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A whale shark (Rhincodon typus). Image courtesy of Iris Ziegler.

Tuna talks bring wins for Indian Ocean sharks, but more needed, experts say

Malavika Vyawahare 1 May 2025
Located in the Amapá state, the second-largest red angelim ever found is 85.4 meters (280 feet) tall and has a circumference of 9.8 meters (32 feet). Image courtesy of João de Matos Filho / Prodemac.

Gold rush moves closer to Amazon’s second-tallest tree

Mongabay.com 1 May 2025

Abel Rodríguez, artist who drew a vanishing forest from memory, died April 9, age unknown

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 May 2025
Woman farming seaweed at Pemba Island, Tanzania

Building a future from seaweed in coastal Tanzania

Lucia Torres 1 May 2025
Greater Greener Gloster community members stand in front of the state capitol in Jackson, Mississippi, as they demand the cleanup of the Drax pellet mill

Wood pellet maker Drax denied pollution permit after small town Mississippi outcry

Justin Catanoso 1 May 2025
Jaguar siblings in Poconé, Brazil. Image by Bernard Dupont via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Study suggests there are more jaguars in the Amazon than previously thought

Shanna Hanbury 1 May 2025
A forest fire in Sancheong County, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, in March 2025. Image by 경상남도 via Wikimedia Commons (KOGL Type 1).

Deadly South Korea wildfires made twice more likely by climate change

Shreya Dasgupta 1 May 2025
Banner Image: Reshu Bashyal receives the Whitley Award from Princess Anne, patron of the Whitley Fund for Nature in London. Image courtesy WFN.

Reshu Bashyal becomes fourth Nepali in as many years to win Whitley Award

Abhaya Raj Joshi 1 May 2025

Landslide deaths again highlight safety failures in Indonesia’s nickel industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 May 2025
Top, from left: Andrés Link, Farina Othman, Yara Barros; Bottom, from left: Federico Kacoliris, Reshu Bashyal, Rahayu Oktaviani. Images courtesy of Whitley Fund for Nature.

Winners of 2025 Whitley Awards, the ‘Green Oscars,’ are announced

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2025
A chimpanzee of Mikeno Lodge in Virunga National Park, DRC. Image by Joseph King via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Poaching intensifies in M23-occupied areas of Virunga National Park

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 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

Mongabay reports fuel petition to block US import of coffee tied to slave labor

Bobby Bascomb 30 Apr 2025
A towering tailings pile sits directly behind a residence in Poço Dantas. Image by Rebeca Binda.

In Brazil’s Jequitinhonha valley, communities share how to reduce lithium mining impacts

Amanda Magnani, Rebeca Binda 30 Apr 2025
An indri lemur (Indri indri). Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Indigenous stewardship plays a key role in protecting imperiled primates

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Apr 2025
A glass octopus, a nearly transparent species whose only visible features are its optic nerve, eyeballs and digestive tract.

The Metals Company applied to the U.S. for a deep-sea mining license

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Apr 2025
Lotus plants grow in abundance in the wetlands of Bangladesh.

Bangladesh starts a sustainable luxury fashion journey with lotus ‘silk’

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 30 Apr 2025
Sheep near Nieuwoudtville, South Africa. Image by Leonie Joubert for Mongabay.

PHOTO ESSAY Wind-blown sand scouring life off a Southern African landscape

Leonie Joubert 30 Apr 2025

Indris like to “move it”

Rohan Chakravarty 30 Apr 2025
Mongabay Founder and CEO Rhett A. Butler. Image by Mongabay.

Reflections on 20 years of Mongabay News (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Apr 2025

Military-backed plantation project in Indonesian Papua triggers rights concerns

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Apr 2025
Split shot in the waters of San Benedicto, Mexico. Credit: Enric Sala/National Geographic Pristine Seas

Protecting coastal waters may be the best investment you’ve never heard of, says Kristin Rechberger

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Apr 2025
Humpback whales in French Polynesian waters. The intensity and duration of marine heat waves could have widespread effects on marine biodiversity, increasing the likelihood of species displacement and mortality. Image by Toby Matthews / Ocean Image Bank.

Listening to whales is key to their conservation

Mike DiGirolamo 29 Apr 2025
A school of anthias (Pseudanthias bartlettorum) and a school of white tip sharks at Jarvis Island, one of seven U.S.-controlled islands and atolls around which the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument is based. President Donald Trump opened most of the monument to commercial fishing in an April 17 executive order. Image courtesy of NOAA.

Under Trump, US retreats from global fisheries and oceans leadership

Edward Carver 29 Apr 2025

Scientists warn coral restoration can’t keep pace with global reef collapse

Elizabeth Fitt 29 Apr 2025
Ecuador's Tapichalaca Reserve, created by Jocotoco Conservation Foundation.

How to conserve species in a much hotter world

Mongabay.com 29 Apr 2025
A Borneo orangutan.

Corporate giants fall short on forest protection commitments, report

Liz Kimbrough 29 Apr 2025
eucalyptus forest

Eucalyptus for Brazil’s steelmaking dries out communities in Minas Gerais

Daniel Camargos, Emmanuelle Picaud, Simone Fant 29 Apr 2025
Pará Governor Helder Barbalho celebrates after signing the deal with the LEAF Coalition of corporations at New York Climate Week in September 2024. Image courtesy of SEMAS.

Brazil prosecutors dispute $175m Amazon Rainforest carbon credit deal

Shanna Hanbury 29 Apr 2025
Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae).

‘We belong to one ocean’: Indigenous leaders push for seat at the table of high seas biodiversity treaty

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 29 Apr 2025
Why are the British flooding parts of their coast? Once farmland protected by flood defenses, Steart Marshes in southwest England now thrives as a restored salt marsh. As the defences weakened, the land became increasingly vulnerable to flooding. Instead of rebuilding defenses, conservationists, the government and local communities made a bold choice to let the sea reclaim the landscape. Just over 10 years ago the sea wall was breached, allowing the sea to take over the land, transforming the area into a vital wetland habitat. Salt marshes, which have declined by 85% in the U.K. since the 19th century, play a crucial role in coastal ecosystems. They provide shelter for wetland wildlife, act as natural flood defenses by absorbing storm surges, stabilize coastlines against erosion, and store carbon to help combat climate change. Managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Steart Marshes now provides a model for future restoration projects, proving that working with nature can protect communities while rebuilding lost habitats.

England’s flooded farmlands offer habitat, carbon storage & storm protection

Mongabay.com 29 Apr 2025
Fishers bring in their catch in Tran Vinh Nghia, Vietnam, in 2010. Image courtesy of United Nations Development Programme via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Southeast Asia’s fisheries thrive despite decades of overfishing warnings: Study

Keith Anthony Fabro 29 Apr 2025

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