How Mexican fishers are protecting an endemic oyster — and its ecosystem
Apr 17, 2025, 8:06 am ByOver the past few decades, the harvesting of the Cortez oyster in western Mexico’s Marismas Nacionales — or the Marshes Biosphere Reserve — in Nayarit state has shifted from suffering from a fishing crisis to seeing a successful effort in its…Bolivian communities push back against foreign-backed lithium projects
Apr 17, 2025, 8:00 am ByDionicio Colque, 42, has fond memories of growing up on the edge of Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. It’s the world’s largest salt flat, spanning about 10,500 square kilometers (4,050 square miles). His family farmed potatoes on the outskirts of Colcha K, a…Most frogs in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands to lose habitat by 2100: Study
Apr 17, 2025, 7:55 am ByAmphibians in Brazil’s Pantanal, one of the world’s largest and most biodiverse wetlands, could lose huge swaths of their habitat as the region dries out from climate change, a new study has found. Researchers studied the Upper Paraguay River Basin (UPRB),…AI uncovers how birds remix their songs over time
Apr 17, 2025, 7:05 am ByIf you thought only humans had unique musical tastes that differed drastically across geographies and generations, think again. Researchers have long suspected that migration and population dynamics shape the musical repertoire of songbirds. Now, they have…Kenya arrests 4 suspected ant traffickers, seize 5,300 harvester ants
Apr 17, 2025, 6:25 am ByIn two separate but related incidents, Kenyan authorities have arrested four suspects for illegally possessing and attempting to smuggle some 5,300 ants valued at about 1.2 million Kenyan shillings ($9,250), destined for the exotic pet trade. The ants, which…Proforestation: The case for leaving trees alone
Apr 17, 2025, 4:57 am ByFounder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In a quiet corner of northern New York state, the white pines of the Adirondack Forest Preserve rise like sentinels, untouched…Africa’s growing cities are pushing birdlife to the brink (commentary)
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Apr 16, 2025, 11:32 am BySeven years after an environmental administrator and three secretaries of the environment were charged with negligence that resulted in a toxic cyanide spill at Canadian miner Barrick Gold’s Veladero gold mine in Argentina, the case has still not gone to…Elevator to extinction (cartoon)
Apr 16, 2025, 11:01 am ByAs climate change pushes montane species upslope in a bid to escape warming temperatures, species, including birds, occupying the highest altitudes could be left with nowhere to go, making them the most prone to extinction.This article was originally published…Plastic-eating seabird chicks show signs of organ failure and cognitive decline
Apr 16, 2025, 10:29 am ByFor years, Jack Auty studied how inflammation in the human body drives diseases, ranging from stroke to sepsis to Alzheimer’s, at the Tasmanian School of Medicine. But a visit to a seabird colony five years ago, where he saw many dead sable shearwater…Fake documents, real deforestation drive global trade in illegal Amazon timber
Apr 16, 2025, 10:10 am By“Everyone does it.” That’s how the representative of a sawmill described the practice of selling fake documents to illegal timber from the Brazilian Amazon as legitimate, a fraud known as timber laundering. The testimony was collected by a team from the…Baby colossal squid recorded for the first time in its deep-sea home
Apr 16, 2025, 9:09 am ByResearchers exploring the deep sea near Antarctica have made the first confirmed recordings of a colossal squid, the world’s heaviest invertebrate, in its natural environment. But the squid captured on camera was just 30 centimeters (12 inches) long — a…Why conservation research findings are rarely surprising
Apr 16, 2025, 5:41 am ByFounder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. “We already knew that.” I frequently receive complaints from readers about findings in scientific papers being commonsense…2 Mongabay podcasts shortlisted for 2025 Publisher Podcast Awards
Apr 16, 2025, 4:01 am ByPodcasts from Mongabay and Mongabay India have been shortlisted in two categories of the 2025 Publisher Podcast Awards. Media Voices, the weekly publication behind the award, announced the shortlist for the Publisher Podcast Awards last week. Episodes from…Meet Brazil’s often-seen but little-known hoary fox
Apr 15, 2025, 11:38 pm ByThe hoary fox can often be spotted sprinting through Brazil’s Cerrado, the world’s most biodiverse savanna. Despite this, not much is known about the small canid, says researcher Frederico Lemos in a recent video produced by contributors Augusto Gomes,…In an ancient Javanese sultanate, coastal women battle climate fallout
Apr 15, 2025, 10:55 pm ByDEMAK, Indonesia — The Java Sea has pursued Sunarti for years, first submerging her birthplace in Timbulsloko village, before forcing the mother of two to flee inland on the northern coast of Demak district in Indonesia’s Central Java province. “I became…Saving saiga antelope with cooperation and community in Kazakhstan
Apr 15, 2025, 5:43 pm ByIn 2006, a group of international NGOs and the government of Kazakhstan came together to save the dwindling population of saiga antelope of the enormous Golden Steppe, a grassland ecosystem three times the size of the United Kingdom. Since that moment, the…Diverse forests and forest rewilding offer resilience against climate change
Apr 15, 2025, 2:49 pm ByWhen it comes to reforestation, planting a diversity of tree species could have a plethora of positive effects on forest health and resilience, climate mitigation and biodiversity. That’s based on research from the world’s largest tree-planting experiment,…Action plan aims to save Asia’s leaf-eating monkeys amid ‘alarming’ declines
Apr 15, 2025, 10:42 am ByPrimatologists and conservation organizations have launched a 10-year action plan to improve the outlook for langur monkeys in the Sundaland biodiversity hotspot, a region of Southeast Asia that spans Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and…
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