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View of Suralaya coal power plant in Cilegon city, Banten Province, Indonesia.

As Indonesia phases out coal, what happens to people & environments left behind?

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 May 2025
Chrystal Mantyka-Pringle leading cultural mapping exercises with Tr'ondek Hwech'in First Nation citizens Ryan Petersen and Zack Everitt at the community’s Land of Plenty cultural camp in 2019. Image courtesy of Elaine Cordon.

An alternative approach to bridge Indigenous knowledge and Western science for conservation (commentary)

Chrystal Mantyka-Pringle, Natasha Ayoub, Katie Fraser 20 May 2025
A herder minding his goats in Isiolo County, Kenya. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Crisis hits community-led conservation group in northern Kenya

Ashoka Mukpo 20 May 2025
The proximity with non-Indigenous culture and lack of economic alternatives make some young Mundurukus turn to illegal mining.

From chickens to cassava, Brazil’s Munduruku seek alternatives to mining

Fernanda Wenzel, Karla Mendes 20 May 2025
cattle Brazil

New forest loss data beef up Amazon deforestation case against Casino Group

Carla Ruas 20 May 2025
Relatives of people injured by army gunfire at Munjenje, Lualaba Province, DRC. Image courtesy of CASMIA.

Soldiers raid village as tensions flare over DRC’s Kamoa mine expansion

Didier Makal 20 May 2025

German supermarket palm oil linked to Indigenous rights abuses in Guatemala

Maxwell Radwin 19 May 2025
A Yucatán black howler monkey

Protection is only the beginning: Creating connection through Belize’s Maya Forest Corridor

Ruth Kamnitzer 19 May 2025
Puff Adder, a venomous snake from Africa, topped the list of vertebrates with the highest risk of being invasive in the U.S.

Venomous snakes, freshwater fish among legally traded species most likely to become invasive in US

Spoorthy Raman 19 May 2025
A sarus crane photographed in Lumbini. Image by Mukesh Pokhrel.

Concrete sprawl in Buddha’s birthplace in Nepal threatens sarus cranes

Mukesh Pokhrel 19 May 2025

How extreme droughts could redefine the future of Amazonian fish

Tiago Mota e Silva 19 May 2025
Cambodian journalist Ouk Mao has been placed under court surveillance for exposing deforestation linked to a powerful mining company. Image by Nehru Pry / Mongabay.

Cambodian environmental journalist Ouk Mao arrested

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 16 May 2025
: President Luis Arce received a gift from a member of the United States of Kailasa in Bolivia. It was in 2024 at the event for the anniversary of CIDOB in Santa Cruz. Image courtesy of El Deber.

Bolivia expels members of fake nation Kailasa over Indigenous land lease scandal

Iván Paredes Tamayo 16 May 2025
Jandhen Gurung, 82, with her juniper leaf collection. Image by Durga Rana Magar.

In Nepal, centuries-old Buddhist incense tradition faces overharvesting, climate threats

Durga Rana Magar 16 May 2025

Study unveils mystery of monkey yodeling — and why humans can’t compete

Liz Kimbrough 16 May 2025

China drops pangolin formulas from approved TCM list, but concerns remain

Keith Anthony Fabro 16 May 2025
Tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum)

Radio tags help reveal the secret lives of tiger salamanders

Abhishyant Kidangoor 16 May 2025

Indigenous conservationists lead the fight to save Mentawai’s endangered primates

Ana Norman Bermúdez 15 May 2025

New study maps the fishmeal factories that supply the world’s fish farms

Edward Carver 15 May 2025
Greater adjutant storks photographed in Assam, India.

In India, folklore is a tool that helps women save the greater adjutant stork

Angana Chakrabarti 15 May 2025
Palm oil farmer

Profit imbalance in palm oil industry risks environmental compliance, report says

Carolyn Cowan 15 May 2025

Brazil’s offshore wind farms could sacrifice small-scale fishing in Ceará

Lobato Felizola 15 May 2025
Banner image: A truck carries logs cut from the Amazon Rainforest in the state of Rondônia. Image courtesy of Vicente Sampaio/Imaflora.

The world needs a new UN protocol to fight environmental crime (commentary)

Robert Muggah 15 May 2025
A. rugioperculatus activity observed in Florida.

Invasive whiteflies pose a new threat to Bangladesh’s cash crops

Abu Siddique 15 May 2025

Sumatran tiger protection needs more patrols, tougher penalties, study finds

Basten Gokkon 15 May 2025
A crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis), incredulous that its habitat may be able to coexist with oil palm crops without affecting commercial productivity. Image by Alain Rival/TRAILS.

Borneo project hopes to prove that forests and oil palms can coexist

Louise Hunt 15 May 2025
An okapi at Bronx Zoo in the United States. Image by Ryan Schwark via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

13 years after deadly attack, an okapi returns to Epulu in DRC reserve

Saïbe Kabila 14 May 2025
With thick coats and broad paws, Canada lynx are supremely adapted to deep snow.

New research sheds light on Canada lynx-snowshoe hare cycle, human impacts

Ruth Kamnitzer 14 May 2025

Rectifying the damage: environmental fines in the Brazilian Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 14 May 2025
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Banten Province, Indonesia.

Flawed energy road map may block Indonesia’s coal exit, critics warn

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 May 2025

Even in intact Amazon forests, climate change affects bird populations: Study

Suzana Camargo 14 May 2025

Cape vulture conservation offers hope, but challenges remain

Sean Mowbray 14 May 2025

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