Angolan communities return to seasonal migration amid severe drought
Mongabay Globalby Bobbybascomb11 Sept 2026
Several years of severe drought are forcing people to leave their homes in Angola to search for water and food in neighboring Namibia.
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top 63%Mozambique protects Mount Mabu ‘butterfly forest’
Mongabay Globalby Bobbybascomb11 Sept 2026
Mozambique has formally protected Mount Mabu, a hotspot of endemic wildlife and home to more than 200 species of butterflies, located in the Lugela district of northern Mozambique.
Migratory bird species increasingly at risk, report finds, but there is still hope
Mongabay Globalby Terna Gyuse11 Sept 2026
- The new State of the World’s Birds report says 45% of migratory bird species are in decline with 11% threatened with extinction.
World Dolphin Day: Reporting unusual behavior, threats and increased protections
Mongabay Globalby Shanna Hanbury11 Sept 2026
Nine dolphin species, and several more subspecies and local populations, are currently critically endangered or endangered, according to the most recent assessment by the IUCN, the global wildlife...
Lack of data hinders fight against environmental crimes in Angola, says environmentalist
Mongabay Globalby Mongabay Editor11 Sept 2026
- At 29, Érica Tavares represents a new generation of environmentalists in Angola, where she leads the NGO EcoAngola.
Indigenous knowledge x tech in the search for a tiny Amazon monkey
Mongabay Globalby Abhishyantkidangoor11 Sept 2026
- Conservationists are collaborating with Indigenous communities in Ecuador to look for the world’s smallest monkey.
Nigeria’s Rachel Ikemeh wins Rolex Award for efforts to save rare red monkey
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta11 Sept 2026
Nigerian conservationist Rachel Ikemeh has been named the 2026 Rolex Award laureate, for her work with communities in the Niger Delta to protect the region’s ecology and the critically endangered...
Javan rhinos survive eruption in Indonesia, but single habitat leaves species vulnerable
Mongabay Globalby Basten Gokkon11 Sept 2026
- Indonesia’s critically endangered Javan rhinos appear to have weathered a recent volcanic eruption near their only remaining habitat, highlighting the precarious position of one of the world’s...
Court rules residents of a US city don’t have a constitutional right to lead-free water
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta10 Sept 2026
A U.S. federal court recently ruled that residents of Jackson, Mississippi, don’t have a constitutional right to truthful information from public officials, nor the right to municipal drinking...
Japan deploys equipment to Indonesia’s Borneo to help fight wildfires causing toxic haze
Mongabay Globalby Mongabay Editor10 Sept 2026
MEMPAWAH, Indonesia (AP) — A Japanese military transport ship docked on the island of Borneo on Thursday as part of a disaster relief mission to help fight wildfires in Indonesia that are causing a...
Amazon Fund grantees fear a new funding freeze after Brazil’s election
Mongabay Globalby Alexandre de Santi10 Sept 2026
- As Brazil approaches a pivotal presidential election, grantees of the Amazon Fund warn that a radical change in administration could derail its recent momentum, which saw annual financing...
Offshore wind may be good for the climate but can it be good for the ocean, too?
Mongabay Globalby Rebecca Kessler10 Sept 2026
- Offshore wind energy is on the rise. Many experts regard it as pivotal to building renewable energy grids around the globe, while also noting that it affects the marine environment.
‘Forgotten fauna’: Little known river sharks and rays face increased extinction risk
Mongabay Globalby Autumn Spanne10 Sept 2026
- Dozens of shark and ray species are known to spend some or all of their life cycle in freshwater environments, but they remain among the least studied and least protected.
As saltwater advances, Gambian farmers rethink how to protect rice fields
Mongabay Globalby Terna Gyuse10 Sept 2026
- Every year, the villagers of Kiang Jifarong in the Gambia contribute their labor and money to building earthen dikes from clay and mud in an effort to keep seawater out of their rice farms along...
Children’s health at risk in south Borneo as El Niño intensifies Indonesia wildfires
Mongabay Globalby Mongabay Editor10 Sept 2026
- Wildfires across Borneo and Sumatra are raising health risks for local populations, with some health offices reporting rising rates of respiratory disease.
Huge AI data center project blindsides water-stressed town in Brazil
Mongabay Globalby Alexandre de Santi10 Sept 2026
- Atlas Renewable Energy is planning a 1-gigawatt data center in the Paracatu municipality that exceeds the combined power capacity of all such facilities currently installed in Brazil.
Indigenous fisherwoman finds ‘lost’ spinach pipefish, not seen by science in 40 years
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta10 Sept 2026
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 Asu arrived with two small, greenish-brown fish.
Japan wants to plant no-pollen trees to solve its hay fever crisis
Mongabay Globalby Shreya Dasgupta10 Sept 2026
Two species of trees helped Japan build millions of homes after World War II. However, pollen from those same trees has also fueled a nationwide hay fever allergy.
The EU approved an antideforestation law. The US paper lobby sought to weaken it
Mongabay Globalby Andy Lehren10 Sept 2026
- Industry groups from the U.S. and Canadian forestry sector pressured the European Union to reduce rules facing North American timber and paper goods under the new European Union Deforestation...
Two wild Przewalski’s horse foals born in Kazakhstan after 200 years
Mongabay Globalby Bobbybascomb9 Sept 2026
Two Przewalski’s horse foals were born in a reintroduction center in the grasslands of central Kazakhstan in late August.