Virunga is Africa’s first national park, created by Belgian royal decree in 1925. Named for the mountains that straddle the ...

At an empty outpost deep in a forest in Mexico, biologists were checking whether the windows had been broken or the furniture ...

The most deforested biome in Brazil, the Cerrado lost 700,000 hectares (1.7 million acres) of native vegetation in 2024. Now, ...

With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon set for November, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions ...

Protected areas such as national parks, nature reserves and Indigenous lands are the foundation of biodiversity conservation.

A stormy saga over nickel mining in one of the most biodiverse marine regions in the world appears to be far from over, even ...

The citizens of the Pan Amazon have a common complaint: the politicians and bureaucrats who manage the affairs of state ...

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The first-ever study of GPS-collared snow leopards carried out in Nepal has shown that these hyper elusive big cats spend up ...

The governments of the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu have announced their commitment to create a massive multinational ...

This story is the first article of a two-part Mongabay mini-series exploring possible climate futures. Read Part Two. The ...

Three communities in Papua New Guinea are waiting for the country’s Supreme Court to decide whether their concerns about the dumping of mine waste in the sea near their homes merit cancellation of an ...