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Satellite image of Lake Chad. Image courtesy of Maxar.

Ani Dasgupta watched wetlands tame floods in Kigali. He believes nature is infrastructure we can fund.

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Sep 2025
A Verreaux’s sifaka dancing.

Madagascar’s dry forests need attention, and Verreaux’s sifakas could help

Mino Rakotovao 15 Sep 2025
Lead vaccine researcher Peter Timms with a koala. Image courtesy of UniSC Australia.

Australia approves the world’s first chlamydia vaccine for koalas

Shanna Hanbury 15 Sep 2025

Hyped reports of soaring Sri Lanka elephant deaths don’t match data

Mongabay.com 15 Sep 2025
Rainforest creek in Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler

The carbon market paradox: Steve Zwick on why financing forests is more complicated than it looks

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Sep 2025
An Indigenous Tikuna man in the Amazon Rainforest in Colombia. Some researchers oppose the idea that human cultures would have been limited and determined by the environment, and that supports the notion that human cultures have modified the environment as desired. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Forests on Indigenous lands help protect health in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Sep 2025

Indonesia reopens Raja Ampat nickel mine despite reef damage concerns

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Sep 2025

Indonesia flooding traced to corporate canals that drain peatlands: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Sep 2025
A forest elephant in Gabon.

Ebony’s uncertain future without elephants

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Sep 2025
A young Grauer's gorilla in Kahuzi-Biega National Park.

Park guardians or destroyers? Study dissects 2 narratives of DRC’s Indigenous Batwa

Blaise Kasereka Makuta 11 Sep 2025
In this Sep. 26, 2017 photo released by Ibama, the Brazilian Environmental and Renewable Natural Resources Institute, members a firefighter fighta a forest fire affecting Porquinhos Indigenous lands in Maranhao state in Brazil's Amazon basin. Image by Felipe Werneck/Ibama via AP.

More than half the world’s forests fragmented in 20 years — but protection works: Study

Ruth Kamnitzer 11 Sep 2025
Mountain gorilla in Bwindi, Uganda in 2006.

The need for success stories in conservation (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Sep 2025

Indonesia’s giant Java seawall plan sparks criticism & calls for alternatives

Basten Gokkon 11 Sep 2025
White-bellied pangolin on a tree.

In southeast Nigeria, pangolins hunted for meat, not scales, study finds

Spoorthy Raman 10 Sep 2025
Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Brazil in 2024 and signed deals with President Lula on transition minerals.

Brazil’s market-based forest fund gets new endorsers ahead of COP30 debut

Lucas Berti 10 Sep 2025
A Halmahera woman peeling coconuts for copra.

Maluku coconut growers cry crisis as Indonesia land-grabs feed energy transition

Achmad Rizki Muazam 10 Sep 2025
A herd of forest elephants.

Fear & uncertainty grip Nigerian community after fatal elephant attack

Samuel Ogunsona 9 Sep 2025
Since 2014, the Siona people have reported the presence of landmines in their territories, planted by illegal armed groups. Image by Sara Arredondo (Baudó Agencia Pública).

Colombia’s Siona Indigenous guard faces landmines, violence around territory

Jose Guarnizo 9 Sep 2025

Americans’ love of RVs tied to destruction of orangutan habitat: Investigation

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Sep 2025
Joseph Lijodi, a tree nursery owner, with one of his Prunus african seedlings.

Kenya’s PELIS trades biodiversity for livelihoods and tree cover gains

Isaiah Esipisu 9 Sep 2025

Guatemala closes oil field, increases security in Maya Biosphere Reserve

Maxwell Radwin 5 Sep 2025
Rainforest in the Western Amazon. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler

Where life has found its richest expression – Amazon Rainforest Day

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Sep 2025
A cocoa pod opened by hand. Exclusion of smallholder farmers from markets, a potential consequence of the EUDR, could result in loss of income leading to environmental harms but also exacerbate existing problems including child labor on cocoa farms. “These risks are known,” says Rainforest Alliance’s Fanny Gauttier. “That's something that we have highlighted many times.”

EUDR implementation comes laden with potential unintended consequences

Sean Mowbray 4 Sep 2025
A male olive-backed euphonia (Euphonia gouldi) singing at full voice in the rain forest of Costa Rica.

How do we perceive biodiversity? We can see it & hear it

Blaise Kasereka Makuta 4 Sep 2025
A Battambang leaf-toed gecko (Dixonius noctivagus).

New gecko species findings highlight threats to Cambodia’s limestone hills

Anton L. Delgado 4 Sep 2025
A walk through the Sardinilla Experiment.

New study pinpoints tree-planting hotspots for climate and biodiversity gains

Marina Martinez 3 Sep 2025
The Bialowieza Forest at sunrise. Photo courtesy of Aleksander Bolbot / WWF. 

Last chance to save Europe’s greatest old-growth forest? (commentary)

Alan Weiss 3 Sep 2025

Indigenous Khasis struggle to sustain forest-based livelihoods in Bangladesh

Sadiqur Rahman 3 Sep 2025
A brilliant blue male Francis’s gorgeous sapphire, euthanized after being reared in captivity. Image courtesy of Jonathan Francis.

Discovery of dazzling blue butterfly underscores peril facing Angola’s forests 

Ryan Truscott 3 Sep 2025
Sunrise over the Amazon. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler

Why is rainfall declining in the Amazon? New research says deforestation is the leading driver

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2025

‘Let’s understand the value of the forest’ says Liberia’s Silas Siakor

Ashoka Mukpo 1 Sep 2025
The newly described Himalayan long-tailed myotis. Image courtesy of Rohit Chakravarty.

New bat species described from Western Himalayas

Mongabay.com 1 Sep 2025

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