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A koala.

‘Historic win’: Australian state approves national koala park despite controversial funding

Paul Harvey 29 Oct 2026

Netherlands pledges $500 million to help conserve tropical forests

David Brown 28 Oct 2026
A watercolor by the Indigenous Wayana, Aimawale Opoya.

Suriname’s rich archaeological history may hold keys to conservation

Peter Speetjens 28 Oct 2026

US public lands tracker highlights the collective impact of Trump policies

Bobby Bascomb 28 Oct 2026
Lucy Mulenkei was among those who had worked to get the new body over the line. A Masai leader from Kenya, Mulenkei is co-chair of the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity. Image by Mark Hillsdon/Mongabay.

‘A proper seat at the table’: Lucy Mulenkei on Indigenous decision-making at the COP17 biodiversity summit

Mark Hillsdon 28 Oct 2026
Sunda pangolin

Pangolin scale lawsuit in Indonesia could shake up how wildlife traffickers pay

Carolyn Cowan 28 Oct 2026

A Thai rescue center gives injured leopard cat cubs a second chance

Mongabay.com 28 Oct 2026
Copper mine in Chile. Image by Tom Hegen

Photographer Tom Hegen’s aerial eye reveals the true scale of the critical mineral age

Carolyn Cowan 28 Oct 2026

New report maps widespread criminal presence across six Amazonian countries

Aimee Gabay 27 Oct 2026

Countries take first step toward global crackdown on environmental crime

Spoorthy Raman 27 Oct 2026

Baby orangutans in India expose illegal wildlife trade as experts question a billionaire’s zoo

Associated Press 27 Oct 2026
A file photo shows a green sea turtle on a coral reef in Tañon Strait, a protected seascape between the Philippine islands of Negros and Cebu. Image courtesy of Tañon Strait Philippines.

The Philippine lawyer who beat an oil giant: Rose Liza Eisma-Osorio on defending Tañon Strait

Maverick Avila 27 Oct 2026
A thick haze obscures the skyline behind the Central Business District area in Singapore, Oct. 9, 2026.

‘Influence without enforcement’: Indonesia’s fires test Singapore’s anti-haze law

Gabrielle See 27 Oct 2026

Botswana honors 97-year-old who fought eviction of Indigenous people in Kalahari

David Akana 27 Oct 2026

Who’s implementing EUDR?

27 Oct 2026
Robson Mura, of the Mura Indigenous community, watches the sunrise at the Moyray village in Autazes, Amazonas state, February 2025.

Canadian-backed potash mine in Brazil has dried up sacred Amazon springs, say residents

Aimee Gabay 26 Oct 2026
Man in Colombia. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

A rare victory for multilateralism in the fight against environmental crime (commentary)

Laura Waisbich, Melina Risso, Robert Muggah 26 Oct 2026
Incumbent Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in São Paulo, Brazil, after his election win. Image courtesy of Ricardo Stuckert.

‘Defeat for denialism’: Lula beats far right Bolsonaro in Brazilian presidential election

Shanna Hanbury 26 Oct 2026
Studying fungi in Indonesia's Bantimurung-Bulusaraung National Park. Image © Garry Lotulung/SPUN-Indonesia.

Fungi now have a global conservation strategy

John Cannon 26 Oct 2026
Internally displaced persons installing solar panels at a health center in northwestern Cameroon as part of the “Solar Bright Future” program. Image courtesy of Lokamitraa Tokala, Outreach and Partnerships Officer with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Action Campaign, an initiative of the UNDP.

Solar initiative brings power to clinics and jobs to displaced youths in Cameroon

Yannick Kenné 26 Oct 2026
A male great hornbill approaches the nest in which its mate stays with the eggs or chicks.

Bangladesh’s hornbills face hunting risk during breeding season

Sifayet Ullah 26 Oct 2026

A millennium of evidence reveals colonial roots of Australia’s wildfire vulnerability

Naina Rao 26 Oct 2026
“Cooking gas cylinder…”: An artist draws cooking gas cylinders on a roadside fence near a gas retail outlet in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, where the use of LPG for cooking has risen in the last decade. Image by Ini Ekott for Mongabay.

5 million Nigerians gain clean cooking access annually, but it’s not enough, experts say

Ini Ekott 26 Oct 2026

International Gibbon Day: Stories of threats and survival  

Mongabay 24 Oct 2026
Eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus)

World Kangaroo Day: How climate change impacts Australia’s macropods

Cooper Williams 24 Oct 2026
Arzu Begum stands by the door of her house in the poor Mirpur area of Dhaka in July, 2022.

Bangladesh’s climate migrants are arriving in cities unprepared to protect them

Usraat Fahmidah 23 Oct 2026
Federal environmental civil servants mobilize to reelect Lula, warning the public about environmental risks if the Bolsonaro clan returns to power. Image courtesy of Ascema Nacional.

Environmental officials fear new wave of harassment if Flavio Bolsonaro wins in Brazil

Karla Mendes 23 Oct 2026

Critics call for halt to road construction in Mexico’s Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve

Maxwell Radwin 23 Oct 2026
The Arazaire community is split in two, bisected by the Inambari River. On the river's left bank, where residents once had agricultural plots, forest, and ceremonial lagoons, the landscape is now dominated by mercury-laden ponds and deforestation.

Amazon communities lose water as mining and deforestation reshape rivers

Vanessa Romo 23 Oct 2026
Annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, 1988-2026, according to INPE.

What if Flávio Bolsonaro wins? High stakes for the environment in Brazil’s 2026 elections (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 23 Oct 2026

Nearly all the world’s coral reefs are at risk of collapse within 50 years, IUCN warns

David Brown 23 Oct 2026

COP17: Open letter urges governments to keep extractives out of protected areas

David Akana 23 Oct 2026

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