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Sitesh Ranjan Deb at his facility. Image via Agence France-Presse (AFP)

Sitesh Ranjan Deb turned a hunter’s knowledge to saving wildlife

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Jul 2026
An adult cheetah spotted at a monitoring site in Limpopo Province. In the background is a still closed trap cage, which was placed there during the census to capture cheetahs for collaring. Image courtesy of the Ashia Cheetah Conservation.

South Africa’s free-roaming cheetahs in steep decline, first national census finds

Victoria Schneider 15 Jul 2026

In India’s Western Ghats, sacred groves are better at growing future forests

Liz Kimbrough 15 Jul 2026

Deep sea mining identified as biggest threat to known and unknown deep-sea creatures

Victoria Schneider 15 Jul 2026
Raja Ampat

Warming world could push Southeast Asia forests toward thermal limits, new study

Carolyn Cowan 15 Jul 2026
Screen shot documentary: Sound Guardians

Mongabay, Scientific American, and Project Multatuli release a documentary on Indonesia’s new capital

Leah Varjacques, Rizky Rahad, Sandy Watt 15 Jul 2026
Drone capturing a raptor in flight over the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

How Brazil’s federal fiscal policy hinders Amazon Rainforest conservation (commentary)

João Gabriel de Araujo Oliveira 15 Jul 2026

Wildfires expose millions in the Midwest and Northeast US to dangerous smoke

Associated Press 15 Jul 2026
Polar bear mother with two cubs on a snowy sandbank in northern Alaska.

‘Bear-dar’ aims to give Arctic communities a heads-up on nearby polar bears

Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 Jul 2026

How a spiritual practice is preserving Benin’s mangroves

Mongabay.com 15 Jul 2026
Bill Montevecchi. Photo courtesy of the Pacific Seabirds Group which honored Montevecchi with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021.

Bill Montevecchi showed what seabirds could tell us about the sea

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Jul 2026
Investigators with Agent C Wildlife Initiative documented a baby pangolin available for sale in Vientiane's Dongmakkhay Market. Pangolins are repeatedly sold for their meat, scales and sometimes for making wine. Image supplied by Agent C Wildlife Initiative.

Laos’s illegal wildlife shops keep growing despite enforcement, investigators find

Gerald Flynn 15 Jul 2026
Mediterranean coast.

The unsung biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea needs urgent protection

Mike DiGirolamo 15 Jul 2026

Rising seas, garbage and heat threaten Brazil’s migratory shorebirds 

Sibélia Zanon 14 Jul 2026

The US government says habitat destruction no longer counts as ‘harm’ to endangered species

Bobby Bascomb 14 Jul 2026
Through the Mazingira Women Initiative, Hamida has spent those years organizing around waste management, smart farming, land rights and women’s leadership.

Waste, women & environmental justice: Interview with Nubian activist Malasen Hamida

Ouma Elvine Tina 14 Jul 2026

Trump reduces size of 2 national monuments in Utah as Republicans reshape land management

Associated Press 14 Jul 2026
Gus Mills with a cheetah. Sourced via the Endangered Wildlife Trust

Gus Mills, hyena expert and ‘the cheerful pessimist of the Kalahari’, has died

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Jul 2026

Celebrating World Chimpanzee Day

David Brown 14 Jul 2026
A harpy eagle (*Harpia harpyja*) in Venezuela. Image by Brendan Ryan via ~[Flickr](https://flickr.com/photos/brendan2010/25545049372/in/photolist-EVk4cJ-2omPVLY-2omKZNX-2j4htaw-25LAZVU-nGJGkV-2i25QFe-nYV7zz-2hXj7fq-2omPUYa-2ifbfxX-EVk7tJ-NsQZkV-2ft3wTo-2mqFK8D-7q7A5f-6MkcdD-4EDwkg-4EDxCk-2ioaVzM-4EHFb3-2i8ipxw-4EHGus-mu43Z-4EDz1P-4EHHLf-Mi1zDK-2kmdHQq-4ZkfDk-2km9jzr-4NNc4Z-WF9ysM-27hseZV-FkGRf9-4EHLfW-wAhdDn-Uvi249-hCNU3s-F6NZBe-2ige2fH-F6NPLH-piAioa-E96hfC-N5S2jy-F4uGv9-N5S23S-N5S2Tu-N5S2rC-F6NUy8-E96mpu)~ (~[CC BY-NC-SA 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en)~).

Research offers nature-positive path to end and reverse biodiversity loss

John Cannon 14 Jul 2026
A woman transports a catch of fish from a landing site in coastal Kenya to market. Image by Festo Lumwe/WorldFish.

Why Africa should link nutritional data with fisheries management (commentary)

Essam Yassin Mohammed 14 Jul 2026
Kent Carpenter. Image via Old Dominion University

Kent Carpenter spent half a century counting the life of Philippine reefs

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 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

Ecuador’s Amazon coffee farmers get ahead of Europe’s deforestation rules

Sibélia Zanon 14 Jul 2026

Small-scale farming, logging eclipse megaprojects as top threats to Tapanuli orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Jul 2026

Humans’ relationship with nature: Interview with ethnobotanist Pavel Partha

Usraat Fahmidah 13 Jul 2026
Mamá Conchita in her chagra with her dogs.

Women Defenders of the Colombian Amazon

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 13 Jul 2026
A Malaysian field assistant cutting lianas with a machete at the Sabah Biodiversity Experiment. Killing lianas by cutting boosts tree growth and lowers tree mortality, the study found. Image courtesy of Gianluca Cerullo.

Cutting back vines lets recovering forests grow faster, Borneo study shows

Ruth Kamnitzer 13 Jul 2026

China’s ‘Green Great Wall’ tames desert growth, but scientists warn the fight is not over

Associated Press 13 Jul 2026
A Chile-run anti-drug operation seized 108 tons of controlled substances impregnated in wood planks from sawmill trees sourced in the Bolivian Amazon and other regions. Image courtesy of APG Noticias.

How narcos moved 108 tons of timber infused with drugs from Bolivia to Chile

Iván Paredes Tamayo 13 Jul 2026
A rhesus macaque eats an orange in Kathmandu. Image by Rachid H via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Monkey vs machine: Nepal tests AI to fight crop-raiding macaques

Praveen Kumar Yadav 13 Jul 2026
The Matarbari coal power plant and deep seaport.

Fossil fuel-based mega projects displace locals in Bangladesh, pushing youth out

Eyamin Sajid 13 Jul 2026

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