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Carl and Isabel Gakran, leaders of the Zág Institute, with their daughter Zágtxo, on the Ibirama-La Klãnõ Indigenous Territory. Image courtesy of Anderson Coelho.

Xokleng Indigenous people plant thousands of critically endangered pine in Brazil

Mongabay.com 24 Aug 2026
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Did you know forests can save themselves?

Jonathan Mbu 24 Aug 2026

In Spain & South Africa, communities use restoration to ‘grow’ fire insurance (commentary)

Claire Patterson, Penelope Choussat 24 Aug 2026

Daniel Janzen and the long work of bringing back a forest

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Aug 2026
A part of Dhaka.

Bangladesh’s green building drive grows beyond factories amid climate pressures

Ibrahim Hossain Ovi 24 Aug 2026
A group of Dayak women weavers look for leaves for natural dyes in the forest.

Indonesia integrates Indigenous data in bid to put customary lands on map

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Aug 2026
Collage “Hands On” video series featuring Lucia Torres, Mongabay staff.

Hands On series: stories that build change

Lucia Torres 22 Aug 2026

Art and science must come together for coral reef conservation, biologists argue

David Brown 21 Aug 2026
National park staff, government officials and local community members conduct a tree survey in Nakai-Nam Theun National Park, Laos, located in the Annamite mountain range. Image by Oudomphone Insisiengmay.

Southeast Asia is a hotspot for oak trees, many under ‘dire threat’

Sean Mowbray 21 Aug 2026
Cassandra Garduño in a wooden boat.

Hands On: Stories that build change

21 Aug 2026
Members of the Kāi Tahu marine ranger team return from harvesting seaweed. Image by Edward Carver for Mongabay.

New Zealand opens marine reserves with groundbreaking Māori co-management model

Edward Carver 19 Aug 2026

Why carbon markets alone won’t save Southeast Asia’s concessions forests

Mongabay.com 19 Aug 2026
Green sea turtle swimming in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef. Image by ©Commonwealth of Australia (Reef Authority), photographer J. Sumerling. CC BY 4.0.

On the Great Barrier Reef, management by Traditional Owners is growing

Cat Williams 18 Aug 2026

On an Indonesian island, an ancient ritual evolves to protect an endangered cockatoo

Basten Gokkon 18 Aug 2026
A solar power plant beside farmland and salt pans in Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar.

Despite energy crisis, Bangladesh’s factories are slow to adopt solar power: Study

Md Asaduz Zaman 18 Aug 2026

Safeguarding passageways is the next step for India’s growing tiger populations

Mongabay.com 17 Aug 2026
Bulan and Badar.

Rescued from traffickers, reintroduced orangutan becomes mother in the wild

Ayat S. Karokaro 14 Aug 2026
A Visayan spotted deer (Rusa alfredi) in a zoo.

From one deer’s DNA, a road map emerges to save an endangered Philippine species

Pippo Carmona 14 Aug 2026
Taiwan Premier Cho Jung-tai, center, celebrates with Siraya activists Wan Cheng-hsiung, right, and Alak Akatuang on July 30, 2026, after announcing the recognition of the Siraya people as the island’s 17th officially designated Indigenous group in Taipei. Image courtesy of Taiwan’s Executive Yuan.

Siraya gain recognition as Taiwan’s 17th official Indigenous group

Yenni Kwok 13 Aug 2026

Nepal enlists AI to help fight against crop-raiding macaques

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2026
Harisyah measures the distance between mangrove planting holes. Photo by Suryadi, Mongabay Indonesia.

On fragile Sumatran peatland, a farmer fights to bring back lost mangroves

Suryadi 12 Aug 2026
A plastic eater in Bangkok’s canals

A plastic eater in Bangkok’s canals

Sandy Watt 12 Aug 2026

In India, sacred groves serve as vital nurseries for future forests

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2026
Ntoiye Kimorgo, a Maasai traditional healer and member of the Paran-affiliated Naretoi Group

Meet the Indigenous women restoring Kenya’s Mau Forest — and reshaping gender roles

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 11 Aug 2026

Forest Restoration Solutions

11 Aug 2026
A capped langur

New ropeways aim to save wildlife in Bangladesh’s fragmented habitats

Sadiqur Rahman 11 Aug 2026
A group of cow elk traverses an active mine site as they move between forest patches. Image courtesy of Brittany L. Slabach.

Wildlife in the eastern US are making a comeback

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Aug 2026
Mariano Cenamo. Photo by Renato Stockler / Folha Press

Mariano Cenamo, advocate for a sustainable Amazon bioeconomy, has died, aged 46

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Aug 2026
Indigenous representatives interviewed by Mongabay. Illustration by Nadiyah Suyatna.

‘This is what’s working’: Indigenous leaders on environment solutions in their communities

Latoya Abulu 9 Aug 2026
Mist rising from the Amazon rainforest in July 2026. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

Amazon deforestation alerts fall to lowest level since 2013, Brazilian data show

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Aug 2026
A 2015 paper found that parrotfish were responsible for generating upwards of 85% of the new sand-grade sediment in the outer reefs surrounding the islands of the Maldives. Image by Shaha Hashim.

How social media and parrotfish poop are protecting the Maldives

Isabel Gil 6 Aug 2026

On a Philippine beach, villagers are stepping up to save sea turtle nests

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2026

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