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Biruté Mary Galdikas. Photo courtesy of Orangutan Foundation International

Birutė Galdikas, primatologist who spent a lifetime studying & defending orangutans, has died at 79

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Mar 2026

Palm oil clearing advances in Bornean orangutan habitat despite red flags

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Mar 2026
Juma Xipaia, an Indigenous chief from the Brazilian Amazon. Image © Malaika Pictures.

Behind the scenes of the Amazon’s gold rush: Director Richard Ladkani on the making of ‘Yanuni’

Aimee Gabay 25 Mar 2026
Hooded vultures are small, scruffy-faced vultures native to sub-Saharan Africa.

‘Staggering’ trade for belief-based use drives hooded vultures to near-extinction in Benin

Spoorthy Raman 25 Mar 2026
Students are planting indigenous and other fruit tree species on school grounds. Image courtesy of Namulindwa Brendah.

Five more community-led African groups join global landscape restoration network

Charles Mpaka 25 Mar 2026
Researcher Lisiane Hahn and colleagues have tagged and released piraíba fitted with tracking devices, generating new data that reveal previously undocumented migrations of this South American species. Image courtesy of Lisiane Hahn.

325 Long-neglected migratory freshwater fish species need protection now: Report

Stefan Lovgren 25 Mar 2026
Elephants in Dzanga Bai in the Central African Republic. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Plenty of biodiversity data, but too few conservation answers

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Mar 2026

In Laos, ancestral spirits are helping save one of the world’s rarest crocodiles

Liz Kimbrough 25 Mar 2026
Cucumbers growing on a bamboo frame in Bangladesh.

New farming method replaces traditional jhum in crowding Bangladesh hills

Sifayet Ullah 25 Mar 2026

As Sri Lankans choke on bad air, authorities cite transboundary pollution

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 25 Mar 2026
An adult ampurta caught for measurements, reproductive assessment and genetic analysis during field surveys. Photo credit: Dympna Cullen

Defying drought and invasives, a feisty Australian marsupial makes a comeback

Jenny Denton 24 Mar 2026
A ranger at Upemba National Park.

Upemba National Park staff recount assault that left seven dead

Ashoka Mukpo 24 Mar 2026
Manatees image courtesy of Jorge Zamora.

On Manatee Appreciation Day, remember these gentle giants who protect aquatic ecosystems (commentary)

Omar Vidal 24 Mar 2026

Argentina updates national IUCN mammal list with new focus on non-native species

Maxwell Radwin 24 Mar 2026
Sperm Whales Up Close Underwater in Indian Ocean, Western Australia. Photo credit: © Alex Westover

The ocean’s enforcement gap

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Mar 2026
Lilac-breasted roller in Etosha National Park, Namibia. Image courtesy of Giles Laurent via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

How Namibia’s bird conservation projects build community resilience (commentary)

Martha Karas 23 Mar 2026
The endangered Sumatran laughingthrush is another masterbird species threatened by trade. Image by Simon Bruslund

Songbird trade threatens lesser-known ‘master birds’ with secondary extinctions: Study

Sean Mowbray 23 Mar 2026
Fish on a beach in New Ireland province. Image ©Sebastian Velasquez.

PNG’s New Ireland coastal waters causing fish deaths, human sickness

John Cannon 20 Mar 2026

Proboscis monkey found in Thailand adds to evidence of cross-border illegal trade

Ana Norman Bermúdez 20 Mar 2026
Vincent Tateburuk

Many Indigenous peoples in Asia feel excluded from nat’l biodiversity planning: Report

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 20 Mar 2026
A Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) ship.

Shipping’s biofuel gamble could deepen Africa’s land squeeze and food insecurity (commentary)

Susan Chomba, Million Belay 20 Mar 2026

California condors nesting in Pacific Northwest for first time in a century, on Yurok territory

Liz Kimbrough 20 Mar 2026
Officers display pangolin scales intended for smuggling into Cambodia.

Jakarta port authorities seize 3 tons of pangolin scales in Cambodia-bound container

Anggita Raissa 20 Mar 2026

Should potentially harmful chemicals be appraised by class, not one at a time?

Liz Kimbrough 19 Mar 2026
Chapalain during a workshop at the Nature, Environment, Wildlife, Filmmaking Conference in Durban, South Africa, in 2025. Image courtesy of Samuel Gichuru.

Juliette Chapalain on building networks and nurturing talent to tell Africa’s environmental stories

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 19 Mar 2026

New mapping data show where oil blocks threaten Venezuela’s protected areas

Maxwell Radwin 19 Mar 2026
Dry canals in the Xingu River basin prevent boat traffic and make it difficult for local families to get around. Image courtesy of MATI/ISA.

Contested Amazon dam called to review water flow as river ecosystem fails

André Schröder 19 Mar 2026
Every year, up to 100 tonnes of glass eels, worth €2.5-3 billion, are smuggled out of Europe.

Eight arrested as Europe cracks down on lucrative eel smuggling syndicates

Spoorthy Raman 19 Mar 2026
Tourists visit the Kusuma Bangsa Park in Nusantara. Image by Niken Sitoningrum/Mongabay Indonesia.

Indonesia court orders release of withheld impact studies on new capital

Niken D. Sitoningrum 19 Mar 2026
An oil pipeline through Wampis territory in the Amazonas department. Image by Jacob Balzani.

How foreign investor lawsuits stymie environmental protection

Aimee Gabay 19 Mar 2026

Facebook shuts Indonesia groups after Mongabay and Bellingcat report illegal wildlife trade

Achmad Rizki Muazam, Foeke Postma 19 Mar 2026

Indonesia plan to rezone elephant reserve for carbon trading and tourism sparks backlash

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Mar 2026

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