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

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

Camera traps installed in the world’s largest tiger reserve, in China, have captured footage of an Amur tigress and her five ...

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

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

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 ...

Deep within the cloud forests of the San Martín region of Peru lie two places so high, cold and remote that they remained ...

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