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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
A mature Nile perch grows to an average 1.21 to 1.37 meters (4 to 4.5 feet).

From carp to hippos, 43% of large freshwater animal species spread far beyond native ranges

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Apr 2026
A student goes to school wearing a mask in the haze that blankets the city of Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan in 2017.

Indonesia braces for possible ‘Godzilla El Niño’ as fire season escalates early

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Apr 2026
Palm trees, which make up 20% of the trees in the Amazon, grow mixed among various tree and grass species in the southern Peruvian Amazon lowlands of Manu National Park.

Novel research finds unexpected climate resilience in up to 36% of Amazon forest

Justin Catanoso 10 Apr 2026
Bharardaho Beel shelters hundreds of water birds and other wildlife around the year. Image by Md Mehedi Hasan.

How an engineer brought degraded wetlands back to life in drought-hit Bangladesh

Sadiqur Rahman 3 Apr 2026
A dinghy used to sample the lake. Image courtesy of Travis W. Drake.

‘Ancient’ carbon venting from lakes in the Congo Basin peatlands: Study

John Cannon 31 Mar 2026

Grasslands and wetlands are being lost to agriculture four times faster than forests

Shanna Hanbury 30 Mar 2026

In Laos, ancestral spirits are helping save one of the world’s rarest crocodiles

Liz Kimbrough 25 Mar 2026

Some forest restoration linked to short-term rise in zoonotic diseases

Bobby Bascomb 17 Feb 2026
A firefighter puts out fires in a peatland in Indonesia.

Thousands of peat fires flare across Indonesia despite rainy season

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Feb 2026
Fishers in Takeo province rely on the annual flooding of wetlands where they raise and catch a variety of crustaceans. Image by Gerald Flynn/Mongabay.

Farmers fear displacement, drought, flooding tied to Cambodia’s Funan Techo Canal

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 12 Feb 2026
Gerard C. Boere. Courtesy of AEWA

Gerard C. Boere, conservationist and designer of flyways, died Jan 6, aged 83

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Feb 2026
Canada Jay in Sax-Zim Bog. Canada Jays are a quintessential northwoods bird that utilize Black Spruce and Tamarack Bogs for foraging and nesting. Image by Friends of Sax-Zim Bog (FOSZB).

Communities join global push to protect European, Arctic & US peatlands

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 5 Feb 2026

Critical wetland in Angola gets formal Ramsar recognition

Ryan Truscott 21 Jan 2026
Tropical peatland clearance in Riau, Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Ditches on peatland oil palm plantations are an overlooked source of methane: Study

John Cannon 30 Dec 2025

Photos: Top new species from 2025

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2025
Stuart Brooks. Photo courtesy of The National Trust for Scotland.

Stuart Brooks, peat protector, has died

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Dec 2025

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