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small reef fish

A ‘super reef’ recovery raises hopes — but also questions about its resilience

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Oct 2022
Goat herders along a road in Muzarabani

Australian oil and gas firm Invictus awarded carbon offset project in Zimbabwe

Ryan Truscott 12 Oct 2022
Men processing abacá fiber.

Clothes sourced from plants could expand deforestation – or abate it

Ian Morse 12 Oct 2022

In Brazil, a heavily fined firm is also accused of waging a ‘palm oil war’ on communities

Karla Mendes 11 Oct 2022
The Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Indonesia

Indonesian banks prop up coal industry increasingly shunned by outside lenders

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Oct 2022
Pygmy loris

The slow, toxic and sleepy life of lorises is coded in their genes

Carolyn Cowan 11 Oct 2022
protest

With fracking promising a quick energy boost, can Colombia say no?

Dimitri Selibas 11 Oct 2022

Amazonian river communities seek to boost hard-won land rights to fight loggers

Lais Modelli 11 Oct 2022
A Javan hawk-eagle on a branch

Indonesia foresters hope Garuda poachers turn gamekeepers

L. Darmawan 11 Oct 2022
Bôndy nurserymen tending to young eucalyptus

In Madagascar, a tree-planting business goes long on social, short on eco

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 10 Oct 2022
Elizabeth Azzuz and Margo Robbins, leaders of the Cultural Fire Management Council, have been helping Yurok Tribal members burn their land to improve the growth of basket materials and other traditional plants. Photo by Jane Braxton Little for Mongabay

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, five inspirational conservation stories in the U.S.

Latoya Abulu 10 Oct 2022

Alternatives to farmwork empower communities and save forests, study finds

Kimberley Brown 10 Oct 2022
A bonobo

Easygoing bonobos accepting of outsiders, study says

Charles Mpaka 10 Oct 2022

Toxic new frog species from Ecuador named after Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane

Liz Kimbrough 10 Oct 2022
Bua Noi in her enclosure

Thai zoos come under scrutiny again as tourism rebounds from COVID-19

Shannon Brault 10 Oct 2022

Mongabay probe key as Brazil court rules on palm oil pesticide contamination

Karla Mendes 7 Oct 2022

Mangroves and wildlife in Bornean bay at risk from Indonesia’s new capital

Basten Gokkon, Richaldo Hariandja 7 Oct 2022
Fire near the Manicoré River in Amazonas state in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Ahead of election, deforestation increased in Brazil

Mongabay.com 7 Oct 2022
Logging operation in the Amazon.

Brazil may fail Paris Agreement targets by 137% if Bolsonaro stays in office

Jaqueline Sordi 7 Oct 2022
Sand is pumped into Boeung Tompoun as residents are forced out from the lake.

Cambodia’s elites swallow up Phnom Penh’s lakes, leaving the poor marooned

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 7 Oct 2022
Close up of men chanting at a protest in Cayar, Senegal. Image © Greenpeace / Annika Hammerschlag.

Fished out at sea and smoked out on land, Senegal fishers take on a fishmeal factory

Lawon Olalekan 6 Oct 2022

Greenland shark, world’s longest-living vertebrate, gets long-awaited protection

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Oct 2022

Locals in the dark about oil auctions in DRC: report

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Oct 2022

Indonesian program pays fishers to collect plastic trash at sea

Basten Gokkon 6 Oct 2022
A bearded pig

Mongabay’s What-To-Watch list for October 2022

Mongabay.com 6 Oct 2022
The main road built by PT Gema Kreasi Perdana

Sulawesi islanders grieve land lost to nickel mine

Eko Rusdianto 6 Oct 2022

Conservatives tighten grip on Brazil Congress, hampering environmental agenda

Jaqueline Sordi 5 Oct 2022

Malaysia revokes oil palm concession near UNESCO-listed Bornean park

Rachel Donald 5 Oct 2022
A Charonias theano butterfly

Trouble in the tropics: The terrestrial insects of Brazil are in decline

Jeremy Hance 5 Oct 2022
Protestors with signs protesting EACOP, ReconAfrica projects. Image courtesy 350.org

‘Disclose the deal,’ East Africa pipeline opponents say (commentary)

Robert Tumwesigye Baganda 5 Oct 2022

Forests & Finance: Sit-ins, seeds over seedlings, and fuel-saving cookstoves

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2022
Forest in the Baram Peace Park area in November 2019. The Baram Peace Park – or Taman Damai Baram – is an Indigenous community-led initiative that aims to protect old-growth forest and traditional Indigenous lands in the upper Baram river basin near the border with Indonesia. Photo credit: The Borneo Project.

Survey captures Bornean ecosystems and Indigenous lives around them

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 5 Oct 2022

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