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Sumatran rhino. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler

Navigating conservation’s crisis (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Sep 2025
Rainforest in the Western Amazon. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler

Setting the record straight on Jurisdictional REDD+: The case of Brazil

Luiza Muccillo, Daniel Nepstad, Ronaldo Seroa da Motta, Monica de los Rios, Thuanny Vieira 21 Sep 2025

Mongabay founder Rhett Butler named to Forbes Sustainability Leaders List

Bobby Bascomb 19 Sep 2025

Panama upwelling fails in 2025, threatening marine ecosystems

Bobby Bascomb 19 Sep 2025

The mire of Brazil’s BR-319 highway: Deforestation, development, and the banality of evil (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 19 Sep 2025
The California jewelflower (Caulanthus californicus) is an endangered species in the state and federally because of habitat loss, overgrazing, urban development, and loss of pollinators.

Timing, not traits, helps California’s jewelflowers adapt to diverse landscapes

Spoorthy Raman 19 Sep 2025
Waorani leader Nemonte Nenquimo with elders and community leaders.

Protecting Indigenous Amazon lands may also protect public health, study says

Constance Malleret 19 Sep 2025
Two Iberian orcas pictured off the coast of Spain. Image courtesy of circe.info.

Iberian orcas sink sailboat in latest ramming ‘game’ in Portugal

Shanna Hanbury 19 Sep 2025
A Baird's tapir.

Animals that spread seeds are critical for climate solutions

Liz Kimbrough 19 Sep 2025
Aerial photo of the March for Water held in Cuenca on Sept. 16. Image via @czamoramatute on X.

100,000 Ecuadorians protest Canadian mining project threatening key water source

Shanna Hanbury 19 Sep 2025
Cattle ranching

The formula that reduced deforestation in Brazil in the 21st century

Timothy J. Killeen 19 Sep 2025
Island in the South Pacific, Fiji. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Rising seas won’t reduce ocean borders of small island nations, UN court rules

Mongabay.com 19 Sep 2025
Fishers with their canoes in São Tomé.

São Tomé and Príncipe commits to creating a marine protected area network

Victoria Schneider 19 Sep 2025
Leonoras reef in Klein Bonaire. Image by EdFladung via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0).

Most Caribbean coral reefs to stop growing by 2040, study warns

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Sep 2025

South African Wild Coast communities challenge Shell in Constitutional Court

Victoria Schneider 18 Sep 2025

Australia targets at least 62% emissions cut in the next decade

Associated Press 18 Sep 2025
The Buenavista Indigenous Guard employs spiritual, political, and educational approaches that involve men, women and children. Image courtesy of the Siona Indigenous community.

Landmines and violence in Colombian Amazon confine Indigenous Siona families

Mongabay.com 18 Sep 2025
A transitional zebra shark in the Pacific Visions exhibit at the Aquarium of the Pacific in California.

Pet sharks have become cool, but is owning them ethical?

Hallie Lieberman 18 Sep 2025
Artist's conception of a manumea, Samoa's 'little dodo.' Image via Samoa Conservation Society fundraising page.

Funding is needed to save Samoa’s ‘little dodo’ from extinction (commentary)

Gianluca Serra 18 Sep 2025
A rapid response to a poisoning event in Kruger National Park in May this year saved more than 80 vultures. Such activities are vitally important, say conservationists, but more action is needed to address drivers of poisoning and poaching.

Mass vulture poisonings expose need for cross-border action in Southern Africa

Sean Mowbray 18 Sep 2025

New conservation area protects 53% of carbon in northern Peruvian Amazon

Geraldine Santos 18 Sep 2025

In Guatemala, young Kaqchikel Maya protect their sacred forest with open mapping

Monica Pelliccia 18 Sep 2025

Mozambican reserve harbors largest documented breeding population of rare falcon

Ryan Truscott 18 Sep 2025
Small-scale fishers unloading buckets of fish from their boats in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

24 years on, part one of WTO treaty curbing fisheries subsidies takes effect

Elizabeth Fitt 17 Sep 2025
The “pink panther,” operated by the company ECOsubsea, conducts a hull cleaning of vessel Frontier Kotobuki in Singapore.

With global rules pending, can the shipping industry get more carbon efficient?

Edward Carver 17 Sep 2025
Rubber agroforestry in Indonesia. Concerns are that the deforestation definition used by the EUDR could negatively impact farmers practicing agroforestry, leading to their exclusion from EU commodity supply chains, impacting their livelihoods.

Experts flag unintended harms from EU deforestation law

Mongabay.com 17 Sep 2025
Gold mine in the Dimonika Biosphere Reserve, the Republic of the Congo

What Republic of Congo’s gold rush is leaving behind

Berdy Pambou 17 Sep 2025
A hunter in Colombia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

146 environmental defenders were killed or disappeared last year

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Sep 2025
A male blue sheep (Pseudois nayaur). Image courtesy of Ksuryawanshi via Wikimedia Commons.

Nepal’s Himalayan biodiversity struggles with new herds and highways (commentary)

Naresh Kusi, Geraldine Werhahn 17 Sep 2025

Growing trees on farms boosts nutrition in rural Malawi

Liz Kimbrough 17 Sep 2025
A woman fans herself in Madrid, Spain, July 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)

Spain sweltered under hottest summer on record in 2025, weather agency says

Associated Press 17 Sep 2025

From shamba to PELIS: Kenyan farmers derive livelihoods from government timber plantations

Isaiah Esipisu 17 Sep 2025

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