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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
Mapuche Indigenous women prepare to commemorate the National Day of Indigenous People as part of celebrations of "We Tripantu," the Mapuche new year coinciding with the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, at the Original People's Ceremonial Park in Santiago, Chile, Monday, June 2023. Image by: AP Photo/Esteban Felix.

Indigenous land back in Chile brings mixed bag of environmental outcomes: Study

Aimee Gabay 9 Sep 2026

Carbon credit financing emerges as Africa’s biggest bet for expanding clean cooking

Associated Press 8 Sep 2026

In Panama’s Darién, Indigenous communities test a new way to fund conservation

María Paula Rubiano A. 7 Sep 2026
Researchers analyzed secondary forests in four municipalities in Pará state.

Key tree species boost Amazon forest restoration, new study shows

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Sep 2026
The southern greater kudu

South Africa’s new gold rush: Big promises, closed books in new carbon frontier

Leonie Joubert 3 Sep 2026
Smooth-coated otters (Lutrogale perspicillata) have a midday snack at Jurong Eco Garden, Singapore. Image by JJ Harrison via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Logging operations uncovered at Cambodian senator’s dam in the Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn 2 Sep 2026
Mangroves and Shorebirds in the Lamu area, Indian Ocean Coast of Kenya. Image by GRID-Arendal/Peter Prokosch via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

UN fund for sharing biodiversity benefits struggles for attention — and money

Mactilda Mbenywe 1 Sep 2026
Angora goats, which produce mohair. Image © Samantha Reinders.

South Africa’s new gold rush: Big money, high stakes in emerging spekboom restoration sector

Leonie Joubert 27 Aug 2026

Can REDD+ deliver for Philippines’ Iraya Mangyan?

Keith Anthony Fabro 26 Aug 2026

In Spain & South Africa, communities use restoration to ‘grow’ fire insurance (commentary)

Claire Patterson, Penelope Choussat 24 Aug 2026

Why carbon markets alone won’t save Southeast Asia’s concessions forests

Mongabay.com 19 Aug 2026
A golden-crowned sifaka in Madagascar. Image courtesy of Association Fanamby.

100 species on the brink get a $200m conservation lifeline

Shanna Hanbury 14 Aug 2026
Industrial complex surrounded by urban forest in Duisburg, Germany. Image courtesy of Jakub Żerdzicki via Pexels.

Carbon accounting differences can halve a company’s reported footprint, study finds

Shanna Hanbury 13 Aug 2026

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