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Indonesia’s militarized crackdown on illegal forest use sparks human rights concerns

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Feb 2025

After LA, fire crisis reaches Latin America — from Mexico to Argentina

Astrid Arellano 17 Feb 2025

Wave of arrests as Madagascar shuts down tortoise trafficking network

Rivonala Razafison 17 Feb 2025

Wild Targets

Mongabay.com 17 Feb 2025

Rice fields of India host valuable, but disappearing, wild edibles

Mongabay.com 17 Feb 2025

How a Philippine town is dealing with the fallout of its own popularity

Mongabay.com 17 Feb 2025
A fisherman poses with a crocodile belonging to PT Perkasa Jagat Karunia that was recaptured.

Order restored in Indonesia as fishers recapture scores of farmed crocodiles

Yogi Eka Sahputra 17 Feb 2025

China’s pangolin scale trade declines, study shows, but smuggling persists

Keith Anthony Fabro 14 Feb 2025

Climate change made LA fires more likely amid hot, dry conditions: Report

Bobby Bascomb 14 Feb 2025

Conservation education is about people too: Interview with Gabon’s Léa Moussavou

Fanta Mabo 14 Feb 2025

The culture of corruption across the Amazon Basin 

Timothy J. Killeen 14 Feb 2025

Deforestation boom in Gran Chaco raises alarm over Argentina’s forest law

Maxwell Radwin 14 Feb 2025
Women set out sprat to dry in the sun in Kigoma, Tanzania, near the shore of Lake Tanganyika.

Small-scale fishers’ role in feeding the planet goes overlooked: Study

Edward Carver 14 Feb 2025
Congolese troops in the eastern DRC during fighting with M23 in 2013. Image © MONUSCO/Clara Padovan via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

The key factors fueling conflict in eastern DRC

John Cannon 14 Feb 2025
Malir River near Damloti check dam, Karachi suburbs.

Ecology vs. development in Karachi: Interview with photographer Salman Baloch

Waqas Alam Angaria 14 Feb 2025

In the high Andes, a dream to restore a special forest takes root

Antonio José Paz Cardona 14 Feb 2025
A community ranger from the Biliqo-Bulesa Community Conservancy in northern Kenya, which receives support from the Northern Rangelands Trust, a USAID grantee. NRT’s grant was not reviewed by the GAO. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Across the world, conservation projects reel after abrupt US funding cuts

Ashoka Mukpo 14 Feb 2025

Two South American scientists win ‘environmental Nobel’ on human-nature divide

Shanna Hanbury 14 Feb 2025
Banner image of a rainforest in Borneo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Science aside, we need art & philosophy for global change: Epidemiologist

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2025

Cargill weakens Amazon no-deforestation vow, raising concerns about wider backslide

Shanna Hanbury 13 Feb 2025

Fossil fuel, plastic, and agrichemical companies coordinate social media on climate change, study finds.

Bobby Bascomb 13 Feb 2025
Eunice Paiva (L, on the sofa) and Rubens Paiva (on her left) surrounded by their children and an unknown person.

‘I’m Still Here’ Eunice Paiva’s pivotal role in Brazil’s Indigenous & environmental rights

Luiz Antônio Araujo 13 Feb 2025
Melquiades, a Brazil nut producer in the Amazon rainforest. Image by Yoly Gutierrez/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Forest communities craft recommendations for better ART TREES carbon credit standard

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 13 Feb 2025
A bottom trawler works in Dutch waters of the North Sea.

Lawsuit is latest push to curb bottom trawling in protected European waters

Edward Carver 13 Feb 2025
Tropical botanist Andrea Bianchi examines a species of Anthocleista in Ngezi Forest Reserve. Unlike the species that grows in Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains, the ones he and colleagues found in Ngezi are armed with spines, more akin to a species that grows in West Africa. Image by Ryan Truscott for Mongabay.

Forest of rare trees in Zanzibar now earmarked for ‘eco-resort’

Ryan Truscott 13 Feb 2025
Banner image of a greater mouse-eared bat, courtesy of Daniel Whitby/BatCRU.

Researchers find two individuals of UK’s ‘loneliest bat’ species

Kristine Sabillo 13 Feb 2025

‘Truffle dogs’ help sniff out two new truffle species

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Feb 2025

Massive songbird seizure highlights Indonesia’s unrelenting illegal wildlife trade

Keith Anthony Fabro 13 Feb 2025

Mammals, birds in Vietnam’s rare coastal forests revealed by camera traps

Carolyn Cowan 13 Feb 2025
Giant Rats: Wildlife crime's unexpected weapon | Wild Targets

How to train giant rats to fight wildlife trafficking?

Lucia Torres 12 Feb 2025
Dora rewards Nandera with a mixture of avocado, banana and pellets.

Meet the giant rats fighting wildlife trafficking

Lucia Torres 12 Feb 2025
A black flying fox (Pteropus alecto) feeding on a palm tree in Brisbane, Australia.

Declining biodiversity and emerging diseases are entwined, more study needed

Ruth Kamnitzer 12 Feb 2025

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