I write short obituaries for people who spent their lives protecting parts of the natural world. I work on them in the margins of other responsibilities, yet they have become a constant. In 2025, I ...

For much of the second half of the 20th century, the American outdoors attracted a particular kind of devotee. They moved ...

The sea otter pup was tiny, probably less than 2 weeks old, alone in Morro Bay on an October morning earlier this year. A ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. For a ...

A recent scientific review of forest maps used to ensure compliance with the European Union’s Regulation on ...

Dominique Bikaba’s family was once displaced from vibrant rainforests in the Congo Basin to make way for a sweeping national ...

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One of the world’s biggest pulp and paper companies has acknowledged to Mongabay a potential breach of its no-deforestation ...

At low tide along Padang’s coastline, fishing boats sit idle, not because of rough seas, but because the water is clogged ...

Diego Cardeñosa always knew he wanted to study sharks. But when he started his Ph.D., he had to make a choice: tagging sharks ...

A group of specialist Sumatran elephants have joined recovery operations in Aceh following the catastrophic landfall of ...