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Rodrigo Agostinho, head of IBAMA

‘We’re getting back on track’: Interview with IBAMA head Rodrigo Agostinho

Karla Mendes 24 Jan 2025

In the Pan Amazon, inequality and informality fuel informal economies

Timothy J. Killeen 23 Jan 2025

In Panama, major port construction begins at key mangrove site

Maxwell Radwin 23 Jan 2025
The Campylopterus hemileucurus, or violet sabrewing hummingbird, is a pollinating bird found in the Sierra Tecuani protected area. Image by Becky Matsubara via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Mexico misses one-year deadline to submit new protected areas’ management plans

Aimee Gabay 23 Jan 2025
Maasai herder in Morogoro, not far from Ruaha National Park. Image by Shengena Killel/IFRI via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

World Bank cancels $150m tourism project in Tanzania after abuse claims

Ashoka Mukpo 23 Jan 2025

Five-month-old male gorilla, victim of illegal wildlife trade, seized in Istanbul

Spoorthy Raman 22 Jan 2025

Indigenous communities rise up against prison projects in Ecuador

Kimberley Brown 22 Jan 2025
Coal miners in Meghalaya, India.

Coal gasification, an old technology, is quietly expanding across Asia

Nithin Coca 21 Jan 2025
Domesticated yaks ferry essential supplies on the Sagarmatha trekking trail. Image by Shashwat Pant.

Helicopters slash the trek to Earth’s highest peak, but leave Sherpas grounded

Shashwat Pant 21 Jan 2025

In Uganda, local communities bear the brunt of militarized conservation

Mongabay.com 21 Jan 2025
Cattle grazing in the Amazon.

Probe details the playbook of one of Amazon’s top land grabbers

Fernanda Wenzel 20 Jan 2025

Plans for bauxite mine in Suriname reignite Indigenous land rights debate

Maxwell Radwin 16 Jan 2025
An uncontacted Indigenous community in Acre, Brazil.

Should mining companies consider no-go zones where isolated Indigenous peoples live? (Commentary)

Danielle Martin 16 Jan 2025

African Parks closes deal to manage Ethiopia’s Gambella National Park

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Jan 2025

Mongabay documentary spotlights Indigenous alliance to protect Amazon headwaters

Shanna Hanbury 16 Jan 2025

Mining in a forest conservation site clouds Republic of Congo’s carbon credit scheme

Elodie Toto 16 Jan 2025

Indonesian scientist under fire for revealing extent of illegal tin mining

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Jan 2025

El Salvador reverses landmark mining ban, setting up clash with activists

Maxwell Radwin 13 Jan 2025
A firefighter in the Xingu Indigenous Territory.

World’s record heat is worsening air pollution and health in Global South

Simrin Sirur, Orji Sunday, Karla Mendes 13 Jan 2025
A Hooded Pitohui (Pitohui dichrous) from Papua New Guinea.

Indonesia’s voracious songbird trade laps up rare and poisonous pitohuis

Spoorthy Raman 10 Jan 2025
Oil palm fruits harvested in Kalimantan.

NGOs raise concerns over Borneo pilot of ‘jurisdictional’ certification for palm oil

Rendy Tisna 10 Jan 2025

It’s time for a U.N. ‘universal declaration on nature’ (commentary)

Katherine Snow 9 Jan 2025

After a searing Amazon fire season, experts warn of more in 2025

Fernanda Wenzel 8 Jan 2025

Indonesian president says palm oil expansion won’t deforest because ‘oil palms have leaves’

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Jan 2025

Amazon communities reap the smallest share of bioeconomy profits

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Jan 2025

Mongabay’s most impactful investigations of 2024

Mongabay.com 31 Dec 2024

Companies banking on tech and collaboration to comply with EUDR

Sarah Brown 31 Dec 2024
A chestnut-tailed starling in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh adopts new technology to fight wildlife crimes

Sadiqur Rahman 31 Dec 2024
The National Family Farm Coalition protests genetically engineered salmon at an event in Berea, Kentucky in August 2024.

Campaigners celebrate as firm making first-ever GMO fish ceases operations

Edward Carver 31 Dec 2024
Emergent rainforest tree in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler for Mongabay.

The Amazon in 2025: Challenges and hopes as the rainforest takes center stage

Alexandre de Santi 30 Dec 2024
Deforestation for soy plantations and cattle ranches endanger the habitats of Amazon primates and prevent their movement to new locations. Rivers further limit the ability of small primates to move. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Sea change for soy champion Brazil as it wrestles with EUDR compliance

Karla Mendes 30 Dec 2024

Southeast Asia in review: 2024

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 30 Dec 2024

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