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A shopper walks through Chatuchak Market carrying her pet raccoon.

More Latin American species are surfacing at a Bangkok wildlife market

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2026
Sumatran tiger

Weak prosecution leaves Southeast Asia’s tigers vulnerable to trafficking: Report

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2026
A pride of lions inside Queen Elizabeth National Park. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Uganda and NGO to co-manage sector of national park home to tree-climbing lions

Ashoka Mukpo 2 Oct 2026
An apartment demolition and remodeling worker pushes a cart loaded with rubble in Hong Kong on Sept. 18, 2026.

As Hong Kong heats up, calls grow for tougher rules to protect outdoor workers

June Wong 2 Oct 2026
Gillnetting fishers off North Sentinel- wreck coast: Fishermen from South Andaman lay gillnets around North Sentinel Island, exploiting the rich fishery. This picture in from 1999, and the exploitation has increased to skin diving lobster fishermen, hook & line fishers, trawlers, and also opportunists of various intent and origin. Image courtesy of Mandish Chandi.

India’s isolated island tribes need autonomy to survive rising threats, says scholar

Mongabay.com 1 Oct 2026
Stéphanie Moussounda, known as Maman Djédjé, a Gabonese traditional practitioner and initiatory mother, president of the Fédération nationale des traditionalistes gabonais (FENATRAG) and second vice-president of COARITRAG, at her temple in Gabon. Image by Molly Helfend for Mongabay.

Gabon, home to the medicinal plant behind ibogaine, wants a fairer share of its global boom

Molly Helfend 1 Oct 2026
Two Spix’s macaws

Vantara in talks with Brazil on ‘strategic cooperation’ on threatened species, FOIA documents reveal

Fernanda Wenzel, Spoorthy Raman 1 Oct 2026
Baird's tapirs (Tapirus bairdii) are the largest native land mammals in Central and South America. They are endangered and habitat loss is one of its biggest threats. Image by user Rhododendrites via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

In Panama’s Darién forest, Indigenous communities test a new way to fund conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Sep 2026
An earless monitor lizard, endemic to Borneo.

Illegal wildlife continues to slip through Canada’s borders. Experts explain how

Alex Megerle 30 Sep 2026
A yellow-eyed penguin.

As yellow-eyed penguins disappear, conservationists focus on deaths in fishing nets

Edward Carver 28 Sep 2026

Indonesia passes agrarian reform law amid concerns over land protections

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Sep 2026

Philippines is the deadliest country in Asia for environmental defenders, report finds

Naina Rao 28 Sep 2026
A bluespotted ribbontail ray (Taeniura lymma) on a reef bed by Pulau Hantu

Singapore’s plan to merge several islands could wipe out coral reefs

Robin Hicks 28 Sep 2026
Families are relocated due to flooding and landslides in the Balukhali Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar.

Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps become increasingly vulnerable to landslides

Sadiqur Rahman 25 Sep 2026

Chocolate giant lobbied U.S. and EU officials over deforestation laws, says report

Naina Rao 25 Sep 2026

Peru faces hearing over threats to uncontacted Indigenous groups in the Amazon

Maxwell Radwin 24 Sep 2026
Women work in a paddy field at Uttarbahini village, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal.

In Nepal, women seek ownership rights to the lands they tend

Haven Sager 24 Sep 2026

Indonesia’s geothermal push runs into local fears at Mount Ungaran

Triyo Handoko 24 Sep 2026
Protesters outside the Grand Hyatt Manila on Sept. 10 called for an end to the Pax Silica pact.

Planned US tech hub in Philippines hit over environmental and Indigenous land concerns

Michael Beltran 23 Sep 2026

US contractors reportedly purchase tin from company accused of illegal Amazon mining

Mongabay 23 Sep 2026

Logging still threatens Bornean forest once envisioned as an Indigenous-led peace park

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 23 Sep 2026
In this operation, enforcement officials recovered 28 native reptiles, including shingleback lizards (pictured here), spiny-tailed skinks and lace monitors. Image courtesy of the National Environmental Protection Agency.

Reptiles, gold and money: How Australia is cracking down on wildlife trafficking

Johan Augustin 23 Sep 2026

Critics question oil and gas spending in Mexico’s proposed climate budget

Maxwell Radwin 22 Sep 2026

Drought and state neglect deepen health crisis for Peru’s recently contacted Matsés

Mongabay.com 22 Sep 2026
Illegal miners at work in the Atewa Forest Reserve, Ghana. Image courtesy of A Rocha Ghana.

Illegal mines threaten biodiversity and drinking water in Ghana’s Atewa Forest

Mabel Adorkor Annang 21 Sep 2026
Beginning in the mid-2000s, poachers targeted elephants for their tusks, which were worth hefty sums on the black market. In some countries, including Zambia, governments and conservationists are trying to find new ways to combat poaching — like understanding motivations and trying to provide alternative, legal employment.

‘How did you come to be here?’ Study digs into origins of Zambian wildlife crime

Alex Megerle 19 Sep 2026
This infant Sumatran orangutan was separated from its mother when it was forcibly taken by hunters in the forest in Indonesia.

Five orangutans found in India face long road back home to Indonesia

Junaidi Hanafiah 18 Sep 2026
Herring are unloaded from a fishing boat in Rockland, Maine, in 2015.

US move to loosen restrictions on fishing could harm vital ecosystems, experts warn

Jules Struck 18 Sep 2026

Exotic pet trade poses rising zoonotic disease risks in India

Mongabay.com 17 Sep 2026
Abandoned houses in Tengjhih, a settlement of the Bunun Indigenous people, in southern Taiwan, on Aug. 6, 2026. Image by Aylin Ho for Mongabay.

Displaced by typhoons, Taiwan’s Bunun Indigenous people struggle to preserve heritage

Mongabay.com 17 Sep 2026

Bolivia’s mining law overhaul raises environmental and community concerns

Maxwell Radwin 16 Sep 2026

Since US intervention, Venezuela’s illegal mining crisis has only worsened, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 15 Sep 2026

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