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

Intensifying heat waves, extreme floods and forest fires have devastated parts of Southeast Asia in recent years, spurring ...

BANGKOK — Many long-tailed macaques imported into the United States from Southeast Asia were likely poached from the wild and ...

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The first-ever acoustic telemetry network in the Mekong River has tracked key migration corridors critical to the survival of ...

It is with deep sorrow that we announce the sudden passing of Ochieng’ Ogodo, Mongabay’s East Africa editor, who died early ...

The prediction came true: deforestation in Colombia increased in 2024 after two years of decline, just as the environment ...

Siamangs are the largest of the 20 gibbon species, and belong to their own genus, Symphalangus. Distributed across Sumatra, ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation allowing commercial fishing in Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument (PIH), a massive marine protected area home to threatened fish, ...

Brazil designated a refuge twice the size of Manhattan near the Amazonian city of Manaus in June 2024 to protect the pied tamarin, South America’s most endangered monkey. But almost one year later, ...

“The Gathering” in Sri Lanka’s Minneriya National Park is said to be among the world’s most spectacular wildlife phenomena. Every year, hundreds of elephants gather on a dry lakebed in the park that ...

In the waters surrounding Fiji, an ancient tradition endures. Indigenous (iTaukei) communities have long established ...