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Augustin K. Basabose. Image by Allison Shelley for Wild Earth Allies

In eastern Congo’s war-torn forests, Augustin Basabose gave hope to gorillas and people

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Aug 2025
Large-scale soy fields in the southern Amazon in Brazil.

Brazil suspends Amazon Soy Moratorium, raising fears of deforestation spike

Shanna Hanbury 22 Aug 2025

China races to build world’s largest solar farm to meet emissions targets

Associated Press 22 Aug 2025

Ghana passes landmark legislation to protect artisanal fisheries

Victoria Schneider 22 Aug 2025
Prayer flags in Mustang.

Escalation in tourism, climate change leaves Nepal’s Mustang in fragile state

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Aug 2025
A bird perches on debris looking for food in Brazil. Image courtesy of AP Photo/Andre Penner.

Waste-to-energy project could boost Brazil’s decarbonization goals

Adriana Amâncio 22 Aug 2025

Global brands join drive for deforestation-free palm oil in Indonesia’s Aceh

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Aug 2025
Banner image of a black harrier over the Eastern Rûens Shale Renosterveld in South Africa by Odette Curtis-Scott/ORT.

To save a rare South African ecosystem, conservationists bought the land

Kristine Sabillo 22 Aug 2025

Rare Javan leopard sighting renews focus on conservation, monitoring efforts

Basten Gokkon, Falahi Mubarok 22 Aug 2025
A common leopard drinking water in a forest in Sri Lanka. Image by Udayan Dasgupta/Mongabay.

Suspected rise in targeted leopard killings worries conservationists in Sri Lanka

Mongabay.com 22 Aug 2025
In the dump, men, women and children are looking for plastic and clothes that they can then sell. The people who work on the dump often wear no protection. It is estimated that 3,000 households make a living from this recycling.

The clothes that never die: How fast fashion is burying Africa in plastic

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Aug 2025
Magar people stage protest against the Tanahun Hydropower project. Image by Sanjog Laapaa Magar, INWOLAG.

Development banks under fire for backing disputed Nepal hydropower project

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 22 Aug 2025
The waters along the Baliara coast, home to the Bajo people, have been contaminated by mining waste. Image courtesy of Satya Bumi.

Indonesia’s Bajau fishers lament nickel mining’s marine pollution

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2025

How Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize plan to protect 14 million acres of Mayan forest

Associated Press 21 Aug 2025
Brazil’s National School Feeding Program is one of the largest in the world, and a significant consumer of shark meat. Image courtesy of Angelo Miguel/MEC.

Brazil cities vow to stop buying threatened shark meat after Mongabay probe

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2025

Rhino breeder John Hume accused of horn trafficking, arrested in South Africa

Spoorthy Raman 21 Aug 2025

Killings on Kenya’s Lake Naivasha raise questions over coast guard role

Joseph Maina 21 Aug 2025

Brazil’s land registry holds farmers accountable, but enables deforestation

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Aug 2025
Drax is the largest consumer of wood pellets for energy in the UK.

Sustainable biomass certification scheme is flawed, degrades forests, report finds

Annelise Giseburt 21 Aug 2025
Elephants are one of the species that have bounced back after Namibia’s independence in 1990.

Climate change tests the resilience of people and desert-adapted wildlife in Namibia

Petro Kotzé 21 Aug 2025
A fisherman cleans the plastic waste caught in his net.

New coalition focuses on ‘reuse’ to tackle top polluter Indonesia’s plastic waste problem

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2025

Study uncovers laundering of Galápagos iguanas through wildlife export permits

Ana Cristina Alvarado 21 Aug 2025
Argentine ant. Image by Pedro Caetano de Moura Pinheiro via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Invasive ants get a warm welcome as global temperatures rise: Study

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2025
Burning within Tesso Nilo National Park.

Indonesia’s idle land problem

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Aug 2025
Angelshark (Squatina squatina) in Spain by Michael Bommerer via Wikimedia Commons (CCBY4.0).

Brazil cities order endangered angelshark meat despite fishing ban

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2025
Banner image of Kanzi by William H. Calvin via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Bonobos keep track of groupmates even when they can’t see them, study finds

Bobby Bascomb 20 Aug 2025

Tortoise hatchlings born of century-old parents come out of their shells at Philadelphia Zoo

Associated Press 20 Aug 2025
The First Gen tanker off the shores of Santa Clara, October, 2024.

Philippine fishers struggle as LNG ‘superhighway’ cuts through biodiversity hotspot

Mongabay.com 20 Aug 2025
After separating the edible pulp, the leftover enset fibers are collected and used to make durable household items like ropes, mats and baskets. Image by Solomon Yimer for Mongabay.

Ethiopian initiatives try to mainstream traditional and resilient enset crop in diets

Solomon Yimer 20 Aug 2025

How rain can reveal what lives in rainforest treetops

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Aug 2025
An ocelot hiding in a tree in the Pantanal, Mato Grosso state, Brazil.

NGOs launch novel community projects to conserve Mexico’s ocelots

Sandra Weiss 20 Aug 2025

Argentina’s elephant seals face 100-year recovery after avian flu devastation: Study

Astrid Arellano 20 Aug 2025

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