Small hippo, big dreams: Can Moo Deng, the viral pygmy hippo, save her species?
Jan 14, 2026, 2:15 pm By
Social media loves a charismatic, cute, relatable animal. Personalities like Neil the elephant seal…Indonesia says 4 million hectares of plantation, mining lands reclaimed in crackdown
Jan 14, 2026, 11:43 am By
JAKARTA — Indonesia has reclaimed more than 4 million hectares (9.9 million acres, about the size…After years of progress, Indonesia risks ‘tragedy’ of a deforestation spike
Jan 14, 2026, 4:27 am By
After years of uneven progress, deforestation in Indonesia is poised to accelerate, owing to…Three Andean condor chicks hatch in Colombia as species nears local extinction
Jan 14, 2026, 2:18 am By
Since July 2024, three Andean condor chicks have hatched at an artificial incubation program located…Ants need urgent protections from global trade, conservationists say
Jan 13, 2026, 9:25 pm By
As the recent seizure of more than 5,000 endemic ants in Kenya reveals, ants have become part of a…Study tracks fishing boats to see how heat waves affect fish distribution
Jan 13, 2026, 9:09 pm By
Marine heat waves have become longer and more frequent along the U.S. West Coast, as elsewhere in…South Africa’s great white shark population worries researchers
Jan 13, 2026, 8:43 pm By
Great white shark populations in South Africa are disappearing, driven largely by human activities…Formalizing Amazon gold mining can transform a toxic liability into an economic opportunity (analysis)
Jan 13, 2026, 7:13 pm By
The wildcat gold mining boom that swept across the Amazon beginning in the 1970s left behind an…Canceled tourism project still threatens local communities in Tanzania
Jan 13, 2026, 4:44 pm By
Roughly one year ago, the Tanzanian government a multimillion-dollar tourism project funded by the…North Atlantic right whale births increase
Jan 13, 2026, 12:50 pm By
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis,…Myanmar’s botanical data gaps risk its unique flora, collaborations could help, study says
Jan 13, 2026, 1:00 am By
Myanmar is a country of extremes. From tropical forests, mangroves and wetlands to frost-bitten…Mauritania’s fishmeal fever ends as government tightens regulation
Jan 13, 2026, 12:09 am By
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Jan 12, 2026, 11:24 pm By
Over the past year, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the U.K., officially named 125…Cowboy boots made from pirarucu leather fund Amazon’s sustainable fishery
Jan 12, 2026, 6:26 pm By
An inhabitant of the Amazon Basin and one of the world’s largest freshwater fishes, the pirarucu…One year on, TGBS benchmark shows how to restore forests for biodiversity
Jan 12, 2026, 4:54 pm By
There are around 60,000 known tree species in the world, and they can do amazing things: store…Silvopasture gains momentum in the Amazon, but can it shrink beef’s footprint?
Jan 12, 2026, 12:26 pm By
In the rolling hills of Iñapari, a remote town in the Peruvian Amazon on the tri-border with…When Indigenous knowledge enters the scientific record
Jan 12, 2026, 10:41 am By
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis,…New species of burrowing snake described from coffee farm in India
Jan 12, 2026, 9:10 am By
A decade after tour guide Basil P. Das stumbled upon a small black-and-beige snake while working on…Conservation’s unfinished business
Jan 12, 2026, 12:31 am By
Conservation often presents itself as a technical enterprise: how much land to protect, which…A catastrophe that might offer a glimpse of hope for Indonesia (commentary)
Jan 11, 2026, 1:06 pm By
It was 27 December 2004. I was sitting at my computer in my office in Jakarta, Indonesia, my mind…
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