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Banner image of a school of grunts (Pomadasys incisus) in the Teno-Rasca Marine Strip by Diego Delso via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Goldman Prize winner’s shift from engineer to activist in Tenerife, Canary Islands

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2025
Spoon-billed sandpiper in Tiaozini, China.

A critical stopover for shorebirds awaits protection in Malaysia

Lee Kwai Han 13 Aug 2025

Conservationists warn of targeted poaching behind Sri Lanka’s leopard killings

Malaka Rodrigo 13 Aug 2025
Wild elephants drinking from a stream near Bardiya National Park in Nepal. Image courtesy of Bardiya National Park.

In western Nepal, farmers switch to growing turmeric; elephants stay away

Deepak Adhikari 13 Aug 2025

Study maps rare Borneo forests with unique habitats & urgent need for protection

Basten Gokkon 13 Aug 2025
Jaguars still roam the Chaco, but they require large tracts of contiguous forest to survive and reproduce. As forest is destroyed, fewer of these intact landscapes exist. Photo by Eduardo Merille via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Fences, tech and trust help save jaguars in Panama’s Darién

Marlowe Starling 12 Aug 2025
A gray wolf

Wolves’ continued spread in California brings joy, controversy & conflicts

Spoorthy Raman 11 Aug 2025

Sri Lanka plans restoring revoked protection for an important mangrove patch in the island’s North

Malaka Rodrigo 8 Aug 2025
Supertree grove is part of the Gardens by the Bay (GBTB) urban park in Singapore, covering 105 hectares (260 acres). Image by Tien Tran (tientran0019) via Pixabay (Pixabay Content License).

How urban greening is helping Singapore bounce back from widespread forest loss

Mongabay.com 7 Aug 2025

Strategies against deforestation across the Amazon Basin

Timothy J. Killeen 7 Aug 2025
Nalá and her cub spotted on the banks of the Bermejo River in Argentina’s El Impenetrable National Park. Image courtesy of Pablo Luna.

Jaguar cub born in Argentina’s Gran Chaco after three decades

Shanna Hanbury 7 Aug 2025

Restoration brings back fresh water, wildlife to degraded páramos in Ecuador

Ana Cristina Alvarado 7 Aug 2025
A fisher “foot fishing” on the reef flat of Anjouan at low tide.

Encouraging signs from a no-fishing zone in Comoros could inspire others

Malavika Vyawahare 6 Aug 2025

In Ecuador, environmentalists worry Noboa is unwinding nation’s green reputation

Associated Press 4 Aug 2025
Park guide Luana Wanessa Assunção points at the remarkable Painel do Pilão, which could be the first-ever solar calendar of the Americas. Image by Peter Speetjens.

Soy crops squeeze Amazon park with 11,000-year-old rock paintings in Brazil

Peter Speetjens 4 Aug 2025
Resident Huỳnh Ngọc Vân at his old seaside home, surrounded by demolished houses cleared for the project, late April 2025.

Rapid development, legal changes put pressure on Vietnam’s forestland

Le Quynh 4 Aug 2025
Hydropower dam in Kulekhani, one of the larges reservoir-type power stations in Nepal. Image by Abhaya Raj Joshi/ Mongabay.

Nepal’s hydropower developers watch closely as court nears key verdict

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 Aug 2025

Ecuador axes environment ministry as officials scramble to revive economy

Maxwell Radwin 1 Aug 2025
The Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Community patrolling reduced environmental crime by 80% in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Aug 2025

Uncovering forest loss in gorilla park six months after M23 offensive in the DRC

Elodie Toto, Latoya Abulu 31 Jul 2025
Mobula munkiana rays in the Sea of Cortez. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

Guarding Mexico’s blue frontiers: A conversation with Alejandro González

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Jul 2025
Miners work at a legal mining concession in Huaypetue, Madre de Dios, Peru. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Mexico’s rising mercury trade fuels toxic gold mining in Latin America: Report

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jul 2025

Coral restoration after devasting Deepwater Horizon spill shows promise

Mongabay.com 28 Jul 2025
Left: Ranger Claude, photographed by Brent Stirton. Right: Ranger Daniel, photographed by Virunga National Park.

Two rangers killed in a plane crash in DRC’s Virunga National Park

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Jul 2025
Mangroves in Raja Ampat.

Reversing damage to the world’s mangrove forests

Kristine Sabillo 25 Jul 2025
A part of Putumayo rainforest showing areas of deforestation.

Illegal roads expand in Colombia’s deforestation hotspots

Mie Hoejris Dahl 25 Jul 2025
Scimitar-horned oryx in Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Faunal Reserve in Chad. Image by Inyathi via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

US NGO signs deal to manage huge nature reserve in Chad

Ashoka Mukpo 25 Jul 2025
A tiger-legged monkey frog in the Amazon tropical forest.

Where there’s political will, there’s a way to stop tropical deforestation, study finds

John Cannon 24 Jul 2025
A Dayak Ngaju tribe man tries to extinguish fire on burning peatland in Mantangai, Central Kalimantan.

Indonesian palm oil company sues experts who helped secure $18m pollution ruling

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jul 2025
The Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Ecuador’s new protected areas law sparks debate over security, development

Maxwell Radwin 23 Jul 2025
Researcher Kelly Pitts samples tissue from a great star coral. Image courtesy of Hunter Noren.

Probiotics slow a deadly disease in Florida coral, study finds

Shanna Hanbury 23 Jul 2025
The endangered dhole is also known as the Asiatic wild dog.

Nepal launches action plan to boost endangered dhole conservation

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2025

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