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Minerva Hills National Park. Image courtesy of Nathan White/Tourism and Events Queensland.

Australia’s 30×30 conservation promise matters a lot, but how it’s achieved is key (commentary)

Tim Nicol 27 Aug 2026

China’s Tianmu Mountain reserve tackles modern conservation amid religious tradition

Mongabay.com 27 Aug 2026

Indigenous water systems gain ground as climate pressures intensify in Bolivia

Anastasia Austin 26 Aug 2026
Américo Pascuala Tumisha. Photo courtesy of Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN)

Ashéninka leader reportedly killed while patrolling Indigenous territory is found alive

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Aug 2026

Can REDD+ deliver for Philippines’ Iraya Mangyan?

Keith Anthony Fabro 26 Aug 2026

At global desertification conference, pastoralists call for greater recognition

Joseph Lee 25 Aug 2026
Rainstorm over Pillcopata in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett Butler/Mongabay.

Plans of Peru’s new administration spur concern among environmentalists

Aimee Gabay 25 Aug 2026

In Raja Ampat, children learn that their knowledge can help protect their islands

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Aug 2026
A red siskin (Spinus cucullatus)

How a rare bird sparked a wildlife movement across 16 villages in Guyana

Gentry Hale 24 Aug 2026
Carl and Isabel Gakran, leaders of the Zág Institute, with their daughter Zágtxo, on the Ibirama-La Klãnõ Indigenous Territory. Image courtesy of Anderson Coelho.

Xokleng Indigenous people plant thousands of critically endangered pine in Brazil

Mongabay.com 24 Aug 2026
Spinach pipefish is an endemic species found in Papua New Guinea's Sepik River. It was not seen by scientists for more than four decades. Image Courtesy of New Guinea Binatang Research Centre.

Local knowledge guides rediscovery of spinach pipefish, not seen in four decades

Spoorthy Raman 24 Aug 2026
dragonfly Colombia

Dragonflies help protect water and ancestral Indigenous languages in Colombia

Manuel Fonseca 24 Aug 2026
A group of Dayak women weavers look for leaves for natural dyes in the forest.

Indonesia integrates Indigenous data in bid to put customary lands on map

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Aug 2026
Pete Brosius in Sarawak

Pete Brosius brought Penan forest stewardship in Sarawak into court

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Aug 2026
Collage “Hands On” video series featuring Lucia Torres, Mongabay staff.

Hands On series: stories that build change

Lucia Torres 22 Aug 2026
Representatives of the Huitoto and Ticuna indigenous communities

Drugs are becoming institutionalized: Interview with Ticuna leader in Peru’s Amazon

Aimee Gabay 20 Aug 2026
Wilfrido Arends, 46, an Indigenous Wayuu fisher known locally as “Caracas,” scans the horizon as he steers the onboard motor of his small fishing boat. Image by Euan Wallace.

Indigenous fishers rethink shark hunting & protect species on Colombia’s coast

Euan Wallace 20 Aug 2026
Members of the Kāi Tahu marine ranger team return from harvesting seaweed. Image by Edward Carver for Mongabay.

New Zealand opens marine reserves with groundbreaking Māori co-management model

Edward Carver 19 Aug 2026
The first sign demarcating the Rio Pardo Kawahiva Indigenous Territory. Image courtesy of FUNAI.

Brazil marks borders for isolated Indigenous group in the Amazon after decades

Shanna Hanbury 19 Aug 2026

New leadership initiative carries on legacy of late Indonesian environmental activist

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Aug 2026
The siruk, or Mindoro boobook (Ninox mindorensis), in Puerto Galera.

Elders, conservationists race to record fading sacred ties to Philippines’ endemic birds

Keith Anthony Fabro 18 Aug 2026
Green sea turtle swimming in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef. Image by ©Commonwealth of Australia (Reef Authority), photographer J. Sumerling. CC BY 4.0.

On the Great Barrier Reef, management by Traditional Owners is growing

Cat Williams 18 Aug 2026
Lizulu Market in Malawi's capital, Lilongwe

Indigenous food sovereignty is one of the most overlooked conservation strategies (commentary)

Gemma Sethsmith, Brijlal Chaudhari 18 Aug 2026

On an Indonesian island, an ancient ritual evolves to protect an endangered cockatoo

Basten Gokkon 18 Aug 2026

Indonesia leads global tally of abuses linked to Chinese transition-mineral investments

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Aug 2026

Texas activist’s claims of Indigenous ancestry face scrutiny

Mongabay.com 17 Aug 2026
Residents at Paraíso Grande riverine community, located 30 minutes by fast boat from the city of Humaitá, say the risk of accidents with big convoys increases during the Madeira River’s high-water season, when its banks are flooded.. Image by Karla Mendes/Mongabay.

Fatal barge crashes fuel fear over Madeira River waterway expansion in Brazil

Karla Mendes 17 Aug 2026
Cerros de Mavicure at sunset. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Among the sacred hills of Colombia’s Guainía

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Aug 2026

Infrastructure and land use behind devastating India monsoon floods

Naina Rao 14 Aug 2026
Taiwan Premier Cho Jung-tai, center, celebrates with Siraya activists Wan Cheng-hsiung, right, and Alak Akatuang on July 30, 2026, after announcing the recognition of the Siraya people as the island’s 17th officially designated Indigenous group in Taipei. Image courtesy of Taiwan’s Executive Yuan.

Siraya gain recognition as Taiwan’s 17th official Indigenous group

Yenni Kwok 13 Aug 2026
Hemerson Dantas dos Santos Pataxó HaHaHãi and elders recorded their people’s medicinal knowledge in Brazil. From left to right: Marta Xavier de Oliveira, Maura Rosa Titiah Vieira, Hemerson Dantas dos Santos Pataxó HaHaHãi, Aniraldo Xavier Kariri-Sapuyá and Maria Creuza Fernandes Rodrigues Kariri-Sapuyá. Photos by Karla Mendes. Graphic design by Marilia Ferrari.

How a Brazilian Indigenous ethnobotanist & elders recorded their people’s medicinal knowledge

Karla Mendes 13 Aug 2026
Activists in Myanmar protest against the Myitsone Dam project in this 2019 file photo. Image by AP Photo/Thein Zaw.

Myanmar junta pushes to restart Myitsone Dam project

Esther J 13 Aug 2026

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