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Sri Lanka’s golden jackals reveal importance of urban wetlands for wildlife

Malaka Rodrigo 26 May 2025

What’s at stake for the environment in Suriname’s upcoming elections?

Maxwell Radwin 23 May 2025
Banner image: Photos of human rights lawyer Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca, who disappeared last year in Mexico. Photo by Luis Rojas via Global Witness.

Environmental defenders targeted in 3 out of 4 human rights attacks: Report

Kristine Sabillo 23 May 2025
A harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja). Image by Brian Gratwicke via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Harpy eagle confirmed in Mexico for first time in over a decade

Mongabay.com 22 May 2025
Helni Gopi (left) with her companions bringing a variety of their harvests back from the pampa forest.

Indigenous rights advocates petition to overturn Indonesian conservation law

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 May 2025
Community rangers guard elephants in Sera Conservancy, Northern Rangelands, Kenya.

Wildlife crime crackdown in jeopardy worldwide after US funding cuts

Carolyn Cowan, Philip Jacobson, Spoorthy Raman, Charles Mpaka, Hans Nicholas Jong, Gerald Flynn 22 May 2025
Planted forest in Panama.

Why biological diversity should be at the heart of conservation

Kristine Sabillo 21 May 2025

In New Guinea, megadiverse lowland forests are most at risk of deforestation

Carolyn Cowan 21 May 2025
Banner image of Max, a brown howler monkey, courtesy of Marcelo Rheingantz.

Brazil rewilds urban forest with vaccinated brown howler monkeys

Mongabay.com 20 May 2025
A Yucatán black howler monkey

Protection is only the beginning: Creating connection through Belize’s Maya Forest Corridor

Ruth Kamnitzer 19 May 2025
Jandhen Gurung, 82, with her juniper leaf collection. Image by Durga Rana Magar.

In Nepal, centuries-old Buddhist incense tradition faces overharvesting, climate threats

Durga Rana Magar 16 May 2025
Banner image of an Egyptian vulture by Mildeep via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Countries failing to stop illegal bird killings despite 2030 commitment: Report

Kristine Sabillo 16 May 2025

Republic of Congo’s gold mining boom undermines conservation efforts

Mongabay.com 16 May 2025
An okapi at Bronx Zoo in the United States. Image by Ryan Schwark via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Endangered Species Day: Three animals on the path to recovery

Shanna Hanbury 16 May 2025

Sumatran tiger protection needs more patrols, tougher penalties, study finds

Basten Gokkon 15 May 2025
Banner image of an Iban woman in Sarawak, Malaysia, courtesy of Luciana Téllez-Chávez/Human Rights Watch.

Malaysian timber company accused of abuse & rights violations: Report

Kristine Sabillo 14 May 2025
Fishers camp in grass shelters at Mbenje Island, which is located 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the beachshore of Lake Malawi, in a cluster of fivesix islands. – Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

Community-led system boosts fisheries in a corner of fast-depleting Lake Malawi

Mongabay.com 14 May 2025
Amazon people in the BR-163 area, such as Mariana, face challenges from the economic model imposed by agribusiness, logging and gold mining. Image by Fernando Martinho.

Lack of funds, cattle ranchers challenge Brazil’s sustainable farmers

Mongabay.com 13 May 2025
Cambodian journalist Ouk Mao has faced physical and legal threats for his continued reporting on environmental crimes in Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. Image by Nehru Pry / Mongabay.

Attacks on Cambodian environmental journalist continue to pile up

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 12 May 2025
A western lowland gorilla in Cameroon.

In Cameroon’s forgotten forests, gorillas and chimps hang on

Spoorthy Raman 7 May 2025
Banner Image of a far eastern curlew courtesy of Dong-pil.

Scientists warn of S. Korea airport project’s impact on migratory bird habitat

Kristine Sabillo 7 May 2025
A mother and baby chimpanzee in the mangroves of Conkouati-Douli National Park.

Protected parks in peril as Republic of Congo ramps up oil drilling

Elodie Toto 7 May 2025

Indonesia’s deforestation claims under scrutiny over ‘cherry-picked’ data

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 May 2025
Banner image of scarlet macaws in Guatemala by Rony Rodriguez.

Hand-raised chicks boost Guatemala’s critically endangered macaws

Kristine Sabillo 5 May 2025

Kumana, a historic national park in eastern Sri Lanka, emerges as leopard stronghold

Malaka Rodrigo 5 May 2025

In the Pan Amazon, regulators struggle to punish environmental crimes

Timothy J. Killeen 2 May 2025
A common leopard drinking water in a forest in Sri Lanka. Image by Udayan Dasgupta/Mongabay.

International Leopard Day celebrates the resilient, yet often-overlooked, big cat

Shreya Dasgupta 2 May 2025
Located in the Amapá state, the second-largest red angelim ever found is 85.4 meters (280 feet) tall and has a circumference of 9.8 meters (32 feet). Image courtesy of João de Matos Filho / Prodemac.

Gold rush moves closer to Amazon’s second-tallest tree

Mongabay.com 1 May 2025
Split shot in the waters of San Benedicto, Mexico. Credit: Enric Sala/National Geographic Pristine Seas

Protecting coastal waters may be the best investment you’ve never heard of, says Kristin Rechberger

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Apr 2025
Ecuador's Tapichalaca Reserve, created by Jocotoco Conservation Foundation.

How to conserve species in a much hotter world

Mongabay.com 29 Apr 2025
Pará Governor Helder Barbalho celebrates after signing the deal with the LEAF Coalition of corporations at New York Climate Week in September 2024. Image courtesy of SEMAS.

Brazil prosecutors dispute $175m Amazon Rainforest carbon credit deal

Shanna Hanbury 29 Apr 2025
A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) hangs from the trees. Fewer than 100,000 orangutans remain on Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Orangutan habitat under siege as palm oil company clears forest in Borneo

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Apr 2025

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