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The Congo Basin is home to critically endangered African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis).

Can selective logging help the Congo Basin store more carbon?

Claudia Geib 2 Jul 2026
San Mala and the community members document the stumps of freshly cut trees throughout the protected forest in northern Cambodia. Image by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Illegal timber imports from Cambodia, Laos skirt Vietnam safeguards, report reveals

Carolyn Cowan 2 Jul 2026

Targeted conservation in Brazil could help protect the Amazon’s flying rivers

Constance Malleret 2 Jul 2026

New analysis breaks down 2025 Amazon deforestation, with good news and bad news

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jun 2026
Firefighters from the Chico Mendes Institute work to contain a forest fire and prevent it from reaching Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park, in Brazil’s northern Goiás state in 2025. Image by AP Photo / Eraldo Peres.

Fire surge in 2025 threatened isolated peoples in Brazil

Aimee Gabay 24 Jun 2026

Global pressure on ayahuasca threatens Amazonian plants and knowledge systems

Carlos Minuano 23 Jun 2026

Old fire hoses become lifelines for Malaysia’s endangered langurs

Mongabay.com 23 Jun 2026

Pulp and paper giant APRIL’s supplier choices put FSC remedy process to the test

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Jun 2026
Golden-backed squirrel monkey (Saimiri ustus) pictured in Amazonas state, Brazil. Image courtesy of Leonardo Mercon via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

World Rainforest Day: Deforestation must be nearly halved to meet 2030 target

Mongabay.com 22 Jun 2026
Rain over the Amazon. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

South America’s farms depend, in part, on a healthy Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jun 2026
The Tomachipán-Cumare road is an illegal trail used by dissidents as a strategic corridor. It has become an epicenter of violence. Image by Juan Carlos Contreras.

Death and exile: A war plagues Indigenous Jiw and Nukak in the Colombian Amazon

Pilar Puentes 19 Jun 2026
Drone view of Chiquitano forest recently deforested on the edge of the Bolivian Amazon for soy production. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Suriname will not be saved by soybeans (commentary)

Mark J. Plotkin 19 Jun 2026
The white-necked picathartes (Picathartes gymnocephalus) near its nesting colony in the south of Taï National Park.

In search of the ‘rare and beautiful’ in an Ivorian rainforest

Ryan Truscott 18 Jun 2026

Pulp and paper giant APRIL adds major deforesters as suppliers after revising sustainability policy

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Jun 2026

Illegal miners adapt their strategies in Yanomami Amazon territory

Rubens Valente 17 Jun 2026

Climate-fueled landslides killed an estimated 58 Tapanuli orangutans, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Jun 2026
Birds like the white-throated toucan (Ramphastos tucanus), which builds its nests in the hollows of tall trees, can no longer find them for nesting. Image by Fernando Flores via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Growing appetite for açaí is damaging bird diversity in the Amazon

Suzana Camargo 15 Jun 2026
Recent fires in the Amazon Rainforest degraded a large portion of the world’s primary forests. Image © Marizilda Cruppe/Greenpeace.

Amazon deforestation alerts fall to lowest 12-month level since 2014, show Brazilian data

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Jun 2026
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

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