PHNOM PENH — In Cambodia’s Koh Sdach archipelago, where turquoise waters hide mounting environmental pressures from overfishing and plastic waste to climate change, one local leader has turned…

India has strengthened its legal framework to regulate the exotic pet trade, but implementation remains fragmented.

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Oil slicks from vessels and offshore oil operations repeatedly drifted into marine protected areas around the world between 2022 and 2025, a new analysis has found. The report raises concerns for impo...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In Clayoquot Sound, in the Canadian province of British Columbia, a ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In Clayoquot Sound, in the Canadian province of British Columbia, a ...

On Indigenous Peoples Day, let’s honor the leadership and contributions of Indigenous women in water. Women – and particularly Indigenous women – are underrepresented in the water workforce and make up less than one in three voices in water governance. Yet, the water sector has much to learn from women’s leadership. Women have always led, and women get things done. Across the water community, women bring people together, build partnerships, solve problems, and move important work forward every day. Their leadership takes many forms. Some lead through community engagement and relationship building. Others advance technical solutions, policy, research, infrastructure, public health, or education. Many do all of these things at once. Different perspectives help turn vision into action. Women lead in complementary ways, and that collaboration often drives meaningful progress. In working alongside Indigenous leaders such as Emma Robbins and Crystal Tulley-Cordova, I have seen how community knowledge, technical expertise, and relationship-building complement one another. Throughout this work, women continue to champion Indigenous knowledge, environmental stewardship, water justice, and community resilience. They advance conversations about water rights, water hauling, universal access to clean water, public health, policy, research, and infrastructure. They also recognize that solving water challenges requires more than...

Por primera vez, un equipo de biólogos bolivianos exploró el dosel del Bosque Seco Chiquitano con cámaras trampa instaladas entre cuatro y veinte metros de altura durante tres meses.

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In Clayoquot Sound, in the Canadian province of British Columbia, a ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In Clayoquot Sound, in the Canadian province of British Columbia, a ...

In the tidal waters of West Bengal’s Rupnarayan river, Ganges river dolphins live with constantly shifting water levels, currents and conditions. A new study in the river found that tide, time of day and lunar cycle influences when the dolphins were detected. Published in Aquatic Mammals, the month-long study examined the these parameters together in relation to acoustic detections (monitoring the animal by the sounds it makes) of Ganges river dolphins. At the study site, tides rise and fall twice a day with occasional tidal bores, causing large shifts in water levels and the currents, explains Gargi Roy Chowdhury, principal project associate at Wildlife Institute of India (WII) and the first author of the study. “It is a human-modified landscape with intense motorised fishing, and industrialised lower reaches with the Kolaghat thermal power plant downstream of the study site. It holds a good population of dolphins,” she adds while noting that large vessel traffic is limited here. A river shaped by the tide The Rupnarayan is an 85-km-long tributary of the Hooghly, influenced by tides from the Bay of Bengal, about 220 km away. Its upper reaches have narrower channels, while the lower stretches are wider. The river also experiences...

My neighbour in Gurugram has a hedge of roses and jasmines outside the brick wall of her house. Just before the rains it is fragrant with white jasmines and in the winter season there are clusters of small pink and white roses on the hedge. My house, also in Gurugram, has a hedgerow of hibiscus trees outside a brick and grill fencing. The trees are uneven and in the flowering season, which is almost round the year, there are red, orange and pink hibiscus flowers. Both the hedge and the hedgerow attract squirrels, butterflies and birds. I have seen bulbuls nesting in the thickest parts of the hedgerow. In the hot summer months, many people put earthen pots of water for birds and squirrels adjacent to the fencing or in courtyards. There were also chameleons, before Gurugram became highly urbanised. During the rainy season, I have also seen many snakes in the undergrowth. A few months ago, I spotted one in the tree fencing that separates my house and my sister’s. The adjoining tall and stately kanak champa (Pterospermum acerifolium) also in the fenced area, is home to many birds and bees, the latter occasionally building their honeycombs in them...

Imagine standing in the vast, rolling plains of South Africa, expecting to hear the distinctive, haunting purr of a cheetah as it stalks the horizon.

PATAGONIA NATIONAL PARK — Chile. Mongabay traveled to Chile’s Patagonia National Park to follow a women-led team on a mission to bring 13 Darwin’s rheas back to the wild in April 2026. Working with Re...

Mongabay staff writer Aimee Gabay joins the Newscast this week to discuss her reporting trip to the Peruvian Amazon, where she spoke with the Indigenous Matsés community. She made the trip initially t...

Researchers from India have generated reference genomes for four threatened species of Asian hornbills, reports contributor Nikhil Sreekandan for Mongabay India. The scientists from the Nature Conserv...

A worsening convergence of drought driven by climate change, epidemic disease, and state neglect is creating a severe health emergency for the Indigenous Matsés people in the Peruvian Amazon. Mongabay...

Renewable energy companies are driving most of Brazil’s plans for new data centers, according to a recent joint analysis by The Intercept Brasil and Mongabay. As of December 2025 there were 68 request...

PATAGONIA NATIONAL PARK — Chile. Mongabay traveled to Chile’s Patagonia National Park to follow a women-led team on a mission to bring 13 Darwin’s rheas back to the wild in April 2026. Working with Re...

Indigenous activist and filmmaker Kynan Tegar joins the Mongabay Newscast this week to discuss the impacts of the fires devastating Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo. Some 48,...