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Global map of Earth’s mycorrhizal fungal networks could help protect them

Liz Kimbrough 15 Jun 2026
Deforestation is considered the most dangerous activity driving infectious zoonotic disease outbreaks. Image by Kathas_Fotos.

We must prevent the next pandemic, not build perfect conditions for it (commentary)

Chris Walzer 15 Jun 2026
Birds like the white-throated toucan (Ramphastos tucanus), which builds its nests in the hollows of tall trees, can no longer find them for nesting. Image by Fernando Flores via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Growing appetite for açaí is damaging bird diversity in the Amazon

Suzana Camargo 15 Jun 2026
Recent fires in the Amazon Rainforest degraded a large portion of the world’s primary forests. Image © Marizilda Cruppe/Greenpeace.

Amazon deforestation alerts fall to lowest 12-month level since 2014, show Brazilian data

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Jun 2026
Soy plantations amid savanna vegetation in Maranhão state, Brazil. Image courtesy of Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil.

Amazon deforestation declines as Brazil reduces forest loss nationwide

Shanna Hanbury 12 Jun 2026
Women and girls from Capirona gather to collect stones and make water filters, as part of the community experiment developed in partnership with the Yachana Foundation. Image courtesy of the Yachana Foundation.

In Ecuador, an Indigenous community goes thirsty despite its two rivers

Gabriela Verdezoto Landívar 12 Jun 2026
Under pressure from expanding soybean cultivation and transport infrastructure, protected areas in the Jamanxim region could become even more vulnerable. Image courtesy of Vinícius Mendonça/Ibama.

Brazil carves an Amazon national park to make room for grain railway

André Schröder 11 Jun 2026

Sri Lanka leopard deaths prevalent in region where humans and big cats overlap

Malaka Rodrigo 11 Jun 2026

Environmental group intervenes in lawsuit to help orangutans, tigers in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Jun 2026
Train hauling coal between Moatize and Nacala in 2018. Image by Matthias Hille via Wikicommons (CC BY 4.0)

Improved transport opens Mozambique’s forests to new pressures

Mkhululi Chimoio 11 Jun 2026
Cattle in Maticurú

Colombia passes landmark cattle traceability law to combat illegal deforestation

Maxwell Radwin 9 Jun 2026

Taiwan’s tallest tree found with help of citizen science

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jun 2026
Some of the more than 4,000 fishers who make their living in the waterways of Elephant Marsh. Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

Malawi’s Elephant Marsh: The challenge of protecting a wetland that sustains thousands

Charles Mpaka 8 Jun 2026
Turquoise dwarf gecko (Lygodactylus williamsi). Image © Simon via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

How trade bans and local conservation helped save a dazzling blue gecko

Manuel Fonseca 6 Jun 2026
The Yavarí-Tapiche Territorial Corridor from above on the Peruvian side, near the Peru-Brazil border.

In Peru and Brazil, extractivism threatens Indigenous people in isolation: Report

Aimee Gabay 5 Jun 2026
Phuon Keorasmey, 23, a prominent figure in Mother Nature Cambodia, is arrested on July 2, 2024. Image courtesy of Licadho.

Rights groups renew call to free jailed Cambodian environmental activists

Gerald Flynn 5 Jun 2026
Oxysternon festivum, the most common dung beetle found in the study. Image by Tom Murray via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Gold mining damages dung beetle communities in the Amazon, study finds

David Brown 4 Jun 2026
A Mongabay investigation team visited the Ucayali region of the Peruvian Amazon where Mennonites are illegally converting pristine forests in the Peruvian Amazon into agricultural land. Image by Romi Castagnino for Mongabay.

It’s time to engage Mennonite communities in reducing deforestation across Latin America (analysis)

Timothy J. Killeen 3 Jun 2026

Can deforestation predict Ebola outbreaks? Q&A with CDC’s Carson Telford

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Jun 2026
Gangala Yafali Mangusa Jr. poses for a photo after a community meeting on social cohesion within the Local Community Forest Concession (CFCL). Image by Jéremie Kyaswekera Kakule.

Descendants of people pushed out for DRC national park lead forest conservation efforts

Jérémie Kyaswekera 2 Jun 2026
Survivors inspect clothings they salvaged at a village affected by a flash flood in Batang Toru, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

Survivors sue Indonesian government over response to catastrophic Sumatra floods

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Jun 2026
Brooklyn Rivera. Photo courtesy of La Prensa,

Brooklyn Rivera, defender of Nicaragua’s Indigenous lands, dies in detention

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jun 2026

In Brazil, a project paying farmers for forests is looking to scale up

Constance Malleret 1 Jun 2026
Deforestation for oil palm plantation in Borneo, Indonesia.

IMF lending programs linked with deforestation should be rethought (commentary)

Timon Forster, Rishikesh Ram Bhandary, Kevin P. Gallagher 29 May 2026
Camera trap image of an adult male and a baby gorilla in Ebo Forest.

Report alleges élite ties behind logging permits in Cameroon’s Ebo Forest

Ashoka Mukpo 29 May 2026

For Honduran coffee growers, EUDR compliance means changing old habits

Sandra Weiss 29 May 2026
Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

The Amazon’s path from crisis to durability

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 May 2026
Environmental police operation against illegal deforestation in Espigão do Oeste, Rondônia in the Brazilian Amazon. Image courtesy of Fernando Augusto/Ibama.

Brazil Congress passes bill to bar use of Amazon deforestation satellite tool

Shanna Hanbury 28 May 2026

Has Ecuador started fracking? New oil project causes confusion and concern

Maxwell Radwin 28 May 2026
The common squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus) is one of 63 species that can be recognized by TropiCam-AI.

Most wildlife AI focuses on the ground. This model looks up in the trees

Abhishyant Kidangoor 28 May 2026

European Commission linked leather to deforestation, then ignored it

Elisângela Mendonça, Emmanuelle Picaud 28 May 2026
Forest cleared for oil palm plantations in Sabah, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Loopholes undermine palm oil industry’s antideforestation pledges

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 May 2026

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