46+ min ago  (256+ words) Founder's Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In Papua, similar accounts have surfaced in recent years. Fieldwork has also confirmed the persistence of other animals once listed as extinct, including…...

1+ hour, 21+ min ago  (15+ words) Tropical forest loss falls in 2025, but world still off track on deforestation goals'news - Mongabay...

1+ hour, 58+ min ago  (1226+ words) Flash floods are a common occurrence in Bangladesh's northeastern haor (shallow wetland ecosystem) region. These large bowl-shaped topographic depressions remain inundated for around seven months every year. At the beginning of every monsoon, runoff from the heavy rainfall in the…...

4+ hour, 32+ min ago  (1100+ words) JAKARTA " Indonesian authorities are pursuing a criminal investigation into two senior public health managers over the most recent tragedy and alleged mismanagement at two of the country's largest landfill sites. The investigations were announced two months after President Prabowo Subianto…...

12+ hour, 44+ min ago  (662+ words) With that passion comes a job profile that is marked by exploitative practices, low wages and a general lack of support for dealing with mental well-being. Coupled with few benefits and a front-row seat to biodiversity loss and de-prioritization of…...

19+ hour, 36+ min ago  (554+ words) Scientists conducting a DNA analysis of ant specimens collected from across the Fiji islands in the Pacific have been able to reconstruct how entire ant populations rose and fell over thousands of years. The findings, based on specimens held at…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (1294+ words) Globally, those figures now stand at 18. 43% and 9. 97%, respectively. But progress is uneven. In its 2024-2030 Biodiversity Action Plan, the government of Colombia went beyond the "3030" goal, and pledged to protect and conserve 34% of terrestrial and marine areas by 2030, through protected areas,…...

23+ hour, 23+ min ago  (482+ words) India is home to 135 known bat species, but their natural history and ecology remain poorly understood, according to the first nationwide assessment of the country's bats. " The report, developed by 36 experts from 27 institutions in India, was released by the nonprofit…...

23+ hour, 45+ min ago  (240+ words) Asia's only tapir species still remains understudied in Malaysia, researchers at the Wildlife Conservation Society say. There have been very few reliable estimates of tapir numbers in Malaysia; one was published in 2012 and another in 2024. "It is always challenging to…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (744+ words) Protest arrives with a clear sense of purpose. Annie Leonard and Andr" Carothers avoid constructing a grand, unified theory of dissent and offer no rigid framework to explain why movements live or die. Instead, they have assembled a curated history:…...