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The superb fairywren is one of 30 endemic Australasian wrens.

Superb fairywrens disappearing in Australia’s capital: Conserving insects could help save them

Cooper Williams 31 Aug 2026
Dead sei whales (Balaenoptera borealis) in a remote fjord of Central Patagonia in 2015

Scientists use satellites to track whale strandings in remote places from space

Manuel Fonseca 31 Aug 2026
A view of the presidential palace in Indonesia's new capital, Nusantara. Image courtesy of Leah Varjacques.

Recording a rainforest before Indonesia’s new capital changes it

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Aug 2026
Loyiso Dunga working to map indigenous community cultural connections in the Wild Coast, South Africa. Image courtesy of Loyiso Dunga.

‘You can’t protect what you don’t know:’ Interview with marine scientist Loyiso Dunga

Alexandra Talty 31 Aug 2026
Indianthus virgatus growing along the shaded bank of a stream in lowland forest. Image courtesy of Vishnu et al., 2026 (CC BY-NC 4.0).

‘Lost’ for 170 years, rare plant recorded in Sri Lanka

Naina Rao 31 Aug 2026

For 50 years, Philip Fearnside has calculated the costs of losing the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Aug 2026
Lionfish hunted

Turning the tables on invasive lionfish: How Honduran divers are fighting back

Fritz Pinnow, Sandy Watt 29 Aug 2026
Koupi Experimental Elementary School, the first school where learning Siraya is mandatory, in Sinhua district, in Tainan, Taiwan, on Aug. 21, 2026. Image by Aylin Ho for Mongabay.

Siraya language, deemed ‘extinct’ over a century ago, finds its voice again in Taiwan

Aylin Ho 29 Aug 2026

7 Indigenous Guarani killed after loose grain trailer hits car in central Brazil

Shanna Hanbury 29 Aug 2026
A southern mountain caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) from the Columbia North herd. The herd is one of three remaining within the Syilx Okanagan Nation territory, and, with an estimated population of 185, the one considered most viable.

First Nations in Canada call for emergency order to protect southern mountain caribou

Ruth Kamnitzer 29 Aug 2026

Global sea surface temperatures reach a record high, again

Bobby Bascomb 28 Aug 2026

Why a newly formed lake is sparking fears of more flooding along the Nepal-China border

Associated Press 28 Aug 2026
A critically endangered female red handfish (Thymichthys politus) at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in Hobart, Tasmania.

As Photo Ark turns 20, Joel Sartore photographs 18,000 animal species

Liz Kimbrough 28 Aug 2026
The coal-fired Payra Power Plant. Image by Muhammad Mostafigur Rahman.

Failed environmental safeguards leave coastal Bangladesh facing coal pollution

Rashidul Hasan 28 Aug 2026
Hà Đình Đức with the great softshell of Hồ Gươm. Photo by ZNews Vietnam

Hà Đình Đức, guardian of Hanoi’s legendary turtle, died at 86

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Aug 2026
Sea cucumbers are harvested beyond Pemba Island in Tanzania. Here, a sea cucumber rancher displays part of his harvest from a ranch on Mafia Island. Image by Ashoka Mukpo/Mongabay.

A sea cucumber venture in Zanzibar seeks to balance business and conservation

David Akana 28 Aug 2026
A road in the Alto Rio Guamá Indigenous Territory on the border between Pará and Maranhão states. Image by AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd.

Under protection: The environmentalist’s widow in Brazil who had to disappear to survive

Felipe Sabrina 28 Aug 2026
An Australian eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus).

The conservation population of Australia’s endangered eastern quoll welcomes joeys

Paul Harvey 28 Aug 2026

Singapore made a crow-friendly city. Now it wants to shoot them

Mongabay.com 28 Aug 2026
Long-house at Sungai Utik, an Iban community in West Kalimantan that has successfully defended its customary forests against loggers. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

Community programs linked to lower forest loss in Indonesia’s Borneo during COVID-19

Basten Gokkon 28 Aug 2026
Angora goats, which produce mohair. Image © Samantha Reinders.

South Africa’s new gold rush: Big money, high stakes in emerging spekboom restoration sector

Leonie Joubert 27 Aug 2026

Costa Rica to require wildlife crossings for roads when they impact fauna

Bobby Bascomb 27 Aug 2026
Minerva Hills National Park. Image courtesy of Nathan White/Tourism and Events Queensland.

Australia’s 30×30 conservation promise matters a lot, but how it’s achieved is key (commentary)

Tim Nicol 27 Aug 2026
The first ever release of white-lipped peccary into Piedras Blancas National Park. Photo by Ian Rock

13 peccaries sail home to heal a Costa Rican forest

Liz Kimbrough 27 Aug 2026
Great white pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus) at the Djoudj Bird Sanctuary in Senegal.

More than 380 coastal World Heritage Sites may face climate risks, new data shows

María Paula Rubiano A. 27 Aug 2026

‘Devastating’ rush for critical minerals has little to do with green energy: Report

Victoria Schneider 27 Aug 2026

US environmental groups plan to sue to relist gray whales under Endangered Species Act

David Brown 27 Aug 2026

Nepal floods highlight growing glacier risks in warming Himalayas

Associated Press 27 Aug 2026

Cambodia defies UN call to free ‘arbitrarily jailed’ environmental activists

Gerald Flynn 27 Aug 2026
The colorful Javan blue flycatcher (Cyornis banyumas)

In Java’s hills, former bird hunters are rebuilding a songbird haven

Triyo Handoko 27 Aug 2026
A representative image of heavy sand mining site off the coast of Mozambique. Image courtesy of Estacio Valoi.

A ‘leading’ Chinese miner of Mozambique’s heavy sands linked to environmental destruction

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Aug 2026

A Sumatran villager lost ground to the sea. So he planted mangroves

Mongabay.com 27 Aug 2026

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