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Blackchin guitarfish at a landing sight in Ghana. Image courtesy of the Whitley Foundation.

One scientist’s mission to save Ghana’s disappearing guitarfish

Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda 24 Jul 2026
Forest Department officials along with local volunteers pose for photographs after wildlife of several species were rescued. Image by Siddiqur Rahman Rabbi.

Volunteers play crucial role in Bangladesh’s wildlife crime control efforts

Sadiqur Rahman 24 Jul 2026

Scientists call on countries to act on ‘forgotten’ sawfish teeth trade

Spoorthy Raman 23 Jul 2026
avocado plantations

In Michoacán, Mexico, drying soil threatens water supplies and avocados, says study

Caitlin Cooper 23 Jul 2026

How saline drinking water raises preeclampsia risks in coastal Bangladesh (commentary)

Ashik Rubaiyat 23 Jul 2026
Cerros de Mavecure in Colombia's Guainía in July 2026. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

Ten years of Mongabay Latam

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jul 2026

For Brazil’s Xokleng people, saving a sacred tree means saving their culture

Letícia Klein 23 Jul 2026

As Australia expands seismic testing, experts warn of profound effects on sealife

Theoné van der Merwe 22 Jul 2026
Jefferson Salamander (Ambystoma jeffersonianum)

Why a New England city is building tunnels to protect an imperiled salamander

Alex Megerle 22 Jul 2026
John H. Rappole. Photo courtesy of the Post Journal

Smithsonian ornithologist John Rappole reconsidered why birds migrate

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jul 2026
Indigenous people walk through a part of the Amazon River that shows signs of drought in Santa Sofia, on the outskirts of Leticia, Colombia, 2024.

An Indigenous take on Colombia’s new gov’t: Interview with a Putumayo Indigenous leader

Aimee Gabay 22 Jul 2026
For some animals, roadways act like fences, and they don’t even attempt to cross. Others, like bears, moose and bighorn sheep, and some smaller species, may attempt to cross, though it may prove deadly. Image by Jane Palmer.

How to stitch a massive wildlife corridor through the Rocky Mountains

Jane Palmer 22 Jul 2026
The main phosphate factory in Gabès. Image by Khadija Ben Salah.

A Tunisian phosphate plant that sickens children so US, Europe can get fertilizer

Khadija Ben Salah, Dawn Kikel, Elisângela Mendonça 22 Jul 2026

Health fears linger in a Brazilian neighborhood built over oil waste

Leandro Barbosa 21 Jul 2026
Mobilization of residents of Kitombe village in the DRC during demonstrations on May 6 and 7 against the oil company Perenco. Image courtesy of Alphonse Khonde.

‘We couldn’t breathe’: DRC villagers revive protest against Perenco over pollution

Elodie Toto 21 Jul 2026
Climate refugees Rabeya Khatoon, right, and Moriom Bibi, who lost their homes to cyclone Aila, work at a brick field on the outskirts of Dhaka in the heat, 2009.

Extreme heat is eroding health, productivity and incomes of Dhaka’s informal workers

Md Jahidul Islam 21 Jul 2026
Tigers in Rajasthan, India. The country is a stronghold of wild tigers, and the report found that most of the wild tigers smuggled into Cambodia came from India.

Report reveals Cambodia’s appetite for tigers, rhinos and other endangered wildlife

Spoorthy Raman 21 Jul 2026
A whitetip reef shark (Triaenodon obesus) in the Pacific Ocean off Panama. The species is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. Image courtesy of Mission Blue/Max Bello.

What happened to the vessels Panama busted in 2025 for fishing in its flagship MPA?

Edward Carver 21 Jul 2026

As Sri Lanka braces for El Niño, national parks are a concern amidst encroachment

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 21 Jul 2026
Sand barges bearing the logo of Catalyst Marine and Resources documented in Trapeang Roung commune, Koh Kong province, Cambodia, by Mother Nature Cambodia activists in July 2026. Image supplied by Mother Nature Cambodia.

Activists allege Cambodia has resumed sea sand exports to Singapore

Gerald Flynn 21 Jul 2026
A black-faced black spider monkey (Ateles chamek) crossing one of the multilayered bridges. Image courtesy of Sergio Leal.

Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

Suzana Camargo 21 Jul 2026
Renato Moraes de Jesus. Photo courtesy of the Conselho Regional de Engenharia e Agronomia do Espírito Santo (Crea-ES)

Renato Moraes de Jesus was a pioneer of Atlantic Forest restoration in Brazil

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Jul 2026
A worker repairs used electronic equipment at an electronics repair shop in Kuala Lumpur, 2017.

Malaysia clamps down on toxic trade with total e-waste import ban

Ashley Yeong 20 Jul 2026
A mixed flock of curlew sandpipers and gray plovers feed in shallow water at the salt mine in Velddrif, in South Africa’s Western Cape province, where the team captured 20 sandpipers and three plovers for the tracking project. Image courtesy of Cassie Carstens.

Tiny trackers reveal where migratory shorebirds need protection across Africa

Ryan Truscott 20 Jul 2026
Women and youth entrepreneurs in Kenya receiving training in clean cooking techniques. Image courtesy of UNDP Kenya.

Clean cooking expands at record pace in Africa, but lags behind population growth

Ini Ekott 20 Jul 2026

Scientific & traditional knowledge are key for effective & community-centered conservation (commentary)

Charudutt Mishra 20 Jul 2026

From rivers to mangroves, microplastics are contaminating the Amazon

Tiago da Mota e Silva 20 Jul 2026

Peru’s only penguin species at risk from upcoming El Niño and bird flu, experts warn

Dan Collyns 20 Jul 2026
Florida Manatee. Photo credit: Robert Bonde / USGS

America’s retreat from wildlife protection will be felt far beyond its borders

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Jul 2026
A local community takes part in a tree plantation project in 2018.

Conservationists urge caution over Bangladesh’s plan to plant 250 million trees

Abu Siddique 20 Jul 2026

Can ‘fog harvesting’ help solve water scarcity in Chile’s Atacama Desert?

Maxwell Radwin 17 Jul 2026
Under difficult circumstances when food is scarce, capuchin monkeys alter their behavior.

How Costa Rica’s extreme climate changes the social behaviors of white-faced capuchin

Adam Litchkofski 17 Jul 2026

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