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Mennonite farming in Belize threatens essential biological corridor, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 14 Jul 2025
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with his environmental and climate change minister, Marina Silva on his first day in office on Jan. 1.

Why is Lula still silent on Brazil’s ‘Bill of devastation?’ (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 8 Jul 2025

Study urges legal protection for Sulawesi’s endangered bear cuscus amid habitat loss

Basten Gokkon 3 Jul 2025
brown spider monkey Colombia

Forest corridors protect Colombia’s critically endangered brown spider monkey

Sean Mowbray 2 Jul 2025
Ndijingala, an eastern lowland gorilla, at the GRACE sanctuary before being reintroduced to the wild.

Signs of hope for rescued gorillas rewilded in DRC, but security concerns linger

Elodie Toto 25 Jun 2025

Panama boosts protections in the Darién Gap, but deforestation threats still loom

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jun 2025
Indigenous leaders at the first congress in Brazzaville. Image by Maribel Arango.

First congress of forest basin leaders results in call for direct financing

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 24 Jun 2025

UN calls out Indonesia’s Merauke food estate for displacing Indigenous communities

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jun 2025

An overlooked biocultural landscape in Sri Lanka receives overdue protection

Malaka Rodrigo 24 Jun 2025
Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) in a dry forest in Madagascar. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Will tropical dry forests survive the next 50 years?

Liz Kimbrough 23 Jun 2025
Marlyse in Lobéké National Park, south-east Cameroon. Image by Yannick Kenné for Mongabay.

From porter to conservation leader, the inspiring journey of Marlyse Bebeguewa in Cameroon

David Akana, Yannick Kenné 23 Jun 2025
Amazon rainforest in Ecuador. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

On World Rainforest Day, the world confronts an unprecedented wave of tropical forest loss

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jun 2025

Wildfires push tropical forest loss in Latin America to record highs

Mie Hoejris Dahl 17 Jun 2025
White-bellied pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis), Gabon. Image by bureaubenjamin via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Pandemic-era slump in ivory and pangolin scale trafficking persists, report finds

Spoorthy Raman 17 Jun 2025

New environmental licensing will build a power plant in the Cerrado and demolish a school

Guilherme Cavalcanti/Agência Pública 13 Jun 2025
The Nyamugasani River flows through the flood plains in the foothills of Rwenzori Mountains National Park, one of the sites supported by the CAPA initiative.

To survive climate change, scientists say protected areas need ‘climate-smart’ planning

Marina Martinez 13 Jun 2025
Sediment is clearly visible close to nickel mining operations on Kawe Island, Raja Ampat, discolouring the water in one of Indonesia’s most biodiverse marine areas. The concession covers an area of 5,922 hectares and is located within the mega-biodiversity region of Raja Ampat, West Papua. Image courtesy of Greenpeace.

No respite for Indonesia’s Raja Ampat as nickel companies sue to revive mines

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Jun 2025
A toco toucan in a Brazilian forest. Experts confirm the fact that homogenous plantations, or monocultures, have a much lower diversity of species when compared to the environment that has been destroyed to make way for them. Image by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay.

It’s time to pay the true value of tropical forest conservation (commentary)

André Aquino / João Rezende 12 Jun 2025
An Achuar village in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Resilient forests are key to ecological, economic and social resilience, report finds

John Cannon 10 Jun 2025
A herd of female and young Borneo elephants eat chipped palms in a plantation.

Uniting plantations to save Bornean elephants: Interview with Farina Othman

Lee Kwai Han 10 Jun 2025
A snapper hunting silver fish in a mangrove patch.

One-two punch for mangroves as seas rise and cyclones intensify

Elizabeth Fitt 9 Jun 2025
Amsterdam, a car plugged into a charging station on a city street

EU appetite for EVs drives new wave of deforestation in tropical forests

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Jun 2025

The reaches, limits and (alleged) biases of feasibility studies and environmental licenses

Timothy J. Killeen 6 Jun 2025
women working in a field in Uganda

Peril and persistence define the path of Africa’s conservationists

Orji Sunday 3 Jun 2025
Emergent rainforest tree in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler for Mongabay.

The Tropical Forest Forever Facility needs more local and Indigenous focus (commentary)

Joe Eisen 3 Jun 2025
Legal counsel with the 27 residents who were arrested at the North Maluku Regional Police headquarters, May 19

Police in Indonesia’s Halmahera Island charge 11 farmers in latest nickel flashpoint

Rabul Sawal 3 Jun 2025

EUDR risk classifications omit governance & enforcement failures, critics say

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Jun 2025
A Javan gibbons (Hylobates moloch)

After years of silence, Indonesia moves to assess its iconic wildlife

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 29 May 2025
Residents of the village of Baraca gather at a mangrove restoration site.

Guinea-Bissau’s grassroots efforts offer a blueprint for global mangrove restoration (commentary)

Abdoulaye Ndiaye 29 May 2025

A new mall for the village: How carbon credit dollars affect Indigenous Guyanese

Clarissa Levy/Agência Pública 28 May 2025

Deforestation and fires persist in Indonesia’s pulpwood and biomass plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 May 2025

Indonesia convicts trafficking accomplice in a Javan rhino poaching scandal

Donny Iqbal 28 May 2025

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