Ecology News

RSS
1081 stories
Fireflies illuminate the forest. Image by Roberto Marchegiani via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Loss of mangroves dims the light on firefly populations in Malaysia

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 15 Aug 2021

Platform presents unpublished data on Brazilian biodiversity

Ronaldo Ribeiro, Alan Azevedo, Letícia Klein 11 Aug 2021

In Indonesia, an unassuming brown bird is proof of turbo-charged evolution

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 10 Aug 2021

There’s still room to save Asia’s hoolock gibbons, study says, but only just

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 27 Jul 2021

Monks and wildlife come under pressure from Malaysian cement company

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 30 Jun 2021
Sabah’s remaining elephants are hemmed in by oil palm plantations, and scientists worry that stretches of the Pan Borneo Highway could further fragment the population. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

NGOs call for alternative routes for Bornean road to avoid wildlife habitat

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 29 Jun 2021

When it comes to carbon capture, tree invasions can do more harm than good

Liz Kimbrough 21 Jun 2021

New Attenborough film sounds alarm on planetary boundaries, but offers hope

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2021

On the Mongolian steppe, conservation science meets traditional knowledge

Jacopo Pasotti 2 Jun 2021

Study shows more than half of Cerrado’s cattle pasture can be restored

Maurício Angelo 13 May 2021

In Project Amazônia 2.0, communities and technology team up for nature

Débora Pinto 30 Apr 2021

Arctic biodiversity at risk as world overshoots climate planetary boundary

Gloria Dickie 29 Apr 2021

Threats loom large over Amazon’s Arrau turtles, despite record number of hatchlings

Suzana Camargo 17 Mar 2021

Pig nest-building promotes tree diversity in tropical forest: Study

John Cannon 15 Mar 2021

In Japan, scientists look to the past to save the future of grasslands

Marlowe Starling 8 Mar 2021
A Bornean orangutan. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

Forest patches amid agriculture are key to orangutan survival: Study

John Cannon 26 Feb 2021

Agroforestry and land reform give Brazil cacao farmers sweet taste of success

Patricia Moll 24 Feb 2021

Cat corridors between protected areas is key to survival of Cerrado’s jaguars

Romi Castagnino 16 Feb 2021
Two babirusa fighting in Indonesia. Image by Meldy Tamenge, edited by Cart, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Southeast Asian wild pigs confront deadly African swine fever epidemic

John Cannon 12 Feb 2021

Agroforestry-grown coffee gives Amazon farmers a sustainable alternative

Sibélia Zanon 11 Feb 2021

As the Amazon unravels into savanna, its wildlife will also suffer

Luís Patriani 10 Feb 2021

Study reveals how species once extinct in the wild have bounced back

Suzana Camargo 3 Feb 2021

‘Race against time’: Saving the snakes and lizards of Brazil’s Cerrado

Sharon Guynup 2 Feb 2021
The Durmitor Mountains and the Tara River Canyon in Montenegro. Image by Pudelek (Marcin Szala) via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Protesters hold back military takeover of Balkans’ largest mountain pasture

John Cannon 18 Jan 2021

Patches of Amazon untouched by humans still feel impact of climate change

Dimas Marques 13 Jan 2021
Gentoo penguins watching an iceberg. Image credit: Mongabay

We’re approaching critical climate tipping points: Q&A with Tim Lenton

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Jan 2021
A humpback whale off the coast of the northeastern U.S. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

11 notable books on conservation and the environment published in 2020

John Cannon 30 Dec 2020
Pine forest in the Sierra Nevada. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

Bold sustainability commitments: An interview with Microsoft’s Lucas Joppa

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Dec 2020

Restaura Cerrado: Saving Brazil’s savanna by reseeding and restoring it

Sarah Sax 14 Dec 2020

European money funds an Amazon dam, but affected residents haven’t seen much of it

Luna Gámez 14 Dec 2020
A bison in the holding pen. Image © Clay Bolt/WWF.

Hope and peace: Bison return to the Rosebud reservation

John Cannon 10 Dec 2020

Amazon initiative pays farmers and ranchers to keep the forest standing

Sibélia Zanon 24 Nov 2020

you're currently offline