news.mongabay.comadded August 2026
Mongabay Globalby Erik Hoffner25m ago
- The San Rafael Valley in the U.S. state of Arizona is an important wildlife corridor, but these migrations will soon be blocked by a wall being constructed by the U.S.
Mongabay Globalby Bobbybascomb25m ago
Authorities across nine Latin American and Caribbean countries have arrested hundreds of people and recovered more than 1,000 animals as part of a two-month coordinated operation against...
Mongabay Globalby Mongabay Editor46m ago
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The families of thousands of people who remain missing in Nepal weeks after catastrophic floods devastated the country have expressed mixed feelings after the government...
Mongabay Globalby Yenni Kwok3h ago
- South Korea has recently revamped national guidelines on human trafficking to make it easier for law enforcement officials to spot and stop forced labor and other abuses in the fishing industry.
Mongabay Globalby Naina Rao3h ago
Australian authorities have disrupted an alleged wildlife trafficking syndicate, uncovering a clandestine operation where smuggled native animals were hoarded alongside caches of cash and gold...
Mongabay Globalby Karen Coates3h ago
- There has been a long-standing assumption that invasive alien species have greater biodiversity impacts in wealthier Global North countries than in the Global South.
Mongabay Globalby Abu Siddique3h ago
- The case of missing lemurs from a Bangladeshi safari park exposes major gaps in wildlife conservation enforcement, locally and regionally.
Mongabay Globalby Naina Rao3h ago
Part of a forest in Malaysian Borneo that Indigenous communities had envisioned co-managing and self-governing has been turned into an active commercial logging concession, according to a recent...
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta13h ago
The Zambian government is investigating a chemical spill in its Copperbelt Province allegedly linked to Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), owned by U.K.-based multinational Vedanta Resources.
Mongabay Globalby Bobbybascomb19h ago
Africa’s monitored wildlife populations have declined an average of 80% since 1970, according to a new global assessment.
Mongabay Globalby Morgan Erickson-Davis22h ago
- Poland’s border with Belarus runs through the Białowieża Forest, Europe’s last ancient woodland, home to lynx, wolves and European bison.
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta23h ago
Humpback whales found in the Arabian Sea are likely a distinct subspecies, having evolved in isolation for tens of thousands of years, according to a newly published genetic analysis.
Mongabay Globalby Mongabay Editor1d ago
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Isaias formed Wednesday in the warm waters off eastern Mexico and forecasters said it was expected to strengthen into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season before...
Mongabay Globalby Isabel Esterman1d ago
- A government-run wildlife rescue center in northeastern Thailand rehabilitates and releases dozens of leopard cat cubs every year.
Mongabay Globalby Latoya Abulu1d ago
- A report from funders of a pledge to support Indigenous peoples and local communities’ land rights found that donors delivered $2.35 billion between 2021 and 2025, exceeding the $1.7 billion...
Mongabay Globalby Sharon Guynup1d ago
- A deadly strain of avian flu, H5N1, has spread across the globe since it emerged in Europe in 2020, infecting hundreds of species and decimating domestic poultry, seabird and marine mammal...
Mongabay Globalby Rebecca Kessler1d ago
- At the recent biennial meeting of the International Whaling Commission, Antigua and Barbuda introduced a controversial resolution on the “sustainable use” of whales, which introduced a path...
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta1d ago
More than half of the world’s wild tulip species assessed so far are threatened with extinction, reports Mongabay’s Shreya Dasgupta.
Mongabay Globalby Alexandra Popescu1d ago
- Colombia’s new president has pledged to reopen the door to fracking, reviving plans for two pilot projects in Puerto Wilches municipality that were halted under his predecessor, Gustavo Petro.
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta1d ago
The reported death of a 28-year-old laboratory technician in eastern Siberia has triggered regional quarantines and international attention over fears of the cause of death and a lack of...
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