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“For mothers and young elephants, Dzanga Bai becomes something of a playground and a very safe place,” says Yvonne Kienast, project manager and head researcher of the Dzanga Forest Elephant Project. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

A unique clearing in Central Africa draws elephants from the dense forests

David Akana 6 Apr 2026
The bug that makes bubbles with its butt: Froghopper

The bug that makes bubbles with its butt: Froghopper

Romi Castagnino 13 Feb 2026

What the forest reveals from above

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Feb 2026
Açaí extraction provides income for local communities while helping to keep forests standing.

Brazil declares açaí a national fruit amid biopiracy concerns

Shanna Hanbury 30 Jan 2026
A flowering rainforest tree in the Amazon.

Drone-mounted eDNA hints at richness of life in the rainforest canopy

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 Jan 2026

Year-end ‘good news’ as flat-headed cats reappear in Thailand after 29-year absence

Sean Mowbray 26 Dec 2025
A tree kangaroo.

Malaysian companies dominate PNG forest-clearance permits: report

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 15 Dec 2025
Indigenous participants at the Free Land Camp on April 10, where they discuss rights, territorial protection, and their role in COP30. Image by AP Photo/Eraldo Peres.

What was achieved for Indigenous peoples at COP30?

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 27 Nov 2025

Indigenous delegates prepare for COP30 with focus on justice, land and finance

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 7 Nov 2025
A participant plants local green plants in a park as part of Ethiopia's Green Legacy Initiative, which aims to plant 7.5 billion trees by the end of the year, at Jifara Ber site, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Thursday, July 31, 2025.

There’s far less land available for reforestation than we think, study finds

Justin Catanoso 2 Oct 2025
DJ Edwin Carrasco, known in the artistic world as Tayta Bird, recording sounds of a rainforest.

Meet the DJs of nature, inspired by biodiversity

Manuel Fonseca 15 Sep 2025

New model reveals hidden dynamics of Indonesia’s booming songbird trade

Basten Gokkon 2 Sep 2025

How rain can reveal what lives in rainforest treetops

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Aug 2025

Seed-dispersing animals are in decline, impacting forests and the climate: Study

Kristine Sabillo 14 Aug 2025
In Java, communities help reconnect fragmented forests to help save the endangered Javan gibbon

Natural bridges to reconnect the last Javan gibbons

Nanang Sujana, Sandy Watt 18 Jun 2025
Planted forest in Panama.

Why biological diversity should be at the heart of conservation

Kristine Sabillo 21 May 2025

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

Basten Gokkon 15 May 2025
A chimpanzee of Mikeno Lodge in Virunga National Park, DRC. Image by Joseph King via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Poaching intensifies in M23-occupied areas of Virunga National Park

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2025

Building environmental laws across Amazon countries

Timothy J. Killeen 23 Apr 2025
A grizzled tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus inustus)

PNG’s Torricelli Mountains teem with life — and the risk of extinction

John Cannon 31 Mar 2025
COP16 President Susana Muhamad.

COP16 biodiversity summit in Rome OKs finance pathway; big obstacles loom

Justin Catanoso 5 Mar 2025

As the rainforest gets drier, Amazon Indigenous groups thirst for clean water

Kevin Damasio 18 Feb 2025

Mammals, birds in Vietnam’s rare coastal forests revealed by camera traps

Carolyn Cowan 13 Feb 2025

Armed conflict, not Batwa people, at heart of Grauer’s gorillas’ past decline in DRC park

Aimable Twahirwa, Latoya Abulu 16 Dec 2024

‘We have incredible & applicable solutions’: Interview with Peter Houlihan of XPRIZE

Abhishyant Kidangoor 10 Dec 2024

Five-year rainforest tech competition culminates with four winners

Abhishyant Kidangoor 20 Nov 2024
Santa Marta's traditional medicine doctors Mauricio Martínez, Elicia Martínez and Viviana Montero stand among a plot of land containing curative plants.

The Panamanian shamans working to save their ancestral medicinal plants

Adam D. Williams 22 Oct 2024

Africa’s little-known golden cat gets a conservation boost, with community help

Spoorthy Raman 15 Oct 2024
Fully functional Earth systems offer numerous ecosystem services to humanity, including clean air and water, the provision of food, and natural pollination of crops.

Combined effects of human activities increase risk to ecosystem services

Claire Asher 10 Oct 2024
Women make up a considerable proportion of the coffee farmers in the area.

Coffee agroforestry holds promise for smallholder growers in Malawi

Charles Mpaka 7 Oct 2024

At the ‘Biodiversity Olympics,’ scientists work to democratize rainforest tech

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 Aug 2024
Coffee bean harvesting in Yangambi DRC. Image courtesy of Axel Fassio/CIFOR_ICRAF

Study highlights environmental and economic benefits of agroforestry for DRC coffee crops

Elizabeth Fitt 9 Aug 2024

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