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Redwoods in California. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Supporting frontline leadership in a time of crisis (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Oct 2025
Giant monkey frog in the Western Amazon. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler

The hidden environmental cost of psychedelics

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Oct 2025

Cameroon inaugurates controversial dam despite local dissent

Yannick Kenné 10 Oct 2025
A wind farm in Altamont, California. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Big Oil isn’t part of the clean energy push, despite its claims, study shows

Malavika Vyawahare 10 Oct 2025
A gray wolf in Europe. Image by Mikkel Houmøller via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Study busts big bad myth that wolves are growing fearless of humans

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Oct 2025
Cassandra Garduño in a wooden boat.

Women in Mexico step up to protect the island farms traditionally inherited by men

Teresa de Miguel, Associated Press 8 Oct 2025
Amazon peoples have insisted on the urgency of having their voice and vote taken into account in biodiversity negotiations. Photo by UN biodiversity.

Indigenous leaders gather at the IUCN Indigenous Peoples and Nature summit

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 8 Oct 2025
Willie Shubert in Madagascar with lemurs at a rehabilitation center. Note: visitors are not permitted to touch lemurs, but lemurs do as they please. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Building a global newsroom for a planet in crisis: A conversation with Willie Shubert

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Oct 2025
Solar panels installed in a forested area in Gabon. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

EU to invest $636m in African power projects, including clean energy

Malavika Vyawahare 7 Oct 2025
Newly described B. kanadii growing on a fir tree in a forest in Arunachal Pradesh in northeast India. Image courtesy of Arvind Parihar.

Massive fungus from India is newly described species

Mongabay.com 6 Oct 2025
Tony Pritzker speaking at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES) gala. Courtesy of IoES.

Tony Pritzker’s patient strategy for the planet

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Oct 2025
Jane Goodall in Japan in June 2023. Photo taken by Kaori Nishida

Jane Goodall quotes: Words from a reluctant global icon 

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Oct 2025
Koala in captivity. Image by Till Niermann.

Australia to create a national park for 12,000 koalas

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Oct 2025
Cultivated meat taco produced by Ivy Farm. Photo courtesy of Ivy Farm

Protein for a crowded planet: An interview with the Good Food Institute’s Nigel Sizer

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Oct 2025
Prochlorococcus marinus, a globally significant marine cyanobacterium. Image by Luke Thompson from Chisholm Lab and Nikki Watson from Whitehead, MIT, 2007, via Flickr (Public domain).

New conservation panel to focus on microorganisms crucial for human and planet health

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Oct 2025
Jane with Uruhara pant-hooting, 1996. Photo by Michael Neugebauer

Jane Goodall (1934–2025): primatologist, conservationist, and messenger of hope

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Oct 2025
Jane Goodall in 2024. Courtesy of the Jane Goodall Institute.

Jane Goodall, primatologist who taught the world to hope, has died at 91

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Oct 2025
DJ Edwin Carrasco, known in the artistic world as Tayta Bird, recording sounds of a rainforest.

DJs inspired by nature

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Oct 2025

Consider the scorpions

Liz Kimbrough 30 Sep 2025
Tracking dog

To track a unicorn: Laos team goes all out to find the last saolas

Carolyn Cowan 30 Sep 2025
Redwood forest in California. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Conservation in a hotter world

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Sep 2025
A fishing cat photographed feeding on a monitor lizard near Pirkhali, a part of Sajnekhali Wildlife Sanctuary, in the Indian Sundarbans. Image courtesy of Soumyadip Santra.

Rare photos capture fishing cat preying on monitor lizard in the Sundarbans

Mongabay.com 29 Sep 2025
Lions in South Africa. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Counting kings: How annual lion surveys reveal the health of Africa’s protected areas (commentary)

Jon Ayers 29 Sep 2025
Banner image: Arturo Gómez-Pompa. Courtesy of Universidad

Arturo Gómez-Pompa, biologist who revealed the human history in “virgin” forests, has died, aged 90

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Sep 2025
Hema Sane. Image courtesy of Vision Publications

Hema Sane, botanist who lived without electricity, died on September 19th

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Sep 2025
From left: A blue jay, a hybrid individual, a green jay. Images courtesy of Travis Maher/Cornell Lab of Ornithology/Macaulay Library; Brian Stokes; Dan O’Brien/Cornell Lab of Ornithology/Macaulay Library.

Grue jay or Bleen jay? Researchers confirm hybrid between blue and green jays

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Sep 2025

Alaskan rivers turn orange as permafrost thaws, threatening fish and communities

Liz Kimbrough 25 Sep 2025
Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) in a dry forest in Madagascar. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

A dancing lemur could help save one of Madagascar’s most endangered ecosystems

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Sep 2025
The critically endangered western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) is found in both protected and unprotected forests in southeastern Cameroon. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

World Gorilla Day: What imperils our powerful cousins, and what brings hope

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Sep 2025
African gray parrot. Image by Robert01 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

DRC finally moves to protect African gray parrots from unsustainable trade

Didier Makal 23 Sep 2025
Rainforest in Sulawesi. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Harrison Ford says his generation “kicked the can down the road” on the environment

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Sep 2025

Global CO2 storage capacity may be drastically overstated, study finds

John Cannon 22 Sep 2025

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