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Costa Rica banana plantation destroyed protected wetland, complaint alleges

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jul 2026
High altitude grasslands on Castle Mountain.

Proposed mine expansion raising pollution concerns in Canada and US

Ruth Kamnitzer 29 Jul 2026
Shuswap Band drummers at a ceremonial fry release in Invermere, May 2026. The ceremonial fry releases and Fish-in-School educational releases on the Upper Columbia River connect salmon and salmon people, bringing together Indigenous and non-Indigenous community members working for salmon reintroduction. Image by Ruth Kamnitzer.

First Nations lead the return of salmon to Canada’s Upper Columbia River

Ruth Kamnitzer 29 Jul 2026

Women’s collectives are protecting Nigeria’s gorilla wildlife sanctuary

Mongabay.com 28 Jul 2026
The village of Phozi, Eastern Cape. Image by Anna Weekes for Mongabay.

‘The shape of the land will change:’ South African villages resist heavy sands mine

Anna Weekes 28 Jul 2026
A data center under construction in Chonburi province, Thailand, that local residents said is being built to host Google and TikTok servers, in December 2025. Photo by Andy Ball/Mongabay.

Thai MP calls for new committee to scrutinize AI data centers’ environmental impact

Gerald Flynn 27 Jul 2026
Beavers are restoring stretches of North Fork Toutle River in the U.S. state of Washington. Image by GrandTetonNPS via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Beavers restored a volcano-scarred river. Now it’s at risk again

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2026
avocado plantations

In Michoacán, Mexico, drying soil threatens water supplies and avocados, says study

Caitlin Cooper 23 Jul 2026
A man fishes in the Niger Delta near the village of Diebu, Nigeria, Saturday, May 18, 2013. Image by Jon Gambrell / AP Photo.

Oil has harmed the nature and people of the Niger Delta; human rights may save it

Mike DiGirolamo 21 Jul 2026
Sand barges bearing the logo of Catalyst Marine and Resources documented in Trapeang Roung commune, Koh Kong province, Cambodia, by Mother Nature Cambodia activists in July 2026. Image supplied by Mother Nature Cambodia.

Activists allege Cambodia has resumed sea sand exports to Singapore

Gerald Flynn 21 Jul 2026

From rivers to mangroves, microplastics are contaminating the Amazon

Tiago da Mota e Silva 20 Jul 2026
A fisher casts a net in the Mahanadi River in Odisha. Image by Sujit kumar via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Rivers are not just water bodies: Interview with the Waterman Of Odisha

Stephin Thomas 17 Jul 2026
Six-tubercled Amazon River turtle (Podocnemis sextoberculata). Image by © Andrés Camilo Montes-Correa via iNaturalist.

Brazil lists the Amazon river turtle as endangered for the first time

Karla Mendes 15 Jul 2026
A view of Ngor Bay in Dakar, Senegal. Image by Jeff Attaway via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

What will Africa’s story on ocean governance be? Interview with David Willima

Victoria Schneider 13 Jul 2026
Manzoor Ahmad Wangnoo rows a shikara across the Khushalsar-Gilsar wetland system in Srinagar

Restoring Kashmir’s lakes one community at a time: Interview with Manzoor Ahmad Wangnoo

Hashim Quraishi 10 Jul 2026
Beavers act as ecosystem engineers, building dams that can transform small rivers into more complex wetlands that can support higher levels of biodiversity.

Beavers brought a volcanic wasteland back to life. Now it’s under threat

Isabel Gil 10 Jul 2026
A moray eel in the coral reefs

Can conservation change how the world sees the Strait of Hormuz? (commentary)

Iman Ebrahimi 9 Jul 2026
A native Yellowstone cutthroat trout. Image courtesy of Jay Fleming via National Park Service.

Like wolves, non-native lake trout have radically altered Yellowstone ecosystems (commentary)

Lyle Lewis 8 Jul 2026

The women leading a quiet conservation revolution in a Nigerian gorilla sanctuary

Orji Sunday 6 Jul 2026
Fishing on the Kaptai Lake

Declining carp fishes in Bangladesh’s Kaptai Lake leave small-scale fishers struggling

Sifayet Ullah 3 Jul 2026

Targeted conservation in Brazil could help protect the Amazon’s flying rivers

Constance Malleret 2 Jul 2026
African baobab (Adansonia digitata), Chikwawa district, Malawi. Image by Rob Palmer via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Three years after Cyclone Freddy, farms remain under water in Malawi’s Elephant Marsh

Charles Mpaka 26 Jun 2026
Fishers in Sahamalaza-Iles Radama Marine Protected Area. Image courtesy of Madagascar National Parks.

Six marine sanctuaries recognized as Blue Parks, four of them in Africa

Malavika Vyawahare 24 Jun 2026

Museum DNA unmasks new Himalayan pit vipers, study says

Naina Rao 19 Jun 2026

Himalayan rivers shifting course as climate warming thaws the ‘Water Tower of Asia’

Naina Rao 16 Jun 2026
A flock of greater flamingos wades in the Narta Lagoon, an important wintering site for the species. Image by Stefan Lovgren for Mongabay.

‘Flamingo Revolution’ aims to stop Kushner-backed resort on protected Albanian delta

Stefan Lovgren 12 Jun 2026
Shoebill stork (Balaeniceps rex), Murchison Falls NP, Uganda. Image by Kyla Marino via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

East African Crude Oil Pipeline threatens wetlands, wildlife corridors: Report

Victoria Schneider 12 Jun 2026
Women and girls from Capirona gather to collect stones and make water filters, as part of the community experiment developed in partnership with the Yachana Foundation. Image courtesy of the Yachana Foundation.

In Ecuador, an Indigenous community goes thirsty despite its two rivers

Gabriela Verdezoto Landívar 12 Jun 2026
Great Cumbung Swamp

Indigenous organization buys wetland property in Australia to help conserve it

Megan Strauss 12 Jun 2026
WISER participants gathered on the banks of the Baram River, October 2015. Image courtesy of the Borneo Project.

A blueprint for effective activism 10 years after defeating a dam in Borneo (analysis)

Joe Lamb, Jessica Merriman 10 Jun 2026

Sri Lanka’s recent drowning deaths linked to aftermath of extreme weather events

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 10 Jun 2026
Some of the more than 4,000 fishers who make their living in the waterways of Elephant Marsh. Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

Malawi’s Elephant Marsh: The challenge of protecting a wetland that sustains thousands

Charles Mpaka 8 Jun 2026

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