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Rising temperatures further threaten already endangered African wild dogs

Jansen Baier 20 Jul 2021

Scientists turn to eDNA to curtail the freshwater extinction crisis

Caitlin Looby 16 Jul 2021

Building back Miami’s Biscayne Bay: Do natural solutions hold hope?

Marlowe Starling 14 Jul 2021

How to make conservation more effective: Q&A with Nick Salafsky

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Jul 2021
Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge needs a makeover. Is rainforest lumber still in style?

Ashoka Mukpo 8 Jul 2021

In DRC, community ownership of forests helps guard the Grauer’s gorilla

Marlowe Starling 6 Jul 2021

Naming of new ant species from Ecuador breaks with binary gender conventions

Jansen Baier 5 Jul 2021

‘I am Indigenous, not pardo’: Push for self-declaration in Brazil’s census

Karla Mendes 30 Jun 2021

In Rio de Janeiro, Indigenous people fight to undo centuries of erasure

Karla Mendes 30 Jun 2021
Wild dog. Photo credit: Niassa Carnivore Project NO RE-USE PERMITTED

Reckoning with elitism and racism in conservation: Q&A with Colleen Begg

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jun 2021
Tourists in South Africa's Kruger National Park photograph wildlife. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

Private investors look to high-end tourism to fund conservation in Mozambique

Marlowe Starling 24 Jun 2021

From common to captive, Javan pied starlings succumb to songbird trade

Anna Nordseth 18 Jun 2021
The "Stop the Chop Protest" in Miri, Sarawak against Malaysian forestry company Samling in October 2020. Photo credit: The Borneo Project

‘Listening to communities must go beyond ticking compliance boxes’, says Peter Kallang, a Kenyah leader

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Jun 2021

The secret bears of Bolivia’s lost dry forests

Claire Wordley 9 Jun 2021
Brett Jenks visits with Mabi, the clown fish mascot of a community Pride campaign in the Philippines in 2011. Photo credit: Rare

‘Inspiring behavior change so people and nature thrive’: Q&A with Rare’s Brett Jenks

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jun 2021

Behind the scenes video unveils water contamination by ‘sustainable’ Amazon palm oil

Mongabay.com 12 May 2021

Indigenous in Salvador: A struggle for identity in Brazil’s first capital

Alexandre Lyrio 11 May 2021

Hantavirus study shows restoring forests can reduce zoonotic disease risk

Anna Nordseth 11 May 2021

Time is running out for embattled Pacific leatherback sea turtles

Marlowe Starling 30 Apr 2021
Rainforest in Boven Digoel. Image by Ulet Ifansasti for Greenpeace.

Malaysian firm bidding to clear Papua forest loses land bid, but deforestation persists

Philip Jacobson, Tom Johnson 29 Apr 2021

Indigenous in São Paulo: Erased by a colonial education curriculum

Jennifer Ann Thomas 28 Apr 2021
Sphere panoramic photo of redwoods in California. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

The Nature Conservancy’s Jennifer Morris is an ‘impatient optimist’

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Apr 2021

The U.S. reptile most at risk from rising seas is one you likely haven’t heard of

Marlowe Starling 20 Apr 2021

Shark catastrophe points to failure to enact global biodiversity agreements

Anna Nordseth 19 Apr 2021

‘We are made invisible’: Brazil’s Indigenous on prejudice in the city

Karla Mendes 12 Apr 2021

Red flag: Predatory European ships help push Indian Ocean tuna to the brink

Malavika Vyawahare 8 Apr 2021

Brazil prosecutors cite Mongabay probe in new legal battle against palm oil firms

Karla Mendes 26 Mar 2021

Dying of curiosity: Why people shoot harpy eagles

Claire Wordley 16 Mar 2021

Déjà vu as palm oil industry brings deforestation, pollution to Amazon

Karla Mendes 12 Mar 2021

In Japan, scientists look to the past to save the future of grasslands

Marlowe Starling 8 Mar 2021

Persistence of slave labor exposes lawlessness of Amazon gold mines

Maurício Angelo 4 Mar 2021
Satellite image of Reserve de chasse de la Lefini in Republic of Congo. Photo credit: NASA Landsat

‘There are no silver bullets’ in conservation: Synchronicity Earth’s Jessica Sweidan

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Mar 2021

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