Why captive elephants formed a circle during the San Diego earthquake
Apr 21, 2025, 10:44 am ByWhen a 5.2-magnitude earthquake shook the U.S. city of San Diego on April 14, a video showing five African elephants huddling together in the middle of their enclosure at San Diego Zoo Safari Park made headlines. It showed three older female elephants, Ndlula,…Indonesia strengthens forest monitoring with new tool to meet EU deforestation law
Apr 21, 2025, 7:21 am ByJAKARTA — Indonesia’s efforts to ensure its commodity exports are free of deforestation are ramping up as the European Union Deforestation Regulation, or EUDR, nears enforcement. One of the biggest challenges in meeting EUDR standards is traceability. To…Ecologists are spending less time in the field. That could be a problem.
Apr 21, 2025, 5:02 am ByFounder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. There was a time when an ecologist’s education was not complete without the mud of a marsh on their boots or the scent of…Agroforestry can reduce deforestation, but supportive policies matter, study finds
Apr 21, 2025, 4:00 am ByIntensifying heat waves, extreme floods and forest fires have devastated parts of Southeast Asia in recent years, spurring experts and authorities to look for holistic solutions. Agroforestry, the practice of growing crops alongside useful trees and shrubs, is…Report alleges criminality in Cambodian, Vietnamese monkey trade
Apr 20, 2025, 10:13 pm ByBANGKOK — Many long-tailed macaques imported into the United States from Southeast Asia were likely poached from the wild and then sold as captive-bred to medical research institutions, a recent report alleges. The 137-page report by Sandy River Research…Vital Mekong fish corridors tracked for first time, but funding cuts threaten future research
Apr 18, 2025, 4:30 pm ByThe first-ever acoustic telemetry network in the Mekong River has tracked key migration corridors critical to the survival of fish in Cambodia and Laos. To conduct the study, researchers caught fish from a dozen species and implanted them with small electric…Armed groups, cattle ranchers drove 35% rise in Colombia’s deforestation in 2024
Apr 18, 2025, 12:30 pm ByThe prediction came true: deforestation in Colombia increased in 2024 after two years of decline, just as the environment ministry had warned since April last year. The ministry announced that Colombia lost 1,070 square kilometers (413 square miles) of forest…Locals, researchers race to save unique biodiversity of PNG’s Torricellis
Apr 18, 2025, 12:26 pm ByTorricelli Mountains, a tiny mountain range in northern Papua New Guinea, is estimated to host roughly 4% of the world’s known species, many found nowhere else on Earth, Mongabay’s John Cannon reported in March. “I mean, for 0.003% of the world’s land…Illegal trafficking of siamang gibbons is a concerning and underreported crisis (commentary)
Apr 18, 2025, 12:04 pm BySiamangs are the largest of the 20 gibbon species, and belong to their own genus, Symphalangus. Distributed across Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, and the southernmost part of Thailand, their unforgettable and emblematic call defines the soundscape of the hill…New refuge helps protect Amazon’s most endangered monkey, but gaps remain
Apr 18, 2025, 10:19 am ByBrazil designated a refuge twice the size of Manhattan near the Amazonian city of Manaus in June 2024 to protect the pied tamarin, South America’s most endangered monkey. But almost one year later, the 15,000-hectare (37,000-acre) reserve is still being…Trump opens massive marine protected area to commercial fishing
Apr 18, 2025, 9:04 am ByU.S. President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation allowing commercial fishing in Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument (PIH), a massive marine protected area home to threatened fish, sea turtles and marine mammals. The proclamation says…Nature on the move: How conservation must adapt to survive
Apr 18, 2025, 8:38 am ByResilience means getting through something — tough, messy, with losses, but surviving. So said Andrew Whitworth, executive director of Osa Conservation in Costa Rica, summing up a growing shift in conservation thinking. As the planet hurtles toward a future…Sri Lanka’s iconic tuskers ‘falling like dominoes,’ conservationists warn
Apr 18, 2025, 3:09 am By“The Gathering” in Sri Lanka’s Minneriya National Park is said to be among the world’s most spectacular wildlife phenomena. Every year, hundreds of elephants gather on a dry lakebed in the park that becomes fertile grazing land during the months of…Succulents die off with expanding desert in South Africa and Namibia
Apr 18, 2025, 2:49 am BySucculents endemic to South Africa and Namibia are drying up and dying across the increasingly hot northern part of their range. Mongabay contributor Leonie Joubert reports that a combination of climate change and overgrazing are causing desertification that…Ochieng’ Ogodo, science journalist, mentor, and editor, died on April 17th, aged 64
Apr 17, 2025, 7:31 pm ByFounder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. For Ochieng’ Ogodo, science was never a subject to be sequestered in ivory towers. It belonged in the hands of the…Even in death, Indigenous Fijians protect the sea
Apr 17, 2025, 3:04 pm ByIn the waters surrounding Fiji, an ancient tradition endures. Indigenous (iTaukei) communities have long established designated both freshwater and marine ecosystems where fishing and harvesting are temporarily forbidden in honor of their deceased. Though…Mongabay mourns the loss of Ochieng’ Ogodo, our East Africa Editor
Apr 17, 2025, 2:49 pm ByIt is with deep sorrow that we announce the sudden passing of Ochieng’ Ogodo, Mongabay’s East Africa Editor, who died early Thursday morning in Nairobi, Kenya, at the age of 64. According to his family, Ochieng experienced sudden and severe chest pain…Ecuador communities resist Canada-backed gold mine in sacred highlands
Apr 17, 2025, 11:44 am ByThis is the first of a three-part series on underreported issues involving Canadian mining companies and Indigenous peoples or local communities. Read part one here. Shrouded in the lush vegetation of the páramo, the Andean tundra landscape, the quiet…‘Trophies’ shared on social media reveal scale of mass bird slaughter in Lebanon
Apr 17, 2025, 10:10 am ByEvery year, during the Northern Hemisphere spring and autumn, the skies over Lebanon are dotted with millions of birds on their epic migrations. From soaring Egyptian vultures (Neophron percnopterus) to charismatic white storks (Ciconia ciconia), more than 500…Indonesia raises concerns over EU deforestation law’s impact on smallholders
Apr 17, 2025, 10:01 am ByJAKARTA — The Indonesian government has raised serious concerns over the European Union Deforestation Regulation, or EUDR, saying it imposes a heavy administrative burden on smallholders while lacking clarity and consistency in its enforcement. When it comes…
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