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 ...

Between March and May 2025, at least eight children from the Achuar Indigenous community died of leptospirosis in the ...

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

Elephants are considered a sacred totem by many in northwestern Zimbabwe, but they also frequently raid villagers’ crops near ...

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

Reeling from a cyclone that may have erased a chunk of its population, the Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape ...

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

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

As anti-poaching techniques have improved over the years, poachers have increasingly used technology to evade detection by ...

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