In honor of world elephant day on August 12, we highlight recent Mongabay stories that celebrate elephant conservation ...

The U.S.-based Wildlife Conservation Network (WCN) works to link funders with community-based conservation groups, ensuring ...

More than eight months after the bloody killing of an Indigenous elder in eastern Borneo, police in Indonesia have yet to ...

As darkness settled over Colombo on Aug. 3, a small group of young men, led by a zoology professor, slipped quietly into Sri ...

For decades, environmental, social and governance systems have focused on stopping harm before it happens. Standards, ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. It wasn’t the first time the Vietnamese authorities had accused someone of tax evasion ...

Delegates, experts, and stakeholders from 184 countries and 619 organizations are determined to finalize the treaty on ...

The new international airport in Nepal’s tourism capital of Pokhara lies close to prime vulture sites, raising risks for the ...

Downpours on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu caused flooding and mudslides on Monday, injuring a number of people and ...

Mountains of waste stretch as far as the eye can see, smoking in places, giving off an acrid stench that stings the eyes and ...

When the sheep were removed, the páramo — high-altitude ecosystems in the Andes — started to heal. Without their waste, water ...

With its enchanting eyes, powerful jaws, acute senses and haunting howls, the gray wolf (Canis lupus) — the largest member of the dog family — is a wilderness icon. Once the most widespread mammal on ...