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In Mozambique, four isolated mountains yield four new chameleon species

Naina Rao 8 May 2026
Banner image of African elephants by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

African elephant genomes reveal ancient mixing — and modern pressures

David Brown 8 May 2026
Fishers in the Mekong River near Chiang Khong, Thailand. Elevated arsenic levels at testing sites in the Mekong indicate that contamination may be spreading into this vital waterway. Image by Stefan Lovgren.

Dangerous arsenic levels detected in Thailand’s Mekong mainstream for first time

Gerald Flynn 8 May 2026
Filmmaker and workshop facilitator Natália Tupi guiding student Maicon Santos in audiovisual techniques during the workshop in the Tukum village, Tupinambá de Olivença Territory (Bahia, Brazil). Image courtesy of Emma Latham Phillips.

What Indigenous youth filmmaking reveals about environmental communication (commentary)

Jamille Pinheiro Dias 7 May 2026
Jerry Jangala running a question-and-answer session out on country for participants in the workshop. Image by Anthony Ham.

Using songlines, elders codify traditional knowledge to care for Country

Anthony Ham 7 May 2026
Male cock-of-the-rock birds in Peru's Kosñipata valley. Image credit: Rhett A. Butler

Climate change could erase most South American cloud forests, study warns

Liz Kimbrough 7 May 2026
Burned-over forest in the Brazilian state of Acre, one of the epicenters of deforestation in the Amazon.

Deforestation and warming could push Amazon to tipping point by 2040s: Study

Sean Mowbray 7 May 2026
Deforestation, climate change, and trade pose threats to the species, which has dwindled to a few hundred from some 750,000 in the 1960s.

US proposes endangered species protections for an imperiled Jamaican butterfly

Spoorthy Raman 7 May 2026

Cerrado’s hidden carbon highlights gaps in Brazil’s conservation policy

Daniel Shailer 7 May 2026
Tufted-tailed rat (Eliurus sp) in Madagascar. Photo by Elise Paietta

In one forest, native rats remain. In another, only invaders.

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 May 2026
During prolonged floods, many residents of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta are unable to grow and harvest crops. NGOs have stepped in to help with basic food supplies and cash during times of crisis. Image courtesy of Anh Duong Community Development and Support Center.

The world’s great deltas are sinking — and with them, a global food system

Petro Kotzé 6 May 2026

A baby boom for North Atlantic right whales, but extinction still a threat

Bobby Bascomb 6 May 2026
A koala.

Australia’s new national park links habitat to protect koalas

Johan Augustin 6 May 2026

Climate change, socioeconomic shifts threaten Nepal’s yak herding traditions

Mongabay.com 6 May 2026

Overtourism threatens Sri Lanka’s leopards

Mongabay.com 6 May 2026
Cattle walk along an illegally burnt deforested area near Novo Progresso, in the northern Brazilian state of Para. Image by AP Photo / Andre Penner.

Despite restrictions, forest loss continued on Ituna land, home to isolated people

Aimee Gabay 5 May 2026
Dried daisy stingrays in stacks at a fish landing site in southern Senegal with sea in background.

In Senegal, artisanal fishing kills a surprising number of sharks and rays: study

Victoria Schneider 5 May 2026
Scientists from Konservasi International satellite tagging a whale shark.

A 10-year whale shark satellite study helps create new protected area in Indonesia

Claire Turrell 5 May 2026
A Venezuela snouted treefrog. Image by Taucce et al., 2022, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Study finds microplastics in tadpoles in the Amazon for the first time

David Brown 5 May 2026
Louis Vuitton bag.

EU moves to drop leather from deforestation law after industry lobbying

Elisângela Mendonça 5 May 2026
A controlled burn in north east Victoria over the autumn period to reduce fuel load for summer fires. Photo: Michael Reid

Australia’s declining tree health is a slow-burning crisis (commentary)

Michael Reid, Ted Alter 5 May 2026

Iceland plans to resume whale hunting this summer

Bobby Bascomb 4 May 2026

Endangered whale protections may be delayed to 2035 under Trump-backed plan

Associated Press 4 May 2026
A forest in Costa Rica. The country is considered a pioneer in a forest protection mechanism that has helped drastically reverse deforestation. Image by Rhett Butler.

Can listening to a forest reveal whether it is ecologically healthy?

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 May 2026
Green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) feeding on seagrass. Image courtesy of Liam McGuire via Ocean Image Bank.

With its first marine reserve, Ghana protects its ocean to secure its future (commentary)

Emelia Arthur 4 May 2026
image courtesy of Victor Moriyama/Climate Visuals.

Solar installation and deforestation in the Amazon: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 4 May 2026
Fishers collect their nets on the Sesan River, just a few hundred meters from the O’Ta Bouk-Sesan confluence. Fishers who use the O’Ta Bouk told Mongabay that their catches have declined significantly over the past three years. Photo by Andy Ball/Mongabay.

Cambodia tested waters amid pollution claims; months later, still no public results

Andy Ball, Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 4 May 2026
Tierney Thys with sunfish. Photo by Mike Johnson / Earth Window

Tierney Thys, marine biologist and interpreter of the sunfish

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 May 2026
The Golden dorado (Salminus brasiliensis), a powerful migratory freshwater fish native to the Pantanal and Paraná River Basin, shown here being held by researcher Zeb Hogan. Highly prized by recreational anglers and important to commercial fisheries, the species has declined in parts of its range due to dam construction.

Migratory freshwater fish are in trouble: Will we act in time to save them?

Stefan Lovgren 1 May 2026

World’s largest shark conference is set to begin in Sri Lanka next week

Malaka Rodrigo 1 May 2026
Raffles’ banded langur, courtesy of Andie Ang.

Singapore’s population of Raffles’ banded langur has doubled

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 May 2026
Most of Chi’s annual income comes from selling apricot blossoms — a symbol of luck and prosperity in Vietnam — around Lunar New Year.

Saline intrusion in Mekong Delta leaves farmers and scientists at odds

Minh L Tran 30 Apr 2026

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