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Shoebill stork (Balaeniceps rex), Murchison Falls NP, Uganda. Image by Kyla Marino via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

East African Crude Oil Pipeline threatens wetlands, wildlife corridors: Report

Victoria Schneider 12 Jun 2026
Soy plantations amid savanna vegetation in Maranhão state, Brazil. Image courtesy of Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil.

Amazon deforestation declines as Brazil reduces forest loss nationwide

Shanna Hanbury 12 Jun 2026
Women and girls from Capirona gather to collect stones and make water filters, as part of the community experiment developed in partnership with the Yachana Foundation. Image courtesy of the Yachana Foundation.

In Ecuador, an Indigenous community goes thirsty despite its two rivers

Gabriela Verdezoto Landívar 12 Jun 2026

Nepal’s tourism growth sparks unchecked liquor concerns involving national flower

Mongabay.com 12 Jun 2026
A full-circle rainbow arcing over a vast oil palm plantation in Jambi, Indonesia, carved out of what was once native rainforest. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Southeast Asian nations chart important new course toward environmental justice (commentary)

John Knox 11 Jun 2026
Under pressure from expanding soybean cultivation and transport infrastructure, protected areas in the Jamanxim region could become even more vulnerable. Image courtesy of Vinícius Mendonça/Ibama.

Brazil carves an Amazon national park to make room for grain railway

André Schröder 11 Jun 2026

Sri Lanka leopard deaths prevalent in region where humans and big cats overlap

Malaka Rodrigo 11 Jun 2026

Environmental group intervenes in lawsuit to help orangutans, tigers in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Jun 2026
Train hauling coal between Moatize and Nacala in 2018. Image by Matthias Hille via Wikicommons (CC BY 4.0)

Improved transport opens Mozambique’s forests to new pressures

Mkhululi Chimoio 11 Jun 2026
A Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) in India. Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Cambodia wants its tigers back. So it plans to import Bengal tigers from India

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Jun 2026

Kenya is Africa’s first country to receive crucial climate disaster funding

Lynet Otieno 11 Jun 2026

Two pangolin traffickers in South Africa sentenced to eight years in prison

Spoorthy Raman 10 Jun 2026
WISER participants gathered on the banks of the Baram River, October 2015. Image courtesy of the Borneo Project.

A blueprint for effective activism 10 years after defeating a dam in Borneo (analysis)

Joe Lamb, Jessica Merriman 10 Jun 2026

Solar power hits new milestones in the US even as Trump boosts coal over clean energy

Associated Press 10 Jun 2026
Small children from Rira village stand by the roadside near their humble home.

New study suggests Ethiopia’s protected areas may be impacting local well-being

Solomon Yimer 10 Jun 2026
A West African seahorse (Hippocampus algiris) is a vulnerable species found in West Africa

Four alleged wildlife traffickers arrested in Guinea, dried seahorses and shark fins seized

Spoorthy Raman 10 Jun 2026
Rousettus aegyptiacus, commonly known as the Egyptian fruit bat, a widespread species found across much of Africa. Photo courtesy of Paul Wambura.

Evidence linking bats to Ebola inconclusive, scientist says. ‘Solution is not fear’

David Akana 10 Jun 2026
A rhino mother and calf in Manas National Park. Image courtesy of Deba Kumar Dutta.

Rhinos reintroduced to Indian park are breeding, but still need support

Mongabay.com 10 Jun 2026
Wild horses gallop on the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Indian Reservation near McDermitt, Nevada. Image by AP Photo / Rick Bowmer.

U.S. defense spending on critical minerals surges in the last decade

Aimee Gabay 10 Jun 2026
The wreathed hornbill, found widespread across South and Southeast Asia, was prominently represented in the seizures

Indonesia’s native hornbills are being hammered by online and offline trade

Spoorthy Raman 9 Jun 2026
Deep-sea glass squid

Experts say ‘bare bones’ US laws are unfit to regulate nascent deep-sea mining industry

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Jun 2026
Cattle in Maticurú

Colombia passes landmark cattle traceability law to combat illegal deforestation

Maxwell Radwin 9 Jun 2026

Kenya’s former Chief Justice David Maraga arrested at protest of national park construction

Associated Press 9 Jun 2026
Limited recycling capacity and weak monitoring continue to fuel illegal imports and informal e-waste recycling in Bangladesh.

Illegal e-waste trade turns Bangladesh into net importer

Sajibur Rahman 9 Jun 2026

Sri Lanka bans single-use plastic bottles at government events, charges for plastic bags

Malaka Rodrigo 8 Jun 2026
A dead dusky morwong (Dactylophora nigricans) lies on a bed of seaweed at the water’s edge.

A year on, Australia’s biggest harmful algal bloom continues to wreak havoc

Nick Rodway 8 Jun 2026
Elephant, Serengeti, Tanzania. Image by sama093 via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Huge ivory bust raises questions about follow-up investigations in Tanzania

Charles Mpaka 8 Jun 2026
Some of the more than 4,000 fishers who make their living in the waterways of Elephant Marsh. Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

Malawi’s Elephant Marsh: The challenge of protecting a wetland that sustains thousands

Charles Mpaka 8 Jun 2026
The Imbabala mine was abandoned and toxic waste formed a giant pool on the surface, creating dangerous living conditions for the Ermelo community living in the vicinity. Image courtesy of Daylin Paul/Centre for Environmental Rights (CER).

South Africa’s move away from coal marred by legacy of abandoned mines: Report

Anna Weekes 8 Jun 2026
Buddhist monks who participated in the Peace Walk arrive to attend a ceremony marking World Environment Day in Chiang Rai, Thailand, on 5 June 2026. Photo by Ta Mwe.

Northern Thai residents march for action on polluted rivers. ‘This is an emergency’

Gerald Flynn 8 Jun 2026
A man fishes in the Niger Delta near the village of Diebu, Nigeria, Saturday, May 18, 2013. Image by Jon Gambrell / AP Photo.

Despite oil spills in Nigeria’s mangrove forests, Shell continued operations, documents show

Victoria Schneider, David Akana 6 Jun 2026
In May 2023, communities affected by Barrick Gold joined together to demand that then-CEO Mark Bristow stop doing harm with his toxic mines.

Canada’s watchdog post vacant as overseas mining complaints mount

Annie Burns-Pieper 6 Jun 2026

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