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Forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) inhabit the dense rainforests of Central Africa.

Top-down projects, exotic trees, weak tenure: Congo Basin restoration misses the mark

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 12 Dec 2025
A mother and infant Tapanuli orangutan were directly sighted in the Lumut Maju peat swamp forest in North Sumatra. Image by Junaidi Hanafiah/Mongabay-Indonesia.

Sumatran flood disaster may have wiped out a key Tapanuli orangutan population, scientists fear

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Dec 2025
In this 2016 image, then-U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power (left), and then- Cameroonian Minister of Forestry and Wildlife Philip Ngole Ngwese (right), attend the destruction of some 2,000 illegally trafficked elephant tusks and ivory products.

African environment programs still try to fill funding gap since USAID freeze

Fanta Mabo 11 Dec 2025

Global manta and devil ray deaths far exceed earlier estimates: Study

Keith Anthony Fabro 11 Dec 2025

Africa’s wildlife has lost a third of its ‘ecological power,’ study says

Malavika Vyawahare 11 Dec 2025
Mangroves within the Douala-Edéa Wildlife Reserve.

As fish catches fall and seas rise, Douala’s residents join efforts to restore mangroves

Ngala Chimtom 11 Dec 2025
Planting trees in Rwanda's Nyabihu district. Image courtesy Serrah Galos / WRI.

‘My mother would not be happy with the state of the planet’: Interview with Wanjira Mathai

David Akana 11 Dec 2025
The African golden cat (Caracal aurata) is a medium-sized felid (though it’s classified as one of the world’s 33 small cat species). In Echuya Forest, it’s the largest predator remaining due to the extirpation of leopards from that forest.

Small cat conservationists hail Uganda’s new Echuya Forest National Park

Sean Mowbray 11 Dec 2025
kathmandu aerial view

Nepal’s cities must plan for resilience and inclusion for the future & nature (commentary)

Hitesh Raj Pant 11 Dec 2025

Mexico is inflating its climate spending by billions of dollars. Here’s how.

Maxwell Radwin 11 Dec 2025

Despite a growing planetary crisis, leaders find hope in community efforts

David Akana 11 Dec 2025
A herd of elephants crosses the M10 highway en route to the Zambezi River, Zambia.

Corridors, not culls, offer solution to Southern Africa’s growing elephant population

Ryan Truscott 11 Dec 2025
Gray wolf: Image credits: John and Karen Hollingsworth/USFWS

Choosing coexistence over conflict: How some California ranchers are adapting to wolves

Spoorthy Raman 11 Dec 2025
Forest elephants

Wildlife and communities bear the cost as Simandou rail corridor advances across Guinea

Younoussa Naby Sylla 11 Dec 2025
A diver swimming close to a female sperm whale pod.

Unregulated tourism risks disrupting Timor-Leste’s whale migration

Robin Hicks 11 Dec 2025
This sea cucumbers belongs to the same family as sea pigs and swims in search of food and to escape predators. Behind it is a stalked glass sponge.

Deep-sea mining interests raise alarms among Mariana Trench communities

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Dec 2025
The Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Real-time deforestation alerts get an AI boost to identify the causes

Abhishyant Kidangoor 10 Dec 2025
Smoke rises from a coal-burning power plant. Refuse-derived fuel (RDF), which includes large amounts of plastics, is replacing fossil fuels in some energy and industrial furnaces. But critics say this practice is merely replacing one dirty fuel for another.

Boom in burning waste for fuel could put human health and environment at risk

Sean Mowbray 10 Dec 2025
A juvenile white sturgeon in Canada.

With a target on their bellies, can California’s sturgeon survive?

Laurel Neme 10 Dec 2025
A woman gathers plants along the banks of the Mekong River while a child plays in the background. Water levels of the mighty Mekong River have dropped drastically due to drought-like conditions and damming upstream. The drop disrupts the region’s water supply, transport routes, and the livelihood of communities in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts that more than one billion people will face water shortages due to climate change. Credit: © Greenpeace / Vinai Dithajohn

New mapping reveals hidden mining boom in Laos that threatens the Mekong

Andy Ball, Gerald Flynn, Konlaphat Siri 10 Dec 2025

Hope, solidarity & disappointment: A familiar mix for Indigenous delegates at COP30

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Dec 2025

What would this scientist tell Trump? Interview with Robert Watson, former chair of the IPCC

David Akana 9 Dec 2025
Fishing gear. Image courtesy of Thomas Merritt via Unsplash.

‘Myopic’ fisheries managers toy with a new ‘tragedy of the commons’ (commentary)

Charles Clover 9 Dec 2025
Soda schweinfurthii, a desert subshrub, native to arid regions from Egypt to the Arabian Peninsula.

Can we create new inland seas to lower sea level rise? Interview with researcher Amir AghaKouchak

Jeremy Hance 9 Dec 2025
Iain Douglas-Hamilton. Image courtesy Save the Elephants.

Iain Douglas-Hamilton, elephant protector, has died at 83

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Dec 2025

Stricter rules adopted to protect sloths from pet trade and selfie tourism

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Dec 2025
Men stand on logs swept away by flash flood in Batang Toru, North Sumatra, Dec. 2.

Death toll rises in Sumatra flood catastrophe as gov’t moves to protect Batang Toru forest

Achmad Rizki Muazam, Ayat S. Karokaro, Taufik Wijaya 9 Dec 2025
Atlantic blue tang surgeonfish (Acanthurus coeruleus). Photo by Sylfred1977 / Wikimedia Commons

New underwater acoustic camera identifies individual fish sounds, helping track threatened species

Kaia Glickman 9 Dec 2025
greater mouse-deer

Reforestation and wild pig decline spark surge in miniature deer in Singapore

Carolyn Cowan 8 Dec 2025

Global leaders seek action on environment, despite divide

David Akana 8 Dec 2025
African lions, a coalition of two brothers in Zambia. Photo by Julie Larsen © Wildlife Conservation Society.

Mongabay expands its newsroom with launch of dedicated Wildlife Desk

Mongabay.com 8 Dec 2025
A soy plantation borders native Cerrado vegetation, highlighting pressures on Brazil’s ecosystems and the need for community-led bioeconomy alternatives.

New financial tools boost traditional bioeconomy projects in the Amazon

Sarah Brown 8 Dec 2025

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