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Small-scale gold mining

Secrecy shrouds new gold mining deal in Guyana’s Marudi mountains

Laurel Sutherland 22 Dec 2021
Kahuzi-Biega National Park rangers stand in formation at the park in October, 2016. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

Deadly raids are latest case of abuse against Indigenous Batwa in DRC park, groups say

Laurel Sutherland 21 Dec 2021

How wildlife crossings in Canada are inspiring safer roads for global species

Shannon Kelleher 17 Dec 2021

Meet Magali, the conservation warrior rescuing Peru’s rainforest animals: Video

Liz Kimbrough 26 Nov 2021

Questions over who gets the billions pledged to Indigenous causes at COP26

Latoya Abulu 23 Nov 2021

Think that GIF of the smoking chimp is funny? The chimp wasn’t laughing

Tina Deines 17 Nov 2021

For forest communities in Sumatra, loss of nature means loss of culture

Taufik Wijaya 9 Nov 2021
Najin the Rhino

One of world’s last two northern white rhinos withdrawn from breeding program

Carolyn Cowan 1 Nov 2021

It’s time for Brazil to join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (commentary)

Athayde Motta, Miles Litvinoff 29 Oct 2021

‘The images are confronting’: Q&A with animal photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Oct 2021

Oil pipeline on Native lands ramps up as Canada honors its Indigenous people

Latoya Abulu 30 Sep 2021

Novel chemical entities: Are we sleepwalking through a planetary boundary?

Claire Asher 23 Sep 2021

Faroe Islands to evaluate traditional hunt after slaughter of 1,400 dolphins

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Sep 2021

Fashions to die for: The fur trade’s role in spreading zoonotic disease

Jenny Gonzales 15 Sep 2021
The reefs of the Coral Triangle are immensely rich. Image by Jeff Britnell / Coral Reef Image Bank.

Can we stop calling it biodiversity? There’s no word for what we’re losing (commentary)

Katherine Snow 9 Sep 2021

Everything is traceable – unless you don’t want it to be (commentary)

Aida Greenbury 18 Aug 2021

On World Elephant Day (and every day) humans should stay away from wildlife (commentary)

Shermin de Silva 11 Aug 2021

Address risky human activities now or face new pandemics, scientists warn

Sharon Guynup 3 Aug 2021

‘What’s your real footprint on the animal world?’: Q&A with author Henry Mance

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Jul 2021

‘Animal rights will be part of our DNA’: Q&A with Bogotá councilor Andrea Padilla

John Edward Myers 16 Jul 2021

‘Mismanaged to death’: Mexico opens up sole vaquita habitat to fishing

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Jul 2021

Final court ruling orders Indonesian government to publish plantation data

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jun 2021
Rainforest in Malaysian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

The Pope, a prince and a judge walk into a bar…to argue for nature’s rights (commentary)

Mari Margil 19 May 2021

As the rest of world tackles plastics disposal, the U.S. resists

Charles Pekow 17 May 2021
Lioness in Tanzania. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Keeping animals wild vs ‘safe’ should be prioritized, lion biologists argue (commentary)

Pride Lion Conservation Alliance 14 May 2021

NRA Video: Conquering nature will never be the silver bullet (commentary)

Kate Dylewsky 6 May 2021

South Africa pulls the plug on controversial captive lion industry

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 May 2021

South African dehorning initiative aims for ‘zero poached’ white rhinos

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Apr 2021

Skin in the game? Reptile leather trade embroils conservation authority

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Apr 2021

Captive lions kept in ‘stressful conditions’ create perfect recipe for disease, experts say

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Apr 2021

Life and new limbs: Creative thinking, 3D printers save injured wildlife

Laurel Neme 5 Apr 2021
Indonesian New Guinea is home to species like this Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita). Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Oil palm growers’ misdeeds allow an opportunity to save West Papua’s forests

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Mar 2021

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