In 1889, the British journalist Henry Morton Stanley stumbled out of the forests of Central Africa into the town of Katwe, a ...

A cloud of condensation rises as Shangari Sekar, the assistant laboratory manager for Mandai Wildlife Group, carefully lifts ...

A Mongabay investigation that revealed an illegal cattle boom amid a record-high number of killings of Indigenous Guajajara ...

One unusual characteristic of Latin American nations is their proclivity to adopt new constitutions that reflect periodic ...

Studying insect-eating bats isn’t easy: they’re tiny, fly at night, and navigate using ultrasonic frequencies far above human ...

Few people working in wildlife conservation in the 1980s could have imagined a future where breeding wolf packs roam the Netherlands and Denmark — but this is now part of Europe’s new reality. Over ...

Most of what’s known about the deep-sea painted swellshark, was learned when researchers found specimens in the fish markets ...

The large leaves of the aguaje, a tropical palm tree that grows in the peatlands and other seasonal wetland areas in tropical ...

Our ancestors fought for this land,” says Jair Goporas, 21. He leans forwards into the dim glow of a bare bulb, his eyes ...

About 90 kilometers (56 miles) southeast of Cape Town lies the tranquilly-named town of Betty’s Bay in South Africa, home to ...

With the Islamic month of Ramadan now over, a familiar sight has returned to the streets of daytime Jakarta: street vendors ...

Unprecedented numbers of emaciated dugongs have washed up dead along Thailand’s Andaman Sea coast over the past three years, ...