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

The Salween River, Asia’s longest free-flowing waterway that briefly serves as a border between Thailand and Myanmar, is ...

On April 25, 2026, a male elephant suffering from illness died in the hilly district of Rangamati in southeastern Bangladesh.

Ted Turner, who died on May 6th, liked to present himself as a businessman who had simply applied the same habits to a larger ...

I would like for me and my children to live here forever,” said Lâm Thu Sang, a resident of Vietnam’s Cần Thơ, a city of more ...

North Atlantic right whales were born this year, the most since 2009 but it's still short of the 50 births per year needed to ...

Venezuela insisted Wednesday that a disputed mineral-rich region of Guyana was “fraudulently” taken in a 19th-century example ...

Historically, conservation has mostly focused on numbers like population and habitat size. However, in the mid-2000s, ...

The whale sharks are a good omen for the fishers because they know when the whale sharks come, that means that lots of small ...

Sri Lanka’s most famous wildlife destination is facing a conservation crisis as overcrowding and speeding safari jeeps ...

Some of the most serious threats to our forests do not arrive with smoke or headlines. They move quietly, through bark and ...

In Senegal, artisanal fishing kills a surprising number of sharks and rays, according to a new study — so many, it probably ...