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Brazil’s Arariboia set to be the first Indigenous land with legal cattle

Karla Mendes 14 Jul 2025

Rising heat and falling yields plague an Amazon island near COP30 host

Anna Peres/O Liberal 14 Jul 2025
Banner image of a honeybee farm by Nelynnnnn via Wikimedia Commons (CCO 1.0).

As exotic pet demands rise, invertebrates need trade protections too: Study

Kristine Sabillo 11 Jul 2025
A member of the U’wa Indigenous group in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

U’wa people await implementation of landmark court ruling against Colombian gov’t

Antonio José Paz Cardona 11 Jul 2025

Energy transition boom drives rise in lawsuits against alleged rights abuses

Mongabay.com 11 Jul 2025
Brazil is focused on creating a navigable channel along the 43 km Pedral do Lourenção — rock formations in the Tocantins River. Image courtesy of Antonio Cavalcante/Ascom Setran-PA.

Brazil court halts plan to blast 35-km river rock formation hosting endangered species

Shanna Hanbury 10 Jul 2025
Rukka shows the location of a former coal mine pit that flows into the Nangka River, which is now polluted.

Indonesian civil society urges probe after payout for mine recovery that never happened

Muhibar Sobary Ardan 10 Jul 2025
Illegal dredger in the Caquetá River. Image courtesy of Juan Carlos Contreras.

Indigenous Amazonians win landmark ruling against mercury pollution in Colombia

Iván Paredes Tamayo 9 Jul 2025
Using the law to save the planet | Against All Odds

Youth and women find success in taking climate cases to court

Mongabay.com 9 Jul 2025
Small islands in Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler. 

Listings of Indonesian islands renew fears of privatization for coastal communities

Basten Gokkon 8 Jul 2025
Top tools to protect rainforests | Against All Odds

From apps to Indigenous guardians: Ways we can save rainforests

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2025
Banner image of a flare stack by Yerevan Malarerva via Pexels.

UN rapporteur calls for ban on fossil fuel ads and criminalizing of disinformation

Kristine Sabillo 7 Jul 2025
A saiga antelope at the Stepnoi Sanctuary in Russia. Image by Andrey Giljov via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Kazakhstan to donate 1,500 wild saiga to China after 75 years of local extinction

Shanna Hanbury 2 Jul 2025
Smokestacks image by Pixabay via Pexels (Public domain).

Catholic bishops from Global South call for ambitious climate action ahead of COP30

Kristine Sabillo 2 Jul 2025
Marbled white butterflies (Melanargia galathea)

Assisted colonization could be our ally in adapting to climate change, study suggests

Spoorthy Raman 2 Jul 2025
Banner image of blue cranes by Bernard Dupont via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Blue cranes now listed as vulnerable in South Africa

Kristine Sabillo 1 Jul 2025

Major reports about how climate change affects the US are removed from websites

Associated Press 1 Jul 2025
Banner image of a whale shark in Tubbataha Reefs by © Steve De Neef.

Countries seek urgent CITES protection of more than 70 sharks and rays

Kristine Sabillo 1 Jul 2025
The critically endangered Alta Floresta Titi monkey (Plecturocebus grovesi) crossing one of the bridges in February 2025. Image courtesy of NZCBI.

Endangered primates use new canopy bridges in a Brazilian Amazon city

Shanna Hanbury 1 Jul 2025

Private financing for Argentina’s lithium is anything but green, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 1 Jul 2025
Banner image of buildings in New York, U.S., by Dietmar Rabich via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

104 companies linked to 20% of global environmental conflicts, study finds

Kristine Sabillo 30 Jun 2025

After USAID cut, Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area aims for self-sufficiency

Solomon Yimer 27 Jun 2025
Rashid Mohamed Rashid

What happens to artisanal fishers when a deep-sea fishing port comes to town?

Anthony Langat 27 Jun 2025

Regulation on oil palm expansion in Peru’s Amazon could endanger forests, say critics

Yvette Sierra Praeli 26 Jun 2025

Nicaragua government tied to illegal land invasions in wildlife refuge, documents suggest

Maxwell Radwin 26 Jun 2025
An elephant in Queen Elizabeth National Park. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Balancing wildlife and human needs at Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth park

Mongabay.com 26 Jun 2025
Pangolins curl into a ball as part of their self-defense, with scales acting as armor to protect their body. The WJC report estimates that the 370 tons of pangolin scales seized between 2015 and 2024 represent between 100,000 and a million pangolins.

The illegal trade in ivory and pangolin scales has fallen sharply since COVID-19. But for how long?

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Jun 2025
Solar panels being installed on a roof of a house in Lagos, Nigeria. Image by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo.

Nigeria’s proposed ban on solar panel imports raises concerns

Samuel Ogunsona 26 Jun 2025
Person kneeling in gold mine extraction site

Organized crime & gold trade are increasingly connected, report shows

Fernanda Wenzel 25 Jun 2025
The Miami Bull, a robot-like statue of a bull, is meant to emulate Wall Street’s “Charging Bull,” and was unveiled to kick off the Bitcoin 2022 conference.

Bitcoin boom comes with huge intensifying environmental footprint

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 25 Jun 2025
Workers prep poultry at the meatpacking company JBS in the Brazilian state of Paraná. Image by Eraldo Peres/Associated Press.

Meatpacking giant JBS debuts on NYSE six months after $5m Trump donation

Shanna Hanbury 25 Jun 2025

In Cameroon, forest mapping app helps Baka protect biodiversity and way of life

David Akana, Yannick Kenné 25 Jun 2025

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