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A boy kicks a soccer ball near signage for the COP30 U.N. Climate Conference in Belem, Brazil, March 23, 2025. Image by AP Photo/Jorge Saenz.

Belém faces its social and natural demons as host to COP30

Peter Speetjens 28 Oct 2025
Tiger on a rock.

Amid challenges, Nepal plans its latest tiger & rhino counts

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 1 Oct 2025
A young Grauer's gorilla in Kahuzi-Biega National Park.

Park guardians or destroyers? Study dissects 2 narratives of DRC’s Indigenous Batwa

Blaise Kasereka Makuta 11 Sep 2025

US funding shortfall halts Nepal’s rhino census, sparks debate over methods

Deepak Adhikari 29 May 2025

The Pan Amazon as a hotspot of cultural diversity

Timothy J. Killeen 7 Feb 2025

Collective action, civil disobedience and blockades in the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 30 Jan 2025

Conservation and the rise of corporations in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 3 Jan 2025

The particularities of the migratory movement in Venezuela, the Guianas and Suriname

Timothy J. Killeen 27 Dec 2024

Armed conflict, not Batwa people, at heart of Grauer’s gorillas’ past decline in DRC park

Aimable Twahirwa, Latoya Abulu 16 Dec 2024

Peru’s modern history of migration and settlement

Timothy J. Killeen 12 Dec 2024

Bolivia’s internal colonization and its March to the East

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Dec 2024
African elephants in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

African elephants declining — but some areas show promise

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Nov 2024

Evolution of the Pan Amazon in the post-Jesuit era

Timothy J. Killeen 31 Oct 2024
A snow leopard photographed in Nepal. Imagine by Sanjog Rai/WWF Nepal

As Nepal counts its snow leopards, even the best estimate is still a guess

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Oct 2024

Impacts and legacies of migration across the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 24 Oct 2024

Rural-urban migration across the Amazon Basin

Timothy J. Killeen 18 Oct 2024

Indigenous communities in the Amazon fight for full recognition

Timothy J. Killeen 9 Oct 2024

The people who make up the Pan-Amazonian melting pot: regional demographics

Timothy J. Killeen 4 Oct 2024

CHAPTER 6. Culture and demographics defines the Pan Amazon’s present

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Sep 2024
Squirrel monkeys are one of many creatures of Yasuni National Park. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

What drives and halts tropical deforestation? Analyzing 24 years of data

Liz Kimbrough 24 Aug 2023
A black-shanked douc langur in a tree.

Can community payments with no strings attached benefit biodiversity?

John Cannon 13 Jun 2023

Human migration to Nepal’s tiger capital adds to conservation challenges

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Mar 2023

Changing circumstances turn ‘sustainable communities’ into deforestation drivers: Study

Kimberley Brown 1 Feb 2023
An orangutan.

Fears for academic freedom as Indonesia doubles down on scientists’ ban

Hans Nicholas Jong, Lusia Arumingtyas 9 Dec 2022

Is having fewer kids the answer to the climate question? | Problem Solved

Mike DiGirolamo 8 Sep 2022

Cattle boom in Brazil’s Acre spells doom for Amazon rainforest, activists warn

Sarah Brown 7 Jan 2022

When North America locked down, birds filled the gap left by people

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Sep 2021

As populations grow, how will thirsty cities survive their drier futures?

Petro Kotzé 18 Aug 2021

Building back Miami’s Biscayne Bay: Do natural solutions hold hope?

Marlowe Starling 14 Jul 2021
Africa's largest population of eastern chimpanzees live in Bili-Uéré. Image by gombe069 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Deforestation intensifies in northern DRC protected areas

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Jun 2021

Corals are struggling, but they’re too abundant to go extinct, study says

Malavika Vyawahare 2 Mar 2021

David Attenborough’s ‘witness statement’ for the planet (commentary)

Matt Hayward 27 Oct 2020

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