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Anant Ambani with elephants

NGOs call on Vantara to end all wild animal imports permanently

Spoorthy Raman 25 Sep 2026
Environmental agents use satellite imagery analyses and on-site inspections to identify the flow of illegal wood, such as this seizure from the Cachoeira Seca Indigenous Territory, using timber credits. Image by IBAMA via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

To tackle environmental crime, track profits through the whole supply chain (commentary)

Robert Muggah, Ilona Szabó de Carvalho 25 Sep 2026
A Malala drift area resident feeding his goats

Farmers in South Africa’s Limpopo face unpredictable rainfall, uncertain futures

Bernard Chiguvare 25 Sep 2026
A Landscape Alliance staffer kneels beside a coppicing stump of a wild loquat tree

Scientists clone Southern Africa’s wild fruit trees as forests disappear

Ryan Truscott 25 Sep 2026
Various fish including bigscale soldierfish (Myripristis berndti), Moorish idols (Zanclus cornutus), and a masked angelfish (Genicanthus personatus) swim in a small outcropping of coral on a reef in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, Hawai’i, in 2017.

Global coral reefs get less time to recover as oceans heat up, report finds

Keith Anthony Fabro 25 Sep 2026
Families are relocated due to flooding and landslides in the Balukhali Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar.

Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps become increasingly vulnerable to landslides

Sadiqur Rahman 25 Sep 2026
An Indus river dolphin

Pakistan expands protected habitat for Indus River dolphin as recovery offers hope

Muhammad Talal 24 Sep 2026
Tiger cat released with satellite collar in Mirador State Park. Courtesy of Tadeu de Oliveira.

A new cat species was just discovered. Several more may follow

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Sep 2026
Orange-winged amazon (Amazona amazonica).

Brazil’s tropical forest fund races to raise $2.7 billion before deadline

Carla Ruas 24 Sep 2026
Women work in a paddy field at Uttarbahini village, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal.

In Nepal, women seek ownership rights to the lands they tend

Haven Sager 24 Sep 2026
Giraffe inside the Sera Conservancy in northern Kenya. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo / Mongabay.

New report reveals the environmental cost of USAID’s destruction

Ashoka Mukpo 24 Sep 2026
A Ghana cuckooshrike in Côte d’Ivoire.

‘Lost’ bird reappears in West Africa’s forests after more than a decade

John Cannon 24 Sep 2026
Hurricane Melissa as seen from the International Space Station.

Earth life support systems are flashing red, warns 2026 Planetary Health Check

Sean Mowbray 24 Sep 2026
The doll orchid is threatened due to extensive collection for the ornamental plant trade. Image courtesy of Bhathiya Gopallawa.

Biodiversity credits shouldn’t copy the carbon market playbook (commentary)

Jubanayan Saikia 24 Sep 2026

Indonesia’s geothermal push runs into local fears at Mount Ungaran

Triyo Handoko 24 Sep 2026
Protesters outside the Grand Hyatt Manila on Sept. 10 called for an end to the Pax Silica pact.

Planned US tech hub in Philippines hit over environmental and Indigenous land concerns

Michael Beltran 23 Sep 2026

Logging still threatens Bornean forest once envisioned as an Indigenous-led peace park

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 23 Sep 2026
A man carries a backpack on a trek in the Annapurna Conservation Area in Nepal. Image by Abhaya Raj Joshi/ Mongabay.

Two decades on, Nepal’s conservationists search for new ‘dream’ generation

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Sep 2026

In Peru’s high Andes, restoring ancient ecosystems could help protect water security

Euan Wallace 23 Sep 2026
An adult orangutan drinking from a peat river in the Tanjung Puting National Park area, Central Kalimantan.

As fires spread in Indonesia, Bornean orangutans run out of forest to flee

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Sep 2026
In this operation, enforcement officials recovered 28 native reptiles, including shingleback lizards (pictured here), spiny-tailed skinks and lace monitors. Image courtesy of the National Environmental Protection Agency.

Reptiles, gold and money: How Australia is cracking down on wildlife trafficking

Johan Augustin 23 Sep 2026
Looking out at "Mussel Rock" from the road. This area of Northern California is the ancestral terrioty of the Cosatal Yuki people. Image courtesy of Kai Pomo.

California Tribes receive beach and ancestral village site back from transportation authority

Liz Kimbrough 22 Sep 2026
A Northern pygmy slow loris

A rare slow loris may have a much larger population in China than scientists thought

Matthew Burkhart 22 Sep 2026

Critics question oil and gas spending in Mexico’s proposed climate budget

Maxwell Radwin 22 Sep 2026

Photographing Sri Lanka’s human-elephant conflict — Interview with Federico Borella

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 22 Sep 2026
A herd of vicuña in Salar de Chalviri, Bolivia

Copper boom fueling energy transition puts Earth’s wildlands at risk

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 22 Sep 2026
Freediver and turtle

Tourism has the potential to reverse coral decline at Bali travel hotspot: Study

Carolyn Cowan 22 Sep 2026
Confluence of the Chuwa River (at right) into the Karnali River (left). Image courtesy of Sherparinji via Wikimedia Commons / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0.

For wild rivers like the Karnali, Nepal’s disaster is a warning and an answer (commentary)

Gary Wockner, Megh Ale 21 Sep 2026
Bajau/PELITA member Well uses the Pocong, an octopus shaped fishing lure, to try and tempt an octopus out of the reef.

How freediving helps Indonesia’s Bajau preserve traditions and conserve marine life

Maddy Bolt 21 Sep 2026
Small-scale fishers with their gear on a beach in Sri Lanka.

46% of wild-caught fish could be fed to farmed fish and shrimp by 2040, says report

Francesco De Augustinis 21 Sep 2026
Illegal miners at work in the Atewa Forest Reserve, Ghana. Image courtesy of A Rocha Ghana.

Illegal mines threaten biodiversity and drinking water in Ghana’s Atewa Forest

Mabel Adorkor Annang 21 Sep 2026

Tight Brazil election challenges fragile gains for Amazon conservation

Fernanda Wenzel, Karla Mendes, Lucas Berti 21 Sep 2026

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