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Annual deforestation in the Legal Amazon (Amazonia) from 1988-2025, according to a preliminary estimate from Brazil's national space research institute, INPE.

Heading into COP, Brazil’s Amazon deforestation rate is falling. What about fires?

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Oct 2025
A boy kicks a soccer ball near signage for the COP30 U.N. Climate Conference in Belem, Brazil, March 23, 2025. Image by AP Photo/Jorge Saenz.

Belém faces its social and natural demons as host to COP30

Peter Speetjens 28 Oct 2025
Gold mine in the Dimonika Biosphere Reserve, the Republic of the Congo

Gold mining impacts persist after DRC shuts down company operations: Video

Mongabay.com 28 Oct 2025
Dozens of Mashco Piro people appeared on a riverbank in Peru in 2024, just a few miles from logging concessions. The Mascho Piro are Indigenous nomadic hunter-gatherers who inhabit Manú National Park in the Madre de Dios region of Peru. They have in the past actively avoided contact with outsiders.

Report urges full protection of world’s 196 uncontacted Indigenous peoples

Sue Branford 27 Oct 2025
White handed gibbon

International Gibbon Day: Spotlighting the overlooked, underprotected ‘lesser apes’

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Oct 2025
Clearing of peat forest in Indonesia's Riau Province. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Forest Declaration Assessment reveals a forest paradox

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Oct 2025
Female Indigenous guardians. Image by Brandi Morin.

Indigenous guardians successfully keep extractives out of Ecuador’s Amazon forests

Brandi Morin 22 Oct 2025
Willie Shubert in Madagascar with lemurs at a rehabilitation center. Note: visitors are not permitted to touch lemurs, but lemurs do as they please. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Measuring success in trees, not clicks

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Oct 2025
Illustration by Sara Arredondo – Baudó Agencia Pública.

Indigenous monitoring project helps protect isolated peoples in Colombia’s Amazon

Pilar Puentes 16 Oct 2025
Mamai Lucille William. Photo courtesy of the North Pakaraimas District Council

Mamai Lucille Williams, a quiet symbol of dignity amid destruction, has died, aged about 93

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Oct 2025
Forest recovery in the Brazilian Amazon. Image courtesy of Celso Silva Junior.

Report finds increased tropical forest regrowth over the last decade

Shanna Hanbury 14 Oct 2025

Peru considers stripping protections for Indigenous people and their territories

Maxwell Radwin 13 Oct 2025

Tanzanian conservationists mourn death of plant expert Aloyce Mwakisoma

Ryan Truscott 13 Oct 2025
Cacao illegally farmed inside Côte d’Ivoire’s Cavally Forest Reserve. Image courtesy of Mighty Earth.

A cacao rush drives ‘alarming’ deforestation in Liberia

Ashoka Mukpo 10 Oct 2025
A forest fire in August 2025 in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. Image © Marizilda Cruppe/Greenpeace.

Amazon Rainforest hits record carbon emissions from 2024 forest fires

Shanna Hanbury 8 Oct 2025
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

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