news.mongabay.comadded August 2026
Mongabay Globalby Latoya Abulu29d ago
- A new study found that the restitution of 217,000 hectares (about 538,000 acres) of land to Mapuche communities in Chile did not produce the environmental gains often associated with Indigenous...
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta29d ago
Ocean ecosystems are under extreme stress on several fronts including overfishing, ocean acidification, climate change and marine warming.
Mongabay Globalby Karen Coates29d ago
- A recent study examines 60 years of land use change in Jammu and Kashir and finds a decline in the area’s water bodies while built-up areas expanded markedly.
Mongabay Globalby Karen Coates29d ago
- A new study from Kerala, India, shows how climate disasters deepen inequalities and increase risk for people with disabilities.
Mongabay Globalby Autumn Spanne29d ago
- In a milestone for Caribbean science, researchers recently conducted one of the most comprehensive surveys ever undertaken in the deep-sea waters off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago.
Mongabay Globalby Morgan Erickson-Davis29d ago
- In recent years, Aotearoa New Zealand has mandated onboard cameras across most of its inshore fleet, alongside other forms of electronic monitoring, covering vessels using six types of fishing...
Mongabay Globalby Andy Lehren29d ago
- Vantara, the controversial billionaire-run Indian zoo, has worked with lobbyists in the U.K. with ties to pro-hunting organizations and the Trump administration, sources told Mongabay.
Mongabay Globalby Mongabay Editor29d ago
- Through last month, Indonesian wildlife conservation NGO YIARI and government conservation officials recovered seven critically endangered Bornean orangutans from wildfires raging across the...
Mongabay Globalby Latoya Abulu29d ago
- Indigenous Wiwa families in Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta are moving farther downslope in an effort to preserve community cohesion amid climate and security pressures.
Mongabay Globalby Terna Gyuse29d ago
- The fate of an osprey that was tagged in Scotland and shot in Ghana highlights the dangers migratory raptors face far from their European breeding grounds.
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta29d ago
In the Indian Himalayas, numerous species of colorful pheasants roam the understory, pecking at seeds, roots, leaves, berries, and insects.
Mongabay Globalby Karen Coates8 Sept 2026
- Uttarakhand is the most fire-prone state in the Indian Western Himalayas, where wildfire seasons are expanding — and women are taking the lead on fighting fires in their communities.
Mongabay Globalby Latoya Abulu8 Sept 2026
- Mongabay spoke with Indigenous people and members of local communities living near four national parks in the Congo Basin, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to gather their testimonies and...
Mongabay Globalby Mikedigirolamo8 Sept 2026
Mongabay staff writer Aimee Gabay joins the Newscast this week to discuss her reporting trip to the Peruvian Amazon, where she spoke with the Indigenous Matsés community.
Mongabay Globalby Isabel Esterman8 Sept 2026
- The Singkil peat swamp, part of Sumatra’s Leuser ecosystem, is a critical habitat for Sumatran orangutans.
Mongabay Globalby Mayra8 Sept 2026
- A database built by Mongabay Latam, based on the analysis of scientific studies that gathered more than 7,000 samples from humans and 5,900 from fish, identified the areas most affected by...
Mongabay Globalby Mayra8 Sept 2026
- Mongabay reviewed nearly three decades of scientific research on the impact of heavy metals and traveled to several Amazonian communities to track the course of mercury contamination.
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta8 Sept 2026
A new study has found that in Ecuador’s Amazon, Indigenous territories without formal conservation contracts maintained forest conditions just as well as formal protected areas.
Mongabay Globalby Mayra8 Sept 2026
- Mongabay found that 39 communities in Bolivia are suffering from mercury poisoning and that 125 more face a similar risk.
Mongabay Globalby Mariaisabel8 Sept 2026
- For the first time, Mongabay Latam analyzed 39 scientific studies published between 1997 and 2024 that confirm that 249 Indigenous and riverside communities in Peru, Bolivia and Brazil have been...
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