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Dove Lake beneath Cradle Mountain in Tasmania’s highlands, where cool, ocean-influenced conditions have helped slow the pace of climate change across the landscape. Image by Stefan Lovgren.

Long dubbed a ‘climate refuge,’ warming Tasmanian forests need our help

Stefan Lovgren 12 May 2026
Photographer Jonathan Bachman was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for capturing a photograph of Ieshia Evans being arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was Ieshia Evans first protest, and Bachman’s first time covering one. The photo was included in The New York Times’ “The Year in Pictures 2016,” among other honors. jonathan bachman / reuters. Shepard Fairey—a prolific artist and activist who often addresses social and political issues in his work—was invited by the authors of ‘Protest’ to interpret Bachman’s photograph for the book. Image credit to Shepard Fairey. Image Courtesy of Patagonia Books.

Protest works, but is under attack and needs your help, veteran activists say

Mike DiGirolamo 12 May 2026

Agriculture drives most tropical peatland loss in Indonesia, Peru and DRC: Study

Bobby Bascomb 12 May 2026
Harvesters carry baskets full of grapes at Trinity Canyon Vineyards.

How grape farmers are restoring Armenia’s wine heritage while safeguarding ecosystems

Kushane Chobanyan 12 May 2026

Who are the women sustaining luxury fishing in Brazil’s Pantanal?

Mariana Rosetti, Paola Churchill 12 May 2026

South Africa declares natural disaster as flooding kills at least 10

Associated Press 12 May 2026

New Jaguar Rivers Initiative aims to reconnect South America’s fragmented ecosystems

Maxwell Radwin 12 May 2026
Kea parrot Bruce at New Zealand’s Willowbank Wildlife Reserve. Images courtesy of Alexander Grabham.

No beak = weak? Not for this New Zealand parrot that’s the alpha male of his flock

Shanna Hanbury 12 May 2026

Can Bangladesh’s new law save its natural wetlands?

Sadiqur Rahman 12 May 2026
Hard-ground swamp deer in their new habitat in Satpura Tiger Reserve. Image courtesy of L. Krishnamoorthy.

Rare swamp deer subspecies thriving in new home in India

Mongabay.com 12 May 2026
The golden mantella, an endangered frog species found only in Madagascar. Image by Frank Vassen via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Africa’s amphibians are overlooked in conservation planning, experts warn

David Brown 12 May 2026
White-bellied pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) in Ondo state, Nigeria. Adedotun Ajibade via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Nigeria aims for stronger wildlife protections with sweeping new law

Valentine Benjamin 12 May 2026

Paying people to see wildlife: Inside a $1-per-hectare conservation experiment in Borneo

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 May 2026

Sharks and rays do not know boundaries and a new high seas treaty seeks to protect them

Malaka Rodrigo 12 May 2026
Cattle ranching in Serra de Ricardo Franco State Park, Brazil. Image © Ednilson Aguiar/Greenpeace.

Nearly all climate claims by meat and dairy firms amount to greenwashing: Study

Shanna Hanbury 12 May 2026
Fredrick Njoroge Kariuki, left, and Miron Onsarigo, the Hewa Safi innovators. Image courtesy of Lemmuel Agina/The Earth Foundation.

Teen innovators in Kenya turn farm waste into award-winning vehicle exhaust filter

Malavika Vyawahare, Mary Mwendwa 12 May 2026

What tree rings reveal about climate change in the Amazon

Luís Patriani 11 May 2026

New Congo oil find highlights Africa’s energy paradox amid Hormuz crisis

Elodie Toto 11 May 2026

A law to help Bolivian farmers may actually increase land grabbing, critics warn

Maxwell Radwin 11 May 2026

Fossil fuel transition summit seeks progress beyond stalled COP talks

Aimee Gabay 11 May 2026

Ancient tree’s modern voyage from Sri Lanka to Texas

Malaka Rodrigo 11 May 2026
A golden-headed lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysomelas). Images courtesy of Flávia Zagury.

Endangered golden-headed lion tamarin: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 11 May 2026

EU deforestation law risks leaving Honduran coffee farmers behind

Sandra Weiss 11 May 2026
Pair of flamingos in Marawah Marine Biosphere Reserve, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Image courtesy of Maitha Bughanoom.

Arabian Gulf’s fragile marine ecosystem threatened by current crisis (commentary)

Razan Al Mubarak 11 May 2026
Awareness of leopard cats is generally low across their range, as they are small, difficult to spot, and are sometimes mistaken for domesticated cats or leopard cubs.

Asia’s mainland leopard cat is abundant but still cloaked in mystery

Annelise Giseburt 11 May 2026
A European wildcat in Scotland, where 46 captive-bred wildcats have been released as part of an ongoing reintroduction project. The cats are repopulating former habitat in the Cairngorms mountain range in the eastern highlands.

The European wildcat hovers between recovery and local extinction

Sean Mowbray 11 May 2026

Hundreds of Khulan return to Eastern Mongolia after 65-year absence

Naina Rao 11 May 2026
Indigenous communities face changes to their ways of life due to the presence of illegal economies. Image courtesy of Amazon Watch.

Crime affects 32% of Amazon Indigenous areas, says study

Yvette Sierra Praeli 11 May 2026

Ocean philanthropy: small sums for a vast domain

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 May 2026
Mama ring-tailed lemur with baby in Anja, Madagascar. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

A Mother’s Day lesson from a digger wasp

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 May 2026
Collage, Jahëna Louisin, Mongabay reporter, and a Vodun ritual

Vodun’s sacred role in saving West Africa’s mangroves

Jahëna Louisin 9 May 2026
A European roller (Coracias garrulus) at B'stonliq, Uzbekistan. Image by bereskletic via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

From Africa to Central Asia, the European roller’s migration builds relationships

Terna Gyuse 9 May 2026

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