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Thermal imagery captured by a drone used by a ranger unit in Amboseli. Image courtesy of Big Life Foundation.

Thermal drones deployed in Kenya’s Amboseli Park to tackle human-elephant conflict

Aimable Twahirwa 7 Aug 2026
The black-and-white snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti) is found in Yunnan, China. Image by Rod Waddington via Flickr. (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Protecting primates could protect thousands of other species, study finds

Muhammad Talal 7 Aug 2026

On the front lines of conservation in Sumatra: Rangers safeguard Batutegi forest

Basten Gokkon 7 Aug 2026
A Bengal tiger in Nepal's Terai Arc Landscape.

Nepal’s newest national parks drive tiger recovery, but new concerns arise

Abhaya Raj Joshi 5 Aug 2026

Mining threat persists in Raja Ampat, Indonesia’s ‘Amazon of the Seas’

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Aug 2026
Gold extraction site

Brazil’s mining agency under fire over corruption and omission probes

Fernanda Wenzel 4 Aug 2026
A weimang tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus pulcherrimus) at the Tenkile Conservation Alliance base in Lumi. Image by John Cannon/Mongabay.

New ‘conservation deed’ aims to protect tree kangaroos, forests, people in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 4 Aug 2026
A whitetip reef shark (Triaenodon obesus) stalks the reef at Luf Island, Papua New Guinea.

Four Pacific nations are planning one of the world’s largest ocean corridors

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Aug 2026

Nicaragua’s gold boom is now encroaching on protected areas and Indigenous land

Maxwell Radwin 3 Aug 2026

How rescued orangutans are rebuilding a new wild population in Sumatra

Nanang Sujana, Sandy Watt 3 Aug 2026

Land records reveal how Mennonites are reshaping Belize’s forests

Maxwell Radwin 31 Jul 2026
Rainbow runner (Elagatis bipinnulata) and a juvenile bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) hang in the purse seine net of the French fishing vessel Trevignon

Drifting tuna fishing gear enter half of marine protected areas: study

Keith Anthony Fabro 31 Jul 2026
Most tourists who travel to the Central African Republic (CAR) are drawn by the western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in Dzanga-Sangha National Park. Image by Rhett A. Butler/ Mongabay.

Central African Republic’s Dzanga-Sangha tests the promise of wildlife tourism

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jul 2026

World Ranger Day: Justice for the protectors of the wild

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Jul 2026
A basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus), an endangered species that uses Dogger Bank as a critical seasonal feeding ground and nursery. Image courtesy of Joost van Uffelen.

Wind farms join bottom trawlers and oil rigs in a protected North Sea sandbank

Christina Egerstrom 30 Jul 2026

Costa Rica banana plantation destroyed protected wetland, complaint alleges

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jul 2026
Field rangers in Namibia. Image courtesy of GRAA.

It’s time we recognize the roles of rangers — and prioritize their safety (commentary)

Louise de Bruin 30 Jul 2026

Report: Indonesian authorities weaponize laws to silence environmental and Indigenous defenders

Naina Rao 30 Jul 2026

Kenya investigates mysterious deaths of 15 elephants in Amboseli

Lynet Otieno 29 Jul 2026
For years, the Parakanã Indigenous people had their territory exploited by around 3,000 invaders. Image by Bruno Peres/Agência Brasil.

Indigenous Parakanã fear election U-turn may spark new invasions in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 29 Jul 2026
Kajkwakratxi-Tapayuna leader Yaiku Suya at an April 2026 public hearing. Image courtesy of Larissa Silva/Rede Juruena Vivo.

Brazil court orders recognition of Indigenous land and apology for historic atrocities

Shanna Hanbury 29 Jul 2026

International Tiger Day: A complex landscape of recovery, conflict, and empty forests

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2026
Ravenea latisecta courtesy of Louis Aureglia.

Rare palm tree rediscovered in Madagascar after nearly 100 years

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Jul 2026
Tigers are territorial and must strike out to find their own territory when they leave their mothers at 18 months-two years of age and adult cats require large home ranges, making safe pathways between protected areas critical for their survival. Image © Steve Winter/Big Cat Voices.

India’s tiger numbers are rising. Protecting their pathways is next

Nirmal Ghosh 28 Jul 2026
Black-footed cats (Felis nigripes) in southern Namibia. Image courtesy of Alex Sliwa

Africa’s smallest wildcat found using abandoned rodent burrows to raise kittens

Mongabay.com 28 Jul 2026
Khuiusi Khisetje. Photo by Christian Braga / ISA

Khuiusi Khisêtjê helped his people recover their land and future in the Xingu

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Jul 2026

Conservationists got delayed access to court-ordered inspection of Nairobi National Park

Lynet Otieno 24 Jul 2026
United Nations Headquarters in Geneva. Image by Dionne Phillips.

Indigenous leaders push for stronger voice at UN as climate threats grow

Dionne Phillips 23 Jul 2026

For Brazil’s Xokleng people, saving a sacred tree means saving their culture

Letícia Klein 23 Jul 2026
Fire in the Chiquitania forest in the south of Bolivia, September 2024. Image © Juan Karita/AP photo.

Third year of wildfires threaten isolated Indigenous group in Bolivia

Shanna Hanbury 22 Jul 2026

Vietnam’s coffee boom fueled by decades of deforestation, report finds

Naina Rao 22 Jul 2026
A whitetip reef shark (Triaenodon obesus) in the Pacific Ocean off Panama. The species is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. Image courtesy of Mission Blue/Max Bello.

What happened to the vessels Panama busted in 2025 for fishing in its flagship MPA?

Edward Carver 21 Jul 2026

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