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American Avocet. Image by Michael Barry via Pixabay (Pixabay Content License).

Bird-watching for nature connection & social justice

Mike DiGirolamo 7 Oct 2025

Mongabay founder Rhett Butler wins the Henry Shaw Award

Bobby Bascomb 7 Oct 2025

South American trade bloc orders Peru to crack down on mercury trafficking and illegal gold mining

Associated Press 7 Oct 2025
Willie Shubert in Madagascar with lemurs at a rehabilitation center. Note: visitors are not permitted to touch lemurs, but lemurs do as they please. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Building a global newsroom for a planet in crisis: A conversation with Willie Shubert

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Oct 2025
Palm civet in a wildlife farm in Dong Nai Province, Viet Nam. Image courtesy of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).

New global guidelines needed to rein in the wildlife pet trade (commentary)

Elizabeth Bennett 7 Oct 2025
Solar panels installed in a forested area in Gabon. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

EU to invest $636m in African power projects, including clean energy

Malavika Vyawahare 7 Oct 2025
Seabed after bottom trawling. Image courtesy of Howard Wood/Oceana UK.

UK rejects total ban on bottom trawling in offshore marine protected areas

Shanna Hanbury 7 Oct 2025
Banner image: A boy holds locusts he caught in Nakuru county, Kenya Wednesday, March 17, 2021. Image courtesy of AP Photo/Brian Inganga.

Fears of major locust swarms wane in the Sahel but agencies step up monitoring

Stephanie Achieng’ 7 Oct 2025
Rachaprapa Kamphud leads the Ban Pong community forest and fire management group. Image by Carolyn Cowan/Mongabay.

Women firefighters in Thailand restore community forest

Mongabay.com 7 Oct 2025

Indonesia eyes seagrass zoning for blue carbon; experts urge community benefits

Basten Gokkon 7 Oct 2025
Oil palm planation and native tropical rainforest on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.

RSPO sparks NGO outrage for dismissing complaint over alleged ‘shadow companies’

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Oct 2025

Whose Amazon is it?

Latoya Abulu, John Cannon 7 Oct 2025
A harvester harvesting soy in Brazil.

Brazil soy deal that curbs Amazon deforestation to be suspended in 2026

Shanna Hanbury 6 Oct 2025
A worker of a sustainable solutions company performs maintenance work on a solar panel on a roof on the island of Sumba in Indonesia.

With red tape, canceled rebates, Indonesia risks missing Chinese renewables investment

Jeff Hutton 6 Oct 2025
Amadiba Crisis Committee Protest at Mzamba Beach. Image courtesy of the Amadiba Crisis Committee.

Indigenous consent isn’t a ‘box-ticking’ exercise: Voices from the land (commentary)

Sinegugu Zukulu 6 Oct 2025
Newly described B. kanadii growing on a fir tree in a forest in Arunachal Pradesh in northeast India. Image courtesy of Arvind Parihar.

Massive fungus from India is newly described species

Mongabay.com 6 Oct 2025
In just a few months, Global Green have cleared vast swathes of forest in Prey Lang, opening the northern section of the wildlife sanctuary up to more potential deforestation. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024

Gerald Flynn 6 Oct 2025
Tony Pritzker speaking at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES) gala. Courtesy of IoES.

Tony Pritzker’s patient strategy for the planet

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Oct 2025
Jane Goodall in Japan in June 2023. Photo taken by Kaori Nishida

Jane Goodall quotes: Words from a reluctant global icon 

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Oct 2025

Removing rats helps revive forests, birds & coral in the Marshall Islands

Bobby Bascomb 3 Oct 2025
Koala in captivity. Image by Till Niermann.

Australia to create a national park for 12,000 koalas

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Oct 2025

Impacts of US government shutdown on the EPA

Associated Press 3 Oct 2025
A giant dust storm approaches the metro area of Phoenix, Arizona, Aug. 25, 2025.

Climate change is messing with global wind speeds, impacting planetary health

Sean Mowbray 3 Oct 2025
Deforestation for gold mining in Suriname.

In the Guyana Shield, the fight against deforestation is not ambitious enough

Timothy J. Killeen 3 Oct 2025
A herd of wildebeests.

Scientists rethink Serengeti migration numbers with satellite, AI tools

Abhishyant Kidangoor 3 Oct 2025
A young Taita falcon in South Africa. Image courtesy of Anthony van Zyl.

Mozambique reserve found to host rare Taita falcon’s largest refuge

Mongabay.com 3 Oct 2025
The Philippine eagle is being pushed to the brink of extinction due to deforestation and unsustainable hunting.

Study warns up to a quarter of Philippine vertebrates risk extinction

Keith Anthony Fabro 2 Oct 2025
Cultivated meat taco produced by Ivy Farm. Photo courtesy of Ivy Farm

Protein for a crowded planet: An interview with the Good Food Institute’s Nigel Sizer

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Oct 2025
A fisher mends his net at Yettinahalla.

Turning a stream into a river: Inside India’s Yettinaholé diversion project

Shradha Triveni 2 Oct 2025
A Bali starling sings with its beak wide open

Indigenous-led protections spark Bali starling’s recovery in the wild

Heather Physioc 2 Oct 2025

Swiss glaciers shrank 3% this year, the fourth-biggest retreat on record

Associated Press 2 Oct 2025
A participant plants local green plants in a park as part of Ethiopia's Green Legacy Initiative, which aims to plant 7.5 billion trees by the end of the year, at Jifara Ber site, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Thursday, July 31, 2025.

There’s far less land available for reforestation than we think, study finds

Justin Catanoso 2 Oct 2025

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