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Biologists from the Idaho Fish and Wildlife Office hike at sunrise to survey for greater sage-grouse in Owyhee County, Idaho.

Emotional and psychological stresses beleaguer conservation professionals (commentary)

Vik Mohan, Nerissa Chao 4 Mar 2026
Torres (middle) conducting an interview with architect Marina Tabassum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2025. Image courtesy of Wasif Kabir.

Attention is scarce. Storytelling strategy matters more than ever

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Mar 2026
Mt. Taranaki, New Zealand, captured March 16, 2022. Image courtesy of Planet Labs PBC.

How the ‘wrong story’ ends up harming nature, and how we can change it

Mike DiGirolamo 3 Mar 2026
In the cloud forests of Brava, Cabo Verde, community youth bend over thorny shrubs, pulling out these invasive plants that choke the native orchids and grasslands. Not far away, herders guide their cattle through cleared pastures, benefiting directly from the restoration work. These community members are inspired by an initiative that commenced thousands of kilometers away in India, where villagers and conservationists are wrestling with Lantana camara, an ornamental plant from Central America that has spread like wildfire, threatening forests, wildlife, and livelihoods alike. Yet in both places, these struggles are not just about removing a plant—they are about securing a future where people and ecosystems can coexist. Image courtesy of the author.

Local communities are conservation’s most undervalued asset (commentary)

José Monteiro, Moreangels Mbizah, Damian Bell, Monicah Mbiba 3 Mar 2026
Pranisha Pun harvests a cordyceps mushroom in western Nepal. Image by Sushil Mainali / ANSAB.

Sustainable trade in wild plants benefits people and planet (commentary)

Richard Scobey 2 Mar 2026
Abu Dhabi port. Courtesy of the European Space Agency (ESA)

The power of cities over the seas

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Mar 2026
A judge watches a cockfight in Peru.

How cockfighting imperils Peru’s critically endangered sawfish

Mongabay.com 27 Feb 2026
Story over a Fijian island. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Who actually uses environmental journalism — and why it matters

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Feb 2026

Photos: In the Colombian Amazon, fishing binds a community to river and forest

Aimee Gabay 26 Feb 2026
Rainbow over Borneo. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Letters to the future from journalism’s next generation

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Feb 2026

Agroforestry offers market-based way to boost Amazon rains & farmer incomes (analysis)

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Feb 2026

Bringing Mongabay’s Amazon narco airstrip exposé to the stage

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Feb 2026
Lucía Torres posing while the crew frames the side camera for Mongabay’s Against All Odds video series in 2024. Image by Samantha Lee/Mongabay.

How Lucia Torres is bringing people into nature’s frame

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 23 Feb 2026
Rosolie documenting the destruction of the Amazon for social media.

A journey from student to Amazon “Junglekeeper”: Interview with Paul Rosolie

Jeremy Hance 23 Feb 2026

Mongabay Explains

23 Feb 2026

The cost of compliance with the EUDR will limit its impact on reducing deforestation (commentary)

Bjørn Rask Thomsen, Daniel Nepstad 23 Feb 2026
Highway BR-163 stretches between the Tapajos National Forest, left, and a soy field in Belterra, Para state, Brazil. Highway BR-163, built during the military dictatorship in the 1970s, connects areas of strong support for former President Jair Bolsonaro, who lost October's election. Image by AP Photo/Leo Correa.

Banks must step in before the Amazon Soy Moratorium collapses (commentary)

Ginger Cassady 18 Feb 2026
Paicines Ranch

From chemistry to regeneration: Agriculture’s next transformation has begun (commentary)

Sallie Calhoun 17 Feb 2026
Lisa Morehead-Hillman and Leaf Hillman, both Karuk, celebrate the removal of the dams on the newly exposed reservoir floor in 2024. The former head of the Karuk Natural Resources Department, Leaf spent two decades working with other Indigenous groups, environmental organizations and government officials to bring back the Klamath River. Image courtesy of Kiliii Yüyan.

Kiliii Yüyan puts Indigenous ‘Guardians of Life’ and their planetary stewardship in focus

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Feb 2026

Texas sea turtles have lost a conservation hero (commentary)

Todd Steiner 16 Feb 2026
Photo by Gary Tabor.

A hundred-year vision: Gary Tabor on the rise of large landscape conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Feb 2026

When environmental reporting has to outlast the news cycle

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Feb 2026
Huoideua plantation.

From land acquisitions to local ownership: Alternatives for carbon offsetting (commentary)

Christoph Kubitza 13 Feb 2026
Crew members from Southeast Asia work to unload fish on purse seiners in the Western Pacific Ocean in 2023.

Sustainable fisheries can’t be built on exploited labor (commentary)

Alfred “Bubba” Cook 11 Feb 2026
Toby Kiers co-founded the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) where researchers are working to identify and map underground mycorrhizal fungal networks.

Mapping underground fungal networks: Interview with SPUN’s Toby Kiers

Abhishyant Kidangoor 11 Feb 2026
Mangroves on Vanua Levu Island, Fiji. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

60 years of buried lessons on conservation projects from USAID have been saved

Mike DiGirolamo 10 Feb 2026
A captive black and rufous elephant shrew (Rhynchocyon petersi), a resident of various kayas. Image by Joey Makalintal via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Biodiversity bonds can work, but their design flaws must be fixed (commentary)

Anna Comacchio 10 Feb 2026

Why a healthy information ecosystem matters

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Feb 2026
Rhett Butler in the Singapore Botanical Garden in 2023. Image by Alyson Blume.

Mongabay’s Rhett Butler on building a global newsroom for local impact

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Feb 2026
In the village of Três Maria in Mato Grosso, Brazil, a woman holds a sample of babassu coconut. The community initiative to protect the biome and fruit extraction in the Cerrado received a Xavante Award from the Podáali Fund.

‘We have to bring trust’ into funding talks: Valéria Paye on Indigenous-led funds

Holly C. Jonas, Alexandre de Santi 9 Feb 2026
Forester kangaroos at The Quoin. Photo credit Doug Gimesy

Financing biodiversity: Lisa Miller on investing in nature

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Feb 2026
Firefighters battle a wildfire spreading through a forested area near Concepcion, Chile, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Javier Torres, File)

Tipping points and ecosystem collapse are the real geopolitical risk (commentary)

Robert Muggah 9 Feb 2026

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