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Bouba Ndjida is one of the only sites in Central Africa where we are seeing the early signs of recovery in the population.

Northern Cameroon’s lions are reproducing, but concerns remain

Leocadia Bongben 30 Sep 2025

The Indigenous tradition sustaining Nepal’s alpine pastures amid climate change

Mukesh Pokhrel 30 Sep 2025

Indonesia aims to redraw UNESCO site boundaries to allow geothermal projects

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Sep 2025

Egyptian activists rally to halt hotel project at pristine protected beach

Victoria Schneider 30 Sep 2025
Tracking dog

To track a unicorn: Laos team goes all out to find the last saolas

Carolyn Cowan 30 Sep 2025
Redwood forest in California. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Conservation in a hotter world

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Sep 2025
Indigenous organizations from the Amazon basin — representing more than 511 peoples — met in Brasilia on June 2 to discuss solutions they are implementing in their territories to address the global climate crisis. Image courtesy of Passu Creativa.

Seven Indigenous paths to protect the Amazon: Voices from the land (commentary)

Oswaldo Muca Castizo, Patricia Suárez, Oriana Cortés Muñoz, Emil Sirén Gualinga 29 Sep 2025
Farmer Mohd. Naim Razak explains how different coconut varieties have different shape of trunk.

Malaysian small-scale farmers worry about rights under proposed seed law changes

Lee Kwai Han 29 Sep 2025
Lina Ruiz and Lita Rojas outside of the court in Ucayali after hearing the first ruling. Image by Hugo Alejos.

Report finds 226 Indigenous land defenders in Peru at risk of violence

Yvette Sierra Praeli 29 Sep 2025
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Environment Minister Marina Silva attend the launch of a program to reduce deforestation and forest fires in the Amazon, in April 2024.

New deal pushes Amazon’s controversial ‘tipping point road’ ahead

Rafael Spuldar 29 Sep 2025
Lions in South Africa. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Counting kings: How annual lion surveys reveal the health of Africa’s protected areas (commentary)

Jon Ayers 29 Sep 2025

Study spotlights West Papua habitat as whale sharks face increased pressures

Basten Gokkon 28 Sep 2025
The second instance court sentencing in the Saweto case was held August 25 and lasted approximately eight hours. Image by Geraldine Santos.

Peru court upholds 28 years in prison for loggers in Indigenous murders

Geraldine Santos 26 Sep 2025

The fate of flying rivers could decide Amazon ‘tipping point,’ report says

Maxwell Radwin 26 Sep 2025
President Lula calls on world leaders to support the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) at upcoming COP30 in Belém, Brazil, to advance climate action and conserve tropical forests.

Brazil leads push for novel forest finance mechanism ahead of COP30 summit

Justin Catanoso 26 Sep 2025
Alisha’s dorsal photograph during her initial tagging in May 2012 in Gansbaai, South Africa.

Long-lost white shark tag traces remarkable journey from South Africa to SE Asia

Miriam Bahagijo 26 Sep 2025

How we probed a maze of websites to tally Brazilian government shark meat orders

Philip Jacobson, Kuang Keng Kuek Ser 26 Sep 2025
BR-364 paved the way for the widespread conversion of Amazon Rainforest in Rondônia into land for agriculture and cattle ranching. Image courtesy of Cleber Carvalho/Ministério dos Transportes.

Brazil’s first private Amazon road paves new trade route to China

André Schröder 25 Sep 2025

As Sri Lanka struggles with ghost nets, volunteer youth lead seabed cleanup

Malaka Rodrigo 25 Sep 2025
Maan Alima Tagnan under her gliricidia tree, one of the fertilizer trees she has planted in her field.

Burkina Faso’s women farmers reviving the land with fertilizer trees

Yvette Zongo 25 Sep 2025

From Chile to Greece, ‘ghost gear’ from fish farms haunts the seas

Guia Baggi 25 Sep 2025
A black-and-white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata), an endangered species of ruffed lemur.

Rights of nature concept creates room for life, but it’s still ‘fuzzy’: Study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 25 Sep 2025

Alaskan rivers turn orange as permafrost thaws, threatening fish and communities

Liz Kimbrough 25 Sep 2025
A mountain lion (Puma cancolor) caught on camera trap caching a deer for eating later.

Turning camera traps into real-time sentinels: Interview with Conservation X Lab’s Dante Wasmuht

Abhishyant Kidangoor 25 Sep 2025
Heavy machinery operates at the nickel mining site of PT Kawei Sejahtera Mining on Kawe Island, Raja Ampat.

Religion at a crossroads in Indonesia as Islamic groups bid to operate large-scale mines

Ramadani Saputra 25 Sep 2025
Monitors from the Ticuna community of San Francisco de Yahuma, in Loreto, Peru. They use drones to monitor and protect their forests. Image courtesy of Joseph Zegarra/Rainforest Foundation US.

Indigenous women in Peru use technology to protect Amazon forests

Astrid Arellano 24 Sep 2025
Johan Rockström presenting a planet boundaries talk at the 2025 Frontiers Planet Prize event in June.

Ocean acidification threatens planetary health: Interview with Johan Rockström

Julian Reingold 24 Sep 2025
Illustration by Sara Arredondo/Baudó Agencia Pública.

Indigenous fishers lead science-backed conservation of Colombia’s wetlands

Camilo Alzate 24 Sep 2025
Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica.

Scientists weigh giant sea curtain to shield ‘Doomsday Glacier’ from melting

Gloria Dickie 24 Sep 2025
Chepsat sorting tomatoes to load on a vehicle for ferrying to the market in Marigat. Image by Gilbert Nakweya for Mongabay.

Permaculture promises peace, food, increased equality in Kenyan county

Gilbert Nakweya 24 Sep 2025

New species of gecko described from Madagascar’s sacred forests

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 24 Sep 2025
An oceanic white tip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus) with pilot fish (Naucrates ductor). Image courtesy of Renata Romeo/Ocean Image Bank.

‘Super big deal’: High seas treaty reaches enough ratifications to become law

Edward Carver 23 Sep 2025

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