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Long-house at Sungai Utik, an Iban community in West Kalimantan that has successfully defended its customary forests against loggers. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

Community programs linked to lower forest loss in Indonesia’s Borneo during COVID-19

Basten Gokkon 28 Aug 2026

Costa Rica to require wildlife crossings for roads when they impact fauna

Bobby Bascomb 27 Aug 2026
Minerva Hills National Park. Image courtesy of Nathan White/Tourism and Events Queensland.

Australia’s 30×30 conservation promise matters a lot, but how it’s achieved is key (commentary)

Tim Nicol 27 Aug 2026
The first ever release of white-lipped peccary into Piedras Blancas National Park. Photo by Ian Rock

13 peccaries sail home to heal a Costa Rican forest

Liz Kimbrough 27 Aug 2026

Cambodia defies UN call to free ‘arbitrarily jailed’ environmental activists

Gerald Flynn 27 Aug 2026
The colorful Javan blue flycatcher (Cyornis banyumas)

In Java’s hills, former bird hunters are rebuilding a songbird haven

Triyo Handoko 27 Aug 2026
A representative image of heavy sand mining site off the coast of Mozambique. Image courtesy of Estacio Valoi.

A ‘leading’ Chinese miner of Mozambique’s heavy sands linked to environmental destruction

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Aug 2026

A Sumatran villager lost ground to the sea. So he planted mangroves

Mongabay.com 27 Aug 2026

China’s Tianmu Mountain reserve tackles modern conservation amid religious tradition

Mongabay.com 27 Aug 2026
Masahiro Miura, a researcher in the national breeding division of the Forest Tree Breeding Center, in Hitachi, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan.

As hay fever sufferers grow in Japan, the country is looking to plant no-pollen trees

Jonathan Vit 26 Aug 2026
Researcher Ben Williams deploys a hydrophone on a degraded coral reef in the Spermonde Archipelago, Indonesia. Image courtesy of Tim Lamont.

Blast fishing destroys reefs. Underwater microphones can help detect it

Syris Valentine 26 Aug 2026
A sponge crab (Sphaerodromia brizops) collected at the Muirfield Seamount, southwest of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

Scientists discover 149 new deep-sea species at remote Indian Ocean seamounts

Emma Smith 26 Aug 2026
James Giahyue, editor-in-chief of The DayLight, a Liberian environmental news magazine. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

‘They will do it legally or illegally’: Interview with James Giahyue on Liberia’s cocoa boom

Ashoka Mukpo 26 Aug 2026

Indigenous water systems gain ground as climate pressures intensify in Bolivia

Anastasia Austin 26 Aug 2026
Tulipa anadroma, a threatened tulip species, growing in the Sary-Chelek Biosphere Reserve in western Kyrgyzstan in early 2019. This protected area is the only place on Earth where the species can be found. Image by Brett Wilson.

Tracing the origins of tulips: Interview with botanist Brett Wilson

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Aug 2026
Américo Pascuala Tumisha. Photo courtesy of Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN)

Ashéninka leader reportedly killed while patrolling Indigenous territory is found alive

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Aug 2026

Can REDD+ deliver for Philippines’ Iraya Mangyan?

Keith Anthony Fabro 26 Aug 2026
A chorten at a rice field in Bhutan.

In Bhutan, a philosophy of happiness guides a push for food self-sufficiency

Mike DiGirolamo 25 Aug 2026

US proposes rescinding Roadless Rule protections for national forests

Bobby Bascomb 25 Aug 2026
Ayu Rosalina, a 2-day old baby Sumatran elephant, stands near her mother at Conservation Response Unit (CRU) in Ulu Masen, Aceh Jaya, Aceh, 2012.

Only 1,325-1,648 wild elephants left in Indonesia, government says

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 25 Aug 2026
Traders sorting through cocoa beans in Grand Gedeh, Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

EU’s deforestation rule could derail Liberia’s cocoa trade

Mongabay.com 25 Aug 2026

Inspiring young herpetologists in Sri Lanka: Interview with Anslem de Silva

Malaka Rodrigo 25 Aug 2026

DNA analysis of Asiatic wild dogs scat in India reveals wild prey preference

Mongabay.com 25 Aug 2026
Cleared land at an industrial oil palm plantation at Tripa peat swamp in Aceh province.

Palm oil firms kept zero-deforestation pledges, but forests saw little extra benefit

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Aug 2026
A bogong moth (Agrotis infusa) in Albert Park, Victoria.

Bogong moths support Australia’s alpine ecosystems, but face uncertain future

Hannah Thomasy 25 Aug 2026

In Raja Ampat, children learn that their knowledge can help protect their islands

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Aug 2026
A red siskin (Spinus cucullatus)

How a rare bird sparked a wildlife movement across 16 villages in Guyana

Gentry Hale 24 Aug 2026
Carl and Isabel Gakran, leaders of the Zág Institute, with their daughter Zágtxo, on the Ibirama-La Klãnõ Indigenous Territory. Image courtesy of Anderson Coelho.

Xokleng Indigenous people plant thousands of critically endangered pine in Brazil

Mongabay.com 24 Aug 2026
Koalas typically climb into the upper reaches of trees to escape fire

Rescue networks built by fire: Saving animals from Australia’s bushfires

Starre Vartan 24 Aug 2026

In Spain & South Africa, communities use restoration to ‘grow’ fire insurance (commentary)

Claire Patterson, Penelope Choussat 24 Aug 2026
Spinach pipefish is an endemic species found in Papua New Guinea's Sepik River. It was not seen by scientists for more than four decades. Image Courtesy of New Guinea Binatang Research Centre.

Local knowledge guides rediscovery of spinach pipefish, not seen in four decades

Spoorthy Raman 24 Aug 2026

Daniel Janzen and the long work of bringing back a forest

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Aug 2026

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