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A community settlement in Pidie Jaya Regency, destroyed by flooding.

Indonesia launches sweeping environmental audits after Sumatra flood disaster

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jan 2026
Judith Enck, author of The Problem with Plastic, holding a copy of the book. Image by Jerrick Mitra.

Plastic pollution requires urgent action, says author Judith Enck

Mike DiGirolamo 6 Jan 2026
A camera-trap image of a flat-headed cat in Thailand’s Princess Sirindhorn Wildlife Sanctuary. Image courtesy of DNP/Panthera.

7 hopeful wildlife sightings that researchers celebrated in 2025

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Jan 2026
Ocimum basilicum flower.

Amazon entrepreneur spreads seeds of growth with recycled paper

Rafael Spuldar 6 Jan 2026
Rogério Barros, young extractive leader and son of Raimundão Barros, at the Chico Mendes extractive reserve

Massive Amazon conservation program pledges to put communities first

Constance Malleret 5 Jan 2026
A forest elephant near Ngounié, Gabon. Image by marcusgmeiner via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Poaching down but threats remain for forest elephants, recent population assessment finds

Spoorthy Raman 5 Jan 2026

Deep-sea ‘hotels’ reveal 20 new species hiding in Pacific Ocean twilight zone near Guam

Liz Kimbrough 31 Dec 2025

Road to recovery: Five stories of species staging a comeback

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Dec 2025
Newly described hooded jewel-babblers (Ptilorrhoa urrissia) from Papua New Guinea. Image courtesy of I. Woxvold/B. Gamui.

New species of jewel-babbler from Papua New Guinea may be endangered

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Dec 2025

Most Watched Video Stories of 2025

Lucia Torres 30 Dec 2025

Photos: Top new species from 2025

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2025
Scrub jay.

In California’s redwoods, scientists rebuild lost ecosystems high up in the canopy

Marlowe Starling 29 Dec 2025
George Teariki-Mataki Mateariki. Photo from Cook Islands Tourism

George Teariki-Mataki Mateariki, the Birdman of Atiu, has died, aged 67

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2025
A Campbell's keeled glass-snail with a number tag. Image courtesy of Junn Kitt Foon.

From ‘extinct’ to growing, a rare snail returns to the wild in Australia

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Dec 2025
Rainbow over the Borneo rainforest -- sabah_3512

How Mongabay’s journalism made an impact in 2025

Bobby Bascomb 29 Dec 2025

Year-end ‘good news’ as flat-headed cats reappear in Thailand after 29-year absence

Sean Mowbray 26 Dec 2025
Rainforest in Brunei in 2025. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

The year in rainforests 2025: Deforestation fell; the risks did not

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Dec 2025
Two male ibex in front of Mont Aiguille in the Dauphiné Alps, France.

France’s largest rewilding project

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Dec 2025

Cyclone Ditwah exposes climate risks to nature-based tourism in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 24 Dec 2025
William Bond. Photo courtesy of the University of Cape Town.

William Bond, grasslands researcher who reminded conservation that context matters, has died

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Dec 2025
White rhyolite spires on the shores of Jodogahama Beach in Miyako, Japan. Iwate prefecture. These spires are estimated to be around 45 million years old, and form a natural version of a Japanese garden. This beach is part of the Sanriku Fukkō National Park. It was incorporated into this national park as a reconstruction effort following the Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. Photo by Mike DiGirolamo/Mongabay.

The top 10 most listened-to podcasts of 2025 from Mongabay

Mike DiGirolamo 23 Dec 2025
Community members plant red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) propagules in Hanging Site as part of a restoration effort.

Huge ‘blue carbon’ offsetting project takes root in the mangroves of Sierra Leone

Edward Carver, Mohamed Fofanah 23 Dec 2025
Joanna Macy. Courtesy of the Macy family

Joanna Macy, author and teacher who turned despair into connection and agency

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Dec 2025

Grassroots forest protection succeeds where planting drives fail in Nepal

Mukesh Pokhrel 23 Dec 2025

Taboo against harming strangler fig spirits protects forests in Indonesian Borneo

Liz Kimbrough 22 Dec 2025
Giant conebird in Peru.

Project sees long-term success restoring forests in the high Andes: Study

Ruth Kamnitzer 22 Dec 2025
Conservationists, environmental defenders, and scientists who died in 2025.

Environmental defenders & conservationists who died in 2025

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Dec 2025
Misty morning in Borneo. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Rethinking how we talk about conservation—and why it matters

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Dec 2025
Journey by pirogue for members of the Baliga

Congo’s communities are creating a 1-million-hectare biodiversity corridor

Elodie Toto 18 Dec 2025

As storms surge & the sea rises, Belgium builds dunes for protection

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 Dec 2025
A Southern giraffe in Africa.

New study splits giraffe experts on future wild captures for zoos

Shradha Triveni 18 Dec 2025
Ocelot in Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas, Brazil.

New study points to private land as key to Atlantic Forest recovery

Sibélia Zanon 16 Dec 2025

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