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In Sri Lanka, animals pay the price for overcrowding and speeding jeeps

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 17 Apr 2026
View of the landscape where the reforestation corridor project is located in eastern Madagascar.

A reforestation corridor in Madagascar offers a future for lemurs and locals

Marina Martinez 14 Apr 2026
Elephants in Dzanga Bai in Dzanga-Sangha Special Reserve, Central African Republic. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

The little-known story of emerging ecotourism in the Central African Republic

David Akana 8 Apr 2026
Banteng

How wild cattle recovery is transforming local livelihoods near key Thai reserve

Carolyn Cowan 2 Apr 2026

Indonesia plan to rezone elephant reserve for carbon trading and tourism sparks backlash

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Mar 2026

Cyclone Ditwah exposes climate risks to nature-based tourism in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 24 Dec 2025

In Peru, community-led camera trapping boosts conservation and ecotourism

Astrid Arellano 16 Dec 2025
Water in the cave.

Protecting Vietnam’s vast caves may have sparked a wildlife comeback

Joshua Zukas 13 Nov 2025
Mount Mulanje in southeastern Malawi. Known as the “Island in the Sky,” Mount Mulanje, with 13 peaks and high-altitude basins, is rich in biodiversity with over 70 endemic species and provides surrounding communities with freshwater, natural forest products and essential protection from storms. Image by David Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr

‘A big no’: Opposition grows to proposed mine in Malawi’s newest UNESCO site

Ruth Kamnitzer 4 Nov 2025
Abu Nessma at the café by the sea.

‘A very successful story’: An Egypt tribe welcomes tourists & protects its coast

Victoria Schneider 27 Oct 2025
One of the last nesting beaches of green sea turtles and extremely rare leatherback turtles on Misali, the most likely site for a new hotel complex. Image by Tim Caro.

Zanzibar must act to conserve its natural & cultural heritage for the future (commentary)

Tim Caro 22 Oct 2025

Study spotlights West Papua habitat as whale sharks face increased pressures

Basten Gokkon 28 Sep 2025
Artist's conception of a manumea, Samoa's 'little dodo.' Image via Samoa Conservation Society fundraising page.

Funding is needed to save Samoa’s ‘little dodo’ from extinction (commentary)

Gianluca Serra 18 Sep 2025

In Brazil’s Pantanal, too many tourists may be the jaguar’s new predator

Francesco Schneider-Eicke 8 Sep 2025

Rewilding project aims to restore resilience to fire-prone Spain via wildlife

Jeremy Hance 28 Aug 2025
A white rhino in a community conservation area with tourists in the background. Image courtesy of James Ward / Rewild Safaris.

The safari industry’s ‘conservation-washing’ is a growing problem (commentary)

Tom LaRock 26 Aug 2025
The Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Ecuador’s new protected areas law sparks debate over security, development

Maxwell Radwin 23 Jul 2025
Mark Erdmann releasing a thresher shark. Photo courtesy of Mark Erdmann.

Sharks didn’t rebound—so Mark Erdmann is putting them back

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Jul 2025
Small islands in Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler. 

Listings of Indonesian islands renew fears of privatization for coastal communities

Basten Gokkon 8 Jul 2025

As Thailand’s fishing cats face habitat loss & conflict, experts seek resolution

Carolyn Cowan 3 Jul 2025

After USAID cut, Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area aims for self-sufficiency

Solomon Yimer 27 Jun 2025
bird Colombia

In Colombia, bird-watching brings tourism and a love for conservation

Charlie Cordero 23 Jun 2025
A seaweed farmer on Nusa Lembongan flashes a warm, cheeky smile as she moves through her daily harvesting routine.

Indonesian women sustain seaweed traditions in a changing climate

Maddy Bolt 10 Jun 2025

Kumana, a historic national park in eastern Sri Lanka, emerges as leopard stronghold

Malaka Rodrigo 5 May 2025

A Kichwa women’s collective uses ecotourism to safeguard Ecuador’s Amazon

Ana Cristina Alvarado 1 Apr 2025
Sunset over Belize. Image courtesy of Chadwick Hagan.

Belize’s natural heritage deserves even stronger conservation strategies (commentary)

Chadwick Hagan 31 Mar 2025

The vanishing trail of Sri Lanka’s iconic tuskers calls for urgent action

Malaka Rodrigo 21 Mar 2025

In a land where monkeys are seen as pests, Sri Lanka’s white langurs are winning hearts

Malaka Rodrigo 17 Mar 2025
Wild male saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) visiting a waterhole at the Stepnoi Sanctuary, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. Photo credit: Andrey Giljov [CC BY-SA 4.0]

Financing conservation of Central Asia’s endangered mammals on World Wildlife Day and every day (commentary)

Anne Neumann, Christiane Röttger, Johannes Stahl 3 Mar 2025
frailejon tree paramo Ecuador

In Ecuador, a mountain shrub could hold the key to restoring a precious ecosystem

Christina Noriega 5 Feb 2025
Marco Andres Vizcaino Garcia is a top naturalist guide in the Galápagos National Park and its adjacent marine reserve. Image by Erik Hoffner for Mongabay.

As Gálapagos ecotourism booms, top naturalist guide urges sustainability

Erik Hoffner 22 Jan 2025
Domesticated yaks ferry essential supplies on the Sagarmatha trekking trail. Image by Shashwat Pant.

Helicopters slash the trek to Earth’s highest peak, but leave Sherpas grounded

Shashwat Pant 21 Jan 2025

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