As the world swims in plastic, some offer an answer: Ban...
Anti-plastic campaigners have achieved limited initial success in passing bans based on the toxic health effects of some plastic types, especially those that contain...
Illegal gold mining devastates Peruvian Amazon river and communities
Mongabay Latam traveled along 38 kilometers (24 miles) of Peru’s Cenepa River, near the border with Ecuador, where illegal mining dredges run around the...
Amazon chocolatiers: Biofactory offers ‘new way of living’ for forest communities
The Surucuá community in the state of Pará is the first to receive an Amazonian Creative Laboratory, a compact mobile biofactory designed to help...
Study: Fishing with pesticides and dynamite puts Ecuadorian Amazon in peril
Illegal fishing with agrochemicals and explosives across several of Ecuador’s Amazonian states is an uncontrolled problem, causing long-lasting, irreversible damage to aquatic ecosystems, recent...
Indigenous Gurung farmers revive climate-resilient millet in Nepal
Indigenous Gurung farmers in central Nepal are trying to revive the cultivation of an almost-forgotten, drought-resilient crop: foxtail millet.This hardy grain was traditionally farmed...
Indigenous leader Danilo Villafañe dies at 49 in trying to save...
Danilo Villafañe, an Arhuaco Indigenous leader renowned for his efforts to protect the “Heart of the World” in Colombia’s Sierra Nevada, died on Christmas...
Leopards, Nepal’s other, other big cats, face unprecedented threats
Common leopards in Nepal face unprecedented threats, often making headlines for attacking people and livestock, leading to instances where local authorities resort to shooting...
Indigenous-led coalition calls for moratorium on terrestrial carbon trade
The Pathways Alliance for Change and Transformation (PACT), a coalition of Indigenous, community and nonprofit organizations, published a paper in September 2023 calling for...
People have been driving great numbers of birds extinct for millennia
As many as 1,430 bird species, or nearly 12% of avian species, have gone extinct since the Late Pleistocene.
Human activities have been wreaking havoc...
Nepal’s birds pay cost for country’s infrastructure development
Nepal’s pursuit of development for the welfare of its citizens has made striking a balance between progress and environmental protection more challenging, especially in...
Mongabay’s 10 most popular videos of 2023
Our top 10 videos for 2023 range from various Mongabay series, including “Chasing Deforestation,” “Consumed,” “Mongabay Sessions,” and “Mongabay Explains,” to engaging webinars and...
The year in rainforests: 2023
The following is Mongabay’s annual recap of major tropical rainforest storylines.While the data is still preliminary, it appears that deforestation declined across the tropics...
