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A cattle ranch is the unlikely scene for saving a fox found only in Brazil

Letícia Klein 5 Feb 2025

Kenyan court orders two community wildlife conservancies shut down

Ashoka Mukpo 31 Jan 2025

New alert system can track changes in grasslands, farms, temperate forests

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jan 2025
Banner image of a Ranthambore tiger by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

In 2024, Nepal faced old & new challenges after tripling its tiger population

Abhaya Raj Joshi 18 Dec 2024
Young giraffe in Uganda. Image by Rod Waddington / Flickr.

We must prioritize rangeland conservation for planetary health and biodiversity (commentary)

Dr. Igshaan Samuels 16 Dec 2024

In Bolivia’s flooded savannas, ranching aims to boost grasslands conservation

Brian Kluepfel 29 Nov 2024
In a village near Kebribeyah district of Somali regional state, a young herder guides the cattle to the water source, keeping the age-old tradition alive. Image by Solomon Yimer.

As climate change upends Ethiopia’s pastoral wisdom, adaptations can help

Sonam Lama Hyolmo and Solomon Yimer 26 Nov 2024
The Loita Forest is an important migration corridor for elephants moving between the Rift Valley and the Maasai Mara.

Controversial study finds cattle and wildlife can co-exist in Kenya’s Maasai Mara

Bobby Bascomb 15 Nov 2024

Can cattle and wildlife co-exist in the Maasai Mara? A controversial study says yes

Ashoka Mukpo 5 Nov 2024
Road in Barreiras, in western Bahia: on one side the Cerrado, on the other monoculture. Photo courtesy of Macaca Filmes.

Study warns that loosened legislation is driving deforestation in Bahia’s Cerrado

Elizabeth Oliveira 4 Nov 2024
Abdi Ahmed, in his late 60s, continues his pastoral life in Guyo Kebele, Somali Region, supporting his 19 children through a lifetime of nomadic herding.

Drought & climate change force Ethiopia pastoralists to go job hunting

Solomon Yimer 9 Oct 2024

World’s biggest deforestation project gets underway in Papua for sugarcane

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Sep 2024

Eucalyptus expansion worsens droughts and fires in Brazil’s Cerrado, conservationists say

Sarah Brown 27 Aug 2024

Fires devastate critical refuge for hyacinth macaws

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Aug 2024
Traditional healers use the smoke from the coals of a yellow wood tree (Podocarpus latifolius) to cleanse a cattle herd of problematic spirits and stop the animals from fighting.

‘Everything is a being’ for South Africa’s amaMpondo fighting to protect nature

Leonie Joubert 19 Aug 2024

New datasets identify which crops deforest the Amazon, and where

Maxwell Radwin 2 Aug 2024

Rhino poop draws all the deer (and boars and more) to the yard, study finds

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Jul 2024
Pastoralists in Somalia

To protect the planet’s rangelands, give pastoralists a boost, UN report says

Ashoka Mukpo 5 Jul 2024

Nepal launches new plan to boost critically endangered Bengal florican

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jun 2024
Fires are tearing through the Pantanal, their spread quickened by accumulated biomass. Credit: Gustavo Figueirôa/SOS Pantanal.

Pantanal’s intense blazes stoke fears of another destructive fire season

Constance Malleret 27 Jun 2024

In Brazil, conservationists try to save one of the world’s most endangered cats

Sarah Brown 13 Jun 2024

Rewilding efforts throw a lifeline to Brazil’s most trafficked endangered bird

James Hall 30 May 2024
Aerial view of unpaved roads dividing a soy monoculture from the native Cerrado, in the region of Ribeiro Gonçalves, Piauí, Brazil. Image courtesy of Adriano Gambarini/WWF-Brazil.

In Brazil’s Cerrado, aquifers are losing more water than they can replace

Kevin Damasio 24 May 2024

All conservation is local: Interview with Angolan conservationist Kerllen Costa

Ryan Truscott 23 May 2024

Tracing Africa’s ‘fading biological fingerprints’ in Angola’s threatened forests

Ryan Truscott 23 May 2024

A forest restoration project brings birdsong back to Angola’s highest mountain

Ryan Truscott 20 May 2024
Cattle in a deforested patch of Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Indonesian palm oil, Brazilian beef top contributors to U.S. deforestation exposure

Liz Kimbrough 7 May 2024
A herd of deer in Bardiya National Park.

Nepal’s tigers & prey need better grassland management: Interview with Shyam Thapa

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Apr 2024

Brazil’s cattle industry could suffer major losses without climate policies, report says

Maxwell Radwin 10 Apr 2024

Brazil’s Cerrado is main beneficiary of 2021 pledge to end deforestation

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Apr 2024

Agribusiness bill moves to block grassland protections in Brazilian biomes

Fernanda Wenzel 28 Mar 2024

Deforestation from soy shows no sign of stopping in Cerrado, report says

Maxwell Radwin 21 Mar 2024

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