A Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape, has been discovered dead in mud and log debris in a village in northern ...

The Congo Basin, the world’s largest tropical rainforest after the Amazon, is under mounting pressure. The Congo’s vast green ...

Maritime threats in the Western Indian Ocean cost the region more than $1.1 billion annually, with illegal fishing, ...

Amid rounds of court hearings and the decision pending on a 2024 writ petition, Indigenous Singsa-Bhote community leaders of ...

Interpol’s Operation Thunder seized nearly 30,000 live animals and tons of wildlife parts in a month-long global crackdown on ...

When a new treaty to protect biodiversity in international waters, or the high seas, takes effect in January, there’s an open ...

The sun rises over lush farm fields of on the outskirts of Lagos. For more than 20 years, a farmer named Joe has tilled the land, coaxing life from the earth and reaping bountiful harvests. But here, ...

Since being collared in Zambia two years ago, a young bull elephant known to researchers as Z16 has walked nearly 12,000 ...

As day breaks over the green hills around the town of Bombia, the raucous cries of chimpanzees echo through the forests of ...

This is the fourth part of Mongabay’s series on the expanding wolf population in California. Read Part 1,  Part 2 and Part 3.

Nearly a year after U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze U.S. development aid, USAID has permanently closed its ...

The transformation of Nepal’s urban landscape has brought us to a pivotal moment. Having observed this evolution as an ...