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Pokhara Airport in Nepal with the Himalayan range in the background

‘Sharing the air’ proves a challenge for new Nepal airport in bird paradise

Abhaya Raj Joshi 5 Apr 2022

On a Honduran island, a community effort grows to protect its precious reefs

Sandra Weiss 25 Mar 2022
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Thai tourism elephants are ‘far better off’ in forests: Q&A with photographer Adam Oswell

Carolyn Cowan 15 Mar 2022
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Tiger and bear rescue spotlights captive wildlife tourism woes in Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 10 Mar 2022
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Thai authorities demolish resorts in parks, but struggle to prosecute encroachers

Kannikar Petchkaew 3 Mar 2022

Call for COVID rules that reduced infections in gorilla parks to remain

Ryan Truscott 24 Feb 2022

Tanzania, siding with UAE firm, plans to evict Maasai from ancestral lands

Laurel Sutherland 18 Feb 2022

Grounded by conflict and COVID, Colombia’s bird tourism struggles to soar

Genevieve Glatsky 14 Jan 2022
Indigenous protest

Mongabay’s Top 10 Indigenous News Stories of 2021

Latoya Abulu 30 Dec 2021

As its glaciers melt, Nepal is forced into an adaptation not of its choosing

Johan Augustin 27 Dec 2021

Lockdown underscores Uganda’s overreliance on tourism to fund conservation

Nangayi Guyson 21 Dec 2021
Researchers found hermit crabs scuttling across some of the study’s 240 plots. Photo credit: Sebastian Steibl

Insects and other invertebrates on tropical islands face challenges as development and tourism expand

Brittney J. Miller 29 Nov 2021

In Indonesia, a coastal town rejects ‘metropolitan’ model for mangroves

Mahmud Ichi 11 Nov 2021
Beach at Cabo Pulmo National Marine Park

Local communities saved Cabo Pulmo with a national park. Then came the tourists.

Maxwell Radwin 30 Oct 2021

Indigenous group faces eviction for ‘New Bali’ tourism project in Sumatra

Tonggo Simangunsong 25 Oct 2021

Light exhibits at Indonesian botanic garden spark commercialization concerns

Ahmad Supardi, Rahmadi Rahmad 19 Oct 2021

Saving sea turtles in the ‘Anthropause’: Successes and challenges on the beach

Elizabeth Fitt 15 Sep 2021

Fires rage in Bolivia’s Chiquitania region

Iván Paredes Tamayo 28 Aug 2021

They safeguarded nature, but now Malaysia’s Mah Meri face eviction for an eco-resort

Rachel Donald 20 Aug 2021
Fireflies illuminate the forest. Image by Roberto Marchegiani via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Loss of mangroves dims the light on firefly populations in Malaysia

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 15 Aug 2021
Tourists in South Africa's Kruger National Park photograph wildlife. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

Private investors look to high-end tourism to fund conservation in Mozambique

Marlowe Starling 24 Jun 2021

Conservation solutions in paradise: Jamaica’s Oracabessa Bay Fishing Sanctuary

Gladstone Taylor 10 Jun 2021

For Africa’s great apes, a post-pandemic future looks beyond tourism

Heather Richardson 9 Jun 2021
African elephants in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. Photo credit: Gregoire Dubois

An engaged society is key for the future of African conservation, says WWF Africa’s Alice Ruhweza

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 May 2021

Popular opposition halts a bridge project in a Philippine coral haven

Keith Anthony Fabro 5 May 2021

Sea turtles under threat as Indian government weighs development in Andaman Islands

Rosamma Thomas 14 Apr 2021

Philippine province builds on lessons learned to grow ecotourism industry

Jun N. Aguirre 14 Apr 2021

Mixed fates for captive elephants sent back to villages amid Thai tourism collapse

Carolyn Cowan 1 Apr 2021

Turtle conservation hits the SPOT in North Cyprus

James Fair 24 Mar 2021

Philippine resort owner hit with environmental charges as Boracay cleans up

Jun N. Aguirre 10 Nov 2020

On a Philippine mountain, researchers describe a ‘fire flower’ orchid species

Keith Anthony Fabro 9 Oct 2020

Madagascar reopens national parks shuttered by COVID-19

Rivonala Razafison 17 Sep 2020

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