Protected areas are protected areas,” says Nadège Nzoyem, WWF’s regional director for the Congo Basin. For her, mining has no ...

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

Ten kilometers east of Taipei’s high-rises and dense traffic, the city gives way to a succession of steep, forested ...

Oil slicks from vessels and offshore oil operations repeatedly drifted into marine protected areas around the world between ...

Zuzana Burivalova, a tropical forest ecologist who uses sound to understand the health of forests globally, was recently ...

On Indigenous Peoples Day, let’s honor the leadership and contributions of Indigenous women in water. Women – and ...

COLOMBO — Fathima Rinoza lives on the fourth floor of a 14-story apartment block in Dematagoda, a suburb of Sri Lanka’s ...

Indonesia says it no longer needs to expand rice cultivation into forest areas, but it has yet to explain what the ...

A recent study has proposed a road map for countries to better monitor wildlife health and disease outbreaks. Previous ...

In Cambodia’s Koh Sdach archipelago, where turquoise waters hide mounting environmental pressures from overfishing and ...

Science, Indigenous knowledge team up to restore Canada’s kelp. (Sea otters help, too.) ...

Like a dark cloud of pestilence spreading across the globe in a science fiction movie, a highly contagious, fatal strain of ...