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Beach morning glory in Texas.

Bangladesh witnesses coastal erosion, salinization as tourism crushes a flowering creeper

Khadijatul Kobra 8 Apr 2025

A Kichwa women’s collective uses ecotourism to safeguard Ecuador’s Amazon

Ana Cristina Alvarado 1 Apr 2025
Sunset over Belize. Image courtesy of Chadwick Hagan.

Belize’s natural heritage deserves even stronger conservation strategies (commentary)

Chadwick Hagan 31 Mar 2025

The vanishing trail of Sri Lanka’s iconic tuskers calls for urgent action

Malaka Rodrigo 21 Mar 2025

In a land where monkeys are seen as pests, Sri Lanka’s white langurs are winning hearts

Malaka Rodrigo 17 Mar 2025
Wild male saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) visiting a waterhole at the Stepnoi Sanctuary, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. Photo credit: Andrey Giljov [CC BY-SA 4.0]

Financing conservation of Central Asia’s endangered mammals on World Wildlife Day and every day (commentary)

Anne Neumann, Christiane Röttger, Johannes Stahl 3 Mar 2025

How a Philippine town is dealing with the fallout of its own popularity

Mongabay.com 17 Feb 2025
A long-tailed macaque in Bali, Indonesia.

Sun, sand and skulls: Bali tourism trade peddles threatened primate skulls

Spoorthy Raman 12 Feb 2025

Tourists are back at this Instaworthy Philippine town, but can its sewage system keep up?

Keith Anthony Fabro 7 Feb 2025
frailejon tree paramo Ecuador

In Ecuador, a mountain shrub could hold the key to restoring a precious ecosystem

Christina Noriega 5 Feb 2025

Indian villages seek to protect ecosystem by opting out of state’s development push

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2025
Marco Andres Vizcaino Garcia is a top naturalist guide in the Galápagos National Park and its adjacent marine reserve. Image by Erik Hoffner for Mongabay.

As Gálapagos ecotourism booms, top naturalist guide urges sustainability

Erik Hoffner 22 Jan 2025
Domesticated yaks ferry essential supplies on the Sagarmatha trekking trail. Image by Shashwat Pant.

Helicopters slash the trek to Earth’s highest peak, but leave Sherpas grounded

Shashwat Pant 21 Jan 2025
Camera trap image of snow leopards feeding on a domestic yak in Limi Valley, northwestern Nepal. Photo: Himalayan Wolves Project.

The paradox of balancing conservation efforts for Himalayan wolves and snow leopards (commentary)

Naresh Kusi 15 Jan 2025
Sani Lodge run by the Kichwa Indigenous community at Sani Isla. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Sani Isla: A Kichwa community that found alternatives to oil in conservation and tourism

Ana Cristina Alvarado 24 Dec 2024

Nepal’s rhino translocations to continue amid concerns over effectiveness

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Nov 2024
The Loita Forest is an important migration corridor for elephants moving between the Rift Valley and the Maasai Mara.

Controversial study finds cattle and wildlife can co-exist in Kenya’s Maasai Mara

Bobby Bascomb 15 Nov 2024

Can cattle and wildlife co-exist in the Maasai Mara? A controversial study says yes

Ashoka Mukpo 5 Nov 2024
Mammalogists often use ear tags to identify individuals in their research. But Echidnas do not have external ears to attach a tag. Opiang used color-coded plastic tubing, glued to spines to identify individuals (visible on the right forelimb). Quiet, rare, nocturnal, hard-to-tag and found in remotest parts of New Guinea, field study of echidnas presents tremendous challenges. Photo by Muse Opiang

With rare mammal tourism, observing means conserving (commentary)

Charles Foley, Jon Hall 1 Nov 2024
A red ghost crab in Teknaf.

The disappearing red ghost crabs of Cox’s Bazar, a conservation crisis in Bangladesh

Mahadi Al Hasnat 16 Oct 2024
Tourists on St. Martin's Island.

New tourism restrictions to protect Bangladesh’s unique wetlands and coral-rich island

Abu Siddique 14 Oct 2024
Ouk Mao showed reporters timber cut from the Phnom Chum Rok Sat community forest by loggers working for Lin Vatey. Image by Nehru Pry / Mongabay

Reporter who revealed deforestation in Cambodia now charged with deforestation

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 27 Sep 2024
A loggerhead turtle hatchling on Al-Mansouri beach.

Amid haze of war, Lebanese activists helped turtle hatchlings journey to sea

Amélie David 25 Sep 2024

Community forest or corporate fortune? How public land became a mine in Cambodia

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Sep 2024
Bhuddhist prayer flags ib Pachu Community Tourism center.

Ecotourism offers new hopes for Bhutanese youth — and local environments

Choki Wangmo 6 Sep 2024
Having already picked Phnom Chum Rok Sat community forest clean of large, valuable trees, loggers working for Lin Vatey now appear to be clear-cutting what remains of the forest. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay

Mining company tied to Cambodian military officials grabs community forest

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 5 Sep 2024
Eurasian lynx, courtesy of Parc Zoologique de Paris.

Sweden’s ‘nature friendly’ reputation is being shot to pieces (commentary)

Misha Istratov 4 Sep 2024
Seema Devi and other women from her village line up at the aquifer beneath the newly constructed field that doubles as a helipad.

Uttarakhand villagers thirst for water as tourism, temps & development rise

Swati Thapa 9 Aug 2024
A protest in Phungling, a town of 29,000 people, where roads, restaurants and businesses were closed entirely.

In Nepal, a cable car in a sacred forest sparks swift, and controversial, direct action

Alice Millington 31 Jul 2024
Thap Lan patrol

Thai plan to redraw boundaries of tiger reserve sparks concern and criticism

Carolyn Cowan 22 Jul 2024
Preparation towards graduating boys into Maasai warriors in Simanjiro District.

Forced evictions suppress Maasai spirituality & sacred spaces in Tanzania

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 22 Jun 2024

UNESCO accused of supporting human rights abuses in African parks

Aimee Gabay 17 Jun 2024

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