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An Indigenous person gazes at the expanse of the Meratus mountains from the Hauk peak.

Indigenous Dayak resist new southern Borneo national park amid global protection deficit

Riyad Dafhi Rizki, Rendy Tisna 19 Nov 2025
A Bali starling sings with its beak wide open

How Indonesian communities rescued the Bali starling from the brink of extinction

Mongabay.com 19 Nov 2025
Youth activist Oliver Nyirenda in Kabwe. Image courtesy of Radio Workshop.

As Zambia eyes green minerals, Kabwe’s poisoned past looms large

Chisapi Kumbutso 19 Nov 2025

Brazil releases draft text and letter to accelerate COP30 climate negotiations

Associated Press 18 Nov 2025
Baobab Alley in Madagascar. Photo by Rhett Butler.

Pioneering primatologist in Madagascar shares decades of conservation wisdom

Mike DiGirolamo 18 Nov 2025
Banner image: Adult male peregrine (F. p. brookei) in Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India. Peregrine falcons almost disappeared across North America and Europe in the early 1900s because of DDT and other pesticides.

Scientists slam Canada-US proposal to lower trade protections for peregrine falcons

Spoorthy Raman 18 Nov 2025
Pyramid butterflyfish (Hemitaurichthys polylepis) around the island of Bali in Indonesia.

Trade in marine fish for aquariums includes threatened species, lacks oversight: Study

Edward Carver 18 Nov 2025
Roxanne Swentzell harvesting drought-resistant corn on her garden plot in the Santa Clara Pueblo of New Mexico. Image courtesy of Roxanne Swentzell.

From waffle gardens to terraces, Indigenous groups revive farming heritage in America’s deserts

Justin Catanoso 18 Nov 2025
A coral grouper in a Mozambique coral reef.

Construction of TotalEnergies pipeline cuts through coral reefs in Mozambique

Victoria Schneider 18 Nov 2025

Study maps whale shark stranding hotspots in Indonesia, highlights conservation needs

Basten Gokkon 18 Nov 2025

Indonesia labeled ‘Fossil of the Day’ for echoing industry talking points at COP30

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Nov 2025

Scientists & nuns unite to save Mexico’s rare achoque salamanders

Mongabay.com 18 Nov 2025
turtle

In Mexico, world’s smallest turtle faces big threats from trafficking, habitat loss

Sandra Weiss 18 Nov 2025
Puerto Caimán Island in the Curare-Los Ingleses Indigenous Reserve’s conservation area.

Colombia bans all new oil and mining projects in its Amazon

Shanna Hanbury 18 Nov 2025
Sámi reindeer herders and conservationists set up a protest camp at the facilities of the Blue Moon Metals Nussir mine in Finnmark county, Norway. Photo by Rasmus Berg / Natur og Ungdom.

Plans to dispose of mining waste in Norway’s Arctic Ocean worries Sámi fishers, herders

Aimee Gabay 18 Nov 2025
Tropical forest and river in Suriname. Image courtesy of Mark J. Plotkin.

Top ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin’s COP30 reflections on Amazon conservation (analysis)

Mark J. Plotkin 17 Nov 2025
Dodo bird icon.

A slowdown, not salvation: what new extinction data reveal about the state of life on Earth

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Nov 2025

Ethiopia set to be named host of 2027 UN climate talks

Elodie Toto 17 Nov 2025

Pakistan declares its third marine protected area, but has a long way to go

Ayaz Khan 17 Nov 2025
Two male ibex in front of Mont Aiguille in the Dauphiné Alps, France.

France’s largest rewilding project takes root in the Dauphiné Alps

Marlowe Starling 17 Nov 2025
Corals and fish in Lighthouse Reef atoll, Belize.

Are Belize’s fisheries policies delivering?

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Nov 2025
A hill in the main Karoo Basin, near the area where exploration would take place. Image by flowcomm via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

South Africa to lift fracking moratorium in Karoo Basin, despite concerns

Victoria Schneider 17 Nov 2025

As fires flare in Brazil’s Cerrado, heat-resistant seeds offer restoration lifeline

Simone Machado 17 Nov 2025
Gayatri Reksodihardjo-Lilley. Photo by Surya Risuana.

Gayatri Reksodihardjo-Lilley, who helped Indonesian communities restore their reefs, has died

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Nov 2025

New population of the world’s rarest great ape discovered

Juan Maza 15 Nov 2025
Saalumarada Thimakka receives the Padma Shri from President Ram Nath Kovind. Photo by President's Secretariat (GODL-India).

Saalumarada Thimmakka, mother of trees, has died, aged 114

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Nov 2025
Aftermath of the Mariana Dam collapse in Minas Gerais.

UK court finds mining giant liable for decade-old dam disaster in Brazil

Shanna Hanbury 15 Nov 2025

Mongabay Fellows share their ‘Letters to the Future’

Karen Coates 14 Nov 2025
Producing an AI chip requires 10-15 times more energy than making a standard chip.

AI data center revolution sucks up world’s energy, water, materials

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 14 Nov 2025
An Asian elephant in a forest in Bangladesh

Researchers find evidence of elephant poaching in remote Bangladesh forest

Bobby Bascomb 14 Nov 2025

Climate leaders warn of ‘overshoot’ into warming danger zone

Associated Press 14 Nov 2025
A male Vallarta mud turtle, one of the 40 seized as part of the operation, cared for at the Guadalajara Zoo.

Massive turtle bust in Mexico reveals ‘Wild West’ of wildlife trafficking

Spoorthy Raman 14 Nov 2025

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