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Sharing solutions: How a digital toolkit is strengthening Indigenous voices

Caitlin Looby 2 Aug 2021
Grey-cheeked mangabey

Arboreal camera traps add ‘tons of value’ to forest canopy research

Carolyn Cowan 30 Jul 2021
Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

New index measuring rainforest vulnerability to sound alarm on tipping points

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 28 Jul 2021

Global restoration now has an online meeting point

Liz Kimbrough 23 Jul 2021
Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco). Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Betting big on bioacoustics: Q&A with philanthropist Lisa Yang

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jul 2021
Grizzly bear

For monitoring mammals, eDNA boasts ‘killer feature’ over other methods

Carolyn Cowan 21 Jul 2021

Scientists turn to eDNA to curtail the freshwater extinction crisis

Caitlin Looby 16 Jul 2021

Armed with data and smartphones, Amazon communities boost fight against deforestation

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 12 Jul 2021

Sri Lanka seeks peace with pachyderms as human-elephant conflicts escalate

Malaka Rodrigo 10 Jul 2021
Blackwater lake, rainforest, and the whitewater Zacambu River in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

The conservation gains we’ve made are still fragile, says Aileen Lee of the Moore Foundation

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jul 2021
Giant muntjac

Cambodia’s first giant muntjac sighting highlights key mountain habitat

Carolyn Cowan 30 Jun 2021

Camera trap pics of rare species in Vietnam raise conservation hopes

Michael Tatarski 24 Jun 2021

$10 million XPRIZE Rainforest contest announces 33 qualifying teams

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 22 Jun 2021
Topher White of Rainforest Connection installing a bioacoustic device in the forest canopy. Image by Ben Von Wong.

Big bioacoustics boost: Cornell University program receives $24 million donation

Erik Hoffner 10 Jun 2021
Satellite image of oil palm, agriculture, and forest in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Image credit: Maxar Technologies.

Chocolate giant funds high resolution carbon map to protect forests

Aurora Solá 1 Jun 2021

Exposing organized crime in the Amazon: Q&A with Robert Muggah of the Igarapé Institute

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2021

A new app puts invisible communities in Brazil’s Cerrado on the map

Sarah Sax 9 Mar 2021
Haze rising from an oil palm plantation and forest in Riau. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler.

We can now see through clouds to detect deforestation in near real-time

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Mar 2021

An economic case for competing in the XPRIZE Rainforest contest (commentary)

Jonah Wittkamper 1 Mar 2021

Fake it till you save it? Synthetic animal parts pose a conservation conundrum

Claudia Geib 19 Feb 2021

Canadian First Nation deploys ROV in push for stronger marine protection

Claudia Geib 25 Jan 2021

An eye in the sky on deforestation: Q&A with Jean Jardeleza and Kim Carlson

Claudia Geib 18 Jan 2021
Coral reef in at Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Photo by Beth Watson / Ocean Image Bank.

Top positive environmental stories from 2020

Liz Kimbrough 30 Dec 2020
Pine forest in the Sierra Nevada. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

Bold sustainability commitments: An interview with Microsoft’s Lucas Joppa

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Dec 2020
Plastic pollution endangers marine animals, such as this young monk seal, which may get entangled in or ingest litter. Photo credit: the Ocean Cleanup/Matthew Chauvin

Clean up efforts won’t solve the plastic pollution crisis in the world’s seas

Isabella Backman 25 Nov 2020

The Amazon’s short-eared dog was thought to be a scavenger. Now there’s video

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Nov 2020

Whale zone ahead: A cetacean speed trap tags ships going over the limit

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Nov 2020

Where to patrol next: ‘Netflix’ of ranger AI serves up poaching predictions

Claudia Geib 5 Nov 2020
Map of Biodiversity. Esri, NatureServe

Esri co-founder Jack Dangermond: ‘People and planet are inextricably linked’

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Oct 2020
The ROV SuBastain with careful guidance by its pilots uses the manipulator arm to collect a geological sample at 500m on Flinders Reef. Photo credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute

Philanthropist Wendy Schmidt: ‘Solutions are always local’

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Oct 2020
Newly hatched olive ridley sea turtle in Costa Rica. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The turtle egg that pinged back: Tracing a poaching pathway in Costa Rica

Claudia Geib 22 Oct 2020

The rhino in the room: 3D scan brings near-extinct Sumatran species to virtual life

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Oct 2020

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