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Kathy Jefferson Bancroft

Kathy Jefferson Bancroft, guardian of a stolen lake

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Feb 2026
A woman working on a landscape restoration project in Abijata-Shalla National Park, Ethiopia. Image by Solomon Yimer for Mongabay.

Ethiopian youth groups restore Rift valley lake & livelihoods

Solomon Yimer 22 Dec 2025
Herders cross the Lungasamba pass with their yaks. Image by Chyamtang-Kathmandu Welfare Society.

Nepal Indigenous leaders refile writ petition against hydropower project

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 12 Dec 2025
Smoke from wildfires fills the air over Lake Tefé in the Amazon. Image courtesy of Miguel Monteiro.

The Amazon’s lakes are heating up at ‘alarming’ rate, research finds

Shanna Hanbury 11 Dec 2025
Tourists Bharat Lake Nepal

New riverside lake in Nepal wins hearts, but faces government opposition

Suresh Bidari 28 Nov 2025
Wilmar Eliaser Simandjorang

One man’s mission to rewild a dying lake

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Nov 2025
Wilmar Eliaser Simandjorang

Indonesia retiree rewilds world’s largest volcano lake as church demands plantation closures

Sri Wahyuni 17 Oct 2025

Local divers pick away at Lake Malawi’s underwater garbage problem

Charles Mpaka 14 Oct 2025
Mountain yellow-legged frogs have a wide array of color variations, ranging from yellow and brown to red and gray.

Uphill battle to save California’s endangered mountain yellow-legged frog

Sean Mowbray 10 Oct 2025
Fishers with a net at Lake Victoria in Kenya.

Africa’s largest freshwater lake could be site of Kenya’s nuclear power plant

Elodie Toto 8 Oct 2025
Aerial view of the Monboyo River and peatland forest of Salonga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Image courtesy of Daniel Beltrá/Greenpeace.

New global report urges urgent action to save wetlands

David Akana 16 Jul 2025

How extreme droughts could redefine the future of Amazonian fish

Tiago Mota e Silva 19 May 2025
Fishers camp in grass shelters at Mbenje Island, which is located 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the beachshore of Lake Malawi, in a cluster of fivesix islands. – Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

Community-led system boosts fisheries in a corner of fast-depleting Lake Malawi

Mongabay.com 14 May 2025
Banner image floodwaters moving through Queensland by Bureau of Meteorology via Facebook.

Floods devastate normally arid parts of Australia’s Queensland

Kristine Sabillo 3 Apr 2025
Chilean flamingos (Phoenicopterus chilensis) in Lake Chinchaycocha in Junín, Peru.

Drowned lands and poisoned waters threaten Peru’s campesinos and their livestock

Aimee Gabay 25 Mar 2025
Artisans fix nets at Chikombe Beach ahead of their trip to Mbenje Island – . Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

Fish-tracking robot aims to make fishing more sustainable in developing nations

Charles Mpaka 20 Mar 2025
More than half of the population of the Malalo Tigo Jurai Indigenous community depends on Lake Singkarak for livelihood.

Tragedy haunts community on shore of Sumatra’s largest solar farm

Jaka Hendra Baittri 12 Mar 2025
A flooded field in Lake Province, Chad, in October 2024. The Lutheran World Foundation (LWF) is working with farmers groups as part of their three year "Gender Transformative Climate Adaptation" project. Image courtesy of Marie Renaux/LWF

Lake Chad isn’t shrinking — but climate change is causing other problems

Ruth Kamnitzer 28 Feb 2025
Common pochard (Aythya ferina) photographed in Pakistan.

Better government policies could help as migratory birds lose habitat in Bangladesh

Pinky Akter 5 Feb 2025
An African pygmy goose.

Seeking the ‘humanity–wetland’ balance: Interview with Zimbabwean activist Jimmy Mahachi

Aimee Gabay 2 Feb 2025

Rising deforestation threatens rare species in Indonesia’s ancient Lake Poso

Liz Kimbrough 22 Jan 2025
Banner image of discus fish by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

1 in 4 freshwater species worldwide at risk of extinction: Study

Kristine Sabillo 14 Jan 2025

Near-extinct Siberian crane is recovering thanks to habitat protection

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Jan 2025

Grassroots efforts sprout up to protect Central America’s Trifinio watershed

Maxwell Radwin 16 Dec 2024
People walk in heavy rains in Dhaka.

Studies link stronger dengue outbreak in Bangladesh to climate change

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 22 Nov 2024
A village weaver (Ploceus cucullatus) at Lake Chivero, Harare.

Community-led wetland restoration may hold key to Harare’s water crisis

Aimee Gabay, Tatenda Chitagu 10 Oct 2024

Heavy rains in Lake Chad Basin leave hundreds dead across countries

Shanna Hanbury 20 Sep 2024

Amazon lakes overheat as record drought drives dolphin deaths

Bobby Bascomb 6 Sep 2024
Boys swim in the Buriganga River near Dhaka during a heat wave in May 2024.

Conserving & restoring waterways can mitigate extreme urban heat in Bangladesh

Riley Comstock 20 Aug 2024
Fraser Valley as seen from Sumas Mountain.

Climate change could return a stolen lake to Indigenous people, a century later

Olivia Ferrari 7 Aug 2024
Abijata-Shalla National Park’s management is working to build a common understanding of how deforestation and other activities affect the landscape on which communities and wildlife depend. Image by Solomon Yimer for Mongabay.

Holistic care for an Ethiopian lake system: Interview with Redwan Mohammed

Solomon Yimer 6 Aug 2024
Lake Turkana. Image by Aocrane via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Small steps towards larger goal of protecting East African wetlands

Petro Kotzé 6 Aug 2024

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