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Biyem-Assi is one of the most populous districts, with nearly 49,000 inhabitants, not far from the city center.

In Yaoundé, fecal sludge flows through ‘Caca Junction’ streets

Fanta Mabo 9 Jun 2025
Dr. Mark Ofua with a pangolin

How trafficking & misconceptions threaten Nigeria’s wildlife: Q&A with Dr. Mark Ofua

Samuel Ogunsona 6 Jun 2025

What does it take to expose 67 illegal airstrips in the Amazon? A year of reporting — and the trust of local communities

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jun 2025

Indonesia convicts trafficking accomplice in a Javan rhino poaching scandal

Donny Iqbal 28 May 2025
A seminomadic man carries water in the Cholistan Desert.

In Pakistan, desert irrigation plans spark protests & fears among Sindh farmers

Waqas Alam Angaria 28 May 2025
Sandhya Sekar in Kerala, India in 2025; Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

How Mongabay India took root: Interview with Sandhya Sekar

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 May 2025
Greater adjutant storks photographed in Assam, India.

In India, folklore is a tool that helps women save the greater adjutant stork

Angana Chakrabarti 15 May 2025
Ridzki in Jambi in 2022.

How Mongabay Indonesia grew into a trusted environmental voice: Interview with Ridzki Sigit 

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 May 2025
A fisher at sea.

Oil companies have downplayed extent of spills in Gulf of Mexico, investigation finds

Gibran Mena Aguilar, Michelle Carrere 28 Apr 2025

Uttarakhand’s extreme weather wreaks havoc on crops, livelihoods & futures

Swati Thapa 3 Apr 2025
A grizzled tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus inustus)

PNG’s Torricelli Mountains teem with life — and the risk of extinction

John Cannon 31 Mar 2025
Fishing vessel. Image courtesy of Nicolas Job / Ocean Image Bank.

Panama conducts large illegal fishing bust in protected Pacific waters

Edward Carver 28 Mar 2025

Conservation education is about people too: Interview with Gabon’s Léa Moussavou

Fanta Mabo 14 Feb 2025
Malir River near Damloti check dam, Karachi suburbs.

Ecology vs. development in Karachi: Interview with photographer Salman Baloch

Waqas Alam Angaria 14 Feb 2025
A bottom trawler works in Dutch waters of the North Sea.

Lawsuit is latest push to curb bottom trawling in protected European waters

Edward Carver 13 Feb 2025

Mineral exploitation overshadows green diplomacy in Congo’s Sangha region

Elodie Toto 30 Jan 2025
Cattle grazing in the Amazon.

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

Fernanda Wenzel 20 Jan 2025

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

Elodie Toto 16 Jan 2025

At least 11,500 deaths linked to extreme weather in 2024

Shanna Hanbury 9 Jan 2025

Rainforest Outlook 2025: Storylines to watch as the year unfolds

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2024
Traffic on Nepal's highway

Still no sweet spot in 2024 for Nepal in balancing conservation & development

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Dec 2024
YEAR IN RAINFORESTS BANNER

The year in tropical rainforests: 2024

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Dec 2024
Residents from Gwadar look on the sipping development at the coast.

Balochistan’s Gwadar city sits at the crossroads of climate and conflict

Waqas Alam Angaria 20 Dec 2024
Members of the Nadupoi Women Group gather for a group photo in Olooloitikosh village, Kajiado, Kenya. Image by Juliet Ojwang for Mongabay.

From Bhutan to Nigeria & Kenya, women endure climate change differently than men

Choki Wangmo, Juliet Akoth Ojwang, Karen Coates, Tarinipre Francis 20 Dec 2024

‘Like you, I fear the demise of the elephants’

Ashoka Mukpo 17 Dec 2024

High-flying concessions: Clandestine airstrips, coca crops invade Ucayali’s forests

Mongabay Latam 16 Dec 2024
A snow leopard photographed in Nepal. Imagine by Sanjog Rai/WWF Nepal

In 2024, Nepal’s elusive snow leopards pounce into spotlight

Abhaya Raj Joshi 12 Dec 2024

Narco airstrips beset Indigenous communities in Peruvian Amazon

Mongabay Latam 9 Dec 2024

15 illegal narco-trafficking airstrips found near Peru Indigenous communities

Mongabay Latam 4 Dec 2024
A Maasai looking over Ololosokwan. Image by Benjamin Hindrichs.

How German government funds are used to dispossess Tanzania’s Maasai in Serengeti land grab

Benjamin Hindrichs 29 Nov 2024

The illegal runways exposing the Kakataibo people to drug violence in Peru

Mongabay Latam 29 Nov 2024

Indigenous leaders killed as narco airstrips cut into their Amazon territories

Mongabay Latam 25 Nov 2024

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