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A Javan gibbons (Hylobates moloch)

After years of silence, Indonesia moves to assess its iconic wildlife

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 29 May 2025
Banner image: The Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa captured by the Pléiades Neo satellite. Image courtesy of the Airbus Foundation and Connected Conservation Foundation.

‘Satellites for Biodiversity’ upgrades with new projects and launches insight hub

Kristine Sabillo 26 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
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
Planted forest in Panama.

Why biological diversity should be at the heart of conservation

Kristine Sabillo 21 May 2025
Goiano, in front, started the land reform movement and has been the subject of death threats and corruption claims.

Delay in land reform fuels new wave of settlers and violence in the Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 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

Republic of Congo’s gold mining boom undermines conservation efforts

Mongabay.com 16 May 2025
Banner image of Lily-Arison René de Roland, courtesy of The Indianapolis Prize.

Malagasy wildlife champion wins top global conservation award

Kristine Sabillo 15 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
Smoke from a factory.

Ground-level ozone wreaks havoc on warming planet

Mongabay.com 9 May 2025
Market in Treicheville, Abidjan, 2017.

In Côte d’Ivoire a changing climate hits farmers and markets alike

Gael Zozoro 9 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
A tiger-legged monkey tree frog in Peruvian Amazon.

New report reinforces critical role of Amazonian protected areas in climate fight

Abhishyant Kidangoor 1 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
Jaguar siblings in Poconé, Brazil. Image by Bernard Dupont via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Study suggests there are more jaguars in the Amazon than previously thought

Shanna Hanbury 1 May 2025
Ecuador's Tapichalaca Reserve, created by Jocotoco Conservation Foundation.

How to conserve species in a much hotter world

Mongabay.com 29 Apr 2025

We can’t plant our way out of climate change

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Apr 2025
Banner image of a forest in Finland by kallerna via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How did Finland lead the pursuit of a circular economy? Mongabay podcast explores

Mongabay.com 28 Apr 2025
Cacao farmers in the Soubré region, southwestern Cote d’ivoire. Image by Gaël Zozoro for Mongabay.

Côte d’Ivoire cacao farmers struggle as climate havoc devastates crops

Gael Zozoro 28 Apr 2025

Mexican government looks to correct Tren Maya environmental damages

Maxwell Radwin 22 Apr 2025
Banner image of a weimang (Dendrolagus pulcherrimus) in Lumi, Papua New Guinea, by John Cannon/Mongabay

Locals, researchers race to save unique biodiversity of PNG’s Torricellis

Mongabay.com 18 Apr 2025
The pied tamarin (Saguinus bicolor) is one of the world’s most endangered monkeys. Image courtesy of Diogo Lagroteria.

New refuge helps protect Amazon’s most endangered monkey, but gaps remain

Shanna Hanbury 18 Apr 2025
Banner image of Mongabay Explores and Wild Frequencies logos.

2 Mongabay podcasts shortlisted for 2025 Publisher Podcast Awards

Mongabay.com 16 Apr 2025
An agamid lizard in a Chinese rainforest.

Diverse forests and forest rewilding offer resilience against climate change

Sean Mowbray 15 Apr 2025
Banner image of a Darwin's frog and newborn at London Zoo, courtesy of Benjamin Tapley/ZSL.

Endangered Chilean frogs thrive in London while waiting out deadly fungus

Kristine Sabillo 15 Apr 2025
Red deer in the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria.

How is conservation preparing for a much hotter world? Experts share

Jeremy Hance 10 Apr 2025
Banner image of farmer Khem Raj Nepal from Sarlahi, Nepal, looking at his farm. Image by Mukesh Pokhrel.

Nepal farmers regret planting government-hyped eucalyptus

Mongabay.com 9 Apr 2025
Banner image of a used tire by Marek Šašek via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How tires leave a long trail of destruction

Mongabay.com 8 Apr 2025
Bonobos in the DRC’s Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve. Image courtesy of Maud Mouginot.

Bonobos combine calls in ways that resemble human language, study finds

Shanna Hanbury 8 Apr 2025
Women sorting tree seedlings for reforestation in Uganda.

Funding freeze threatens global reforestation and restoration efforts

Marina Martinez 8 Apr 2025

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