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Rhett Ayers Butler in Brunei in November 2025. Photo by Aaron.

Mongabay founder Rhett Butler wins Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Prize

Bobby Bascomb 19 Nov 2025

Mongabay founder Rhett Butler wins the Henry Shaw Award

Bobby Bascomb 7 Oct 2025

Ethnologist Martín von Hildebrand awarded Lovejoy Prize for Amazon conservation

Mongabay.com 25 Sep 2025
Mongabay journalist Karla Mendes receives the 2025 John B. Oakes award on Sept. 18. Image courtesy of Sirin Samman.

Oakes Award delivers top prize to Mongabay journalist Karla Mendes

Mongabay.com 24 Sep 2025
Wild Frequencies

Mongabay India podcast ‘Wild Frequencies’ wins audio reporting award

Mongabay.com 4 Jul 2025
Wild Frequencies

Mongabay India wins best science podcast at Publisher Podcast Awards

Mongabay.com 12 Jun 2025
Banner image of Lily-Arison René de Roland, courtesy of The Indianapolis Prize.

Malagasy wildlife champion wins top global conservation award

Kristine Sabillo 15 May 2025
Saiga herd during a calving period. Image by Albert Salemgareyev and courtesy of the Association for the Conservation Biodiversity of Kazakhstan/Vera Voronova.

Saving saiga antelope with cooperation and community in Kazakhstan

Mike DiGirolamo 15 Apr 2025

Two South American scientists win ‘environmental Nobel’ on human-nature divide

Shanna Hanbury 14 Feb 2025

Mongabay series on illegal timber and cattle wins honorable mention in Brazil journalism prize

Mongabay.com 7 Feb 2025

Mongabay India wins Greenaccord award for environment journalism

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Oct 2024

Goldman Prize Winner Murrawah Johnson says First Nations must be at the forefront of creating change

Mike DiGirolamo 29 Apr 2024
A coral reef and its residents in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Image ©Greg Asner/divephoto.org.

2023’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Ana Spalding, David Obura, Diva Amon, Minna Epps, Rhett Bennett, U. Rashid Sumaila 16 Jan 2024
Macaws flying over the rainforest.

Mongabay wins prestigious 2023 Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication

Mongabay.com 18 Oct 2023

Experts pushing for high-seas fishing ban win ‘Nobel Prize for environment’

Mongabay.com 22 Feb 2023
Rhett Butler

Mongabay founder wins prestigious 2022 Heinz Award for the Environment

Mongabay.com 22 Sep 2022
Rhett Butler in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo in 2015.

Mongabay founder wins environmental journalism award

Mongabay.com 22 Feb 2021

Mongabay editor Philip Jacobson wins courage in journalism award

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 2021

A Malagasy community wins global recognition for saving its lake

Malavika Vyawahare 18 Nov 2020

Cook Islands MPA leader fired after supporting seabed mining freeze

Monica Evans 15 Oct 2019

$750,000 prize seeks solutions to challenges from small-scale mining

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Oct 2019
Jacqueline Evans. Image courtesy of Goldman Environmental Prize.

Building the world’s biggest MPA: Q&A with Goldman winner Jacqueline Evans

Monica Evans 30 Apr 2019

Renowned wildlife conservationist Russell Mittermeier awarded 2018 Indianapolis Prize

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jun 2018

2018 Tyler Prize awarded to two US-based biological oceanographers

Mongabay.com 6 Feb 2018

Young journalists win prizes for environmental reporting

Mongabay.org 30 Dec 2014

Prize exploring the next big idea in rainforest conservation announced

Mongabay.com 16 Nov 2013

Iraqi who is bringing back the Garden of Eden wins top environment award

John Vidal 16 Apr 2013

David vs. Goliath: Goldman Environmental Prize winners highlight development projects gone awry

Jeremy Hance 16 Apr 2012

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