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Thismia selangorensis, courtesy of Gim Siew Tan.

A new ‘fairy lantern’ species is found at a Malaysian picnic site

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Dec 2025
Courtesy of Grupo de Intervención en Altura.

Cristina Gallardo, 39, a devoted guardian of Spain’s wild places, is lost to a fall

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Dec 2025
A male black grouse, currently declining in Wales. Image by Vnp via Wikimedia Commons (CCBY-SA3.0)

Extinctions ‘already happening’ in Wales as report lists 3,000 at-risk species

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2025
Rainforest in northern Borneo. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Endangered knowledge and endangered plants: Threats to Indigenous medicinal traditions in Borneo

Cassidy Beach 1 Dec 2025
Fruit from the 70 last known adults of the endangered tree Magnolia polyhypsophylla.

Botanists decode secret life of rare plants to ensure reintroduction success

Katarina Zimmer 25 Nov 2025

Why are Amazonian trees getting ‘fatter’?

Suzana Camargo 24 Nov 2025

As fires flare in Brazil’s Cerrado, heat-resistant seeds offer restoration lifeline

Simone Machado 17 Nov 2025
Female Megachile lucifer. Image by Prendergast et al., 2025 (CC0).

Newly described ‘lucifer’ bee found visiting critically endangered plant in Australia

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Nov 2025

The uncertain future of DRC’s traditional medicine, a heritage to save (commentary)

Blaise Kasereka Makuta 6 Nov 2025

After a hiatus, an endemic plant bursts into life in Sri Lanka’s central hills

Malaka Rodrigo 23 Oct 2025
Giant monkey frog in the Western Amazon. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler

The hidden environmental cost of psychedelics

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Oct 2025
A flower of the Moringa oleifera tree, which is valued for its medicinal properties.

In DRC’s Kivu region, the moringa tree offers valuable health benefits

Blaise Kasereka Makuta 9 Oct 2025
A participant plants local green plants in a park as part of Ethiopia's Green Legacy Initiative, which aims to plant 7.5 billion trees by the end of the year, at Jifara Ber site, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Thursday, July 31, 2025.

There’s far less land available for reforestation than we think, study finds

Justin Catanoso 2 Oct 2025
Author David Helvarg among the kelp stipes off Anacapa Island in southern California’s Channel Islands.

California’s kelp forests struggle to recover a decade after collapse

Mongabay.com 29 Sep 2025

Extinct-in-the-wild plant rediscovered in Sri Lanka thanks to social media

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Sep 2025
The California jewelflower (Caulanthus californicus) is an endangered species in the state and federally because of habitat loss, overgrazing, urban development, and loss of pollinators.

Timing, not traits, helps California’s jewelflowers adapt to diverse landscapes

Spoorthy Raman 19 Sep 2025
Staff member of the Kinesi nursery planting seedlings in the pots, August 2019 ©WeForest

Putting the right plants in the right place boosts restoration (commentary)

Willem Ferwerda 16 Sep 2025
A man walks past kelp in the Pacific Ocean at La Jolla Shores, San Diego.

Post-Blob, California’s kelp crisis isn’t going away

David Helvarg 9 Sep 2025
A walk through the Sardinilla Experiment.

New study pinpoints tree-planting hotspots for climate and biodiversity gains

Marina Martinez 3 Sep 2025
Banner image of an Encephalartos horridus in a greenhouse under natural sunlight. Image courtesy of Takashi Nobusawa/Hiroshima University.

Scientists decode the unusual silver-blue color of an ancient South African plant

Kristine Sabillo 29 Aug 2025
Donovan Kirkwoord, Curator of the Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden. Image courtesy of the Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden.

Donovan Kirkwood, protector of South Africa’s rarest plants, dies aged 54 in search for one of the world’s most endangered species

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Aug 2025

Thailand’s living floral heritage takes root in a park of rare and ancient trees

Ron Emmons 28 Aug 2025
Flowers and leaves of the Vanda thwaitesii.

After 160 years, an old drawing leads scientists to a long-lost Sri Lanka orchid

Malaka Rodrigo 28 Aug 2025

Social media post sparks rediscovery of endemic Sri Lanka rainforest plant

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Aug 2025
Banner image of a black harrier over the Eastern Rûens Shale Renosterveld in South Africa by Odette Curtis-Scott/ORT.

To save a rare South African ecosystem, conservationists bought the land

Kristine Sabillo 22 Aug 2025
A flowering shoot of jambu.

Amazon jambu blends tradition and science for numbing flavors and healthcare

Sarah Brown 18 Aug 2025
View of central Kampala.

From counting trees to enhancing climate resiliency, Kampala focuses on its forests

Victoria Schneider 15 Aug 2025

Seed-dispersing animals are in decline, impacting forests and the climate: Study

Kristine Sabillo 14 Aug 2025
Rex Mann. Image courtesy of the American Chestnut Foundation.

Rex Mann, American chestnut evangelist, died July 2, aged 81

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Aug 2025
Why is star anise disappearing from northeastern India?

Efforts to revive India’s disappearing endangered star anise

Mongabay.com 4 Aug 2025
The critically endangered lemur leaf frog (Agalychnis lemur), found in Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Requiem for the nearly lost

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Aug 2025
Isidrio Hernandez-Ruiz and his son are participants of the collaborative reforestation trial with Smithsonian and Traditional Leadership.

Indigenous leadership and science revive Panama’s degraded lands

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2025

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