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All I want for Christmas… a wildlife researcher’s holiday wish list

Glenn Scherer 20 Dec 2016

Karen people call for a peace park instead of big hydropower in their homeland

Demelza Stokes 14 Dec 2016

Vanishing point: Bumblebee bat is world’s smallest; it’s also at risk

Jeremy Hance 13 Dec 2016

Home for the holidays: Chimp exits war-torn Iraq, lands in Kenya

Geoffrey Kamadi 12 Dec 2016

Brazil’s dispossessed: Belo Monte dam ruinous for indigenous cultures

Zoe Sullivan 8 Dec 2016

The media megaphone: does it help curb bad infrastructure projects?

Daniel Pye, Alice Cuddy 7 Dec 2016

‘My spirit is there’: life in the shadow of the Mong Ton dam

Demelza Stokes 7 Dec 2016

From loathed to loved: Villagers rally to save Greater Adjutant stork

Diane Toomey 6 Dec 2016

Fire on the Salween: Dams in conflict zones could threaten Myanmar’s fragile peace process

Demelza Stokes 1 Dec 2016

Brazil: deforestation in the Amazon increased 29% over last year

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Nov 2016

A dam shame: the plight of the Mekong giant catfish

Claire Asher 30 Nov 2016

Top scientists: Amazon’s Tapajós Dam Complex “a crisis in the making”

Claire Salisbury 28 Nov 2016

Damming the Salween: what next for Southeast Asia’s last great free-flowing river?

Demelza Stokes 23 Nov 2016

Silent soldiers of the extreme, or why I’m glad I’m not a wild yak

Joel Berger 22 Nov 2016
Kahuzi-Biega National Park rangers stand in formation at the park in October, 2016. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

Protecting gorillas at all costs: park rangers of the Congo

Thomas Nicolon 20 Nov 2016

Where have all the lutungs gone? Mystery monkeys fast disappearing

William H. Funk 18 Nov 2016

Trump vows Paris Agreement pull out; world unites behind green economy

Justin Catanoso 17 Nov 2016

Trump election leaves COP22 climate delegates aghast, shaken but firm

Justin Catanoso 11 Nov 2016

Endangered species database ‘outdated’, underestimates risk of extinction: new study

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Nov 2016

From Ohio to Indonesia: captive-bred Sumatran rhinos may be the species’ only hope for a future

Linda Lombardi 8 Nov 2016

Asia races to save the Critically Endangered helmeted hornbill

Roz Evans 7 Nov 2016

From Indonesia to Ohio: the struggle to breed Sumatran rhinos in captivity

Linda Lombardi 3 Nov 2016

Nations come together to save Kenya’s disappearing coastal forests

Sophie Mbugua 3 Nov 2016
Wood workers at a shop in Mandalay, Myanmar. Many shops use illegally-sourced wood. Photo by David Doyle

Myanmar’s logging ban feeds shadow economy of illegal trade

David Doyle 1 Nov 2016

Mongabay Newscast episode 4: Inside scoop on new Netflix documentary “The Ivory Game;” orangutan habitat under threat in Indonesia

Mike Gaworecki 1 Nov 2016

Thirst for coltan, gold threatens Venezuelan forests, indigenous lands

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 31 Oct 2016

Could REDD help save an embattled forest in Cambodia?

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Oct 2016

Environmentalists squirm as Jokowi eyes Lake Toba tourism bonanza

Aria Danaparamita 19 Oct 2016

A plan to save the Mekong Delta

David E. Brown 18 Oct 2016

Asian elephant herds lack clear matriarchs, strict hierarchies: new study

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Oct 2016
The binturong or bearcat (Arctictis binturong). Photographed in Cambodia by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

What is a binturong?

Carly Nairn 13 Oct 2016

Mother Nature and a hydropower onslaught aren’t the Mekong Delta’s only problems

David E. Brown 13 Oct 2016

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