news.mongabay.comadded August 2026
Mongabay Globalby Rhett Butler28 Aug 2026
On March 15th 1991 Hà Đình Đức happened to be passing Hồ Gươm, the small lake at the center of Hanoi, when he saw its giant softshell turtle surface.
Mongabay Globalby Malavikavyawahare28 Aug 2026
- For decades, conservationists have argued that protecting nature cannot rely indefinitely on donor funding.
Mongabay Globalby Xavier Bartaburu28 Aug 2026
- In 2015, environmentalist Raimundo dos Santos Rodrigues was murdered in an ambush inside the Gurupi Biological Reserve in Brazil’s Maranhão state, where he served as a member of the advisory...
Mongabay Globalby Yenni Kwok28 Aug 2026
- The endangered eastern quolls are functionally extinct in the wild on the Australian mainland, but wild populations still survive in Tasmania.
Mongabay Globalby Naina Rao28 Aug 2026
The resumption of a crow-shooting campaign in Singapore has revived intense debate over lethal wildlife management in the highly urbanized city-state.
Mongabay Globalby Basten Gokkon28 Aug 2026
- As climate and economic shocks put pressure on tropical forests, a new study suggests support for rural communities could help protect forests while strengthening their ability to withstand...
Mongabay Globalby John Cannon27 Aug 2026
- After decades of livestock pressure, 1.5 million hectares (3.7 million acres) of farmland in South Africa’s Albany thicket biome need rehabilitation — the way a burn victim needs lifesaving skin...
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta27 Aug 2026
Costa Rican lawmakers unanimously voted to require wildlife crossings for new and existing road infrastructure when evidence shows the infrastructure interrupts natural connectivity and threatens...
Mongabay Globalby Erik Hoffner27 Aug 2026
- How Australia — one of the planet’s most megadiverse nations — tackles its goal to conserve 30% of its land and seas by 2030 (30×30) may signal whether this, the world’s most ambitious...
Mongabay Globalby Liz Kimbrough27 Aug 2026
- Costa Rica’s Osa Conservation moved 13 white-lipped peccaries by truck and boat across the Golfo Dulce to reintroduce the threatened species to Piedras Blancas National Park, where hunters had...
Mongabay Globalby Autumn Spanne27 Aug 2026
- Coral reefs, medieval coastal castles and mangrove forests on UNESCO’s World Heritage list now share something in common: Precise digital boundaries.
Mongabay Globalby Bobbybascomb27 Aug 2026
A new report published by U.S.-based think tank the Oakland Institute warns that the rush for critical minerals comes with massive implications for the world, especially African countries.
Mongabay Globalby Bobbybascomb27 Aug 2026
A group of environmental organizations announced their intent to sue the United States National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) for failing to consider protections for Eastern Pacific gray whales...
Mongabay Globalby Philip Jacobson27 Aug 2026
- Cambodia insists five environmental activists jailed in 2024 will remain behind bars, after a U.N. working group called their detention arbitrary and urged their immediate release.
Mongabay Globalby Mongabay Editor27 Aug 2026
- Some former hunters on the Indonesian island of Java have abandoned catching birds for the songbird trade and have since become notable local conservation figures.
Mongabay Globalby Autumn Spanne27 Aug 2026
- Rapid loss of mangroves in Mozambique’s Zambezia Province is linked to the activities of Mozambique Heavy Sand Company VIII, which is part-owned by an influential Chinese mining group, Mongabay...
Mongabay Globalby Naina Rao27 Aug 2026
In a coastal village on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, an oil palm and pineapple grower named Harisyah is fighting rapid coastal erosion.
Mongabay Globalby Naina Rao27 Aug 2026
Buddhist, Daoist and Confucian traditions have long guided the protection of plants and wildlife in a nature reserve on Tianmu Mountain in eastern China.
Mongabay Globalby Shanna Hanbury26 Aug 2026
Brazilian authorities have temporarily relaxed an environmental rule for the Belo Monte hydropower plant on the Xingu River in the northeastern Amazon.
Mongabay Globalby Bobbybascomb26 Aug 2026
“Development bank-backed transition minerals projects are frequently associated with significant environmental, social, and human rights risks.” This is the conclusion of the latest report by the...
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