news.mongabay.comadded August 2026
Mongabay Globalby Liz Kimbrough1d ago
- Researchers have identified a new species of extinct long-snouted crocodile from 45-million-year-old fossils found in the same limestone formation used to build Egypt’s Great Sphinx.
Mongabay Globalby Mikedigirolamo2d ago
Indigenous activist and filmmaker Kynan Tegar joins the Mongabay Newscast this week to discuss the impacts of the fires devastating Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo.
Mongabay Globalby Rhett Butler2d ago
Twenty months after the dismantling of USAID, a new analysis documents what the international development agency’s disappearance has meant for conservation projects around the world.
Mongabay Globalby Liz Kimbrough2d ago
- A survey of 25 organizations working on rainforest restoration in Australia’s Wet Tropics found that nearly all monitor their sites, but about half keep no records and simply check sites...
Mongabay Globalby Rebecca Kessler2d ago
- In Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia, a partnership between the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation, Redd Fish Restoration Society and West Coast Kelp grows kelp at scale to support an ecosystem in...
Mongabay Globalby Erik Hoffner2d ago
- The world is facing an El Niño event of unprecedented proportions. - Millions of Indonesians have already been breathing toxic wildfire smoke and bravely fighting the blazes for months, although...
Mongabay Globalby Philip Jacobson2d ago
- Hong Kong-based biologist Astrid Andersson and arborist Harry Wong run a conservation project that seeks to protect the city’s feral yellow-crested cockatoos (Cacatua sulphurea).
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta2d ago
Researchers surveying garden and wild flowers across northern Thailand have uncovered 16 previously unknown species of black, yeast-like fungi living inside the flowers, according to a recent...
Mongabay Globalby Bobbybascomb2d ago
Right-wing candidates made big gains in both houses of Congress in Brazil’s Oct. 4 general election.
Mongabay Globalby Philip Jacobson2d ago
- Indonesia’s forestry ministry has posted a notice saying it will use a controversial internet law to prosecute anyone who downloads geospatial data without its written permission, threatening...
Mongabay Globalby Rhett Butler2d ago
On June 17, 2015, Philippine officials confiscated thousands of turtles in cement tanks from a warehouse in Palawan, an island province in the Philippines.
Mongabay Globalby Bobbybascomb2d ago
In Brazil’s general election on Oct. 4, incumbent leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva finished second to far-right Flávio Bolsonaro, a senator and son of former President Jair Bolsonaro...
Mongabay Globalby Alexandra Popescu3d ago
- Suriname President Jennifer Geerlings-Simons announced a task force in August to investigate illegal settlements destroying the rainforest, many of them Mennonites moving from other countries.
Mongabay Globalby Hans Nicholas Jong3d ago
- In Indonesia, fires are burning in rainforests that contain 13 of the 20 largest remaining populations of Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus).
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta3d ago
The brown clockfig, an extremely rare succulent growing in the hot, arid border region of Namibia and South Africa, was recently assessed as critically endangered by the IUCN, the global wildlife...
Mongabay Globalby Naina Rao3d ago
More Amazonian species, in larger numbers, are appearing for sale on the other side of the planet in Southeast Asia’s exotic pet trade, reports contributor Gloria Dickie for Mongabay.
Mongabay Globalby Naina Rao3d ago
Fewer than half of tiger poaching and trafficking arrests in Southeast Asia result in convictions or legal penalties, providing little deterrent to an illegal black market that is driving wild...
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta3d ago
A multi-day thunderstorm over the Mediterranean Sea struck Malta, stranding hundreds of passing migratory birds on Sept. 14, 2026.
Mongabay Globalby Bobbybascomb5d ago
Oil slicks from ships and offshore oil platforms cover nearly 1.6 million square kilometers (618,000 square miles) of the ocean surface each year, an area slightly larger than the nation of...
Mongabay Globalby Isabel Esterman6d ago
- As Hanoi leans on fishers to hold the line in contested waters, a distant war and a demanding European compliance regime are squeezing the same boats from opposite directions.
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