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

Countries under the international treaty to protect migratory animals have proposed increasing protections for 42 species.

In the mountains of central Veracruz, scientific work is rarely abstract. It means walking narrow paths through cloud forest, ...

The death of a well-known wild animal is an odd kind of news. It is intimate, because so many people feel they have met the ...

Environmental and territorial defenders in Guatemala face a critical moment as violence targeting them increases across the ...

In the early 2000s, José Juan Flores Martínez was studying for a bachelor’s degree in biology and working as a volunteer in a ...

A transparent goby fish drifted through the darkness, its skeleton visible through paper-thin skin. Nearby, a sea slug wore ...

On Feb. 17, 2016, the gears ground into life at the massive Belo Monte hydroelectric plant, on the “Large Curve” of the Xingu ...

In Indigenous Asháninka belief, bees were once spirits in human form. Stories tell of a woman who enjoyed making masato, a ...

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

On a small airplane, José Manuyama, a professor, frowns and shakes his head with anguish while  thousands of feet below, five ...

Extinction is rarely a moment. It is a process that unfolds offstage, marked by missed sightings, thinning records, and the ...