1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (735+ words) COLOMBO — As dusk settled over the paddy fields at Puwakpitiya, a village on the northern edge of Knuckles Mountain Range locally known as Dumbara mountains in Central Sri Lanka, researchers began laying traps along the uneasy boundary between farmland and…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (704+ words) For 10 years now, many of the villagers have retreated inland, away from the coastline, as saltwater transforms once-productive rice fields into barren land. Farmers say saltwater stress is easy to recognize: rice leaves turn yellow, while harvested grains become light…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (397+ words) Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. On the final day of a two-week expedition, where researchers were searching for a “lost” species along Papua New Guinea’s Sepik River, Helen…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (738+ words) Changes like increasing geological and glacial instability driven by the warming climate are a growing concern across the Himalayas. Our hearts go out to the thousands of families across Nepal, China, and around the world grieving their loved ones and…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1388+ words) Checkmate Government Relations, a lobbying firm founded by a hunting friend of Donald Trump Jr., recently represented Vantara, a controversial private Indian zoo that has been in the spotlight over the questionable origins of some of its more than 150,000 animals,…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (844+ words) Many raptor species, such as ospreys, return to the same wintering site year after year. “They are literally faithful to the same tree, whether it’s in Ghana, whether it’s in Guinea, or whether it’s in Gambia,” Mackrill said. Millions of…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1639+ words) “We lived in harmony with the forest,” says Julien Basimika, a young Mutwa man, one of the Indigenous Twa people in Congo. “We protected everything that needed protecting, because our lives depended on it. If we had started destroying the…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1704+ words) BANGKOK, Thailand — In the narrow alleys of Bangkok’s Chatuchak Market, the world’s wildlife is for sale. Ensnared in jungles, fished out of rivers and plucked from wetlands across the globe, hundreds of exotic species are packed onto transcontinental flights only…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (970+ words) “One important fact that we all need to understand is that migratory birds do not belong to any one country, but are a shared global heritage, and their survival requires a borderless safety net,” says Alex Ngari, who manages the…...