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‘Developed nations are not honoring their commitments’: DRC negotiator on biodiversity finance

Latoya Abulu 11 Nov 2026

Funding shortages threaten search for critically endangered ‘Asian unicorn’

Mongabay.com 11 Nov 2026

Greta Thunberg arrives at UN climate talks saying ‘everything we love is at stake’

Associated Press 10 Nov 2026
Forestry official looking at Asian elephant herd, Sarpang, Bhutan.

Rangers’ role must be built into biodiversity conservation commitments (commentary)

Madhu Rao, Nik Sekhran 9 Nov 2026
Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Tourism, Rebecca Miano, met with officials from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and other conservation partners ahead of presiding over the launch of a $160 million conservation-focused fund, Image courtesy of Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS).

Kenya launches $160 million conservation initiative to support communities and biodiversity

Lynet Otieno 6 Nov 2026
Elephants spotted by one of the camera traps. Image courtesy of Harmony with Wildlife.

Payment scheme in Botswana pays communities to coexist with wildlife

Anna Weekes 3 Nov 2026
Outdoor banner at the COP17 summit in Yerevan, Armenia. Image courtesy of Mike Muzurakis/IISD/ENB.

Global biodiversity summit ends with shortfall of funding for Africa, despite 30×30 push

Shanna Hanbury 3 Nov 2026
A Panama queen (Aphelandra sinclairiana). Image by John Cannon/Mongabay.

Leaders grapple with finance and harmful subsidies at UN’s COP17 biodiversity conference

John Cannon 31 Oct 2026
A fisher with an outboard motor on Pemba island, Tanzania. Image courtesy of Adrian Ponsard/WCS.

‘Design conservation with those who will live with it’: 30 by 30 in Africa

Sasha Nunneley 29 Oct 2026
At the beach, Pemba Island. Image courtesy of Adrian Ponsard/WCS.

Pemba’s new marine protected areas show the power of collaboration to meet 30×30 goal

Sasha Nunneley 29 Oct 2026
A koala.

‘Historic win’: Australian state approves national koala park despite controversial funding

Paul Harvey 29 Oct 2026

Netherlands pledges $500 million to help conserve tropical forests

David Brown 28 Oct 2026

Bezos Earth Fund and partners pledge $500m for threatened species recovery

David Akana 26 Oct 2026
Banner image: The Javari River where it forms the border between Peru and Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

IUCN’s Madhu Rao on the world’s protected areas: Progress, pressures and the race to 2030

David Akana 21 Oct 2026
Monitors from the Ticuna community of San Francisco de Yahuma, in Loreto, Peru. They use drones to monitor and protect their forests. Image courtesy of Joseph Zegarra/Rainforest Foundation US.

Delegates at biodiversity COP17 should follow the lead of Global South women (commentary)

Valentina Figuera Martínez 21 Oct 2026
Houses nearly submerged due to flooding in Sirajganj, 2020.

Bank credit remains scarce in Bangladesh where climate risks are highest

Sajibur Rahman 20 Oct 2026
Photo courtesy of Maliasili.

Navigating crisis and opportunity in conservation funding (commentary)

Fred Nelson 19 Oct 2026
Maasai at the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Image by Omar Gurnah via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Finance and Indigenous rights top Africans’ agenda as biodiversity summit opens in Yerevan

Ashoka Mukpo, John Cannon, Latoya Abulu, Terna Gyuse 19 Oct 2026
A Williams electric blue day gecko (Lygodactylus williamsi). Image by Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay.

Conservation is bringing species back. Governments must help those gains last

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Oct 2026
Giant kelp in Port Davey, Tasmania. Image courtesy of Stefan Andrews.

Funding uncertainty threatens Tasmania’s gains against kelp-grazing sea urchins

Amina McCauley 19 Oct 2026
Andean Cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruvianus). Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Nearly 90% of countries adopt biodiversity targets, but most remain off track

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Oct 2026

Fundraising to protect oceans, forests and other key nature sites falling short ahead of UN summit

Associated Press 16 Oct 2026
Vehicles navigate a flooded road in Mozambique’s Maputo province in January 2026. Forecasters warn that the developing El Niño could bring heavier rainfall and flooding to parts of East and Southern Africa. Image by AP Photo.

Act before El Niño: Expert worries about deepening hunger in East and South Africa

David Akana 14 Oct 2026

International pledge to fund forest rights exceeds target, but direct funding remains low

Aimee Gabay 7 Oct 2026
Savannah elephants in the Biliquo Bulesa conservancy in northern Kenya. Image by Ashoka Mukpo / Mongabay.

100 conservation projects are looking for funding after USAID’s closure

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Oct 2026
Orange-winged amazon (Amazona amazonica).

Brazil’s tropical forest fund races to raise $2.7 billion before deadline

Carla Ruas 24 Sep 2026
Giraffe inside the Sera Conservancy in northern Kenya. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo / Mongabay.

New report reveals the environmental cost of USAID’s destruction

Ashoka Mukpo 24 Sep 2026
The doll orchid is threatened due to extensive collection for the ornamental plant trade. Image courtesy of Bhathiya Gopallawa.

Biodiversity credits shouldn’t copy the carbon market playbook (commentary)

Jubanayan Saikia 24 Sep 2026

The Home Planet Fund succeeds by giving directly to local communities

Mike DiGirolamo 22 Sep 2026
Freediver and turtle

Tourism has the potential to reverse coral decline at Bali travel hotspot: Study

Carolyn Cowan 22 Sep 2026
Pirarucu fish on a boat on the Jurua River. Image courtesy of Joao Campos-Silva.

Community-based conservation is a good climate investment in Brazil & beyond (commentary)

Ana Cristina Barros, Carlos Eduardo Viveiros Grelle, Katia Ribeiro Torres 17 Sep 2026
Participant in forest restoration in the Annamite mountains in Vietnam.

Biodiversity corridor payments boost household incomes in Vietnam’s Annamite mountains

Carolyn Cowan 14 Sep 2026

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