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Deforestation from cattle ranching also hurts rivers in Nicaragua, study says

Maxwell Radwin 22 Oct 2021

Guatemala tightens cattle ranching rules, but can they stop deforestation?

Maxwell Radwin 15 Oct 2021
Ivindo River in Gabon. The Congo Basin has been identified as a strategic priority region for support by the Bezos Earth Fund. Photo credit: ZB / Mongabay

Bezos, Bloomberg among donors committing $5b to protect biodiversity

Maxwell Radwin 24 Sep 2021
Western spotted skunk (Spilogale gracilis). Image by Robby Heischman courtesy of the Field Museum.

Pepé Le New: Meet the acrobatic spotted skunks of North America

Liz Kimbrough 15 Sep 2021
Wildlife rangers in Cambodia, Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

As COP15 approaches, ’30 by 30’ becomes a conservation battleground

Ashoka Mukpo 26 Aug 2021

In Sierra Leone, two colorful land crabs rediscovered, two new species found

Liz Kimbrough 30 Jul 2021
Tourists in South Africa's Kruger National Park photograph wildlife. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

Private investors look to high-end tourism to fund conservation in Mozambique

Marlowe Starling 24 Jun 2021

As U.K. eyes new environmental rules, some firms want to pump the brakes

Ashoka Mukpo 9 Jun 2021

Lean times leave orangutans wasting away. Habitat loss makes things worse

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 May 2021
Neotropical river otter by Sabrina Bettoni

Chirp, chuckle and growl: Neotropical river otters call out to communicate

Liz Kimbrough 26 May 2021

In the Honduran Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, an illegal road for cattle and drugs

Ashoka Mukpo 13 May 2021

JBS, other Brazil meatpackers linked to devastating Pantanal fires, Greenpeace says

Ashoka Mukpo 17 Mar 2021

More meat and playtime can calm your killer kitty

Liz Kimbrough 15 Feb 2021

As nature declines, so does human quality of life, study finds

Ashoka Mukpo 9 Feb 2021

Current protected areas not enough to save parrots from extinction: Study

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jan 2021

Planned coal-trucking road threatens a forest haven for Sumatran frogs

Elviza Diana, Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Jan 2021

Nigeria emerges as Africa’s primary export hub for ivory, pangolin scales

Ashoka Mukpo 21 Jan 2021

Six rangers killed in deadly militia attack in DRC’s Virunga National Park

Ashoka Mukpo 11 Jan 2021

Historical data point to ‘imminent extinction’ of Tapanuli orangutan

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jan 2021

Top 15 species discoveries from 2020 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 28 Dec 2020
A village near a community forest in River Cess County, Liberia, 2016. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Liberia gave villagers control over their forests. Then a mining company showed up

Ashoka Mukpo, James Giahyue 22 Dec 2020

No endangered listing for monarch butterflies as western count hits alarming low

Liz Kimbrough 16 Dec 2020
Pit Viper in striking mode. The 'mountain fer-de-lance' is a new species of pit viper that was discovered on the Zongo RAP survey. It has since been described as Bothrops monsignifer. Bothrops is a genus of pit vipers endemic to Central and South America. The generic name, Bothrops, is derived from the Greek words βόθρος, bothros, meaning "pit", and ώπς, ops, meaning "eye" or "face", together an allusion to the heat-sensitive loreal pit organs.

[Photos] Tiny frog, venomous viper among 20 new species described in Bolivia

Liz Kimbrough 14 Dec 2020
Park rangers on patrol in Garamba National Park in DRC earlier this month. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

Report: WWF knew about rights abuses by park rangers, but didn’t respond effectively

Ashoka Mukpo 8 Dec 2020

Conserve freshwater or land biodiversity? Why not both, new study asks

Claire Asher 16 Nov 2020

Road-paving project threatens a wildlife-rich reserve in Indonesia’s Papua

Asrida Elisabeth 11 Nov 2020
Banner image of a caribou calf in the archive study area by Karsten Heuer.

A warming Arctic is changing animal migrations, decades of tracking shows

Liz Kimbrough 9 Nov 2020
Peregrines falcon in Peru. Photo by Miguel Moran.

‘Godfather of Peruvian falcons’ uncovers peregrine’s epic journey from the Arctic

Liz Kimbrough 27 Oct 2020
An adult male Loris showing its teeth. Photo by by Andrew Walmsley courtesy of the Little Fireface Project.

Armed and dangerous, ‘murder lorises’ use their venom against each other

Liz Kimbrough 19 Oct 2020

Deforestation threatens to wipe out a primate melting pot in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Oct 2020
La Danta, as photographed from a helicopter. Photo by Dennis Jarvis/Flickr.

In Guatemala, refugees find new calling as park rangers

Antonio José Paz Cardona, Ashoka Mukpo 16 Oct 2020
Shark fins and Totoaba fish bladders seized by U.S. federal authorities in raids during Operation Apex. Image by U.S. Department of Justice.

Shark fin trafficking ring busted as trade ban comes into effect in Florida

Ashoka Mukpo 28 Sep 2020

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