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California sea lion by Rhododendrites via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Chronic diseases prevalent across animals, but understudied: Study

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Nov 2025
Cultivated poke bowl produced by Ivy Farm. Photo courtesy of Ivy Farm

Reimagining meat: The Good Food Institute’s bid to redesign the global food system

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Oct 2025

Deforestation and disease spread as Nicaragua ignores illegal cattle ranching

Maxwell Radwin 20 Oct 2025

As wolves roam California, livestock losses remain low, yet ranchers’ fears grow

Spoorthy Raman 16 Oct 2025

Biodiversity loss due to land use change could be highly underestimated: Study

Mark Hillsdon 14 Oct 2025
Cultivated meat taco produced by Ivy Farm. Photo courtesy of Ivy Farm

Protein for a crowded planet: An interview with the Good Food Institute’s Nigel Sizer

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Oct 2025
Bouba Ndjida is one of the only sites in Central Africa where we are seeing the early signs of recovery in the population.

Northern Cameroon’s lions are reproducing, but concerns remain

Leocadia Bongben 30 Sep 2025
Tracking dog

To track a unicorn: Laos team goes all out to find the last saolas

Carolyn Cowan 30 Sep 2025
Chepsat sorting tomatoes to load on a vehicle for ferrying to the market in Marigat. Image by Gilbert Nakweya for Mongabay.

Permaculture promises peace, food, increased equality in Kenyan county

Gilbert Nakweya 24 Sep 2025
A palm oil plantation in Indonesia. Market leakage — sellers shifting EU-bound commodities to other less regulated markets — could undermine the effectiveness of the EUDR in some supply chains.

The EU proposes delaying anti-deforestation law, again

Bobby Bascomb 23 Sep 2025
Marfrig’s bonds funded beef from illegally deforested areas in Brazil

Marfrig’s bonds funded beef from illegally deforested areas in Brazil

Bruna Bronoski, O Joio e o Trigo 23 Sep 2025

Conservationists split over greener ranching versus ditching beef

Mongabay.com 12 Sep 2025
In this Sep. 26, 2017 photo released by Ibama, the Brazilian Environmental and Renewable Natural Resources Institute, members a firefighter fighta a forest fire affecting Porquinhos Indigenous lands in Maranhao state in Brazil's Amazon basin. Image by Felipe Werneck/Ibama via AP.

More than half the world’s forests fragmented in 20 years — but protection works: Study

Ruth Kamnitzer 11 Sep 2025

Guatemala closes oil field, increases security in Maya Biosphere Reserve

Maxwell Radwin 5 Sep 2025
A puma in the highlands of the Antisana páramos. Image courtesy of Andean Condor Foundation.

Restoring the Páramo: How Ecuador healed its degraded high-Andean ecosystem

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2025

Brazil’s Atlantic Forest still losing ‘large amounts’ of mature forest, despite legal protection

Liz Kimbrough 28 Aug 2025

Rewilding project aims to restore resilience to fire-prone Spain via wildlife

Jeremy Hance 28 Aug 2025
Cattle in Switzerland.

Will we still eat beef in 50 years?

John Cannon 15 Aug 2025
A lion in Western Cape, South Africa.

Learning to live with lions: Interview with Claw Conservancy’s Andrew Stein

Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 Aug 2025

Restoration brings back fresh water, wildlife to degraded páramos in Ecuador

Ana Cristina Alvarado 7 Aug 2025
Sifting coffee beans in Porciuncula, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

‘Insignificant risk’ EUDR proposal threatens fight against deforestation, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jul 2025
Paulo Paulino Guajajara, from left, with Laércio Guajajara, Karla Mendes and Olimpio Guajajara during Mendes's 2019 reporting trip. Paulo was killed in an ambush nine months later. Image by Karla Mendes/Mongabay.

Mongabay journalist Karla Mendes wins 2025 Oakes Award for environmental journalism

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2025
Banner image of a cattle ranch in the Paraguayan Chaco by Peer V via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Pasture and agricultural expansion in Gran Chaco drive biodiversity loss: Study

Kristine Sabillo 23 Jul 2025

Mennonite farming in Belize threatens essential biological corridor, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 14 Jul 2025

Brazil’s Arariboia set to be the first Indigenous land with legal cattle

Karla Mendes 14 Jul 2025

Meat giant profits from carbon market without halting deforestation

Bruna Bronoski, from O Joio e O Trigo 4 Jul 2025
Workers prep poultry at the meatpacking company JBS in the Brazilian state of Paraná. Image by Eraldo Peres/Associated Press.

Meatpacking giant JBS debuts on NYSE six months after $5m Trump donation

Shanna Hanbury 25 Jun 2025

Panama boosts protections in the Darién Gap, but deforestation threats still loom

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jun 2025

Protecting the Darién Gap: Interview with Panama national parks director Luis Carles Rudy

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jun 2025

On World Rainforest Day, stories of Amazon danger and resistance

Mongabay.com 20 Jun 2025
Banner image of a jaguar with a fish, courtesy of Andrea Reyes/Jaguares en la Selva.

How Costa Rica’s ranchers contribute to jaguar and puma conservation

Mongabay.com 28 May 2025
Nina, the jaguar.

Report links meat giant JBS to massive destruction of jaguar habitat

Constance Malleret 22 May 2025

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