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Indonesian gold mine expanding in ‘wrong direction’ into orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Mar 2024
Agroforestry practices in action in Zambia.

Global conference to accelerate nature-based solutions: Q&A with Self Help Africa’s Patricia Wall

Ruth Kamnitzer 11 Mar 2024

Java rice farmers suffer crop failure as copper mine pollutes local irrigation

Asad Asnawi 11 Mar 2024

Project retraces Darwin’s voyage, educating young conservation leaders

Beatriz Santomauro 11 Mar 2024
Wildfire on Kangaroo Island, Australia.

Studies still uncovering true extent of 2019-20 Australia wildfire catastrophe

Mongabay Haze Beat 11 Mar 2024
Two chimpanzees interacting playfully.

No joking: Great apes can be silly and playfully tease each other, finds study

Spoorthy Raman 8 Mar 2024
A fisher casts a net in Laguna, Brazil.

Fishers’ memories on par with scientific data on historic catches: Study

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Mar 2024
Flying a drone in New Guinea. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Mongabay Data Studio: Revealing nature’s hidden stories through data (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Mar 2024

Migratory Amazonian catfish placed on the international protection list

Suzana Camargo 8 Mar 2024

Madagascar takes key step toward improving transparency of its fisheries

Rivonala Razafison 7 Mar 2024

Rehabilitation of Guatemalan fauna highlights opacity of illegal wildlife trade

Sandra Cuffe 7 Mar 2024
Kouanda Issiaka watering his mango plantation for extra income in Boromo, Burkina Faso.

Report calls for agroecological rethink of Africa’s food amid $61b industrial plan

Aimee Gabay 7 Mar 2024
Many residents of Gelam Island moved to the neighboring Cempedak Island for education and health facilities.

Phantom deeds see Borneo islanders lose their land to quartz miners

Aseanty Pahlevi 7 Mar 2024

For threatened Andean condors, garbage dump offers a buffet of risks & rewards

Logan Rance 7 Mar 2024
Prairie dogs, from the same family of animals as squirrels, are considered a keystone species in grasslands.

New trackers bring prairie dogs’ little-known underground life to light

Abhishyant Kidangoor 7 Mar 2024
A juvenile northern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca leonina) held in a cage outside a gas station in Cambodia. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Impunity for Cambodia’s exotic pet owners as trade outpaces legislation

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 7 Mar 2024
People during a severe heat wave that struck Brazil in late 2023.

Study on Brazilian heat wave deaths shows gender & racial disparities

Michael Esquer 6 Mar 2024
Fakir Altaf Hussain, a fisher in Bangladesh, fishing in his pond.

Pollution poses big risks to global clean water supplies, study shows

Sean Mowbray 6 Mar 2024

Biological field stations deliver high return on investment for conservation, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 6 Mar 2024
The effect is most dangerous in peatland areas like Riau province and southern Borneo, where out-of-control wildfires cause environmental destruction, excess deaths and economic losses in the billions of dollars.

Sumatra firefighters on alert as burning heralds start of Riau dry season

Suryadi 6 Mar 2024

Indonesia unveils plan to launch a satellite network for maritime monitoring

Basten Gokkon 6 Mar 2024

Ten years since anti-deforestation pledge, corporate world still not doing enough

Maxwell Radwin 6 Mar 2024

Bolivia’s El Curichi Las Garzas protected area taken over by land-grabbers

Nelfi Fernández Reyes 6 Mar 2024

Land irrigation as an obstacle to agricultural intensification in Mato Grosso

Timothy J. Killeen 6 Mar 2024

Ecuador project empowers cacao farmers to save spider monkey habitat

Astrid Arellano 6 Mar 2024

Son of Cali Cartel leader tied to Colombia-Hong Kong shark fin trafficking

Mongabay Latam, OCCRP, Armando Info 6 Mar 2024
Hippos in Queen Elizabeth National Park.

In climate-related flooding, a Ugandan river turns poisonous

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Mar 2024

Report: Rising slaughter of small whales and dolphins threatens ocean balance

Elizabeth Fitt 6 Mar 2024

What is most convenient in land distribution?

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Mar 2024
Fisher working with net of trawling vessel.

Stalemate: WTO talks again fail to end overfishing subsidies

Elizabeth Fitt 5 Mar 2024

Global protected area policies spark conflicts with Mexico Indigenous groups

Aimee Gabay 5 Mar 2024

Fears of marine disaster loom after fertilizer-laden ship sinks in Red Sea

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Mar 2024

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