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

Environmental and territorial defenders in Guatemala face a critical moment as violence targeting them increases across the ...

In 2019, Bangladesh set a target to end the use of traditional bricks and switch to concrete blocks in all government construction works by June 2025. Aimed at preventing the loss of farmland and the ...

Extinction is rarely a moment. It is a process that unfolds offstage, marked by missed sightings, thinning records, and the ...

Universities like to present themselves as durable institutions. They outlast governments, ride out recessions, and take ...

Encompassing some 7,400 square kilometers, or 2,860 square miles, along the Honduran border, Nicaragua’s Bosawás Biosphere ...

In the early 2000s, José Juan Flores Martínez was studying for a bachelor’s degree in biology and working as a volunteer in a ...

A transparent goby fish drifted through the darkness, its skeleton visible through paper-thin skin. Nearby, a sea slug wore ...

On a small airplane, José Manuyama, a professor, frowns and shakes his head with anguish while  thousands of feet below, five ...

In the forests of the Sierra Nevada, the black-backed woodpecker is without parallel. The bird appears almost born of fire, ...

In 2025, Mongabay published more than 7,300 stories across eight languages. The volume reflects a newsroom that has expanded ...

Conservation philanthropy often favors urgency: campaigns, deadlines, the language of crisis. A smaller group of donors has ...