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Leopards, Nepal’s other, other big cats, face unprecedented threats

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Dec 2023
Indigenous women of Guatemala’s Polochic Valley

Indigenous-led coalition calls for moratorium on terrestrial carbon trade

John Cannon 29 Dec 2023

Extreme drought in the Brazilian Amazon forces small farmers to look for alternatives

Julia Lima 29 Dec 2023
A sarus crane flies over an agricultural field.

Nepal’s birds pay cost for country’s infrastructure development

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Dec 2023
Planet satellite images of the confluence of the Rio Negro and Rio Jufari near the border of the states of Amazonas and Roraima in Brazil taken in October 2023, revealing sandbars and exposed riverbed during the severe drought that affected large parts of the Amazon rainforest. Photo courtesy of Planet Labs.

The year in rainforests: 2023

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2023
At a mining site in Uis, Namibia.

Report: Rush for ‘clean energy’ minerals in Africa risks repeating harmful extractivist model

Malavika Vyawahare 29 Dec 2023
Woodpecker Sitting in Tree in Forest

For forests, COP28 was better than expected, but worse than needed

Alec Luhn 28 Dec 2023

In Brazil’s Caatinga, these families excel in farming productivity

Rafael Martins 28 Dec 2023
Bigai Reserve in the Western Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

Top stories of change from Latin America in 2023

Alexandra Popescu 28 Dec 2023
A logger carries his chainsaw through the forest of the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia. He will sell the timber to garment factories.

Shrinking civil space and persistent logging: 2023 in review in Southeast Asia

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 28 Dec 2023
Dholes (Cuon alpinus) are wild canids that range throughout South, Central, East and Southeast Asia. They are listed as endangered, with fewer than 2,500 adults remaining in the wild. Image by Davidvraju via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

In 2023, Nepal’s ‘uncelebrated’ wildlife continued wait for attention

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Dec 2023

Newly described tree species from Sumatra could be vital for threatened orangutans

Liz Kimbrough 28 Dec 2023
A 50m fishing trawler off the coast of Ghana, patches of rust on its blue hull, a small grey inflatable with US and Ghanaian marines coming up astern. Image by Jeff Atherton/US Navy via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0)

Fisheries observer turns up dead in latest incident in Ghana waters

Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda 28 Dec 2023
Indonesia is a top producer of coconut oil.

Indonesian districts trial a shift from commodity monocrops to sustainable produce

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Dec 2023
The newly spotted female Javan rhino calf with its mother.

To help beleaguered Javan rhinos, study calls for tree felling, captive breeding

Jeremy Hance 27 Dec 2023
Oil palm plantation and native tropical rainforest on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler

A decade of stopping deforestation: How the palm oil industry did the seemingly impossible (commentary)

Glenn Hurowitz 27 Dec 2023
Activists protesting at Glencore's coal mining site in Cerrejón, Colombia.

Reports allege abuses by Glencore in Peru and Colombia, and the banks funding them

Aimee Gabay 27 Dec 2023
One of the six newly described chameleons from Tanzania

Photos: Top species discoveries from 2023

Liz Kimbrough 27 Dec 2023
James Njuguna, a shepherd who lives near the Manguo swamp.

In 2023, Mongabay’s reporting fellows covered Earth amid crisis — and hope

Karen Coates 27 Dec 2023
A whale shark.

Still on the menu: Shark fin trade in U.S. persists despite ban

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 27 Dec 2023
Superb starling perched on a thorny branch, showing off iridescent blue head, equally shimmering green of its wings and orange breast. Image by Harvey Barrison via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 2.0)

In Kenya, vicious ants are nesting birds’ best neighbors, study finds

Ryan Truscott 27 Dec 2023
A mugger crocodile in India.

Could mugger crocodiles be brought back from regional extinction in Bangladesh?

Rafiqul Islam 27 Dec 2023

With half its surface water area lost, an Amazonian state runs dry

Amanda Magnani 26 Dec 2023

Company sells Indigenous land in Amazonas as NFTs without community’s knowledge

Fábio Bispo 26 Dec 2023
Raising awareness about fishing cats during an education program.

Conservationists in Nepal say government must step up in coming years

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Dec 2023

Mongabay’s top 10 podcast episodes of 2023

Mike DiGirolamo 26 Dec 2023
The new Future Seeds facility holds the world's largest collection of bean varieties. Photo via The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT / Juan Pablo Marin

Ten top sustainable agriculture stories of 2023

Erik Hoffner 26 Dec 2023
Mongabay's founder and CEO Rhett Ayers Butler flying a drone in the Amazon rainforest in July 2023.

World Economic Forum features Mongabay’s work

Mongabay.com 24 Dec 2023
Paiche in Bolivia. Courtesy of SERNAP.

Our most read stories of 2023

Mongabay.com 23 Dec 2023
Forensic reconstruction of a woolly dog based on Mutton’s pelt measurements and archaeological remains. Image courtesy of Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

How a 160-year-old pelt piqued new findings on Indigenous ‘woolly dog’ breed

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 22 Dec 2023

Indonesia remembers Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, rare policymaker who stood for nature

Junaidi Hanafiah, Richaldo Hariandja 22 Dec 2023
Anoriental pied hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris)

Study: Singapore biodiversity loss is bad — but not as bad as previous estimate

Spoorthy Raman 22 Dec 2023

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