Pelalawan, Indonesia – Authorities relocated hundreds of families from the deforestation-ravaged Tesso Nilo National Park in 2025, positioning the operation as a scalable strategy to restore protected lands amid Asia’s vanishing tropical forests. A Park on the Brink A Park on the Brink (Image Credits: Imgs.mongabay.com) Established in 2004 and expanded in 2009, Tesso Nilo ...
South Africa’s semidesert Klein Karoo witnessed a pivotal shift as United Nations recognition elevated spekboom thicket restoration efforts to global prominence. Decades of Overgrazing Give Way to Thicket Revival Decades of Overgrazing Give Way to Thicket Revival (Image Credits: Imgs.mongabay.com) Nearly two centuries of intensive livestock farming eroded about 80% of the subtropical thicket biome ...
Northeast Cambodia – Conservationists translocated 16 critically endangered banteng earlier this month to bolster populations in the Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary. Urgent Action Against Poaching and Habitat Loss Urgent Action Against Poaching and Habitat Loss (Image Credits: Imgs.mongabay.com) Poachers had already claimed several banteng from the isolated herd, leaving behind only skins in one grim ...
Amazon rainforest – A burst of iridescent wings glides through the canopy during daylight hours, prompting observers to label it a butterfly, yet such sightings frequently belong to moths. Moths Dominate in Numbers and Variety Moths Dominate in Numbers and Variety (Image Credits: Imgs.mongabay.com) Experts estimate around 18,000 butterfly species exist worldwide. Moths, however, claim ...
Nairobi, Kenya – The government introduced the Kenya National Carbon Registry on Tuesday, establishing a centralized digital system to oversee carbon credits and bolster the nation’s role in international climate efforts. A Strategic Leap in Climate Governance A Strategic Leap in Climate Governance (Image Credits: Imgs.mongabay.com) Kenya positioned itself at the forefront of carbon market ...
When you picture a dinosaur, your mind probably conjures massive creatures stomping through lush Jurassic jungles, supreme rulers of a world they seemingly always dominated. But here is something that might genuinely stop you in your tracks: those incredible animals nearly never got their shot. The real story behind their rise is one of fire, ...
When most people picture the Triassic period, they picture dinosaurs. Small ones, sure, but still dinosaurs – scurrying around, slowly working their way up the food chain. It’s an image baked into documentaries, textbooks, and museum dioramas. Honestly, it’s also very wrong. The real story of Triassic predation is far stranger, more dramatic, and in ...
There is something almost poetic about the idea of a hundred-tonne sauropod trudging thousands of kilometers across ancient landscapes, following the seasons just like the wildebeest of today’s Serengeti. For decades, most people imagined dinosaurs as creatures rooted to their territories, stomping around the same muddy floodplains for their entire lives. Turns out, that picture ...
Picture this: a Tyrannosaurus rex, standing nearly four meters tall, scanning the landscape, not just with its eyes and nose, but with a brain that may have been capable of far more nuanced processing than we ever imagined. That image sounds like something ripped from a science fiction screenplay. The truth, however, might be even ...
There’s something almost dreamlike about picturing a world where giants ruled every corner of the Earth, from scorching deserts to lush, steaming river systems. Long before humans arrived, dinosaurs carved out their place in environments so dramatically different from our own that they might as well belong to another planet. Dinosaurs thrived for over 160 ...
