news.mongabay.comadded August 2026
Mongabay Globalby Bobbybascomb27d ago
Mozambique has formally protected Mount Mabu, a hotspot of endemic wildlife and home to more than 200 species of butterflies, located in the Lugela district of northern Mozambique.
Mongabay Globalby Terna Gyuse27d ago
- The new State of the World’s Birds report says 45% of migratory bird species are in decline with 11% threatened with extinction.
Mongabay Globalby Shanna Hanbury27d ago
Nine dolphin species, and several more subspecies and local populations, are currently critically endangered or endangered, according to the most recent assessment by the IUCN, the global wildlife...
Mongabay Globalby Mongabay Editor27d ago
- At 29, Érica Tavares represents a new generation of environmentalists in Angola, where she leads the NGO EcoAngola.
Mongabay Globalby Abhishyantkidangoor27d ago
- Conservationists are collaborating with Indigenous communities in Ecuador to look for the world’s smallest monkey.
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta27d ago
Nigerian conservationist Rachel Ikemeh has been named the 2026 Rolex Award laureate, for her work with communities in the Niger Delta to protect the region’s ecology and the critically endangered...
Mongabay Globalby Basten Gokkon28d ago
- Indonesia’s critically endangered Javan rhinos appear to have weathered a recent volcanic eruption near their only remaining habitat, highlighting the precarious position of one of the world’s...
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta28d ago
A U.S. federal court recently ruled that residents of Jackson, Mississippi, don’t have a constitutional right to truthful information from public officials, nor the right to municipal drinking...
Mongabay Globalby Mongabay Editor28d ago
MEMPAWAH, Indonesia (AP) — A Japanese military transport ship docked on the island of Borneo on Thursday as part of a disaster relief mission to help fight wildfires in Indonesia that are causing a...
Mongabay Globalby Alexandre de Santi28d ago
- As Brazil approaches a pivotal presidential election, grantees of the Amazon Fund warn that a radical change in administration could derail its recent momentum, which saw annual financing...
Mongabay Globalby Rebecca Kessler28d ago
- Offshore wind energy is on the rise. Many experts regard it as pivotal to building renewable energy grids around the globe, while also noting that it affects the marine environment.
Mongabay Globalby Autumn Spanne28d ago
- Dozens of shark and ray species are known to spend some or all of their life cycle in freshwater environments, but they remain among the least studied and least protected.
Mongabay Globalby Terna Gyuse28d ago
- Every year, the villagers of Kiang Jifarong in the Gambia contribute their labor and money to building earthen dikes from clay and mud in an effort to keep seawater out of their rice farms along...
Mongabay Globalby Mongabay Editor28d ago
- Wildfires across Borneo and Sumatra are raising health risks for local populations, with some health offices reporting rising rates of respiratory disease.
Mongabay Globalby Alexandre de Santi28d ago
- Atlas Renewable Energy is planning a 1-gigawatt data center in the Paracatu municipality that exceeds the combined power capacity of all such facilities currently installed in Brazil.
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta28d ago
On the final day of a two-week expedition, where researchers were searching for a “lost” species along Papua New Guinea’s Sepik River, Helen Asu arrived with two small, greenish-brown fish.
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta28d ago
Two species of trees helped Japan build millions of homes after World War II. However, pollen from those same trees has also fueled a nationwide hay fever allergy.
Mongabay Globalby Andy Lehren28d ago
- Industry groups from the U.S. and Canadian forestry sector pressured the European Union to reduce rules facing North American timber and paper goods under the new European Union Deforestation...
Mongabay Globalby Bobbybascomb29d ago
Two Przewalski’s horse foals were born in a reintroduction center in the grasslands of central Kazakhstan in late August.
Mongabay Globalby Erik Hoffner29d ago
- High-altitude wildernesses like Limi Valley in Nepal are suffering from human encroachment, which is advancing at an unprecedented pace, pushing wildlife into ever-smaller pockets of shrinking...
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