Leopards — solitary, enigmatic, nocturnal predators with golden fur splashed with dark rosette spots — have the widest range ...

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

The Moken, a nomadic seafaring people in Thailand, have for generations lived most of their days at sea, moving from one ...

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Isangi, Lulingu, Mapendo and Ndjingala: these are the names of four Grauer’s gorillas (Gorilla beringei graueri) that ...

I have spent much of my life studying predatory fishes in East Africa’s coastal waters, but never have I been more concerned ...

Hundreds of firefighters backed up by aircraft were battling a wildfire burning out of control for the third day on the ...

At the world’s first global congress of Indigenous peoples and local communities from forest basins, representatives began ...

For more than 12 years, the government of Viana municipality in Brazil’s Maranhão state dumped used needles and syringes into ...

Nearly five months after Nepal’s Supreme Court struck down a law allowing infrastructure development inside protected areas, ...

Freddy Mbengue, a 24-year-old farmer in a black polo shirt and denim shorts, keeps a watchful eye on the forest. Mbengue is ...

Tyler Kartzinel likens protecting biodiversity to enhancing cellphone networks. His analogy is pretty straightforward: look for gaps in coverage, and then do what’s needed to fill them. “Engineers ...