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Marielle Ramires from Instagram

Marielle Ramires, Brazilian activist and environmental communicator, died on April 29th, aged 45.

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 May 2025

Abel Rodríguez, artist who drew a vanishing forest from memory, died April 9, age unknown

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 May 2025
Ochieng Ogodo

Ochieng’ Ogodo, science journalist, mentor, and editor, died on April 17th, aged 64

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Apr 2025
Ochieng Ogodo

Mongabay mourns the loss of Ochieng’ Ogodo, our East Africa Editor

Mongabay.com 17 Apr 2025
Daripalli Ramaiah. Image courtesy of Ministry of Jal Shakti, India

Daripalli Ramaiah, India’s tree man, died April 12, aged 87

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Apr 2025
Kanzi, the bonobo, died aged 44 in March 2025. Image ©️Ape Initiative.

Kanzi the bonobo redefined what it means to be human

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Apr 2025
Elisabeth Vrba. Photo by J Play.

Elisabeth Vrba, the woman who timed evolution, died February 5th, aged 82

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Mar 2025

Vincent van der Merwe (1983-2025), champion of the cheetah

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Mar 2025
David Myers. Courtesy of the Wildlands Conservancy.

David Myers, conservationist and land broker for nature, dies at 73

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Mar 2025
Dr. Ajith Kumar. Photo by Ishwar Narayanan

Indian wildlife biologist Ajith Kumar has died

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Mar 2025
Randy Borman. Courtesy of the Cofan Survival Fund

Randy Borman (1955-2025): An unlikely guardian of the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Feb 2025
Mikkel Larsen

Carbon exchange leader and sustainability advocate Mikkel Larsen dies at 50

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Jan 2025

Conservationists and nature defenders who died in 2024

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2024
Ryan Killackey

The life and legacy of Ryan Killackey, the filmmaker who rallied international support for Yasuni (Obituary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Oct 2024

Peter Dykstra, award-winning environmental journalist, died at 67

Bobby Bascomb 7 Aug 2024
Danilo Villafañe in the Sierra Madre in Colombia in 2010. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indigenous leader Danilo Villafañe dies at 49 in trying to save drowning women in Colombia

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2023

Indonesia remembers Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, rare policymaker who stood for nature

Junaidi Hanafiah, Richaldo Hariandja 22 Dec 2023
Gordon Moore. Courtesy of the Moore Foundation.

Gordon Moore, tech legend and conservation philanthropist, has died at 94

Mongabay.com 28 Mar 2023

Sumatran conservationist Rahmad Saleh Simbolon dies at 47

Elviza Diana, Lili Rambe 29 Aug 2022
Aziil Anwar.

Aziil Anwar, Indonesian coral-based mangrove grower, dies at 64

Agus Mawan 16 Aug 2022
L. Bruce Kekule in his element in the Khlong Saeng Wildlife Sanctuary rainforest in southern Thailand. Image courtesy of Greg McCann.

Exploring the deep wildlife photography legacy of Bruce Kekule (commentary)

Gregory McCann 1 Jul 2022

Sabino Gualinga, Amazon shaman and defender of the ‘living forest,’ passes away

Kimberley Brown 23 Feb 2022

Elephant protector and fossil hunter Richard Leakey leaves outsized legacy in Kenya

Jeremy Hance 25 Jan 2022

With the passing of two icons, who will lead the conservation movement?

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jan 2022

E.O. Wilson’s last dream

Jeremy Hance 3 Jan 2022

Conservation deaths in 2021

Mongabay.com 30 Dec 2021
Courtesy of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation

Edward O. Wilson, prominent biologist and author, has died at 92

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2021
Photo credit: Bill Laurance

Tom Lovejoy, prominent conservation biologist, dies at 80

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Dec 2021

Reveling in complexity: Remembering a man who ‘truly lived’ conservation (commentary)

Gregory McCann 7 Apr 2021

Notable deaths in conservation in 2020

Mongabay.com 28 Dec 2020
Santos Sauna at a sacred coastal site where the Sierra Nevada meets the sea.

COVID is killing Indigenous leaders (commentary)

Mark Plotkin 11 Aug 2020

Madagascar remembers Guy Suzon Ramangason, a champion of protected areas

Mickah Raharisoa 9 Jul 2020

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