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‘The water is brown’: Community in Guyana rings the alarm over unsustainable mining near river

David Papannah, Laurel Sutherland 11 Aug 2022
Northern muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus), found in the Neotropics. Image courtesy of Priscila Pereira.

Indigenous lands, knowledge are essential for saving primates from extinction, says new study

Kimberley Brown 11 Aug 2022

Indonesia backtracks on plan criticized for ‘privatizing’ fisheries resources

Basten Gokkon 11 Aug 2022
Nepal Beni jomsom road construction

No critical examination of flawed environmental assessments in Nepal, experts say

Abhaya Raj Joshi 11 Aug 2022

Analysis: Pesticides are creating a biodiversity crisis in Europe

Juliet Ferguson - Investigate Europe 11 Aug 2022
Yasmin trails her son Junaidi on their farm.

Photos: Meet the Indonesians on the front lines of human-elephant conflict in Sumatra

Fieni Aprilia 11 Aug 2022
Chhum Rotha and his fellow monks join the replanting efforts in Phnom Tamao.

Cambodian government cancels development of Phnom Tamao forest amid outcry

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 11 Aug 2022

Love ‘em and loathe ‘em: Mediterranean grapples with tasty, voracious invasive crabs

Guia Baggi 10 Aug 2022

Overlooked and at risk, seagrass is habitat of choice for many small-scale fishers

Basten Gokkon 10 Aug 2022
Camera trap image of an adult male and a baby gorilla in Ebo Forest.

Study highlights elusive Cameroonian gorillas, and the threats encircling them

Ryan Truscott 10 Aug 2022
Gorillas in Cameroon.

Private road sparks fears for Cameroon’s Ebo Forest

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 10 Aug 2022

In Brazil’s Amazon, traditional midwives push for greater recognition

Luís Patriani 10 Aug 2022
A herd of elephants in Cot Girek.

‘Chased from every side’: Sumatran elephants pinned down by forest loss

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 10 Aug 2022
Scarlet macaws in flight over the Amazon rainforest in Peru. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

‘Birds are messengers’: Q&A with BirdLife’s Patricia Zurita

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Aug 2022
A Sherpa with a yak at the base camp of Sagarmatha.

‘Sherpas’ real stories are seldom written’: Q&A with authors Ankit Babu Adhikari & Pradeep Bashyal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 9 Aug 2022
Cattle ranch in Mato Grosso

New Brazil bill puts cattle pasture over Pantanal wetland

Sarah Brown 9 Aug 2022
An Asian elephant in a forest in Bangladesh

Bangladesh struggles to protect the last of its last wild elephants

Rafiqul Islam 9 Aug 2022

Saving Sumatran elephants starts with counting them. Indonesia won’t say how many are left

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 8 Aug 2022
Farmers work at a paddy field in Nepal.

Lack of timely rains, fertilizer hits rice farmers in Nepal’s granary

Abhaya Raj Joshi 8 Aug 2022

Study warns of increased poaching if road through Brazil’s Iguaçu is reopened

Suzana Camargo 8 Aug 2022
Rehabilitation of coral reefs in commemoration of Coral Triangle Day 2022 in Oesina Beach.

‘Spiderwebs’ to the rescue for Indonesia’s coral reefs

Agustinus Wijayanto, Warief Djajanto Basorie 7 Aug 2022

Amid haggling over deep-sea mining rules, chorus of skepticism grows louder

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Aug 2022
A crane lifts an elephant into a truck.

Jumbo task as Malawi moves 263 elephants to restock a degraded national park

Charles Mpaka 5 Aug 2022
A male Barbary macaque with a baby.

Hundreds of iconic Barbary macaques feared dead in Morocco forest fire

Anna Weekes 5 Aug 2022

In Indonesia’s forest fire capital, the dry season brings yet more burning

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Aug 2022
A Nepali honey collector.

Billions rely on wild species for food, energy and more: IPBES report

John Cannon 5 Aug 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

We’ve crossed the land use change planetary boundary, but solutions await

Liz Kimbrough 4 Aug 2022

Mongabay’s What-To-Watch list for August 2022

Mongabay.com 4 Aug 2022

For Brazil’s Indigenous people, slavery born of colonization still hasn’t ended

Lais Modelli 4 Aug 2022

Big banks fund the heavy machinery used for Amazon deforestation, report says

Maxwell Radwin 4 Aug 2022
Children fishing in Thailand.

‘It sustains us all’: IPBES report calls for accounting of nature’s diverse values

John Cannon 4 Aug 2022

Farmer-to-farmer agroecology: Q&A with Chukki Nanjundaswamy of Amrita Bhoomi Learning Centre

Anna Lappé 3 Aug 2022

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