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A dog from the K9 Unit undergoing training with test bags that resemble luggage bags on a conveyer belt.

In Singapore, a forensics lab wields CSI-like tech against wildlife traffickers

Claire Turrell 20 May 2022

Community empowerment and forest conservation grow from the galip nut in Papua New Guinea

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Apr 2022

Traditional knowledge guides protection of planetary health in Finland

Jane Palmer 31 Mar 2022
Farid Tarabay, the new forest guide, under the Lamartine Cedar, one of the oldest in the SBR. Image by Elizabeth Fitt for Mongabay.

From land mines to lifelines, Lebanon’s Shouf is a rare restoration success story

Elizabeth Fitt 23 Mar 2022

Researchers turn to drones for that big-picture view of the forest canopy

Caitlin Looby 21 Mar 2022
Toco

Winds of change: Detecting species from airborne DNA just got real

Carolyn Cowan 11 Feb 2022
Fire line moves through a degraded forest area in an undesignated public forest area in Porto Velho, Rondônia on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2021

How wildlife crossings in Canada are inspiring safer roads for global species

Shannon Kelleher 17 Dec 2021

For South Africa’s dwindling renosterveld, there’s now a ‘panic button’ app

Ryan Truscott 25 Nov 2021

From the ocean floor, a startup livestreams the rise of coral cities

Claire Turrell 10 Nov 2021

Cooking with the sun: Entrepreneurs help launch Mexico’s solar revolution

Sandra Weiss 27 Oct 2021

Wildlife releases have a mixed record, and climate change complicates things

Natasha Gilbert 13 Oct 2021

Are nature-based solutions the silver bullet for social & environmental crises?

Victoria Schneider 6 Oct 2021

Creation of three new northern white rhinos embryos may indicate hope for other rhino species

Ashley Stumvoll 16 Sep 2021

Conservation after coronavirus: We need to diversify and innovate (commentary)

Jonathan Ayers, Frederic Launay 2 Sep 2021

End of deforestation tracker for Brazil’s Cerrado an ‘incalculable loss’

Fernanda Wenzel 19 Aug 2021

Shoe-leather science helps quadruple protected area in Peruvian Amazon

Yvette Sierra Praeli 10 Aug 2021

New artificial intelligence tool helps forecast Amazon deforestation

Juliana Ennes 9 Aug 2021
Grizzly bear

For monitoring mammals, eDNA boasts ‘killer feature’ over other methods

Carolyn Cowan 21 Jul 2021

Gabon becomes first African country to get paid for protecting its forests

Jim Tan 20 Jul 2021
Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge needs a makeover. Is rainforest lumber still in style?

Ashoka Mukpo 8 Jul 2021
A black rhino in Etosha National Park, Namibia. Image by Sonse, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Saving our ‘Beloved Beasts’: Q&A with environmental journalist Michelle Nijhuis

John Cannon 22 Apr 2021

Agroforestry, an ancient climate solution that boosts food production and biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 27 Jan 2021
Rainforest in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

What are the tropical forest storylines to watch in 2021?

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jan 2021

Restaura Cerrado: Saving Brazil’s savanna by reseeding and restoring it

Sarah Sax 14 Dec 2020

Philippine wildlife reporting app promises to upgrade fight against trafficking

Rosy Mina 3 Sep 2020

Facial recognition tech for chimps looks to bust online ape trafficking

Colin Sytsma 4 Aug 2020

Pandemic or not, the mission to save the rare Philippine eagle grinds on

Leilani Chavez 8 Jul 2020

Conservation insights from an enormous aspen clone: Q&A with ecologist Paul Rogers

James Dinneen 5 Jun 2020
A calf attempts to sneak its trunk into a mineral pit that mom is drinking from. Protest calls are often heard from calves during these behavioral contexts, as mom sometimes pushes them away and they in turn express their displeasure with a little yell. Photo © Ana Verahrami, Elephant Listening Project.

Listening to elephants to protect Central Africa’s tropical forests

Mike Gaworecki 27 May 2020

In South Korea, centuries of farming point to the future for sustainable agriculture

Latoya Abulu 18 May 2020

Through biomimicry, Brazil seeks tech innovations inspired by nature

Sibélia Zanon 28 Apr 2020

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