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A Sumatran villager lost ground to the sea. So he planted mangroves

Mongabay.com 27 Aug 2026

Infrastructure and land use behind devastating India monsoon floods

Naina Rao 14 Aug 2026
Harisyah measures the distance between mangrove planting holes. Photo by Suryadi, Mongabay Indonesia.

On fragile Sumatran peatland, a farmer fights to bring back lost mangroves

Suryadi 12 Aug 2026

Australia confirms first mass bird flu mortality in wildlife

Naina Rao 4 Aug 2026

Costa Rica banana plantation destroyed protected wetland, complaint alleges

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jul 2026

Indonesia shows elevated fire hotspot activity in 2026 as super El Niño threat looms

Hans Nicholas Jong, Irfan Maulana 29 Jul 2026
A pair of orphaned orangutans in Sabah.

Major orangutan study finds Sumatran population fell nearly 20% despite slower forest loss

Hans Nicholas Jong, Junaidi Hanafiah 27 Jul 2026
Beavers are restoring stretches of North Fork Toutle River in the U.S. state of Washington. Image by GrandTetonNPS via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Beavers restored a volcano-scarred river. Now it’s at risk again

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2026

Tourism and infrastructure threaten habitat of India’s Himalayan salamanders

Mongabay.com 20 Jul 2026
The rusty lark, a Sahelian native bird, was not seen or heard by scientists for 94 years.

How birders in Chad ‘found’ the rusty lark, a bird lost to science for nearly a century

Spoorthy Raman 14 Jul 2026
Manzoor Ahmad Wangnoo rows a shikara across the Khushalsar-Gilsar wetland system in Srinagar

Restoring Kashmir’s lakes one community at a time: Interview with Manzoor Ahmad Wangnoo

Hashim Quraishi 10 Jul 2026

Lawmakers seek rights probe into Indigenous conflict at Indonesian timber firm

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jul 2026
Fishing on the Kaptai Lake

Declining carp fishes in Bangladesh’s Kaptai Lake leave small-scale fishers struggling

Sifayet Ullah 3 Jul 2026
Fire in a peat forest in Kalimantan. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

A possible strong El Niño fuels fears for fires across Indonesian tropical peatlands

Rendy Tisna 2 Jul 2026
African baobab (Adansonia digitata), Chikwawa district, Malawi. Image by Rob Palmer via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Three years after Cyclone Freddy, farms remain under water in Malawi’s Elephant Marsh

Charles Mpaka 26 Jun 2026

Power lines threaten Sri Lanka’s iconic migrant flamingos

Mongabay.com 22 Jun 2026
Great Cumbung Swamp

Indigenous organization buys wetland property in Australia to help conserve it

Megan Strauss 12 Jun 2026
A man fishes in the Niger Delta near the village of Diebu, Nigeria, Saturday, May 18, 2013. Image by Jon Gambrell / AP Photo.

Despite oil spills in Nigeria’s mangrove forests, Shell continued operations, documents show

Victoria Schneider, David Akana 6 Jun 2026
Aerial view of a peatland forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Image by Daniel Beltrá/Greenpeace.

World Peatland Day honors a crucial ecosystem in the fight against climate change

Bobby Bascomb 2 Jun 2026

Sri Lanka flamingo deaths raise concerns over power infrastructure in wetlands

Malaka Rodrigo 29 May 2026
A local guide training Community-Based Fire Management (CBFiM) members with camera trap set up.

On Southeast Asia’s largest lake, locals wield tech to defend the flooded forest

Claire Turrell 19 May 2026
Nansha Wetlands Park, China. Image by Sam May / Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Salt marsh recovery isn’t enough to offset destroyed older wetlands, study finds

Shanna Hanbury 14 May 2026

Wetland destruction blamed for rise in croc attacks on Indonesia’s Bangka Island

Mongabay.com 13 May 2026

Agriculture drives most tropical peatland loss in Indonesia, Peru and DRC: Study

Bobby Bascomb 12 May 2026

Can Bangladesh’s new law save its natural wetlands?

Sadiqur Rahman 12 May 2026

Conservationists fear fires could erase years of orangutan habitat recovery

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 May 2026
Austin Lewis

Chesapeake Bay conservation bolstered by the power of business & viral videos

Erik Hoffner 29 Apr 2026
Hasina Begum stands in front of her house that got destroyed in multiple flash floods occurring in 2022. She temporarily moved to the industrial town of Narayanganj to earn the money needed to repair the house and to make up for the loss of crops. Image by Masud Al Mamun.

Migration and climate pressures deepen flood risks in Bangladesh’s haors

Ashraful Haque 29 Apr 2026
The saltwater crocodile — the world’s largest reptile — can exceed 6 meters (20 feet) in length

Wetland destruction for mining, oil palm tied to crocodile attacks in Indonesia

Taufik Wijaya 23 Apr 2026

New atlas aims to help save Africa’s disappearing wetlands

Naina Rao 22 Apr 2026

Appeals court keeps ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ open, rejecting need for federal environmental review

Associated Press 21 Apr 2026
A Philippine duck (Anas luzonica) at Liguasan Marsh.

Energy crisis revives push to drill in Philippines’ largest intact wetland

Bong S. Sarmiento 17 Apr 2026

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