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Amazon peoples have insisted on the urgency of having their voice and vote taken into account in biodiversity negotiations. Photo by UN biodiversity.

Indigenous leaders gather at the IUCN Indigenous Peoples and Nature summit

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 8 Oct 2025

Mongabay founder Rhett Butler wins the Henry Shaw Award

Bobby Bascomb 7 Oct 2025
Oil palm planation and native tropical rainforest on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.

RSPO sparks NGO outrage for dismissing complaint over alleged ‘shadow companies’

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Oct 2025

Whose Amazon is it?

Latoya Abulu | John Cannon 7 Oct 2025
Newly described B. kanadii growing on a fir tree in a forest in Arunachal Pradesh in northeast India. Image courtesy of Arvind Parihar.

Massive fungus from India is newly described species

Mongabay.com 6 Oct 2025
Prochlorococcus marinus, a globally significant marine cyanobacterium. Image by Luke Thompson from Chisholm Lab and Nikki Watson from Whitehead, MIT, 2007, via Flickr (Public domain).

New conservation panel to focus on microorganisms crucial for human and planet health

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Oct 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
Banner image: Arturo Gómez-Pompa. Courtesy of Universidad

Arturo Gómez-Pompa, biologist who revealed the human history in “virgin” forests, has died, aged 90

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Sep 2025

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

Maxwell Radwin 26 Sep 2025
Rainforest in the Western Amazon. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler

Setting the record straight on Jurisdictional REDD+: The case of Brazil

Luiza Muccillo, Daniel Nepstad, Ronaldo Seroa da Motta, Monica de los Rios, Thuanny Vieira 21 Sep 2025

The mire of Brazil’s BR-319 highway: Deforestation, development, and the banality of evil (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 19 Sep 2025
A Baird's tapir.

Animals that spread seeds are critical for climate solutions

Liz Kimbrough 19 Sep 2025
Artist's conception of a manumea, Samoa's 'little dodo.' Image via Samoa Conservation Society fundraising page.

Funding is needed to save Samoa’s ‘little dodo’ from extinction (commentary)

Gianluca Serra 18 Sep 2025

New conservation area protects 53% of carbon in northern Peruvian Amazon

Geraldine Santos 18 Sep 2025
Nickel mining activity in the PT IWIP industrial area in Central Halmahera.

Norway fund drops Eramet over Indonesia mine threatening forests, Indigenous tribe

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Sep 2025
DJ Edwin Carrasco, known in the artistic world as Tayta Bird, recording sounds of a rainforest.

Meet the DJs of nature, inspired by biodiversity

Manuel Fonseca 15 Sep 2025
A Verreaux’s sifaka dancing.

Madagascar’s dry forests need attention, and Verreaux’s sifakas could help

Mino Rakotovao 15 Sep 2025
Rainforest creek in Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler

The carbon market paradox: Steve Zwick on why financing forests is more complicated than it looks

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Sep 2025
An Indigenous Tikuna man in the Amazon Rainforest in Colombia. Some researchers oppose the idea that human cultures would have been limited and determined by the environment, and that supports the notion that human cultures have modified the environment as desired. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Forests on Indigenous lands help protect health in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Sep 2025
A young Grauer's gorilla in Kahuzi-Biega National Park.

Park guardians or destroyers? Study dissects 2 narratives of DRC’s Indigenous Batwa

Blaise Kasereka Makuta 11 Sep 2025
In this Sep. 26, 2017 photo released by Ibama, the Brazilian Environmental and Renewable Natural Resources Institute, members a firefighter fighta a forest fire affecting Porquinhos Indigenous lands in Maranhao state in Brazil's Amazon basin. Image by Felipe Werneck/Ibama via AP.

More than half the world’s forests fragmented in 20 years — but protection works: Study

Ruth Kamnitzer 11 Sep 2025
Since 2014, the Siona people have reported the presence of landmines in their territories, planted by illegal armed groups. Image by Sara Arredondo (Baudó Agencia Pública).

Colombia’s Siona Indigenous guard faces landmines, violence around territory

Jose Guarnizo 9 Sep 2025

Americans’ love of RVs tied to destruction of orangutan habitat: Investigation

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Sep 2025
A structure built by one of the isolated communities in Loreto, Peru. Image courtesy of ORPIO

Isolated tribes under threat as Peru votes down Yavarí Mirim Indigenous Reserve

Maxwell Radwin 8 Sep 2025
The tropical royal flycatcher has suffered a decline in abundance. Image by Crístian Rincón Alvarez via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Tropical bird numbers plummet due to more days of extreme heat, study finds

Shanna Hanbury 5 Sep 2025

Guatemala closes oil field, increases security in Maya Biosphere Reserve

Maxwell Radwin 5 Sep 2025
Rainforest in the Western Amazon. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler

Where life has found its richest expression – Amazon Rainforest Day

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Sep 2025
IBAMA officers watch a camp on fire.

Brazil can green its environmental crime-fighting in the Amazon (commentary)

Anna Gielas 4 Sep 2025
A brilliant blue male Francis’s gorgeous sapphire, euthanized after being reared in captivity. Image courtesy of Jonathan Francis.

Discovery of dazzling blue butterfly underscores peril facing Angola’s forests 

Ryan Truscott 3 Sep 2025
Sunrise over the Amazon. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler

Why is rainfall declining in the Amazon? New research says deforestation is the leading driver

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2025

‘Let’s understand the value of the forest’ says Liberia’s Silas Siakor

Ashoka Mukpo 1 Sep 2025
A woman walks through a forest in Liberia. Image by Open Government Partnership via Flickr (CC BY-2.0).

Liberia has a new plan to protect its rainforests. Can it work?

Ashoka Mukpo 1 Sep 2025

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