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Cameroon inaugurates controversial dam despite local dissent

Yannick Kenné 10 Oct 2025
Amadiba Crisis Committee Protest at Mzamba Beach. Image courtesy of the Amadiba Crisis Committee.

Indigenous consent isn’t a ‘box-ticking’ exercise: Voices from the land (commentary)

Sinegugu Zukulu 6 Oct 2025
A fisher mends his net at Yettinahalla.

Turning a stream into a river: Inside India’s Yettinaholé diversion project

Shradha Triveni 2 Oct 2025
Jane with Uruhara pant-hooting, 1996. Photo by Michael Neugebauer

Jane Goodall (1934–2025): primatologist, conservationist, and messenger of hope

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Oct 2025
The Santa Marta Five. Image courtesy of Lisbeth Ayala.

Antimining activists cleared of ‘farce’ murder charges in El Salvador

Shanna Hanbury 1 Oct 2025
Datu Cornelio Melayao points to a patch of greenery tribal members reforested decades ago.

Philippine tribes revive reforestation to defy coal mining expansion

Bong S. Sarmiento 30 Sep 2025
A trash picker looks for recyclable plastics at a waste dump in Bali. Image by Jonas Gratzer for Mongabay.

Can courts combat plastic pollution? Lessons from Indonesia (commentary)

Syahriza Alkohir Anggoro 30 Sep 2025
Lina Ruiz and Lita Rojas outside of the court in Ucayali after hearing the first ruling. Image by Hugo Alejos.

Report finds 226 Indigenous land defenders in Peru at risk of violence

Yvette Sierra Praeli 29 Sep 2025

How we probed a maze of websites to tally Brazilian government shark meat orders

Philip Jacobson, Kuang Keng Kuek Ser 26 Sep 2025
A hunter in Colombia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

146 environmental defenders were killed or disappeared last year

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Sep 2025

Death of activist critical of geothermal project raises alarm in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Sep 2025
Shark meat is prepared for distribution at CEAGESP in São Paulo city,

Mongabay shark meat exposé sparks call for hearing and industry debate

Philip Jacobson, Karla Mendes, Lucas Berti 26 Aug 2025

Respite, for now, for bird migration hotspot at heart of Sri Lanka’s wind power dispute

Malaka Rodrigo 20 Aug 2025
Banner image of a school of grunts (Pomadasys incisus) in the Teno-Rasca Marine Strip by Diego Delso via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Goldman Prize winner’s shift from engineer to activist in Tenerife, Canary Islands

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2025
Shark meat on sale in Brazil is labeled as “cação,” a generic term whose true meaning is unknown to most Brazilians, surveys show.

Brazil’s shark meat problem

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2025
Rainbow over the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

People on nature’s frontlines aren’t waiting for miracles, says author Alan Weisman

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Aug 2025

Borneo killing linked to coal industry stays unsolved as Indonesia VP visits Dayak village

Muhibar Sobary Ardan 12 Aug 2025

Sri Lanka plans restoring revoked protection for an important mangrove patch in the island’s North

Malaka Rodrigo 8 Aug 2025
The sun rises on the Salween River, which serves as a vital lifeline for Karen communities on both sides of the Thai-Myanmar border. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Asia’s longest free-flowing river faces threats of dams and diversions

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2025

Jailed Vietnamese civil society leader wins award, boosting calls for his release

Jenny Denton 1 Aug 2025

That ‘fish’ on the menu? In Brazil’s schools and prisons, it’s often shark

Philip Jacobson, Karla Mendes, Kuang Keng Kuek Ser 29 Jul 2025

Sri Lanka Supreme Court orders $1 bn payment in X Press Pearl marine disaster

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Jul 2025
Indigenous Lumad women hold slogans during a rally outside a military headquarters in the Philippines in 2018

Across Southeast Asia, Indigenous women challenge extraction and erasure

Hướng Thiện 25 Jul 2025

An aging leopard’s suffering sparks ethical debate in Sri Lanka

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2025
Ly Chandaravuth, Mother Nature Cambodia activist. Image © Andy Ball.

The price of protecting what’s left in Cambodia

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Jul 2025

Indonesia moves to revise sea sand export policy after court ruling

Basten Gokkon, M Ambari 18 Jul 2025
Emergent tree in the Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

To change the environment, change the narrative

Mike DiGirolamo 15 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 iconic wild leopard ages in Sri Lanka, debate about human intervention ensues

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Jun 2025

An overlooked biocultural landscape in Sri Lanka receives overdue protection

Malaka Rodrigo 24 Jun 2025

As a fishing port rises in Kenya, locals see threats to sea life, livelihoods

Anthony Langat 23 Jun 2025
Banner image of drought in Brazil in 2023. Image by AP Photo/Edmar Barros.

Vatican-backed report calls for global debt relief amid climate crisis

Kristine Sabillo 20 Jun 2025

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