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Tree cover is not the same as ecological recovery

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Aug 2026
The Alta Floresta titi monkey is the symbol of Alta Floresta bridges program. Image courtesy of Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute and Projeto Reconecta.

Amazon canopy bridges enable 15,000 wildlife crossings without a single roadkill

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Aug 2026
A Bengal tiger in Nepal's Terai Arc Landscape.

Nepal’s newest national parks drive tiger recovery, but new concerns arise

Abhaya Raj Joshi 5 Aug 2026
A local community takes part in a tree plantation project in 2018.

Bangladesh plans to plant 250 million trees. Keeping them alive will be harder

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Aug 2026
Krishansar Lake sits at more than 3,700 meters in the Ganderbal district of the Kashmir Valley. Image by Rohit Sharma via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Introduced fish thrive amid Kasmir’s freshwater habitat degradation

Hashim Quraishi 3 Aug 2026

Palm oil expansion reignites decade-old Indigenous land conflict in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong, Niken D. Sitoningrum 31 Jul 2026

Costa Rica banana plantation destroyed protected wetland, complaint alleges

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jul 2026
Overhead view of the Rio Huaypetue gold mine in the Peruvian Amazon. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Mining, drilling, and fire are fragmenting the world’s largest forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jul 2026
A pair of orphaned orangutans in Sabah.

Major orangutan study finds Sumatran population fell nearly 20% despite slower forest loss

Hans Nicholas Jong, Junaidi Hanafiah 27 Jul 2026

New bird species identified on remote Indonesian island

Naina Rao 23 Jul 2026
Jefferson Salamander (Ambystoma jeffersonianum)

Why a New England city is building tunnels to protect an imperiled salamander

Alex Megerle 22 Jul 2026
For some animals, roadways act like fences, and they don’t even attempt to cross. Others, like bears, moose and bighorn sheep, and some smaller species, may attempt to cross, though it may prove deadly. Image by Jane Palmer.

How to stitch a massive wildlife corridor through the Rocky Mountains

Jane Palmer 22 Jul 2026

As Sri Lanka braces for El Niño, national parks are a concern amidst encroachment

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 21 Jul 2026
A black-faced black spider monkey (Ateles chamek) crossing one of the multilayered bridges. Image courtesy of Sergio Leal.

Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

Suzana Camargo 21 Jul 2026

Tourism and infrastructure threaten habitat of India’s Himalayan salamanders

Mongabay.com 20 Jul 2026
Following FDA rangers during arrest of a migrant cacao worker in Grand Gedeh, Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Something strange is happening in Liberia

Ashoka Mukpo, Juan Maza 19 Jul 2026
Under difficult circumstances when food is scarce, capuchin monkeys alter their behavior.

How Costa Rica’s extreme climate changes the social behaviors of white-faced capuchin

Adam Litchkofski 17 Jul 2026

In India’s Western Ghats, sacred groves are better at growing future forests

Liz Kimbrough 15 Jul 2026
Raja Ampat

Warming world could push Southeast Asia forests toward thermal limits, new study

Carolyn Cowan 15 Jul 2026
A harpy eagle (*Harpia harpyja*) in Venezuela. Image by Brendan Ryan via ~[Flickr](https://flickr.com/photos/brendan2010/25545049372/in/photolist-EVk4cJ-2omPVLY-2omKZNX-2j4htaw-25LAZVU-nGJGkV-2i25QFe-nYV7zz-2hXj7fq-2omPUYa-2ifbfxX-EVk7tJ-NsQZkV-2ft3wTo-2mqFK8D-7q7A5f-6MkcdD-4EDwkg-4EDxCk-2ioaVzM-4EHFb3-2i8ipxw-4EHGus-mu43Z-4EDz1P-4EHHLf-Mi1zDK-2kmdHQq-4ZkfDk-2km9jzr-4NNc4Z-WF9ysM-27hseZV-FkGRf9-4EHLfW-wAhdDn-Uvi249-hCNU3s-F6NZBe-2ige2fH-F6NPLH-piAioa-E96hfC-N5S2jy-F4uGv9-N5S23S-N5S2Tu-N5S2rC-F6NUy8-E96mpu)~ (~[CC BY-NC-SA 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en)~).

Research offers nature-positive path to end and reverse biodiversity loss

John Cannon 14 Jul 2026

Small-scale farming, logging eclipse megaprojects as top threats to Tapanuli orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Jul 2026

Pangolin habitat at risk in Pakistan

Mongabay.com 13 Jul 2026

Nepal’s Rhino translocation success in numbers masks habitat struggles

Mongabay.com 10 Jul 2026

A win-win, animal crossings make roads safer for wildlife and people

Mongabay.com 9 Jul 2026
San Mala and the community members document the stumps of freshly cut trees throughout the protected forest in northern Cambodia. Image by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Illegal timber imports from Cambodia, Laos skirt Vietnam safeguards, report reveals

Carolyn Cowan 2 Jul 2026
A Himalayan wolf.

How snow leopards, wolves and leopards share the same Himalayan valley, study

Liz Kimbrough 26 Jun 2026
Conservation groups have launched a plan to save the critically endangered Javan green magpie. As few as 50 may remain in the wild. Image courtesy of Andrew Owen/Chester Zoo.

On the brink of extinction, the Javan green magpie gets a conservation lifeline

Sean Mowbray 25 Jun 2026

Power lines threaten Sri Lanka’s iconic migrant flamingos

Mongabay.com 22 Jun 2026

Conservation efforts by families displaced for national park sees success in DRC

Mongabay.com 19 Jun 2026
Drone view of Chiquitano forest recently deforested on the edge of the Bolivian Amazon for soy production. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Suriname will not be saved by soybeans (commentary)

Mark J. Plotkin 19 Jun 2026

Pulp and paper giant APRIL adds major deforesters as suppliers after revising sustainability policy

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Jun 2026
A greater one horned rhino eats water plants from a river in Janakauli community forest bordering Chitwan National Park, 2010.

Nepal’s rhino translocation looks good in numbers, but not so much in habitat

Bibek Bhandari 18 Jun 2026

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