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Brazil risks losing the Pampa grassland to soy farms and sand patches

Evanildo da Silveira 12 Mar 2024
Indonesia forest and ocean

Forest diversity is key to Southeast Asia’s climate adaptability, study shows

Carolyn Cowan 31 Jan 2024
Army officers try to extinguish fires in peatland areas in Central Kalimantan.

2023 fires increase fivefold in Indonesia amid El Niño

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jan 2024
Superb starling perched on a thorny branch, showing off iridescent blue head, equally shimmering green of its wings and orange breast. Image by Harvey Barrison via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 2.0)

In Kenya, vicious ants are nesting birds’ best neighbors, study finds

Ryan Truscott 27 Dec 2023

A Brazilian NGO restores widely degraded Atlantic Forest amid mining threats

Sarah Brown 6 Dec 2023

NGO restores the Atlantic Forest amid mining threats in Brazil

Sarah Brown 5 Dec 2023

Keeping herbivores at bay helps in early stages of restoration, studies show

Tim Vernimmen 28 Nov 2023
The northern Kenya landscape is dry most of the year, making it unsuitable for growing crops. Image courtesy of Peyton Fleming.

Kenyan pastoralists fight for a future adapted to climate change (commentary)

Peyton Fleming 28 Nov 2023
Firefighter fighting a battle against a veld-fire at Ashton Bay, Jeffreys Bay, Eastern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa in March 2017. Photo credit: Steven Terblanch

Do tree-planting projects on grasslands increase fire risk?

Alix Soliman 28 Nov 2023
Cattle and zebras share grazing land inside the Enonkishu Conservancy, southern Kenya. Image by David Njagi for Mongabay.

A mobile solution for Kenyan pastoralists’ livestock is a plus for wildlife, too

David Njagi 6 Nov 2023
Kuikuro men playing flutes.

The Amazon’s archaeology of hope: Q&A with anthropologist Michael Heckenberger

Peter Speetjens 18 Oct 2023

Ken Burns discusses heartbreak & hope of ‘The American Buffalo,’ his new documentary

Liz Kimbrough 3 Oct 2023
Cattle in Pará state.

EU bill and new green policies spur progress on Brazil’s cattle tracking

André Schröder 21 Sep 2023
Laborers at Land Rover's wind energy project purposed for carbon finance in India.

Revealed: Why the UN is not climate neutral

Jacob Goldberg, Leopold Salzenstein, Sarah Brown, Shaz Syed 13 Sep 2023
A rancher herds cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

How the Amazon’s ‘greatest devastator’ sold cattle to a Carrefour supplier 

Marina Rossi, Daniel Camargos, Hyury Potter 29 Aug 2023
Squirrel monkeys are one of many creatures of Yasuni National Park. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

What drives and halts tropical deforestation? Analyzing 24 years of data

Liz Kimbrough 24 Aug 2023
A sarus crane flies over an agricultural field.

Has the Buddha’s legacy in Nepal helped save sarus cranes?

Abhaya Raj Joshi 17 Aug 2023
Swamp deer prefer grassland habitats.

Translocation hurdles prompt new efforts to save rare swamp deer in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Jul 2023
Sanga cattle on Zambezi River bank.

Even community stewardship can’t save rangeland beset by legacy of misrule

Malavika Vyawahare 21 Jul 2023
Virtual fencing collars emit a warning sound when an animal approaches the invisible boundary. If the animal does not respond to the sound, the collar will deliver a small electric shock. Image courtesy of Vence.

Virtual fences can benefit both ranchers and wildlife

Ruth Kamnitzer 19 Jul 2023
A Sharpe’s longclaw (Macronyx sharpei) in Kinangop Plateau.

Sheep offer a livelihood for Kenyan farmers, and a lifeline for a rare bird

Caroline Chebet 17 Jul 2023

Despite lawsuit, Casino Group still sells beef from Amazonian Indigenous territory

Fábio Bispo / InfoAmazonia 13 Jul 2023
Oil palm plantation

Degraded, but not defunct: Modified land still has wildlife value, study says

Carolyn Cowan 7 Jul 2023
Desta Melaku, one of the board member of Guassa Community Conservation Office, stands in front of a field of guassa grass. Image by Solomon Yimer for Mongabay.

Tested by COVID and war, an Indigenous conservation system in Ethiopia prevails

Solomon Yimer 4 Jul 2023

Climate emergency may channel millions in resources toward corn-based ethanol in the Amazon

Fábio Bispo, O Joio e o Trigo 3 Jul 2023
rhino in Nepal

Nepal’s rhinos are eating plastic waste, study finds

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jun 2023
A park blooming with more blue camas.

Volunteers, First Nations work to bring back a disappearing oak prairie

Spoorthy Raman 19 Jun 2023
Soy field and cerrado / chaco / Amazon transition forest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

U.S. conservation investment routed to eucalyptus expansion in Brazil’s Cerrado

Shanna Hanbury 6 Jun 2023
The orange ground-thrush.

Fires threaten Afromontane forests’ ‘whole new world’: Q&A with Martim Melo

Ryan Truscott 22 May 2023
Tiger on a rock.

Lack of large prey may be feeding rise in Nepal’s human-tiger conflicts

Abhaya Raj Joshi 11 May 2023
Setting a prescribed fire around vernal pools at Agate Desert Preserve. Image courtesy of Evan Barrientos/TNC.

Counterintuitive conservation: Fire boosts aquatic crustaceans in U.S. savannas

Ashli Blow 21 Apr 2023

Study attempts to foresee the future of Amazonian mammals if the rainforest turns into savanna

Suzana Camargo 18 Apr 2023

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