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Soy plantations amid savanna vegetation in Maranhão state, Brazil. Image courtesy of Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil.

Amazon deforestation declines as Brazil reduces forest loss nationwide

Shanna Hanbury 12 Jun 2026
Women and girls from Capirona gather to collect stones and make water filters, as part of the community experiment developed in partnership with the Yachana Foundation. Image courtesy of the Yachana Foundation.

In Ecuador, an Indigenous community goes thirsty despite its two rivers

Gabriela Verdezoto Landívar 12 Jun 2026
Under pressure from expanding soybean cultivation and transport infrastructure, protected areas in the Jamanxim region could become even more vulnerable. Image courtesy of Vinícius Mendonça/Ibama.

Brazil carves an Amazon national park to make room for grain railway

André Schröder 11 Jun 2026
RAN Burger King protest in 1987. Image courtesy of Rainforest Action Network

How an activist network built pressure without political power

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Jun 2026

Environmental group intervenes in lawsuit to help orangutans, tigers in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Jun 2026
Rousettus aegyptiacus, commonly known as the Egyptian fruit bat, a widespread species found across much of Africa. Photo courtesy of Paul Wambura.

Evidence linking bats to Ebola inconclusive, scientist says. ‘Solution is not fear’

David Akana 10 Jun 2026
Cattle in Maticurú

Colombia passes landmark cattle traceability law to combat illegal deforestation

Maxwell Radwin 9 Jun 2026

In Sumatra, social forestry links conservation with livelihoods

Basten Gokkon 9 Jun 2026

Taiwan’s tallest tree found with help of citizen science

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jun 2026
Mangrove forest in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

How small actions can become planetary forces

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jun 2026
A Mongabay investigation team visited the Ucayali region of the Peruvian Amazon where Mennonites are illegally converting pristine forests in the Peruvian Amazon into agricultural land. Image by Romi Castagnino for Mongabay.

It’s time to engage Mennonite communities in reducing deforestation across Latin America (analysis)

Timothy J. Killeen 3 Jun 2026
Tawaya Village of the Matis people in Javari Valley, Amazonas, Brazil, also featuring Korubo members. Image courtesy of Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) / Daniel Dalberto.

Legal protections for Brazil’s isolated Indigenous peoples: Interview with prosecutor Daniel Luís Dalberto

Aimee Gabay 3 Jun 2026
Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) Critically endangered subspecies of the common chimpanzee. Guinea Conakry

Chimpanzees vs. a mega railway

Juan Maza 3 Jun 2026
Survivors inspect clothings they salvaged at a village affected by a flash flood in Batang Toru, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

Survivors sue Indonesian government over response to catastrophic Sumatra floods

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Jun 2026
Thomas Crowther

Nature’s feedback loops can drive collapse. Thomas Crowther thinks they can also drive recovery

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jun 2026
Camera trap image of an adult male and a baby gorilla in Ebo Forest.

Report alleges élite ties behind logging permits in Cameroon’s Ebo Forest

Ashoka Mukpo 29 May 2026
Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

The Amazon’s path from crisis to durability

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 May 2026

Has Ecuador started fracking? New oil project causes confusion and concern

Maxwell Radwin 28 May 2026
Forest cleared for oil palm plantations in Sabah, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Loopholes undermine palm oil industry’s antideforestation pledges

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 May 2026
The remnants of Upper Guinean Tropical Rainforest within Sierra Leone are home to a multitude of species, many of them threatened, such as the white-necked rockfowl (Picathartes gymnocephalus). Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

A ‘symphony’ of wildlife suggests carbon financing is working in Sierra Leone

Claudia Geib 27 May 2026
Banner image of Myanmar teak courtesy of EIA.

Luxury yacht maker Sunseeker pleads guilty to violating a US environmental law

Naina Rao 27 May 2026
Yap conducts canopy bridge education. Image by Wong Hui Yi/Langur Project Penang.

Building bridges for human-wildlife coexistence: Interview with Yap Jo Leen

Philip Jacobson, Isabelle Leong 27 May 2026
The composition of Queensland’s rainforests would change without cassowaries dispersing seeds, and some plants may become greatly restricted or even threatened with extinction. Image by the Gondwana Rainforest Trust.

Amid efforts to save Australia’s southern cassowaries, their numbers remain unknown

Cooper Williams 26 May 2026

Brazil has protected much of the Amazon. It now has to pay for it.

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 May 2026
Emergent tree in the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Will my president save the Amazon? (commentary)

Enrique Ortiz 24 May 2026
Bengal slow loris

Slow lorises struggle to survive in the wild after captivity

Mongabay.com 22 May 2026
A tiger-striped tree frog (Callimedusa tomopterna) in the Brazilian Amazon. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Amazon resilient to fire, but diversity loss still a threat, study finds

Suzana Camargo 21 May 2026
Fisherman from the Sawré Muybu Indigenous Territory with his catch from the Tapajós River. Image courtesy of Luis Ushirobira/InfoAmazonia.

Artisanal mines in Brazil a front for gold laundering, investigation shows

Mongabay.com 21 May 2026
The royal blue pansy butterfly (Junonia rhadama), one of the endemic insect species trapped by the IBA. Image by Andrianiaina Angelo via iNaturalist. (CC BY-NC 4.0)

New survey methods uncover new insights into Madagascar’s biodiversity

Mino Rakotovao 21 May 2026
A female langur with her baby crosses an artificial canopy bridge called Numi’s Crossing along Lembah Permai road in the Tanjung Bungah area of George Town, Penang Island. Image by Mohd Rasfan / AFP.

In Malaysia, a bridge helps endangered langurs and humans coexist

Philip Jacobson, Isabelle Leong 20 May 2026

Organized crime adds to environmental destruction in the Amazon, report finds

Aimee Gabay 18 May 2026

Scientists race to study the Amazon’s frogs before they disappear

Tiago da Mota e Silva 13 May 2026

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