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Wildlife-rich mangroves suffer as Indonesia ramps up construction of new capital

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Sep 2024
Camera trap training in the DRC.

Regions with highest risks to wildlife have fewest camera traps, study finds

Spoorthy Raman 15 Jul 2024
Two male proboscis monkeys in Malaysian Borneo.

Indonesian capital project finally gets guidelines to avoid harm to biodiversity

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Apr 2024
Researcher Alain Senghor K. Ngute looking at a photo of a millipede on a laptop, and making notes on a clipboard on the desk in front of him. Image by Haimdu Mnendendo.

Tanzania’s ‘mountain of millipedes’ yields six new species

Ryan Truscott 26 Mar 2024
A small, bright green chameleon with pale orange patches on its head, clinging to a matching stalk with its tail curled tightly. Image courtesy Christophe Bernier.

New ecoregion proposed for Southern Africa’s threatened ‘sky islands’

Ryan Truscott 13 Mar 2024

Norway pension fund breaks with U.K. conglomerate Jardines over endangered orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Mar 2024

Indonesian gold mine expanding in ‘wrong direction’ into orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Mar 2024
A toucan in a tropical rainforest.

Tropical deforestation increases even as a few hotspots see respite, new data shows

Abhishyant Kidangoor 11 Dec 2023
Mt Guiting-Guiting range, seen from Magdiwang.

Nickel mine threatens Philippines biodiversity hotspot on Sibuyan Island (analysis)

Jake Willis 6 Dec 2023
A green turtle swimming in the waters of New Caledonia.

New Caledonia expands strictly protected coverage of its swath of the Pacific

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 27 Oct 2023
Yanomami Indigenous

Study: Despite armed conflicts, Indigenous lands have better environment quality

Spoorthy Raman 19 Oct 2023
A black-headed ibis

Tien Hai Nature Reserve latest battleground in Vietnam’s push for development

Michael Tatarski 22 Sep 2023

Annual Adam’s Peak pilgrimage leaves Sri Lanka biodiversity site littered

Malaka Rodrigo 28 Jun 2023
Convoy of four logging trucks in Gabon, following each other from right to left along a paved road out of the frame, green foliage on the hillside above the dry gray and brown of the road . Image by jbdodane via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Forests & finance: communities turn to tree-planting, zero-logging, and mushrooms to protect forests

Mongabay.com 15 Jun 2023
A wild pig (Sus scrofa).

Wild pigs threaten biodiversity hotspots across South America, study shows

Vitor Alexandre Araujo Prado dos Anjos 12 Jun 2023

Illegal trawling ravages Tunisian seagrass meadows crucial for fish

Sara Manisera | Davide Mancini | Arianna Poletti 24 May 2023
Calotes goetzi

Greater Mekong proves an ark of biodiversity, with 380 new species in a year

Liz Kimbrough 24 May 2023
The orange ground-thrush.

Fires threaten Afromontane forests’ ‘whole new world’: Q&A with Martim Melo

Ryan Truscott 22 May 2023

Logging permit threatens Quilombola bioeconomic ‘paradise’ in the Amazon

André Schröder 8 May 2023

Forests & Finance: Agroforestry in Cameroon and reforestation in South Africa

Mongabay.com 3 May 2023

‘Impact assessments need a shake-up’: Q&A with Georgine Kengne & Morgan Hauptfleisch

Victoria Schneider 13 Mar 2023
A pygmy chameleon.

Six newly described chameleon species reflect Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains’ fragility and richness

Ryan Truscott 3 Mar 2023

Forests & finance: A lawsuit, an import ban, and restoring Zambian forests

Mongabay.com 23 Feb 2023
A narcissus flycatcher.

For Philippines’ unprotected hotspots, new conservation window beckons

Keith Anthony S. Fabro 9 Jan 2023
From center left to right: David Cooper, CBD Deputy Executive Secretary; COP 15 President Huang Runqiu, Minister of Ecology and Environment, China; Xia Yingxian, China; and Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, CBD Executive Secretary. Image by UN biodiversity via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Nations adopt Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Latoya Abulu, Sahana Ghosh 20 Dec 2022

Mongabay’s Conservation Potential series investigates: Where do we need to protect biodiversity?

Liz Kimbrough 19 Dec 2022
The developers on Koh Toteung smothered the island's corals in sand while creating an artificial beach in June 2022.

Island shopping: Cambodian officials buy up the Cardamoms’ coast

Gerald Flynn｜Andy Ball｜Vutha Srey 16 Dec 2022

Will shipping noise nudge Africa’s only penguin toward extinction?

Leonie Joubert 21 Nov 2022
An African penguin standing sleepily in a patch of green. Image by Alberto Ziveri via Flickr (BY-SA 2.0)

Breeding success raises hopes for future of endangered African penguin

Ryan Truscott 15 Nov 2022
Surveying Grand Bois National Park.

Amid conflict and chaos, a reforestation project surges ahead in Haiti

Jeremy Hance 10 Nov 2022

As Brazil starts repaving an Amazon highway, land grabbers get to work

Caio Guatelli 13 Oct 2022

Climate change and overfishing threaten once ‘endless’ Antarctic krill

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Aug 2022

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