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A grizzled tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus inustus)

PNG’s Torricelli Mountains teem with life — and the risk of extinction

John Cannon 31 Mar 2025
A Hooded Pitohui (Pitohui dichrous) from Papua New Guinea.

Indonesia’s voracious songbird trade laps up rare and poisonous pitohuis

Spoorthy Raman 10 Jan 2025
Mammalogists often use ear tags to identify individuals in their research. But Echidnas do not have external ears to attach a tag. Opiang used color-coded plastic tubing, glued to spines to identify individuals (visible on the right forelimb). Quiet, rare, nocturnal, hard-to-tag and found in remotest parts of New Guinea, field study of echidnas presents tremendous challenges. Photo by Muse Opiang

With rare mammal tourism, observing means conserving (commentary)

Charles Foley and Jon Hall 1 Nov 2024
oriental pied hornbill

New database unveils the role of Asian hornbills as forest seed dispersers

Carolyn Cowan 15 May 2024
A flame bowerbird (Sericulus ardens) in PNG.

Conservationists welcome new PNG Protected Areas Act — but questions remain

Spoorthy Raman 12 Apr 2024
Informal logging road

Unseen and unregulated: ‘Ghost’ roads carve up Asia-Pacific tropical forests

Carolyn Cowan 11 Apr 2024

In Raja Ampat, pearl farming balances business and ecological sustainability

Basten Gokkon 22 Mar 2024

Can ecotourism protect Raja Ampat, the ‘Crown Jewel’ of New Guinea?

Mike DiGirolamo 20 Feb 2024

Indonesia invites Turkish investors to develop tuna farms in Papua

Basten Gokkon 30 Jan 2024

In PNG, researchers record 9 new species of predatory hermaphroditic land snails

Spoorthy Raman 24 Jan 2024
The Victoria crowned pigeon (Goura victoria) is the largest living pigeon species on the planet. Image by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Logging, road construction continue to fuel forest loss in Papua New Guinea

Spoorthy Raman 30 Nov 2023

Collaboration key to rediscovery of egg-laying mammal in Papua’s Cyclops Mountains

Basten Gokkon 28 Nov 2023
The endangered pig-nosed turtle, also known as the Fly River turtle, lives in northern Australian and southern New Guinea, including in the area Medco is operating in. Image by Jin Kemoole/Flickr.

Report: Forest-razing biomass plant in Indonesia got millions in green funds

Philip Jacobson 2 Jun 2023
image of the Porgera copper and gold mine

Gold miner faces global protests as it rekindles a mine with a violent legacy

Ian Morse 1 May 2023
A baby tree kangaroo on a community chief's wife's shoulder.

PNG youths’ loss of tradition is bad news for hunting — but also for conservation

Spoorthy Raman 14 Apr 2023

Logging threats loom over tree kangaroo refuge in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 25 Jan 2023

Mongabay’s ‘must listen’ podcast list for 2022

Mike DiGirolamo 22 Dec 2022

New app transforms data gathering for wildlife in Papua New Guinea

Abhishyant Kidangoor 24 Nov 2022
Mbah Gimbal

In Indonesian Papua, a one-time gun trafficker now preaches permaculture

Tantowi Djauhari 30 Aug 2022

Study: Climate impacts to disproportionately hurt tropical fishers, farmers

Basten Gokkon 15 Jul 2022

Ray care center: Indonesia’s Raja Ampat a key nursery for young reef mantas

Basten Gokkon 9 Jun 2022

Fisher groups are the marine militia in Indonesia’s war on illegal fishing

Basten Gokkon 6 May 2022

Community empowerment and forest conservation grow from the galip nut in Papua New Guinea

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Apr 2022

Who owns the companies destroying rainforests in the heart of New Guinea?

Mike DiGirolamo 13 Apr 2022

Tree kangaroos may be key to New Guinea forest conservation

Mike DiGirolamo 16 Mar 2022

The Trans-Papua Highway could lose billions and deforest millions of hectares

Mike DiGirolamo 2 Mar 2022

Palm oil firm hit by mass permit revocation still clearing forest in Indonesia

Asrida Elisabeth, Philip Jacobson 22 Feb 2022

Protecting New Guinea’s forests with birds-of-paradise and ecotourism

Mike DiGirolamo 16 Feb 2022

‘Carbon cowboys’ and illegal logging

Mike DiGirolamo 1 Feb 2022

Exploring New Guinea’s extraordinary natural and cultural richness

Mike DiGirolamo 5 Jan 2022

Indonesia’s three most consequential forestry stories of 2021

Philip Jacobson 24 Dec 2021

Governor rails against ‘bioterrorists,’ ‘carbon cowboys’ destroying PNG’s forests

Rachel Donald 7 Dec 2021

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