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Purus-Madeira: Amazon parks and extraordinary biodiversity at risk now

Gustavo Faleiros, Images by Marcio Isensee e Sá 17 Dec 2018
Brookesia chameleon in the rainforest of Madagascar's Masoala Peninsula. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Challenging the illegal logging regime in Madagascar (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Dec 2018

Super-spreaders: How the curious life of a newt could ignite a pandemic

Rachel Fritts 13 Dec 2018

From a new bird to a new community reserve: India’s tribe sets example

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Dec 2018
Mantis in Suriname's rainforest.

Seeing Suriname: A visit to the rainforest goes awry (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Dec 2018
Black lemur on Nosy Komba, Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

The second time couldn’t be worse than the first (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Dec 2018

‘There are no laws’: Cattle, drugs, corruption destroying Honduras UNESCO site

Taran Volckhausen 6 Dec 2018
Dongria women from Hutesi village farm the slopes of the Niyamgiri hill range. Image by Indrajeet Rajkhowa.

Photos: Indian tribe revives heirloom seeds for health and climate security

Sonali Prasad 30 Nov 2018

The secret deal to destroy paradise

Malaysiakini, Mongabay, Tempo, The Gecko Project 28 Nov 2018

Extinction by omission: Peru’s disappearing ancient shihuahuaco trees

Vanessa Romo 28 Nov 2018
Google Earth image of the Manambolo River Canyon.

The river of blood (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Nov 2018
Chocolate is wrapped in a cocoa tree leaf. Photo by Sarita Reed.

Smallholder farmers defy cocoa’s production model in Brazil

Sarita Reed, Vinícius Fontana 26 Nov 2018
Glass frog in Siquirres, Costa Rica. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Inspiration from frogs (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Nov 2018

Purus-Madeira: the Amazon arc of deforestation marches north

Gustavo Faleiros, Marcio Isensee e Sá 20 Nov 2018

The last trees of the Amazon

Nelly Luna Amancio 12 Nov 2018

Haiti may lose all primary forest by 2035, mass extinction underway

Carinya Sharples, Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Nov 2018

In the Peruvian Amazon, the prized shihuahuaco tree faces a grim future

Leslie Moreno Custodio, Ojo Público 31 Oct 2018

Will trade bans stop a deadly salamander plague from invading the US?

Jeremy Hance 30 Oct 2018

In a Colombian sanctuary, once-trafficked birds fly again

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 11 Oct 2018
A fisherman pulls in a barracuda at sunset on the waters of the Casamance River, accompanied by an apprentice. Image by Jennifer O’Mahony for Mongabay.

Senegal: After reviving fish and forests, Jola villages tackle new threats

Jennifer O’Mahony 10 Oct 2018

Kenya: Indigenous Ogiek face eviction from their ancestral forest… again

Nathan Siegel 8 Oct 2018

The rhino reckoning

Jeremy Hance 2 Oct 2018
Nomura jellyfish, Nemopilema nomurai. Photo Shin-ichi Uye

A ‘monoculture of jellyfish’ threatens the oceans as we know them (insider)

Jeremy Hance 1 Oct 2018

Purus-Madeira: journey to the Amazon’s newest deforestation frontier

Gustavo Faleiros, Marcio Isensee e Sá 1 Oct 2018

The great rhino U-turn

Jeremy Hance 28 Sep 2018

A herd of dead rhinos

Jeremy Hance 24 Sep 2018
Chalcopyrite from the Huanzala Mine in Peru. Photo by James St. John via Flickr.

Chilling images of illegal mining operations in Peru

Yvette Sierra Praeli 24 Sep 2018

1984: the meeting that changed everything for Sumatran rhinos

Jeremy Hance 20 Sep 2018

Connect the dots: Cerrado soy drives inequality to provide EU with chicken

Anna Sophie Gross 19 Sep 2018

How a national reserve stopped the extinction of the Peruvian vicuña

Vanessa Romo 17 Sep 2018

On the hunt for a silent salamander-killer

Benji Jones 13 Sep 2018
Cow in Colombia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay

Land hoarding: what Colombia’s new administration has inherited

Natalie Arenas 10 Sep 2018

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