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CRabin_Pinto_2012 Lúcio Flávio Pinto at home in 2012. Photo courtesy of Lúcio Flávio Pinto.

Amazon journalist endures, despite decades of threats and harassment

Cláudio Rabin 31 Mar 2016

Honduran environmental and indigenous rights activist, Berta Cáceres, is gunned down

Ruxandra Guidi 3 Mar 2016

Munduruku building new alliances to fight Tapajós Basin dams in Amazon

Guilherme Rosa from Repórter Brasil, Benjamin Blocksom translator 8 Feb 2016

Environmentalist gunned down by illegal miners in Peru

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Nov 2015

Crocodile conservationist awarded Field Museum’s prestigious prize

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Sep 2015
Armand Marozafy dismantling a poacher's trap within Masoala National Park in Madagascar in 2004. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Nature guide freed in Madagascar 5 months after arrest for exposing rosewood trade

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Sep 2015

2015 Equator Prize winners span 19 countries

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2015

Mining activist released after being charged with terrorism, rebellion in Ecuador

Jeremy Hance 11 Feb 2015

Peru’s first environment minister dies at 74

Julian Moll-rocek 7 Jan 2015

Indigenous leader murdered before he could attend Climate Summit

Jeremy Hance 8 Dec 2014

Jane Goodall: 5 reasons to have hope for the planet

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Nov 2014

A tale of 2 Perus: Climate Summit host, 57 murdered environmentalists

Jeremy Hance 18 Nov 2014

Daring activists use high-tech to track illegal logging trucks in the Brazilian Amazon

Jeremy Hance 15 Oct 2014

Jane Goodall joins mongabay

Jeremy Hance 13 Oct 2014

The only solution for polar bears: ‘stop the rise in CO2 and other greenhouse gases’

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 8 Oct 2014

What makes the jaguar the ultimate survivor? New books highlights mega-predator’s remarkable past and precarious future

Jeremy Hance 2 Oct 2014

Leonard DiCaprio to UN Climate Summit: ‘You can make history or you will be vilified by it’

Jeremy Hance 23 Sep 2014

‘The green Amazon is red with indigenous blood’: authorities pull bodies from river that may have belonged to slain leaders

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2014

Mongabay founder, Rhett Butler, wins Field Museum’s top conservation prize

Jeremy Hance 3 Sep 2014

Featured video: new Netflix documentary highlights the work of Sylvia Earle to save the oceans

Jeremy Hance 25 Aug 2014

Why conservationists need a little hope: saving themselves from becoming the most depressing scientists on the planet

Jeremy Hance 19 Aug 2014

World Ranger Day: honoring our wildlife protectors

Laurel Neme 31 Jul 2014

Pope Francis: ‘if we destroy Creation, Creation will destroy us!’

Jeremy Hance 28 May 2014

Lemur expert becomes first woman to win top conservation prize

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 May 2014

53 indigenous activists on trial for police-protester massacre in Peru

Jeremy Hance 15 May 2014

Indonesian activist wins Goldman Prize for fighting palm oil, deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Apr 2014

The remarkable story of how a bat scientist took on Russia’s most powerful…and won

Jeremy Hance 28 Apr 2014

Mother of God: meet the 26 year old Indiana Jones of the Amazon, Paul Rosolie

Jeremy Hance 17 Mar 2014

Assassination 25 years ago catalyzed movement to protect the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Dec 2013

UN talks tough to global coal industry

Jeremy Hance 19 Nov 2013

David Attenborough: someone who believes in infinite growth is ‘either a madman or an economist’

Mark Riley Cardwell 16 Oct 2013

Unlikely success: how Zimbabwe has become a global leader in rhino conservation

Jeremy Hance 2 Oct 2013

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