New-to-science Amazon frog stands out for its slow ‘lazy’ song
Mongabay Globalby Bobbybascomb8 Sept 2026
Scientists recently described a new species of a tiny brown frog found in the Amazonian floodplain forests of Ecuador and northwestern Brazil.
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top 72%Why is Amazonian wildlife turning up at a Bangkok market?
Mongabay Globalby Sharon Guynup8 Sept 2026
- The sheer numbers and vast array of Latin American wildlife species offered for sale in one of Southeast Asia’s largest wildlife markets, in Thailand, has been steadily rising over the past two...
‘Plastic pollution hotspots’ spawn a public health crisis across Latin America
Mongabay Globalby Alexandra Popescu8 Sept 2026
- Since 2018, when China banned the import of plastic waste, many countries in Latin America have been struggling to manage a huge increase in the amount of plastic waste imported into the region...
‘Birds know no borders’: Interview with BirdLife Africa’s Alex Ngari
Mongabay Globalby Terna Gyuse8 Sept 2026
- “[M]igratory birds do not belong to any one country, but are a shared global heritage, and their survival requires a borderless safety net,” says Alex Ngari, migratory birds and flyways programme...
In Panama’s Darién, Indigenous communities test a new way to fund conservation
Mongabay Globalby Alexandra Popescu7 Sept 2026
- With illegal logging and agricultural expansion closing in on their lands, four Indigenous Wounaan and Emberá-Wounaan villages in Panama’s Darién forest started a biodiversity monitoring project...
What conservation rumors reveal about climate projects in the Congo Basin (commentary)
Mongabay Globalby Latoya Abulu7 Sept 2026
- Conservation rumors should not be dismissed as misinformation: they influence people’s attitudes toward conservation and how they respond to it, a group of researchers argues in a new op-ed.
New nocturnal snake from New Guinea named after Slash of Guns N’ Roses
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta7 Sept 2026
Scientists have identified a new-to-science, reddish-brown snake from specimens found in the forests of Papua New Guinea and named it after Slash, the lead guitarist of the rock band Guns N’ Roses.
World Heritage status for South Sudan parks will be a boon for the birds
Mongabay Globalby Terna Gyuse7 Sept 2026
- South Sudan’s Boma and Badingilo national parks are best known for the massive herds of antelope that migrate across them each year.
Bhutan’s pursuit of happiness takes root on its farms
Mongabay Globalby Naina Rao7 Sept 2026
Guided by its national philosophy of Gross National Happiness, the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan aims to achieve food self-sufficiency by 2029 under its 13th five-year plan.
Indigenous knowledge helps reveal the ties between reefs and mangroves
Mongabay Globalby Latoya Abulu6 Sept 2026
- A scientific collaboration between Australian scientists and First Nations Bardi Jawi rangers and elders has highlighted how fish species rely on the connectivity of reef and mangrove ecosystems.
Urban water quality pose challenges to low-income communities in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital
Mongabay Globalby Dilrukshi Handunnetti5 Sept 2026
- Most urban poor living in Colombo, Sri Lanka’s commercial capital, rely on pipe-borne water for their daily needs.
Comparing green space for urban cooling, study
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta4 Sept 2026
Cities can become dangerously hot during extreme heat events, making it increasingly important for urban planners to find ways to reduce temperatures and protect people from heat exposure.
Tanzania’s first official wildlife corridor links savanna elephants to rainforest
Mongabay Globalby Sharon Guynup4 Sept 2026
- African savanna elephants are using a narrow strip of land across the densely populated Kilombero Valley in southern Tanzania to migrate.
Marine conservation collides with mining in Indonesia’s biodiversity-rich Moramo Bay
Mongabay Globalby Basten Gokkon4 Sept 2026
- Pressure on a protected marine area in Indonesia’s Southeast Sulawesi province is growing as conservation efforts intersect with mining activity.
As Indonesia’s wildfires rage, haze spreads farther across Southeast Asia
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta4 Sept 2026
Haze from wildfires in Indonesia has spread even farther this week, reaching beyond Malaysia and Brunei to Singapore and the Philippines. On Sept.
Illegal gold mining continues in Indonesia’s Aceh despite government crackdown pledge
Mongabay Globalby Mongabay Editor4 Sept 2026
- Residents in different districts across the Indonesian province of Aceh say gold mining activity in the interior of forest areas continues despite the province’s leaders agreeing a crackdown on...
South Korea’s ‘sea women’ seek justice after marine habitat devastated by harbor work
Mongabay Globalby Yenni Kwok4 Sept 2026
- A community of hanyeo, South Korea’s free-diving women fishers, accuse a harbor project in their village of devastating the local marine habitat they’ve depended on for decades for their...
Study analyzes danger of parasites to Bengal tigers in South Asia
Mongabay Globalby Abu Siddique4 Sept 2026
- Researchers analyzing parasite infections of Bengal tigers and their prey population in the Sundarbans in Bangladesh have raised concerns about the critically endangered species’ conservation.
Genetic road map offers hope for threatened Visayan spotted deer
Mongabay Globalby Naina Rao4 Sept 2026
Scientists have sequenced the first-ever draft genome of the Philippines’ highly threatened Visayan spotted deer.
Ebola outbreak underscores food insecurity crisis in DRC
Mongabay Globalby Bobbybascomb3 Sept 2026
The recent Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo strain of the virus has reportedly claimed more than 3,000 lives, and more than twice as many reported cases, in the Democratic Republic of Congo...