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Across Mexico, World Cup infrastructure threatens biodiversity and communities

Alice Pistolesi, Monica Pelliccia 2 Jul 2024
The sprawling Stung Meteuk hydropower dam being developed in the Cardamom Mountains appears to be illegally logging within Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

History repeats as logging linked to Cambodian hydropower dam in Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn & Vutha Srey 27 Jun 2024

Elon Musk could avert global species extinction with only a portion of his wealth

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jun 2024

Peru puts endemic fog oasis under protection

Dan Collyns 19 Jun 2024

Conservationists upbeat as zebra shark reintroduction in Raja Ampat gathers pace

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Jun 2024

In Brazil, conservationists try to save one of the world’s most endangered cats

Sarah Brown 13 Jun 2024
Amazon rainforest. Credit: Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

Emissions from loss of plant diversity spells massive climate trouble: Study

Liz Kimbrough 5 Jun 2024

Amazon deforestation threatens one of Brazil’s key pollinators, study shows

Molly Herring 5 Jun 2024

Rewilding efforts throw a lifeline to Brazil’s most trafficked endangered bird

James Hall 30 May 2024

Fishers decry ‘underhanded’ new initiative to protect Mexico’s vaquita

Daniel Shailer 24 May 2024

New study says conservation works, providing hope for biodiversity efforts

Liz Kimbrough 1 May 2024

Meet the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 29 Apr 2024
Silvia Vetancourt holds out a coin purse she is crocheting from cabuya fiber on the path to Plaza Gutierrez, Ecuador. Photo by Liz Kimbrough.

Women weave a culture of resistance and agroecology in Ecuador’s Intag Valley

Liz Kimbrough 25 Apr 2024
Two male proboscis monkeys in Malaysian Borneo.

Indonesian capital project finally gets guidelines to avoid harm to biodiversity

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Apr 2024

One of Colombia’s largest estuary ecosystems is drying up, communities warn

Austin Landis 10 Apr 2024
wetland

Costa Rican community struggles to stop an airport ‘destroying our country’

Alice Pistolesi, Monica Pelliccia 8 Apr 2024

How to ‘stop mining before it starts’: Interview with community organizer Carlos Zorrilla

Liz Kimbrough 4 Apr 2024
jaguar cub

Jaguar release offers a lifeline to Gran Chaco’s lonely big cats

Sarah Brown 27 Mar 2024
Amazon river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis). Image courtesy of WWF Sweden.

Ancient giant river dolphin species found in the Peruvian Amazon

Liz Kimbrough 20 Mar 2024
Manu Road Peru

Road paving in a Peruvian bird paradise threatens wildlife and ecotourism

Erik Iverson 19 Mar 2024

Palm oil deforestation persists in Indonesia’s Leuser amid new mills, plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Mar 2024

Norway pension fund breaks with U.K. conglomerate Jardines over endangered orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Mar 2024

Indonesian gold mine expanding in ‘wrong direction’ into orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Mar 2024

Biological field stations deliver high return on investment for conservation, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 6 Mar 2024

Giant anaconda species found on Waorani Indigenous land in Ecuador

Liz Kimbrough 28 Feb 2024
De Winton's Golden Mole, a blind mole that lives beneath the sand and has sensitive hearing that can detect vibrations from movement above the surface. (Photo by JP Le Roux)

We’re losing species faster than we can find them, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 27 Feb 2024

Colombia adds hundreds of species to list of threatened flora and fauna

Maxwell Radwin 22 Feb 2024
ecuador infrastructure

Road project promising access to Indigenous Waorani is ushering in deforestation

Aimee Gabay 19 Feb 2024

Like a moth to a flame: Science finally explains why insects flock to artificial lights

Liz Kimbrough 5 Feb 2024

Bid to mitigate gold mine’s impact on orangutans hit by stonewalling, data secrecy

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Feb 2024

Cambodia sea turtle nests spark hope amid coastal development & species decline

Gerald Flynn 1 Feb 2024
Salmon being traditionally baked by Council Member Jaytuk Steinruck of the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation.

First ever U.S. Indigenous Marine Stewardship Area declared in California

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jan 2024

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