About two dozen police officers, government officials and a data specialist sat side by side in a command center in northern ...

Four Barbary lion cubs were born recently in a Czech zoo, a vital contribution for a small surviving population of the rare lion that is extinct in the wild. The three females and one male were seen ...

Fish maw — the dried swim bladder of ray-finned fishes — is prized across East and Southeast Asia as a culinary delicacy and ...

The Salween River, at around 3,300 kilometers, or 2,000 miles, is Asia’s longest free-flowing river, running from Tibet ...

A recent study published by Imazon, the Amazon Institute of People and the Environment, demonstrates how difficult it is to punish land grabbing in the Brazilian rainforest. The researchers analyzed ...

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

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

The Walia ibex, an iconic wild goat species found only on the steep, ragged cliffs of the Simien Mountains in northern ...

Illegal invasions in the Karipuna Indigenous Territory in the northwest of the Brazilian Amazon have started to advance again ...

As Mongabay continues to expand its impact across the globe, few leaders embody the spirit of its mission more fully than ...

Bats play a vital role in African ecosystems, from pollination and seed dispersal to pest control, significantly contributing ...

Having receded by 350 million hectares (almost 865 million acres) since 1850, trends in Latin American forests are now ...