• English
  • Español (Spanish)
  • Français (French)
  • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Brasil (Portuguese)
  • India
  • हिंदी (Hindi)
  • Mobile
  • Conservation Drones
  • Monitoring
  • Satellite imagery
  • Tracking
  • Human-wildlife Conflict
  • More
The year in rainforests 2025: Deforestation fell; the risks did not
Sharks didn’t rebound—so Mark Erdmann is putting them back
The year in tropical rainforests: 2024
Calls for caution as enhanced rock weathering shows carbon capture promise

News

Sorry, nothing to display.

About Mongabay

Mongabay is a U.S.-based non-profit conservation and environmental science news platform. Our EIN or tax ID is 45-3714703.

Recent Posts

  • Surviving mangroves after Odette storm hit a local beach in Barangay Cayhagan, Sipalay City, Negros Occidental, December 2021.
    Democratizing AI for conservation: Interview with Ai2’s Ted Schmitt and Patrick Beukema
  • Margerie Glacier in Alaska in 2007. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.
    What can—and cannot—be done to save the world’s glaciers
  • Forest illegally cleared for oil palm in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler
    Indonesia says 4 million hectares of plantation, mining lands reclaimed in crackdown
  • A man inspects logs near several wood pellet production companies in Gorontalo province, October 2024.
    After years of progress, Indonesia risks ‘tragedy’ of a deforestation spike
  • A purse seiner targeting Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico. Image courtesy of Andre Boustany.
    Study tracks fishing boats to see how heat waves affect fish distribution

Special series

Forest Trackers

  • Satellite data show burst of deforestation in Myanmar rare earth mining hotspots
  • Narco airstrips beset Indigenous communities in Peruvian Amazon
  • 15 illegal narco-trafficking airstrips found near Peru Indigenous communities
  • Satellite data show bursts of deforestation continue in Indonesian national park
Forest Trackers
More articles

Oceans

  • Methane chasers: Hunting a climate-changing gas seeping from Earth’s seafloor
  • Scientists call for stronger action to save Indonesia’s vanishing seagrass meadows
  • Antarctic conservation summit closes with stalemate on MPAs & krill fishing rules
  • Norway’s proposal to double krill harvests raises tension at Antarctic conservation summit
Oceans
More articles

Amazon Conservation

  • ‘World’s largest’ carbon credit deal in the Amazon faces bumpy road ahead
  • New conservation model calls for protecting Amazon for its archaeological riches
  • Brazil dredges Amazon rivers to ease drought isolation, raising environmental concerns
  • ‘We need white men on our side to save the Amazon from destruction,’ 92-year-old Indigenous Chief Raoni says
Amazon Conservation
More articles

Land rights and extractives

  • Lithium mining may threaten a precious resource — water: Voices from the land (commentary)
  • Indigenous guardians successfully keep extractives out of Ecuador’s Amazon forests
  • Amid Venezuela’s illegal gold heist are armed groups, gangs & elites, report says
  • Indigenous women in Peru use technology to protect Amazon forests
Land rights and extractives
More articles

Endangered Environmentalists

  • A killing with precedent: Kaiowá man’s murder fits a pattern in Brazil
  • Environmental & rights activists flee and hide as M23 captures DRC’s cities
  • Environmental journalist in Cambodia shot and killed by suspected logger
  • Vietnam sentences yet another energy expert over renewables research
Endangered Environmentalists
More articles

Indonesia's Forest Guardians

  • On a Borneo mountainside, Indigenous Dayak women hold fire and defend forest
  • Fenced in by Sulawesi national park, Indigenous women make forestry breakout
  • In Borneo, the ‘Power of Mama’ fight Indonesia’s wildfires with all-woman crew
  • Pioneer agroforester Ermi, 73, rolls back the years in Indonesia’s Gorontalo
Indonesia's Forest Guardians
More articles

Conservation Effectiveness

  • How effective is the EU’s marquee policy to reduce the illegal timber trade?
  • How sharing and learning from failures can transform conservation (commentary)
  • Is planting trees as good for the Earth as everyone says?
  • Failure in conservation projects: Everyone experiences it, few record it
Conservation Effectiveness
More articles

Southeast Asian infrastructure

  • An ‘ocean grab’ for a property megaproject leaves Jakarta fishers grounded
  • Study: Indonesia’s new capital city threatens stable proboscis monkey population
  • Indonesia’s new capital ‘won’t sacrifice the environment’: Q&A with Nusantara’s Myrna Asnawati Safitri
  • Small farmers in limbo as Cambodia wavers on Tonle Sap conservation rules
Southeast Asian infrastructure
More articles

© 2026 Copyright Conservation news

you're currently offline