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The Pujada Nickel Mining Project leaves an open-wide brown pit, sandwiched between the Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary and Pujada Bay.

Nickel mining damage near UNESCO site stirs outrage in southern Philippines

Bong S. Sarmiento 23 Oct 2025

Negro River study finds genetic damage in fish after oil spill

Tiago da Mota e Silva 20 Oct 2025
Flowing from Myanmar into Thailand, the Kok River carries toxic runoff from rare earth mines into Chiang Mai province. Image supplied by Brian Eyler.

More Thai rivers and downstream communities at risk from Myanmar’s rare earth mines

Mongabay 20 Oct 2025

A closer look at Peru’s Amazon reveals new mining trends, deforestation

Max Radwin 17 Oct 2025
Illustration by Sara Arredondo – Baudó Agencia Pública.

Indigenous monitoring project helps protect isolated peoples in Colombia’s Amazon

Pilar Puentes 16 Oct 2025
An elk in the Rocky Mountains, where the headwaters of the Colorado River lie. Image courtesy of Fin and Fur Films.

‘We can have abundant rivers and wildlife’: Director of ‘The American Southwest’ on new film

John Cannon 15 Oct 2025
Kolkata was waterlogged after a sudden intense downpour on Sept. 23. Image by Dipanwita Saha.

Climate change and aging drains wreak havoc on Kolkata, India

Mongabay.com 13 Oct 2025

Cameroon inaugurates controversial dam despite local dissent

Yannick Kenné 10 Oct 2025
A fisher mends his net at Yettinahalla.

Turning a stream into a river: Inside India’s Yettinaholé diversion project

Shradha Triveni 2 Oct 2025
Drone shot of a mining site in Myanmar.

Satellite data show burst of deforestation in Myanmar rare earth mining hotspots

Latoya Abulu, Sonam Lama Hyolmo 16 Sep 2025
Giant South American river turtles nesting on a sandbank in the Amazon’s Guaporé River. Image courtesy of Omar Torrico/Wildlife Conservation Society.

Largest turtle nest in the world revealed in drone study

Shanna Hanbury 11 Sep 2025

Scientists are breeding rare and endangered animals in China’s longest river

Associated Press 11 Sep 2025

In Brazil’s Pantanal, too many tourists may be the jaguar’s new predator

Francesco Schneider-Eicke 8 Sep 2025

Kafue River Transect

Ryan Truscott 30 Aug 2025
A 1.72-meter (5.6-foot), 102-kilogram (225-pound) Mekong giant barb caught in Tonle Sap Lake in December, 2002.

Shrinking Mekong megafish underlines risks to the river, study finds

Anton L. Delgado 26 Aug 2025
Prayer flags in Mustang.

Escalation in tourism, climate change leaves Nepal’s Mustang in fragile state

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Aug 2025
Magar people stage protest against the Tanahun Hydropower project. Image by Sanjog Laapaa Magar, INWOLAG.

Development banks under fire for backing disputed Nepal hydropower project

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 22 Aug 2025
Wild elephants drinking from a stream near Bardiya National Park in Nepal. Image courtesy of Bardiya National Park.

In western Nepal, farmers switch to growing turmeric; elephants stay away

Deepak Adhikari 13 Aug 2025
A fisher casts a small fishing net to catch fish for his family outside Phnom Penh, 2024.

Displaced and dispossessed, Cambodia’s ethnic Cham fishers struggle to survive

Daniel Zak, Vutha Srey 7 Aug 2025
The sun rises on the Salween River, which serves as a vital lifeline for Karen communities on both sides of the Thai-Myanmar border. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Asia’s longest free-flowing river faces threats of dams and diversions

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2025
AnIndian pitta (Pitta brachyura)

Can rainwater-fed ponds revive Bangladesh’s hilly streams?

Sadiqur Rahman 1 Aug 2025

Sacred sites & cultural practices key to Indonesia fish conservation: Study

Basten Gokkon 23 Jul 2025

Africa’s freshwater fish face a crisis — but solutions are within reach

David Akana 21 Jul 2025
The Wilderness Project team stops to conduct research on the island, surrounded by the waterberry trees’ fluted trunks.

Bicolored waterberry: The overlooked tree shaping Zambia’s rivers

Ryan Truscott 16 Jul 2025
While navigating the Kafue River inside the national park, the team regularly pauses to deliberate on the best route to take around hippos that block their way.

River of giants: Canoe team tracks hippos in one of Africa’s last strongholds

Ryan Truscott 15 Jul 2025

Native American teens kayak major US river to celebrate removal of dams and return of salmon

Associated Press 15 Jul 2025
A Eurasian otter captured by a camera trap in Tangkulap Forest Reserve in Sabah. Image courtesy of Sabah Forestry Department/Sabah Wildlife Department/Panthera.

‘Hopeful sign’ as Eurasian otter reappears in Malaysia after a decade

Spoorthy Raman 15 Jul 2025
A herd of elephants gathers to drink beside the river several kilometers below Hook Bridge, on the main highway running through the middle of the park. Reid says elephants that had very specific distributions previously are now moving more freely through the park.

Wildlife & tourists on the up in Zambia’s Kafue Park: Q&A with manager Craig Reid

Ryan Truscott 15 Jul 2025
Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha).

Canada’s Pacific Coast hit hard by trawling, with limited transparency: Report

Edward Carver 14 Jul 2025
Expedition leader Mike Ross and boat captain Dominic Mwahamubi ease their canoe down rapids along the Kafue River.

‘Croc on a rock’: How a group of explorers suffers for science

Ryan Truscott 14 Jul 2025
A leopard caught on a camera trap in the Musekese Lumbeya section of Kafue National Park, where Musekese Conservation conducts its research into recovering carnivore populations.

A success story at Zambia’s leopard hotspot: Interview with ecologist Chisomo M’hango

Ryan Truscott 14 Jul 2025
Team makes their way down the center of the river in a canoe.

From cattle to crayfish, human pressures mount on Zambia’s Kafue River

Ryan Truscott 11 Jul 2025

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