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Alpine Ash forest in the Baw Baw National Park, Victoria. Photo by Chris Taylor

What the grim outlook for Alpine Ash forests tells us about forestry dogma (commentary)

Chris Taylor, David Lindenmayer 19 Apr 2026
A Philippine duck (Anas luzonica) at Liguasan Marsh.

Energy crisis revives push to drill in Philippines’ largest intact wetland

Bong S. Sarmiento 17 Apr 2026

In Sri Lanka, animals pay the price for overcrowding and speeding jeeps

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 17 Apr 2026
Nancy Collins

Thomas J. Walker studied the songs of crickets and katydids

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Apr 2026
Santi, middle, flanked by Mongabay staff writer for Brazil Fernanda Wenzel, left, and senior editor for Southeast Asia Philip Jacobson. Image by Alexandre de Santi.

From the Atlantic Forest to the Amazon: Alexandre de Santi on camaraderie and uncovering hidden truths in Brazil

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 16 Apr 2026
Lizulu Market in Malawi's capital, Lilongwe

Strait of Hormuz crisis should catalyze African biofertilizer production (commentary)

Susan Chomba 16 Apr 2026

San Francisco Bay emerges as high-risk area for migrating gray whales

David Brown 15 Apr 2026
Aaron Longton. Courtesy of Pew Charitable Trusts.

Aaron Longton, fisherman who tied sustainability to survival

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Apr 2026
Pista Velha mining site in the Baú Indigenous Territory captured during an overflight on July 19, 2025. Image courtesy of the Xingu+ Network.

Brazil: Satellites expose rampant gold mining expansion on Indigenous Kayapó land

Shanna Hanbury 15 Apr 2026
Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon in 2011. Photo by Rhett Butler.

The Amazon’s silent crime crisis (commentary)

Carlos Nobre, Robert Muggah, Ilona Szabo 15 Apr 2026
A pygmy long-fingered possum (Dactylonax kambuayai), photographed in 2023. Image courtesy of Jon Hall/mammalwatching.com.

‘Rediscovered’ species in Papua spotlight importance of Indigenous knowledge

John Cannon 15 Apr 2026
A coyote in Chicago. Image courtesy of Cook County Coyote Project.

Coexisting with America’s growing urban coyote population is easier than you think

Mike DiGirolamo 14 Apr 2026

Exploring giraffe-human conflict in Kenya

David Brown 14 Apr 2026
View of the landscape where the reforestation corridor project is located in eastern Madagascar.

A reforestation corridor in Madagascar offers a future for lemurs and locals

Marina Martinez 14 Apr 2026

In Brazil, unfinished water project leaves Indigenous villages without safe water

Felipe Medeiros, Adriana Amâncio 14 Apr 2026
Phil Lyver (second from left) and Tuawhenua kaumatua (elders). Image by Manaaki Whenua/Landcare Research.

Māori knowledge shows climate change domino effects on forest food chains

Monica Evans 14 Apr 2026
A squat lobster in the deep sea.

Deep-sea wildernesses are more important than the promise of seafloor mining (analysis)

Andrew D. Thaler 14 Apr 2026
Schaller with a peccary. Courtesy of the George B. Schaller Archive.

George Schaller: The field biologist who helped redefine conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Apr 2026

Landmark win for Thai villagers, but gold mine appeal delays justice

Mongabay.com 14 Apr 2026
Emmanuel de Merode at an airstrip near Salonga National Park in DRC in March 2026. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Can nature outcompete war in Eastern Congo?

Rhett Ayers Butler, David Akana 13 Apr 2026

Council recommends opening US Pacific marine monuments to commercial fishing

Bobby Bascomb 13 Apr 2026
African elephant. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Living with wildlife, bearing the cost

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Apr 2026
Doug Allan. Royal Scottish Geographical Society

Doug Allan, wildlife cameraman who filmed animals in extreme environments

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Apr 2026

The mother of orangutans

Izzy Sasada 11 Apr 2026

Venezuela’s new mining law could spell disaster for the Amazon, critics warn

Maxwell Radwin 10 Apr 2026
Kenyan Christians gather to worship under the trees. Image by AGWM Africa.

Christianity can be an ally for Kenyan conservation (commentary)

Peter Rowe 10 Apr 2026

Argentina approves Milei’s bill that eases protections for glaciers despite environmental backlash

Associated Press 9 Apr 2026
Little Rock Creek Lake, with El Capitan in the distance, in the Bitterroot Range, Montana. Image courtesy of Magicpiano via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Invasive plant drives ecological change in America’s gigantic Selway–Bitterroot Wilderness (commentary)

Lyle Lewis 9 Apr 2026
A Mediterranean moray (Muraena helena). Image ©gianfrs via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Creating the North Atlantic’s largest MPA network: Interview with Azores President José Manuel Bolieiro

Maria José Mendes 9 Apr 2026
Kushki (male) is one of the last surviving Asiatic cheetahs from northeastern Iran’s Miandasht Wildlife Refuge.

War on Iran disrupts efforts to save the Asiatic cheetah, world’s rarest big cat

Kayleigh Long 9 Apr 2026
Fishers in Dunga on the shores of Lake Victoria. Image by Achieng’ Otieno for Mongabay.

On the shores of Lake Victoria, a youth-led campaign to revive a wetland

Achieng’ Otieno 9 Apr 2026
In 2023, women working at the Salala plantation told Mongabay their managers often tried to pressure them into sex. Ashoka Mukpo/Mongabay.

Second progress report shows little action on World Bank redress plan at Liberian plantation

Victoria Schneider 9 Apr 2026

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