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A zookeeper feeds a Sarus Crane bird at the Central Zoo in Lalitpur, Nepal

Delays, biosecurity failures worsened flu outbreak at Nepal zoo, probe finds

Deepak Adhikari 12 Aug 2026
Harisyah measures the distance between mangrove planting holes. Photo by Suryadi, Mongabay Indonesia.

On fragile Sumatran peatland, a farmer fights to bring back lost mangroves

Suryadi 12 Aug 2026
Preparing to enter an Ebola treatment unit during the 2014 outbreak. Image by Athalia Christie via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

As DRC confronts largest Ebola outbreak, health agencies revise strategy

Mongabay.org 12 Aug 2026

Bolsonaro’s easing of gun control fueled illegal hunting, study indicates

Adele Santelli 12 Aug 2026
Cape Three Points, Ghana. Image courtesy of Hεn Mpoano.

Illegal mining threatens Ghana’s first marine protected area

Mabel Adorkor Annang 12 Aug 2026
Aerial photograph of the nickel processing facilities in Morowali.

Nickel expansion puts Indonesia’s biodiversity goals under pressure, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Aug 2026
George Bowey in an illegal cacao farm in the proposed Kwa National Park. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Cacao plantations in Liberia encroach into proposed Kwa national park

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2026
forest elephants in Gabon. Image © Lucy Keith-Diagne via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0).

World Elephant Day: How these giants are adapting to a changing world

David Brown 12 Aug 2026

In India, sacred groves serve as vital nurseries for future forests

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2026
African savannah elephants, the biggest land animals on the planet, are socially advanced and highly intelligent mammals. Image by O’Connell’s & Rodwell.

On ivory, follow the trafficking networks and not the headlines (commentary)

Mary Rice 11 Aug 2026
Rokar Koang Commune, Kandal Province (Cambodia). Sand mining barges extract sand from the Mekong, May 2022.

Cambodia’s banned sand trade with Singapore appears to be back

Andy Ball 11 Aug 2026

Forest fires likely to continue to burn twice as much without ‘serious action’ on climate change

Mike DiGirolamo 11 Aug 2026

Key Amazon cases reach Brazil’s Supreme Court following Lula’s defeats in Congress

Associated Press 11 Aug 2026
Ntoiye Kimorgo, a Maasai traditional healer and member of the Paran-affiliated Naretoi Group

Meet the Indigenous women restoring Kenya’s Mau Forest — and reshaping gender roles

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 11 Aug 2026
Whale slaughtering in Hvalfjörður, Iceland, July 2009. Image by Dagur Brynjólfsson via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Iceland to deport antiwhaling protest ship’s crew after they interfered with whale hunt

Alex Megerle 11 Aug 2026
Crows, in particular, have found themselves in the crosshairs of late.

As Singapore culls ‘nuisance’ birds, rapid urbanization continues to fuel an avian boom

Robin Hicks 11 Aug 2026

Forest Restoration Solutions

11 Aug 2026
An ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) photographed in the Encontro das Águas State Park, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Image by Giles Laurent on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Brazil’s wildcats face multiple diseases due to habitat fragmentation

Lucas Berti 11 Aug 2026
Adam Falk at Jahoo Gibbon Camp within Keo Seima Sanctuary in Cambodia. Photo courtesy of WCS.

What conservation looks like from the outside: A conversation with Adam Falk after his first year as CEO of WCS

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Aug 2026
A capped langur

New ropeways aim to save wildlife in Bangladesh’s fragmented habitats

Sadiqur Rahman 11 Aug 2026
Chimpanzees at Tacugama

What makes chimpanzee conservation last? Lessons from Sierra Leone

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Aug 2026

Wildfire ravages Indonesia’s Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park

Naina Rao 11 Aug 2026

Uzbekistan’s houbara releases serve hunting, not conservation, expert says

Naina Rao 11 Aug 2026
Artisanal fishers at Cocobeach, Gabon. Photo by Ralph Messi on Unsplash.

Gabon ends fisheries partnership agreement with EU

Victoria Schneider 10 Aug 2026
Umit, an adult female Amur tiger, recently released into Ile-Balkhash State Nature Reserve in southeastern Kazakhstan. Image courtesy of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources.

Kazakhstan releases first tiger into the wild in 70 years

Yenni Kwok 10 Aug 2026

In Amazon rivers, fish breathe and ingest plastics

Tiago da Mota e Silva 10 Aug 2026
A group of cow elk traverses an active mine site as they move between forest patches. Image courtesy of Brittany L. Slabach.

Wildlife in the eastern US are making a comeback

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Aug 2026

Climate change doubled likelihood of Canada’s extreme fire weather, study finds

Naina Rao 10 Aug 2026
A lion in Zambia.

World Lion Day: The communities living with lions

Mongabay.com 10 Aug 2026
Mariano Cenamo. Photo by Renato Stockler / Folha Press

Mariano Cenamo, advocate for a sustainable Amazon bioeconomy, has died, aged 46

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Aug 2026
Indigenous representatives interviewed by Mongabay. Illustration by Nadiyah Suyatna.

‘This is what’s working’: Indigenous leaders on environment solutions in their communities

Latoya Abulu 9 Aug 2026
Mist rising from the Amazon rainforest in July 2026. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

Amazon deforestation alerts fall to lowest level since 2013, Brazilian data show

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Aug 2026

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