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Leschenault's rousette (Rousettus leschenaultii) from a temple in Madurai, Tamil Nadu.

Mongabay’s What-to-Watch list for October 2023

Mongabay.com 3 Oct 2023
Cattle in Pará state.

EU bill and new green policies spur progress on Brazil’s cattle tracking

André Schröder 21 Sep 2023
Cattle grazing in the Amazon.

Meatpacking giant and Amazon deforester JBS bid for NYSE listing challenged

Shanna Hanbury 20 Sep 2023
Protesting farmers on their way to the Hague in 2019.

The Dutch farmers’ protests of 2022: A Mongabay Series

Ashoka Mukpo 14 Sep 2023
Laborers at Land Rover's wind energy project purposed for carbon finance in India.

Revealed: Why the UN is not climate neutral

Jacob Goldberg, Leopold Salzenstein, Sarah Brown, Shaz Syed 13 Sep 2023

The Netherlands weighs up its future amid farmer protests and dying ecosystems

Ashoka Mukpo, Sandy Watt 13 Sep 2023
A dairy cow in a farm in the Netherlands.

In the clash over Dutch farming, Europe’s future arrives

Ashoka Mukpo 8 Sep 2023

In the Netherlands, pitchforks fly for an empire of cows

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Sep 2023
cow in the netherlands wagenigen university dairy campus research facility

How manure blew up the Netherlands

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Sep 2023
Vulture Nepal

Nests of hope: Nepal’s vulture colonies hold on amid new threats

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Aug 2023
A rancher herds cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

How the Amazon’s ‘greatest devastator’ sold cattle to a Carrefour supplier 

Marina Rossi, Daniel Camargos, Hyury Potter 29 Aug 2023
Squirrel monkeys are one of many creatures of Yasuni National Park. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

What drives and halts tropical deforestation? Analyzing 24 years of data

Liz Kimbrough 24 Aug 2023
Hawks fly along BR230 in the iTerêrim Marmelos Indigenous Territory in Amazonas. Image by Bruno Kelly/Amazonia Real via Wikimedia Commons (CC 2.0).

In Brazil’s Amazon, a ‘new agricultural frontier’ threatens protected lands

Ana Ionova 27 Jul 2023
Sanga cattle on Zambezi River bank.

Even community stewardship can’t save rangeland beset by legacy of misrule

Malavika Vyawahare 21 Jul 2023
Virtual fencing collars emit a warning sound when an animal approaches the invisible boundary. If the animal does not respond to the sound, the collar will deliver a small electric shock. Image courtesy of Vence.

Virtual fences can benefit both ranchers and wildlife

Ruth Kamnitzer 19 Jul 2023

Despite lawsuit, Casino Group still sells beef from Amazonian Indigenous territory

Fábio Bispo / InfoAmazonia 13 Jul 2023

Climate emergency may channel millions in resources toward corn-based ethanol in the Amazon

Fábio Bispo, O Joio e o Trigo 3 Jul 2023

The Amazon saw record deforestation last year. Here’s why.

Maxwell Radwin 27 Jun 2023

Rainforest cowboys: Rodeo culture sweeps the Amazon

Heinar Maracy 12 Jun 2023
Soy field and cerrado / chaco / Amazon transition forest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

U.S. conservation investment routed to eucalyptus expansion in Brazil’s Cerrado

Shanna Hanbury 6 Jun 2023

Indigenous communities in Argentina’s Chaco fear another heavy fire season in 2023

Yvette Sierra Praeli 23 May 2023

Study shows 10 million acres of Colombian rainforest at risk without new policies

Astrid Arellano 22 May 2023
Cows.

A Twitter bot tracks meat production in the Brazilian Amazon

Abhishyant Kidangoor 19 May 2023

3 million hectares of Colombian Amazon deforested for illegal pasture: Study

Antonio José Paz Cardona 19 May 2023
Tiger on a rock.

Lack of large prey may be feeding rise in Nepal’s human-tiger conflicts

Abhaya Raj Joshi 11 May 2023

Colombian farmers turn deforested land into sustainable Amazonian farms

Antonio José Paz Cardona 8 May 2023

Guatemala national park nearing ‘collapse’ amid land grabbing, deforestation

Maxwell Radwin 4 May 2023

EU parliament passes historic law forcing companies to track deforestation

Maxwell Radwin 20 Apr 2023

‘They have conned us out of our lands’: Conflict brews in Peru as Mennonite settlers clear forest

Yvette Sierra Praeli 14 Apr 2023
James Njuguna, a shepherd who lives near the Manguo swamp.

Drying wetlands and drought threaten water supplies in Kenya’s Kiambu County

Calvin Rock Odhiambo 5 Apr 2023

Expansion of Mennonite farmland in Bolivia encroaches on Indigenous land

Iván Paredes Tamayo 3 Apr 2023

Mennonite colonies linked to deforestation of Indigenous territories and protected areas in Paraguay

Aldo Benítez 24 Mar 2023

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