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A howler monkey in the Amazon. As the world warms, plants and animals must quickly migrate to cooler places to stay resilient and survive.

Study offers first map of Amazon’s climate-resilient upslope corridors

Justin Catanoso 22 Jun 2026
Banner image of the Ekalakala bonobo group in the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve in the DRC courtesy of Martin Surbeck/Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project.

Apes can imagine too

Abhishyant Kidangoor 22 Jun 2026

US moves to allow commercial fishing in Pacific marine protected areas

Bobby Bascomb 22 Jun 2026

France sizzles in a week of punishing heat as red alerts spread

Associated Press 22 Jun 2026
Rain over the Amazon. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

South America’s farms depend, in part, on a healthy Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jun 2026

Power lines threaten Sri Lanka’s iconic migrant flamingos

Mongabay.com 22 Jun 2026
A snow leopard (Uncia uncia).

Community more crucial than snow leopard counting: Interview with Rodney Jackson

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Jun 2026
Mosses blanket ice-free areas of Antarctica. Image courtesy of Peter Convey/British Antarctic Survey.

Antarctica’s first plant risk assessment raises concerns for a rare moss

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Jun 2026
The remnants of Upper Guinean Tropical Rainforest within Sierra Leone are home to a multitude of species, many of them threatened, such as the white-necked rockfowl (Picathartes gymnocephalus). Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

A few seconds with one of West Africa’s rarest birds

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jun 2026
Mona Khalil in 2002 at in Tyre. Photo by Jihad Seqlawi/AFP/Getty Images

Mona Khalil, who left safety in Europe to protect sea turtles in Lebanon, was killed by an Israeli airstrike

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Jun 2026

Accountability advocates ‘shocked’ as Canadian government eliminates watchdog agency

Annie Burns-Pieper 20 Jun 2026
The Tomachipán-Cumare road is an illegal trail used by dissidents as a strategic corridor. It has become an epicenter of violence. Image by Juan Carlos Contreras.

Death and exile: A war plagues Indigenous Jiw and Nukak in the Colombian Amazon

Pilar Puentes 19 Jun 2026
River near Penalosa in Colombia's Choco region. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

What’s at stake for the environment in Colombia’s upcoming election?

Aimee Gabay 19 Jun 2026
Transvaal Thicktail Scorpion (Parabuthus transvaalicus) is one of the two venomous scorpion species in South Africa whose stings could be fatal to humans

South African authorities thwart smuggling of 150 venomous scorpions, arrest man

Spoorthy Raman 19 Jun 2026
: A pair of hooded vultures. Image by Nico Arcilla.

Demand for vultures in West Africa threatens Central African populations

Sean Mowbray 19 Jun 2026
Christine Kouman with a slender-snouted crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus). Image courtesy of Agata Staniewicz.

Côte d’Ivoire’s tree-climbing crocodile needs to be protected, scientist says

Ryan Truscott 19 Jun 2026

Conservation efforts by families displaced for national park sees success in DRC

Mongabay.com 19 Jun 2026

Museum DNA unmasks new Himalayan pit vipers, study says

Naina Rao 19 Jun 2026
Night time scene from the annual Hareed Festival in the Farasan Islands, an archipelago in the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia.

Saudi parrotfish festival stretches scientific & traditional ecological knowledge (commentary)

Laila Shaaban 18 Jun 2026
INC Vice Chair Johanna Lissinger-Peitz, Sweden, passes the gavel to new INC Chair Julio Cordano, Chile, in February 2026.

With plastic treaty in limbo, Mongabay speaks to top negotiator Julio Cordano

Charles Pekow 18 Jun 2026
The white-necked picathartes (Picathartes gymnocephalus) near its nesting colony in the south of Taï National Park.

In search of the ‘rare and beautiful’ in an Ivorian rainforest

Ryan Truscott 18 Jun 2026

Monika Silva Koniuszek, 41, defended the everyday things corruption corrodes

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Jun 2026

Pulp and paper giant APRIL adds major deforesters as suppliers after revising sustainability policy

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Jun 2026
A cross section of canoes after fishing in Marshall, Liberia. Image by Edward Blamo for Mongabay.

To help combat illegal fishing, 15 countries commit to sharing fisheries data

Elodie Toto 18 Jun 2026
At the La Trobe University campus, Ligia Pizzatto sorts through frozen turtle specimens she has collected over the course of her fieldwork. Most are very young, found dead by Pizzatto or her team of students and volunteers. Image by Ana Norman Bermudez.

Vanilla, fake eggs and nausea: How Australian scientists are training foxes to avoid turtle nests

Ana Norman Bermúdez 18 Jun 2026
A greater one horned rhino eats water plants from a river in Janakauli community forest bordering Chitwan National Park, 2010.

Nepal’s rhino translocation looks good in numbers, but not so much in habitat

Bibek Bhandari 18 Jun 2026
Christine Dudgeon with Dudgeon's walking shark

New walking shark discovered in Papua New Guinea

Megan Strauss 18 Jun 2026
Sharks in French Polynesia. Image courtesy of Hannes Klostermann, Ocean Image Bank.

French Polynesia expands ocean protections to 30% of its waters

David Brown 18 Jun 2026

Illegal miners adapt their strategies in Yanomami Amazon territory

Rubens Valente 17 Jun 2026

Trump administration repeals rule that allowed bison to graze on public lands

Bobby Bascomb 17 Jun 2026

Eastern Washington wildfire forces evacuations and destroys homes

Associated Press 17 Jun 2026

Stingless bees in Peru become the first insects with legal rights. Will it happen globally?

Liz Kimbrough 17 Jun 2026

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