in the Amazon.

Extractive industries threaten global goal to protect 30% of nature by 2030, report finds

Aimee Gabay 21 Oct 2026
Mount Ararat. Image courtesy of Ani Adigyozalyan via Unsplash.

Nature has a new Noah’s Ark moment at the biodiversity summit (commentary)

Glenn Hurowitz 21 Oct 2026

Bangladesh garment factory workers bear the brunt of rising temperatures

Usraat Fahmidah 21 Oct 2026
Irrigating a farm using solar-powered water pump, Kenya.

Just transition remains elusive for Kenyan women despite robust policies

Ouma Elvine Tina 21 Oct 2026
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Wildlife photography’s dirty little secret

Izzy Sasada 21 Oct 2026
Monitors from the Ticuna community of San Francisco de Yahuma, in Loreto, Peru. They use drones to monitor and protect their forests. Image courtesy of Joseph Zegarra/Rainforest Foundation US.

Delegates at biodiversity COP17 should follow the lead of Global South women (commentary)

Valentina Figuera Martínez 21 Oct 2026

For Australia’s Indigenous Desert Alliance, caring for Country starts with a story

Mike DiGirolamo 20 Oct 2026
An Indian honey bee in Pune, Maharashtra state.

The women keeping Uttarakhand’s native bees alive

Swati Thapa 20 Oct 2026

‘Stay alive’: Brazil’s Indigenous people mobilize to vote for Lula to protect their rights

Karla Mendes 20 Oct 2026
Minister of Indigenous Peoples Eloy Terena is celebrated after being sworn as minister in March 2026. Image courtesy of the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples (MPI).

Brazil election puts unprecedented Indigenous ministry at risk if Flávio Bolsonaro wins

Karla Mendes 20 Oct 2026

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

Mongabay.com 20 Oct 2026
Houses nearly submerged due to flooding in Sirajganj, 2020.

Bank credit remains scarce in Bangladesh where climate risks are highest

Sajibur Rahman 20 Oct 2026
A tiger in Bardiya National Park, 2021.

In Nepal, AI builds on local knowledge to help prevent tiger attacks

Praveen Kumar Yadav 20 Oct 2026
Photo courtesy of Maliasili.

Navigating crisis and opportunity in conservation funding (commentary)

Fred Nelson 19 Oct 2026
Maasai at the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Image by Omar Gurnah via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Finance and Indigenous rights top Africans’ agenda as biodiversity summit opens in Yerevan

Ashoka Mukpo, John Cannon, Latoya Abulu, Terna Gyuse 19 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
Seasonally flooded Igapó forest near Manaus, Brazil. Image courtesy of Alexey Yakovlev via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

A Belgium-sized area of Amazon wetland has been converted, and losses are climbing

Shanna Hanbury 19 Oct 2026
Wisye Sahambangung, front, and other women from Rhizopora work in a muddy mangrove area in Sarawet on Sept. 2, 2026. Image courtesy of Wisye Sahambangung.

Indonesian women cash in on mangrove restoration: Interview with community leader Wisye Sahambangung

Annisa Dinulislam 17 Oct 2026
Nyaradzo Auxilia Hoto rose from a frontline ranger with Zimbabwe’s Akashinga to a leadership role as a sergeant before becoming a biodiversity officer. Photo courtesy of Akashinga.

The uplifting story of one of Zimbabwe’s pioneering women rangers

David Akana 16 Oct 2026

Fundraising to protect oceans, forests and other key nature sites falling short ahead of UN summit

Associated Press 16 Oct 2026
A wolf howls with the Sawtooth Mountains in the background. Image © Jim and Jamie Dutcher.

As US states reduce recently restored wolf populations, here’s what we risk losing (commentary)

Jim and Jamie Dutcher 16 Oct 2026
Adriana Hora dos Santos harvests oysters from a mangrove forest near Areia Branca, a former traditional village that is now a neighborhood of Aracaju. Photo by André Cherri / V.U.E.L.A.

‘Enclosed river:’ Women shellfish gatherers fight for access to mangroves in Brazil

Carolina de Marchi 16 Oct 2026
P-22, a cougar photographed in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park. He crossed two of the busiest freeways in the U.S., the 101 and 405, to find his own territory. Image © Steve Winter/Big Cat Voices.

Saving big cats: Storytelling duo Steve Winter & Sharon Guynup publish new book

Gloria Dickie 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

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