The lion, with its majestic mane and the loudest growl of all the big cats, is today a vulnerable species with decreasing ...

On Rábida Island in the Galápagos, where red-tinged beaches meet ancient lava formations, Mares’s leaf-toed gecko ...

The Vidattaltivu Nature Reserve, nestled along Sri Lanka’s northwestern coast in the Mannar district, is home to one of the ...

For the pastoralist Nuer people who migrate with the seasons between western Ethiopia’s Gambella region and Africa’s largest ...

While most tropical countries experienced record-high deforestation rates in 2024, Indonesia’s forest loss is slowing, ...

More than a decade ago, a mysterious illness killed billions of sea stars, particularly along the North American Pacific ...

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

Mao Man, a 65-year-old ethnic Cham fisher in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh,  says he isn’t sure how many times he’s had ...

Firefighters and local authorities remained on high alert Friday after France’s largest wildfire in decades was contained in ...

Singapore, the smallest country in Southeast Asia, lost most of its original forest cover in the early 1800s to agriculture.

Endangered angelsharks have been served to schoolchildren in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul for years, as well as ...

Artisanal and small-scale gold mining employs more than 15 million people globally and generates a fifth of global gold ...