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Rare dugong calf sighting in Alor spotlights seagrass & marine mammal conservation

Basten Gokkon 21 Oct 2025
A green turtle. Image by Bernard DUPONT via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Green turtle rebounds, moving from ‘endangered’ to ‘least concern’

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Oct 2025

New cluster of Tapanuli orangutans discovered in Sumatra peat swamp

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Oct 2025
Illustration by Sara Arredondo – Baudó Agencia Pública.

Indigenous monitoring project helps protect isolated peoples in Colombia’s Amazon

Pilar Puentes 16 Oct 2025

State-NGO collaboration expands protection for Patagonia’s biodiversity hotspot

Mark Hillsdon 16 Oct 2025
Rodrigues fody by pierrickferret via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

20 animal species on the road to recovery: IUCN Red List update

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Oct 2025
Whānganui River

Pioneering policies and rights-of-nature rules win World Future Policy Awards

Mike DiGirolamo 14 Oct 2025
Elephants move along a migration corridor in Kenya. Image courtesy of Hillary Rosner.

Migrating elephants get room to roam via community conservation efforts

Hillary Rosner 14 Oct 2025
A flower of the Moringa oleifera tree, which is valued for its medicinal properties.

In DRC’s Kivu region, the moringa tree offers valuable health benefits

Blaise Kasereka Makuta 9 Oct 2025
Denica Riadini-Flesch in Indonesia. Photo by Muhammad Fadli / National Geographic

Regenerative fashion initiative in Indonesia wins 2025 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Oct 2025
Cassandra Garduño harvests kale in her chinampa.

Saving Mexico City’s ancient floating farms

Lucia Torres, Associated Press 8 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

Mongabay founder Rhett Butler wins the Henry Shaw Award

Bobby Bascomb 7 Oct 2025

Indonesia eyes seagrass zoning for blue carbon; experts urge community benefits

Basten Gokkon 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
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
A Bali starling sings with its beak wide open

Indigenous-led protections spark Bali starling’s recovery in the wild

Heather Physioc 2 Oct 2025
Courtesy of the Jane Goodall Institute

How to carry Jane Goodall’s light forward

Rhett Ayers Butler 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
Mountain gorillas by Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo for Mongabay.

Mongabay staffer shares the joy and impact of wildlife photography

Mike DiGirolamo 30 Sep 2025

Study spotlights West Papua habitat as whale sharks face increased pressures

Basten Gokkon 28 Sep 2025
Alisha’s dorsal photograph during her initial tagging in May 2012 in Gansbaai, South Africa.

Long-lost white shark tag traces remarkable journey from South Africa to SE Asia

Miriam Bahagijo 26 Sep 2025
A beaver explores its new home at Tásmam Koyóm in 2023.

When does beaver reintroduction make sense?

John Cannon 23 Sep 2025

Extinct-in-the-wild plant rediscovered in Sri Lanka thanks to social media

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Sep 2025

In Guatemala, young Kaqchikel Maya protect their sacred forest with open mapping

Monica Pelliccia 18 Sep 2025

Growing trees on farms boosts nutrition in rural Malawi

Liz Kimbrough 17 Sep 2025
The cheerful faces of Wulandoni 4 Public Middle School students after harvesting sorghum in the school garden in Tapobali village.

Grassroots community seeds sorghum in eastern Indonesia to adapt to climate change

Ebed de Rosary 17 Sep 2025
Waterfall in the Upper Amazon. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler

How journalism helps turn information into outcomes

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Sep 2025
A hooded vulture chick in the newly discovered nesting site in KwaZulu-Natal. Image courtesy of Wildlife ACT.

A nest with a chick brings rare hope for hooded vultures in South Africa

Sean Mowbray 16 Sep 2025

Women-led patrols and fire prevention restore forests in northern Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 16 Sep 2025

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