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Andean condor flying

Artificial incubation gives Colombia’s threatened Andean condor a new lifeline

Christina Noriega 2 Dec 2025

State-NGO collaboration expands protection for Patagonia’s biodiversity hotspot

Mark Hillsdon 16 Oct 2025

In Panama, poison dart frog move brings hope amid amphibians’ fight with fungus

Sam Meadows 8 Oct 2025

Data debunks spike in Sri Lanka’s elephant killings, points at media hype

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Aug 2025
Jaguars still roam the Chaco, but they require large tracts of contiguous forest to survive and reproduce. As forest is destroyed, fewer of these intact landscapes exist. Photo by Eduardo Merille via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Fences, tech and trust help save jaguars in Panama’s Darién

Marlowe Starling 12 Aug 2025
bird Colombia

In Colombia, bird-watching brings tourism and a love for conservation

Charlie Cordero 23 Jun 2025
mangrove conservation

Colombia’s women clam collectors protect Pacific mangroves and mollusks

Catherine Ellis 1 Apr 2025

Birdwatchers rally behind endemic hummingbird, spurring conservation movement in Mexico

Tamara Blazquez Haik 23 Jan 2025
Mist rising from the Amazon rainforest at dawn. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Latin America in 2024: politics, turmoil and hope

Alexandra Popescu 3 Jan 2025

In Colombia, a simple fencing fix offers a win-win for wildlife and ranchers

Marlowe Starling 28 Nov 2024

Study: REDD+ doesn’t work without Indigenous peoples, but fails to engage them

Sarah Brown 24 Oct 2024

To save endangered trees, researchers in South America recruit an army of fungi

Sofia Moutinho 12 Sep 2024

In Venezuela, natural regeneration helps restore a threatened cloud forest

María Fernanda Rodríguez 10 Sep 2024
Pastoralists in Somalia

To protect the planet’s rangelands, give pastoralists a boost, UN report says

Ashoka Mukpo 5 Jul 2024
Significant deforestation was linked to the Lower Russei Chrum dam, which has been operational in Koh Kong province since 2015. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Hydropower dams further undermine REDD+ efforts in Cambodia

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 28 Jun 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
An anchored trawler offloads its catch to a smaller boat within the Koh Rong Marine National Park. Screenshot from ‘Illegal fishing and land grabs push Cambodian coastal communities to the brink’ by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Efforts to save Cambodia’s coast tread water as fish stocks plummet

Andy Ball, Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 12 Jun 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

Rewilding in Argentina helps giant anteaters return to south Brazil

Sarah Brown 12 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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