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An orangutan under treatment.

Severe malaria cases in rescued orangutans raises concerns for wild populations

Sean Mowbray 20 Oct 2022
A guigna.

Wild cats threatened by ‘underrecognized’ risk of spillover disease

Sean Mowbray 13 Oct 2022
Adam, one of the residents of Rusunawa Marunda.

For residents of Jakarta’s port district, coal is the neighbor no one wants

Fadiyah Alaidrus 27 Jul 2022
Arabica coffee growing under a shade of trees. Image courtesy of Noel Rojo.

Farmers in Mexico fight coffee disease with resistant varieties and agroforestry

Magdaléna Rojo 15 Jun 2022

Study warns of risk from feline viruses to wild cats on the palm oil frontier

Sean Mowbray 26 May 2022
The spotted tody-flycatcher, native to South America and the Caribbean, hunts insects alone or in pairs, and is well-adapted to humans, happy in forest or overgrown pasture. Image courtesy of Alexander Lees.

Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ 60 years on: Birds still fading from the skies

Sharon Guynup 23 May 2022
A busy morning on the streets in Vietnam.

9m deaths a year from pollution, the ‘largest existential threat’ to humans

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 May 2022
A migrant fisherman in Thailand.

Wage-related abuses in fishing industry exacerbated by pandemic response

Annelise Giseburt 12 May 2022
Different species of vultures congregated together.

Conservation win for Bangladesh as efforts to halt vulture decline pay off

Abu Siddique 12 May 2022
Premsinee in the ruin of her old school.

Thai gold mine blamed for sickening local villagers is set to reopen

Kannikar Petchkaew 10 May 2022

Illegal miners bring sexual violence and disease to Indigenous reserve in Brazil

Lais Modelli 28 Apr 2022
rhino and car

Study finds high prevalence of gut parasites in Nepal’s rhinos

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Apr 2022
In lab animals and humans, dysfunction of the gut microbiome has been linked to digestive diseases.

Unseen crisis: Threatened gut microbiome also offers hope for world

Claire Asher 26 Apr 2022
Pangolin_by Rhett Butler

‘A risky business’: Online illegal wildlife trade continues to soar in Myanmar

Carolyn Cowan 4 Apr 2022

Call for COVID rules that reduced infections in gorilla parks to remain

Ryan Truscott 24 Feb 2022

Preventing the next pandemic is vastly cheaper than reacting to it: Study

Sharon Guynup 4 Feb 2022
Fire line moves through a degraded forest area in an undesignated public forest area in Porto Velho, Rondônia on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2021

As the Amazon burns, its Indigenous inhabitants choke on the haze

Valéria Santana and Juliana Ennes 23 Dec 2021

Lockdown underscores Uganda’s overreliance on tourism to fund conservation

Nangayi Guyson 21 Dec 2021

Uganda’s ‘Dr. Gladys’ honored by U.N. for work linking conservation and health

Malavika Vyawahare 13 Dec 2021

In a warming world, deforestation turns the heat deadly, Borneo study finds

Grace Dungey 25 Nov 2021

‘To change policies, insert yourself in them’: Q&A with biologist Liliana Dávalos

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 29 Oct 2021

COVID could wreak havoc on gorillas, but they social distance better than we do

Ryan Truscott 22 Oct 2021

In harm’s way: Our actions put people and wildlife at risk of disease

Sharon Guynup 20 Oct 2021

Biosurveillance of markets and legal wildlife trade needed to curb pandemic risk: Experts

Gloria Dickie 14 Oct 2021
Endangered black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes). Image courtesy of Kimberly Fraser/USFWS.

Black-footed ferrets riding out COVID-19 with a vaccine and a lot of TLC

Rachel Fritts 27 Sep 2021

Congo’s bongos are in danger, and curbs on trophy hunting could save them

Malavika Vyawahare 24 Sep 2021

Fashions to die for: The fur trade’s role in spreading zoonotic disease

Jenny Gonzales 15 Sep 2021

Borneo’s bearded pigs and traditional hunters adapted to oil palms. Then came swine fever

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 8 Sep 2021

Illegal mining in Colombia’s Amazon threatens Indigenous communities

Carol Sánchez 24 Aug 2021

Not just for humans — scientists turn to vaccines to save endangered species

Gloria Dickie 20 Aug 2021

In Brazil’s Acre, smoke from fires threatens health, could worsen COVID-19

Liz Kimbrough 18 Aug 2021

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