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Working together, Indigenous peoples & researchers describe new Amazonian palm

Sofia Moutinho 1 Apr 2026
The only water left for human and livestock to share in Berano Wereda, Homay Kebele of Ethiopia's Somali region. Image by © FAO/Michael Tewelde.

‘Sharing is off the table’ as drought reshapes the culture of Ethiopia’s pastoralists

Kaleab Girma 1 Apr 2026

State fishing village plan in Indonesian Papua sparks Indigenous opposition

Basten Gokkon 1 Apr 2026

Oil surge sharpens calls for Indonesia to shift away from fossil fuels

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Apr 2026
Wallace's Passage between Gam and Waigeo islands in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Meaningful conservation demands truth, not just facts, says political ecologist

Mike DiGirolamo 31 Mar 2026
Fishers in the Philippines. Image courtesy of Rare Conservation.

What ‘paper parks’ reveal about the limits of conservation policy (commentary)

Kevin Green 31 Mar 2026

Peru-Brazil Bioceanic Railway brings too much risk to the Amazon, experts warn

Yvete Sierra Praeli 31 Mar 2026

Conservation depends on rangers. Their wellbeing is often an afterthought

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Mar 2026

In Peru, Indigenous women work to save an ancestral potato from disappearance

Astrid Arellano 31 Mar 2026
Portrait of Jacqueline Flores. Image by Heinz Plengue Pardo. Design by Emilie Languedoc.

As traditional forest governance erodes in Peru, ‘ghost permits’ fill the vacuum

Michele Calamaio 30 Mar 2026
An antipodean albatross (Diomedea antipodensis) flies near the sub-Antarctic islands of Aotearoa New Zealand in 2023.

Marine flyways are the missing map we can use to boost seabird conservation (commentary)

Tammy Davies, Aline Kühl-Stenzel 30 Mar 2026
Guasimas Bay has been contaminated by agrochemicals and waste that is released from shrimp farms not far from the coast.

Who controls Mexico’s Yaqui River?

30 Mar 2026
Research finds that there are already places on Earth where it gets so hot and humid at times during the year that it’s unsafe for either younger or older adults to do more than lie down or sit outdoors. Photo by NOAA.

Global warming already impacts daily lives around the globe, study finds

Mike Gaworecki 30 Mar 2026
A maxima clam (Tridacna maxima) in American Samoa. Image by Paolo Marra-Biggs/UHM HIMB,

Traditional protection proves more successful for clams in American Samoa

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 30 Mar 2026

A Kenyan ranger’s lasting imprint on Africa’s anti-poaching efforts

Lynet Otieno 27 Mar 2026

A world in bloom: Spring flowers unfold from Tokyo to Mexico, in photos

Associated Press 27 Mar 2026
Youngdung with a cross-bred yak calf in Vijer (Tra) village in Dolpo. Image by Youngdung Jhama Lama.

Climate change tests Nepal’s wild and domesticated yaks 

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 27 Mar 2026
Residents of a buffer zone collecting firewood. Image by Abhaya Raj Joshi/Mongabay.

In Nepal, calls for reform grow louder in buffer zones

Mukesh Pokhrel 27 Mar 2026
Silhouette of a woman standing in a California redwood forest. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

A profession built on hope, strained by loss

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Mar 2026
Military police and Indigenous protestors at the Belo Monte Dam construction site in 2013. Image by Ruy Sposati /Agência Raízes.

Why the Amazon can’t be saved by courts alone (commentary)

Paulo Ilich Bacca, Luisa Fernanda Bacca 26 Mar 2026
Farmers sow rice in Vietnam's Mekong Delta.

A nature-based solution to save the Mekong Delta’s water future (commentary)

Pham Phan Long 26 Mar 2026
Biruté Mary Galdikas. Photo courtesy of Orangutan Foundation International

Birutė Galdikas, primatologist who spent a lifetime studying & defending orangutans, has died at 79

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Mar 2026
Juma Xipaia, an Indigenous chief from the Brazilian Amazon. Image © Malaika Pictures.

Behind the scenes of the Amazon’s gold rush: Director Richard Ladkani on the making of ‘Yanuni’

Aimee Gabay 25 Mar 2026
Hooded vultures are small, scruffy-faced vultures native to sub-Saharan Africa.

‘Staggering’ trade for belief-based use drives hooded vultures to near-extinction in Benin

Spoorthy Raman 25 Mar 2026
Students are planting indigenous and other fruit tree species on school grounds. Image courtesy of Namulindwa Brendah.

Five more community-led African groups join global landscape restoration network

Charles Mpaka 25 Mar 2026

In Laos, ancestral spirits are helping save one of the world’s rarest crocodiles

Liz Kimbrough 25 Mar 2026
Cucumbers growing on a bamboo frame in Bangladesh.

New farming method replaces traditional jhum in crowding Bangladesh hills

Sifayet Ullah 25 Mar 2026
The Diavik diamond mine in northwestern Canada. Image from Google Maps.

Canada invests $1m into mining exploration on Indigenous land

Shanna Hanbury 25 Mar 2026
The WeMUNIZE program in Nigeria, significantly disrupted by aid cuts, used digital record keeping and community engagement to increase early childhood immunizations. Image by KC Nwakalor for USAID/Digital Development Communications via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

‘We will not know what we lost’: Conservation fallout a year after USAID shutdown

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Mar 2026
A ranger at Upemba National Park.

Upemba National Park staff recount assault that left seven dead

Ashoka Mukpo 24 Mar 2026
Manatees image courtesy of Jorge Zamora.

On Manatee Appreciation Day, remember these gentle giants who protect aquatic ecosystems (commentary)

Omar Vidal 24 Mar 2026

China’s deep-sea mining fleet may also track US submarines

Elizabeth Claire Alberts, Kara Fox 24 Mar 2026

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