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Study shores up reputation of Bolivia’s Madidi National Park as amphibian haven

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Aug 2024
A yak pasture in the Lungbasamba landscape.

Reporting confirms alleged Indigenous rights violations in Nepal hydropower project

Sonam Lama Hyolmo, Latoya Abulu 12 Aug 2024

Amazon Fraud 101: How timber credits mask illegal logging in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 8 Aug 2024
Luís Adriano Nascimento, chemist and vice-coordinator of the Laboratório de Óleos da Amazônia (Amazon Oils Laboratory, LOA), stands at a lab bench with a wide collection of Amazonian fruits and seeds used to make oils, biofuels and bioplastics.

Raw materials become high-value bioeconomy goods at an Amazon science park

Sarah Brown 6 Aug 2024
The Kaapori capuchin, (Cebus kaapori), one of the world’s most critically endangered primates. Image by Ricardo Ferreira Esteves via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0).

In Brazil’s Amazon, land invasions — and fires — threaten a protected reserve

Ana Ionova 5 Aug 2024

In a fight to save a rare bird, Indigenous communities in Guyana are winning

Carla Ruas 5 Aug 2024

Study looks at how various tree species dominated different parts of the Amazon

Bobby Bascomb 5 Aug 2024

Javan rhino poaching saga reveals serious security lapse

Mongabay Indonesia 2 Aug 2024
Batwa women in Uganda.

Indigenous Batwa win human rights victory over eviction from DRC park

Bobby Bascomb 2 Aug 2024

Six new natural sites added to UNESCO World Heritage List

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Aug 2024
A man walks past solar panels.

No plans, no progress make Peru’s energy transition uncertain

Yvette Sierra Praeli 1 Aug 2024
A basking shark (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens). Image courtesy of Greg Skomal/NOAA Fisheries Service.

Shark ‘Fitbit’ captures rare footage of collision with boat

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Aug 2024
A protest in Phungling, a town of 29,000 people, where roads, restaurants and businesses were closed entirely.

In Nepal, a cable car in a sacred forest sparks swift, and controversial, direct action

Alice Millington 31 Jul 2024

New Indigenous reserve in the Amazon among first steps to protect peoples in isolation

Astrid Arellano 31 Jul 2024

Cambodia’s largest mangrove forest is ‘teeming with life,’ biodiversity survey finds

Anton L. Delgado 30 Jul 2024

In Nepal, criticizing government conservation policies is becoming harder

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jul 2024

Nepal’s railway rerouting plan to avoid Chitwan park sparks fiery backlash

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jul 2024

Indigenous lands have fewer “alien” plants and animals

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Jul 2024
Dozens of isolated Indigenous Mashco Piro men and boys on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon. Image courtesy of Survival International.

After isolated tribes’ rare appearance in Peruvian Amazon, big questions remain for their future

Dan Collyns 29 Jul 2024

Activists ask for help combatting violence against Nicaragua’s Indigenous communities

Maxwell Radwin 29 Jul 2024

Conservationists look for new ways to fight oil pipelines in southern Mexico

Maxwell Radwin 26 Jul 2024

Brazil’s wildcat mining is deeply rooted in its politics and thirst for minerals

Timothy J. Killeen 26 Jul 2024

The Amazon’s most fertile forests are also most vulnerable to drought: Study

Claire Asher 26 Jul 2024
Madre de Dios in the Peruvian Amazon observed the extent of river damage due to gold mining.

Gold mining in the Amazon has doubled in area since 2018, AI tool shows

Fernanda Wenzel 26 Jul 2024

DRC’s golden-bellied mangabeys: A little-known but much-threatened monkey

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jul 2024
Mangroves in Vietnam

In choice of mangroves or livelihood, Vietnam shrimp farmers choose the latter

Carolyn Cowan 25 Jul 2024

Short on funds and long on risk, Venezuelan conservation groups worry for future

Maxwell Radwin 25 Jul 2024

In Cambodia, Indigenous villagers lose forest & land amid carbon offset project

Jack Brook 24 Jul 2024

Bangladesh wildlife sanctuary continues to lose primary forest

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Jul 2024

What’s at stake for the environment in Venezuela’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jul 2024
A wild boar at Parsa National Park.

Nepal’s youngest national park looks to elevated lanes to prevent roadkill

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Jul 2024
A group of Bunong farmers harvest rice in Sre I village in the Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary.

Can a carbon offset project really secure Indigenous rights in authoritarian Cambodia?

Jack Brook 22 Jul 2024

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