See an orangutan, take a photo, earn some money: A viable conservation model?
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In Kapuas Hulu district in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province, a pilot program is attempting to…Aaron Longton, fisherman who tied sustainability to survival
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Along a stretch of the Oregon coast where the Pacific meets an exposed working waterfront,…Brazil: Satellites expose rampant gold mining expansion on Indigenous Kayapó land
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The Kayapó Indigenous Territory has emerged as a major hotspot for illegal gold mining in the…The Amazon’s silent crime crisis (commentary)
Apr 15, 2026, 1:59 pm By
The Amazon is approaching a dangerous threshold. Long understood as the world’s largest tropical…Nearly a million birds shipped from Africa to Asia in 15 years; canaries top the list
Apr 15, 2026, 11:04 am By
Worldwide, people buy and hunt nearly half of the 11,000 bird species in existence. In Asia, Europe,…Primate Planet
Apr 15, 2026, 4:07 am By
Across the tropics, a growing movement is working to secure a future for primates in the face of…Invasive ferrets removed from an island in a world-first
Apr 15, 2026, 12:14 am By
Rathlin Island off the north of Northern Ireland is now free from feral ferrets that were harming…Indonesia braces for possible ‘Godzilla El Niño’ as fire season escalates early
Apr 15, 2026, 12:12 am By
JAKARTA — Indonesia is entering the 2026 fire season with early signs of escalation, as burned…‘Rediscovered’ species in Papua spotlight importance of Indigenous knowledge
Apr 14, 2026, 10:22 pm By
It started with a set of photographs, taken of an animal captured in 2015 on the Bird’s Head…Coexisting with America’s growing urban coyote population is easier than you think
Apr 14, 2026, 7:01 pm By
Coyotes are now present in almost every major urban-metropolitan area in the United States, yet…Exploring giraffe-human conflict in Kenya
Apr 14, 2026, 6:08 pm By
Reticulated giraffes are an endangered species across their primary range in Kenya, most commonly…A reforestation corridor in Madagascar offers a future for lemurs and locals
Apr 14, 2026, 6:07 pm By
In eastern Madagascar, Andasibe-Mantadia National Park and the Analamazoatra Special Reserve shelter…In Brazil, unfinished water project leaves Indigenous villages without safe water
Apr 14, 2026, 5:13 pm By
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Apr 14, 2026, 4:46 pm By
Some companies have made headway toward removing deforestation from their supply chains in the last…Māori knowledge shows climate change domino effects on forest food chains
Apr 14, 2026, 4:26 pm By
RAGLAN, Aotearoa New Zealand — Imagine a forest floor so thick with juicy, crunchy purple tawa…Deep-sea wildernesses are more important than the promise of seafloor mining (analysis)
Apr 14, 2026, 2:23 pm By
When I set sail on the MV NorSky in the summer of 2008 to probe the depths of Manus Basin off the…Ghana declares its first marine protected area
Apr 14, 2026, 1:57 pm By
Ghana has declared its first marine protected area after more than 15 years of efforts to bolster…Afghanistan’s capital is in the grip of a water crisis
Apr 14, 2026, 12:18 pm By
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Nestled in a high-altitude valley in Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush mountain…This ghost octopus is facing a new threat
Apr 14, 2026, 10:48 am By
China is one of the biggest players in the race to mine the deep sea — and a joint Mongabay-CNN…George Schaller: The field biologist who helped redefine conservation
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Some lives seem to belong less to a nation or a profession than to a disposition. George B.…
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