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

Basten Gokkon 3 Jul 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
Olivier Nsengimana, founder of Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association. Image courtesy James Rooney/National Geographic Society.

Rwanda’s Olivier Nsengimana inspires protection for gray crowned cranes in East Africa

Musinguzi Blanshe 30 Apr 2025
An agamid lizard in a Chinese rainforest.

Diverse forests and forest rewilding offer resilience against climate change

Sean Mowbray 15 Apr 2025
Red deer in the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria.

How is conservation preparing for a much hotter world? Experts share

Jeremy Hance 10 Apr 2025
Before any dam is built, roads are needed, opening up the old-growth forest of the Cardamom Mountains. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

With biological and cultural diversity at literal crossroads in the tropics, a new approach is needed (commentary)

Karen Masters 13 Mar 2025
Capuccin monkeys in a low-land tropical rainforest in Costa Rica.

Huge deforested areas in the tropics could regenerate naturally, study finds

John Cannon 22 Nov 2024

Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation at 60: A look back and forward

Erik Iverson 9 Sep 2024
Abijata-Shalla National Park’s management is working to build a common understanding of how deforestation and other activities affect the landscape on which communities and wildlife depend. Image by Solomon Yimer for Mongabay.

Holistic care for an Ethiopian lake system: Interview with Redwan Mohammed

Solomon Yimer 6 Aug 2024
Lake Turkana. Image by Aocrane via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Small steps towards larger goal of protecting East African wetlands

Petro Kotzé 6 Aug 2024
A common Jezebel (Delias eucharis).

Scientists are racing to save South Asia’s butterflies from the threat of extinction

Hailey Smalley 31 Jul 2024
Members of BirdWatch Zambia with binoculars, pointing at something interesting out of the frame. Image © WeForest

Zambian forest reserve rebounds with a little assistance

Ryan Truscott 20 Jun 2024
De Winton's Golden Mole, a blind mole that lives beneath the sand and has sensitive hearing that can detect vibrations from movement above the surface. (Photo by JP Le Roux)

We’re losing species faster than we can find them, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 27 Feb 2024
Oil palm estate and rainforest in Malaysian Borneo.

New tool aims to help palm oil firms comply with deforestation regulations

Abhishyant Kidangoor 26 Jan 2024
A coral reef and its residents in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Image ©Greg Asner/divephoto.org.

2023’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Ana Spalding, David Obura, Diva Amon, Minna Epps, Rhett Bennett, U. Rashid Sumaila 16 Jan 2024
A toucan in a tropical rainforest.

Tropical deforestation increases even as a few hotspots see respite, new data shows

Abhishyant Kidangoor 11 Dec 2023
Melquiades, a Brazil nut producer in the Amazon rainforest. Image by Yoly Gutierrez/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Community tropical forest management linked to social & environmental benefits: Study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 8 Dec 2023
Borneo forest

Forest restoration to boost biomass doesn’t have to sacrifice tree diversity

Carolyn Cowan 28 Nov 2023
Aerial view of the NGOWP team's mekoro along the Cuando River.

New study pushes for protection of one of Africa’s ‘least understood treasures’

Ryan Truscott 15 Nov 2023
Macaws flying over the rainforest.

Mongabay wins prestigious 2023 Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication

Mongabay.com 18 Oct 2023

Restoring degraded forests may be key for climate, study says

Liz Kimbrough 6 Oct 2023
An oriental pied hornbill in Sabah's rainforest.

Forest restoration can fare better with human helping hand, study shows

Jeremy Hance 28 Sep 2023
Seabirds on Redonda Island cliffs.

From rat-ridden to reserve, Redonda is an island restoration role model

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 27 Sep 2023
PFAS and other chemical pollution are posing a growing threat to the little auk (Alle alle) and other Arctic seabirds.

PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ harming wildlife the world over: Study

Sharon Guynup 26 Sep 2023
A muddied river.

Muddied tropical rivers reveal magnitude of global gold mining boom: Study

Shanna Hanbury 5 Sep 2023
Squirrel monkeys are one of many creatures of Yasuni National Park. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

What drives and halts tropical deforestation? Analyzing 24 years of data

Liz Kimbrough 24 Aug 2023
An Andean motmot.

‘What we need to protect and why’: 20-year Amazon research hints at fate of tropics

Justin Catanoso 24 Jul 2023
Tropical forest in the Amazon.

Drought cycles erode tropics’ ability to absorb CO₂, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Jul 2023
Wandering albatross on Marion Island.

S. Africa to purge bird-eating mice from key albatross breeding island

Leonie Joubert 5 Jul 2023
A paddy field farmer wades through his agricultural land flooded with red mud.

Red floods near giant Indonesia nickel mine blight farms and fishing grounds

Riza Salman 14 Jun 2023
A black-shanked douc langur in a tree.

Can community payments with no strings attached benefit biodiversity?

John Cannon 13 Jun 2023
An African elephant.

Global study of 71,000 animal species finds 48% are declining

Sharon Guynup 5 Jun 2023

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