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China's megaproject Chancay Port on Peru's Pacific coast, inaugurated by President Xi Jinping, is a key hub for the Belt and Road Initiative and future trade with South America, including Brazil's Amazon exports. Image courtesy of Peru’s Presidential Office (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Brazil plans new Amazon routes linking the Pacific & China’s New Silk Road

Fabio Zuker 31 Mar 2025

‘Substantial’ transshipment reforms adopted at North Pacific fisheries summit

Edward Carver 31 Mar 2025
Construction of the first section of the motorway. Image courtesy of Corrine Rahoeliarisoa.

Madagascar highway pushes on through controversy

Rivonala Razafison 31 Mar 2025
Sunset over Belize. Image courtesy of Chadwick Hagan.

Belize’s natural heritage deserves even stronger conservation strategies (commentary)

Chadwick Hagan 31 Mar 2025
Tiwai Honey Initiative product picture. Image © Ezekiel Kargbo for The Iris Project.

How a young beekeeper’s initiative brought hope and profit to Sierra Leone communities

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 31 Mar 2025
A lion at Ruaha National Park.

Chain-link fencing protects livestock from big cat attacks in Tanzania: Study

Gilbert Nakweya 31 Mar 2025
A farmer from Kirehe, eastern Rwanda, using a solar-powered irrigation system. Image by Aimable Twahirwa/Mongabay.

Smallholder agriculture blossoming with the use of renewables in Africa

Aimable Twahirwa 31 Mar 2025

Mysterious sloth bear deaths raise alarm at Sri Lanka’s largest national park

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Mar 2025
Two pairs of N. Bald Ibis photographed at the wintering grounds on the Ethiopian highlands in November 2006 (© G. Serra).

The effort to save Syria’s northern bald ibis population failed, but much can be learned (analysis)

Gianluca Serra 28 Mar 2025
A recently release juvenile Siamese crocodile in Cambodia.

Siamese crocodile release into the wild marks conservation milestone in Cambodia

Anton L. Delgado 28 Mar 2025
Greenpeace activists from New Zealand and Mexico confront TMC’s deep-sea mining vessel, “Hidden Gem,” off the coast of Manzanillo, Mexico, in 2022. Image by © Gustavo Graf / Greenpeace.

Deep-sea miner TMC seeks U.S. approval, potentially bypassing global regulator

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 28 Mar 2025
A fisherman repairs his boat on a beach in Soomar Goth, Karachi.

In Pakistan, sea level rise & displacement follow fisherfolk wherever they go

Waqas Alam Angaria 28 Mar 2025
Loita forest in Kenya. Image by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay.

Kenya’s cities adopt Miyawaki method to restore lost ecological glory

Dann Okoth 28 Mar 2025
Fishing vessel. Image courtesy of Nicolas Job / Ocean Image Bank.

Panama conducts large illegal fishing bust in protected Pacific waters

Edward Carver 28 Mar 2025

Community-based conservation cuts thresher shark fishing by 91% in Indonesia: Study

Basten Gokkon 28 Mar 2025
Polar bear mother with two cubs on a snowy sandbank in northern Alaska.

Polar sea ice continues steep decline; but will a troubled world notice?

Elizabeth Devitt 27 Mar 2025
Researchers find a new killifish species, Nothobranchius sylvaticus, in an an ephemeral swamp in the Gongoni Forest Reserve in Kenya. Image by Dirk Bellstedt.

Researchers find new killifish species in Kenya

Gilbert Nakweya 27 Mar 2025
Dutch forest advocates Maarten Visschers and Fenna Swart (right) protest the burning of forest biomass for energy outside Vattenfall's headquarters in Amsterdam in 2021.

Netherlands’ largest forest biomass plant canceled, forest advocates elated

Justin Catanoso 27 Mar 2025
Zeeshan Mirza with one of the new tarantula species from the Western Ghats. Mirza has discovered several species of reptiles in India as well. Photo courtesy of Mirza.

Exploring India, finding new species: Interview with biologist Zeeshan Mirza

Liz Kimbrough 27 Mar 2025
Beekeepers monitoring hive boxes at Kazirhat, Shariatpur.

Indiscriminate pesticide use threatens Bangladesh honey bees

Sadiqur Rahman 27 Mar 2025

Colombia creates landmark territory to protect uncontacted Indigenous groups

Maxwell Radwin 27 Mar 2025
Pine cone of a white pine (Pinus strobus).

Beyond reforestation, let’s try ‘proforestation’

Sruthi Gurudev 26 Mar 2025

Peru’s rare peatland swamps at risk as illegal gold mining expands

Maxwell Radwin 26 Mar 2025
Rescue operation at the Lavavolo Tortoise Center.

Devastating flood forces relocation of 10,000 tortoises at Madagascar sanctuary

Rivonala Razafison 26 Mar 2025

Expedition links Antarctic glacial melting to climate catastrophe in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 26 Mar 2025

Indigenous communities in Indonesia demand halt to land-grabbing government projects

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Mar 2025

Nepal collaborates with neighbors to gain wildlife crime intel but struggles with enforcement

Kosh Raj Koirala 26 Mar 2025

A century later, a rare mushroom with a curious shape emerges in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Mar 2025
In Tishimale Village, Konso, Belachew and 147 other farmers use flood farming techniques to grow crops three times a year. Without these methods to adapt to the drought and the shortage of rain, it would be impossible to grow sustainably in this dry region. Image by Solomon Yimer.

Photos: Ethiopian farmers blend tradition, innovation to sustain centuries-old agriculture

Solomon Yimer 25 Mar 2025

Pirates of the Pacific terrorize artisanal fishers on the Peruvian coast

Leandro Amaya 25 Mar 2025
Chilean flamingos (Phoenicopterus chilensis) in Lake Chinchaycocha in Junín, Peru.

Drowned lands and poisoned waters threaten Peru’s campesinos and their livestock

Aimee Gabay 25 Mar 2025
jaguar cage

Ambitious conservation projects pave the way for Argentina’s jaguar recovery

Sarah Brown 25 Mar 2025

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