# endangered (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover endangered. Page: Feed: --- ## [Six things to know about Asia’s heatwave and the health impacts](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/six-things-to-know-about-asias-heatwave-and-the-health-impacts/) _2026-08-21 · Andrew Jeong · Conservation news_ SEOUL — A record-breaking heatwave swept through a broad swath of Asia earlier this month, causing deaths and heat-related illnesses. This year’s extreme weather has been linked to El Niño, which, according to weather experts, could be one of the strongest ever recorded. The “super” El Niño, which officially arrived in June, is expected to \[…\] ## [This tiny Thai lizard shares its name with a ‘House of the Dragon’ beast](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/this-tiny-thai-lizard-shares-its-name-with-a-house-of-the-dragon-beast/) _2026-08-21 · Naina Rao · Conservation news_ Researchers have described a new-to-science species of horned lizard from the high-elevation, evergreen forests of western Thailand. The lizard, named the Syrax mountain horned dragon, or Acanthosaura syrax, in a recent study, was discovered in Mae Wong National Park. The species name syrax refers to the yellow dragon ridden by Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen in the \[…\] ## [Hermit crabs and cockroaches emerge as unlikely seed dispersers on a Japanese island](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/hermit-crabs-and-cockroaches-emerge-as-unlikely-seed-dispersers-on-a-japanese-island/) _2026-08-21 · Naina Rao · Conservation news_ In the humid, coastal forests of Japan’s Ishigaki Island, near Okinawa, a parasitic plant relies on some unusual allies to spread its seeds: land hermit crabs and cockroaches, according to a recent study. The plant, fungus root (Balanophora fungosa), is non-photosynthetic, meaning it lacks chlorophyll and can’t make its own food. Instead, it grows as \[…\] ## [To secure protected areas from wildlife trafficking, criminal networks must be dismantled (commentary)](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/secure-protected-areas-from-wildlife-trafficking-criminal-networks-must-be-dismantled-commentary/) _2026-08-20 · Ofir Drori · Conservation news_ Conservation has historically emphasized protected area management including protecting land, fencing, local enforcement and rangers’ patrols within parks. And indeed, decades of protected area management have demonstrated that strong local protection matters enormously. But there is a weakness in this logic that we rarely confront directly. Protected areas can suppress poaching within their… ## [Drugs are becoming institutionalized: Interview with Ticuna leader in Peru’s Amazon](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/drugs-are-becoming-institutionalized-interview-with-ticuna-leader-in-perus-amazon/) _2026-08-20 · Aimee Gabay · Conservation news_ Francisco Hernández Cayetano, president of the Federation of Ticuna and Yagua Communities of the Lower Amazon (FECOTYBA), is raising the alarm about the latest threats related to drug trafficking in the Amazon’s tri-border area. Living along riverbanks and lowland forests in the remote area where Peru, Colombia and Brazil meet, the Ticuna and Yagua people \[…\] ## [Criminal probe clears Sloth World of criminal neglect in deaths of 57 animals](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/criminal-probe-clears-sloth-world-of-criminal-neglect-in-deaths-of-57-animals/) _2026-08-20 · Bobby Bascomb · Conservation news_ Authorities in the U.S. state of Florida have cleared a controversial startup of criminal neglect after dozens of wild-caught sloths that it imported from South America for tourism purposes died. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office (OCSO) opened an investigation following the closure of the Sloth World facility in April this year. On Aug. 19, it \[…\] ## [Climate change drove extreme July heat in European seas, study finds](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/climate-change-drove-extreme-july-heat-in-european-seas-study-finds/) _2026-08-20 · Naina Rao · Conservation news_ European coastal waters recorded unprecedented sea surface temperatures in July 2026. A new study has found that human-induced climate change primarily drove the temperature surge, pushing marine ecosystems past their limits. The rapid analysis was conducted by World Weather Attribution (WWA), a global network of researchers who analyze the influence of climate change in extreme \[…\] ## [Indigenous fishers rethink shark hunting & protect species on Colombia’s coast](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/indigenous-fishers-rethink-shark-hunting-protect-species-on-colombias-coast/) _2026-08-20 · Euan Wallace · Conservation news_ LA GUAJIRA, Colombia — Feet from the ocean, four sharks and a ray lie dead on the wind-battered sand. Above them stands Wilfrido Arends, 46. The blade of a short knife glints in his hand. Carefully, he bends down to cut a small fin from the underside of one shark — an endangered species known \[…\] ## [Nepal pushes for hydropower in protected areas through legal grey area](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/nepal-pushes-for-hydropower-in-protected-areas-through-legal-grey-area/) _2026-08-20 · Rudra Pangeni · Conservation news_ KATHMANDU – Nepal’s government has allowed several private hydropower producers to develop projects inside protected areas and the buffer zones surrounding them, contravening a Supreme Court order, a Mongabay investigation reveals. In January 2025, the Supreme Court declared that a 2024 amendment to a key conservation law opening up protected areas to commercial projects was \[…\] ## [Sloth bears help shape India’s dry forests as unlikely seed dispersers](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/sloth-bears-help-shape-indias-dry-forests-as-unlikely-seed-dispersers/) _2026-08-20 · Mongabay.com · Conservation news_ Sloth bears play a critical role in structuring India’s dry deciduous forests by dispersing viable seeds and influencing plant regeneration, reports contributor Sneha Mahale for Mongabay India. “Dry deciduous forests’ plant compositions are a function of sloth bear presence, movement, and dietary habits,” study co-author K.S. Gopi Sundar, an independent scientist, told Mongabay India. For \[…\] ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/rIynZdtcv9Cy) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy apps from your repo with auto-config, instant previews, scaling, and monitoring. ## [Why every endangered species needs a champion: a conversation with conservationist Bill Konstant](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/why-every-endangered-species-needs-a-champion-a-conversation-with-conservationist-bill-konstant/) _2026-08-20 · Rhett Ayers Butler · Conservation news_ Russell Mittermeier has a running joke about Bill Konstant. The two have worked together, off and on, for more than four decades, and Mittermeier writes in the foreword to Wrestles With Wolves that Konstant seems to have a tolerance of roughly five years working directly for him before departing for another organization. Konstant has an \[…\] ## [Dolphin mother and calf observed using shells to catch fish in Australia](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/dolphin-mother-and-calf-observed-using-shells-to-catch-fish-in-australia/) _2026-08-19 · Bobby Bascomb · Conservation news_ A small population of dolphins in Shark Bay in Western Australia have a documented history of using an unusual tool to help them catch fish: Large, empty snail shells. For the first time, scientists have now observed the same behavior in a different dolphin population on Australia’s east coast. Researchers even filmed a baby dolphin \[…\] ## [Orangutan Day: Here’s where the three critically endangered species stand](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/orangutan-day-heres-where-the-three-critically-endangered-species-stand/) _2026-08-19 · Mongabay.com · Conservation news_ Aug. 19 is World Orangutan Day, a day to honor the three species of Southeast Asian great apes, all of which are classified as critically endangered by the IUCN, the global conservation authority. Orangutans were classified into two species: The Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) found in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, and the Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus), \[…\] ## [Egypt’s deserts show why ecological knowledge matters in conservation (commentary)](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/egypts-deserts-show-why-ecological-knowledge-matters-in-conservation-commentary/) _2026-08-19 · Marwan Mahmoud Kamal Hamdoun · Conservation news_ Egypt’s deserts are often introduced to the world as empty: Wide horizons, silence, heat, sand and stone. In tourism brochures they become dramatic scenery. In archaeological writing they can appear as corridors around monuments. In some conservation documents they are fragile spaces that need technical management from outside. But these descriptions miss something essential. Deserts \[…\] ## [New Zealand opens marine reserves with groundbreaking Māori co-management model](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/new-zealand-opens-marine-reserves-with-groundbreaking-maori-co-management-model/) _2026-08-19 · Edward Carver · Conservation news_ DUNEDIN, Aotearoa New Zealand — At a U.N. meeting in 2015, Aotearoa New Zealand’s then Prime Minister John Key made a major announcement that drew praise from international conservation groups: His administration would turn a swath of waters far larger than the country’s land mass into a marine protected area (MPA). The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary, \[…\] ## [Philippine Supreme Court rules monitoring commercial fishing vessels is unconstitutional](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/philippine-supreme-court-rules-monitoring-commercial-fishing-vessels-is-unconstitutional/) _2026-08-19 · Keith Anthony Fabro · Conservation news_ The Philippine Supreme Court has struck down a regulation requiring commercial fishing vessels to continuously transmit their locations and submit electronic catch reports, a decision small-scale fishers say could make it harder to protect coastal grounds already strained by overfishing and competition from larger operators. The high court upheld a lower-court decision that invalidated Fisheries… ## [Brazil marks borders for isolated Indigenous group in the Amazon after decades](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/brazil-marks-borders-for-isolated-indigenous-group-in-the-amazon-after-decades/) _2026-08-19 · Shanna Hanbury · Conservation news_ Agents of Brazil’s Indigenous agency, FUNAI, spent 60 days in June and July 2026 physically marking the borders of the Rio Pardo Kawahiva Indigenous Territory. The 411,000-hectare (1 million-acre) area in the Amazon biome of Mato Grosso state is home to the Kawahiva, an isolated Indigenous group. The government agency confirmed the presence of the \[…\] ## [New leadership initiative carries on legacy of late Indonesian environmental activist](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/new-leadership-initiative-carries-on-legacy-of-late-indonesian-environmental-activist/) _2026-08-19 · Hans Nicholas Jong · Conservation news_ JAKARTA — It had been 648 days since Nur Hidayati, an Indonesian environmental activist fondly known as Yaya or Mbak Yaya, died of cancer. Rukka Sombolinggi, secretary-general of Indonesia’s largest Indigenous organization, AMAN, had counted every one of those days. “ It makes me sad,” she said at the launch of the Yaya Leadership Initiative \[…\] ## [Spotted by AI: seahorses and shark fins](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/spotted-by-ai-seahorses-and-shark-fins/) _2026-08-19 · Abhishyant Kidangoor · Conservation news_ While elephant ivory, rhino horns and pangolin scales get a lot of attention when it comes to illegal wildlife trade, marine wildlife are widely targeted as well. A new AI-driven tool detects marine wildlife in luggages and bags at airports. The tool can detect sea cucumbers, sea horses and shark fins, with more species to \[…\] ## [Why carbon markets alone won’t save Southeast Asia’s concessions forests](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/why-carbon-markets-alone-wont-save-southeast-asias-concessions-forests/) _2026-08-19 · Mongabay.com · Conservation news_ New research suggests a “massive and untapped” opportunity for conservation within commercial concessions in Southeast Asia, reports Mongabay’s Carolyn Cowan. Using satellite data, researchers identified roughly 42 million hectares (104 million acres) of intact forest still standing inside logging, timber, rubber and oil palm concessions across Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Myanmar. The study… ## [Unlimited Mobile Internet, One V-SIM (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/8Kc2v00KiYID) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Automatically switches across T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon; no throttling, no contract. ## [Tapirs, bats and nests: How plastic infiltrates Amazonian wildlife](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/tapirs-bats-and-nests-how-plastic-infiltrates-amazonian-wildlife/) _2026-08-18 · Tiago da Mota e Silva · Conservation news_ At the mouth of the Amazon River, birds are already building blue nests out of discarded plastic. ## [‘Remembering Wildlife’ shines a spotlight on the species we risk losing forever](https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2026/08/remembering-wildlife-shines-a-spotlight-on-the-species-we-risk-losing-forever/) _2026-08-18 · Mike DiGirolamo · Conservation news_ British wildlife photographer Margot Raggett says she created the book Remembering Elephants after she heard David Attenborough say, “The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?” Her effort was to provoke this question in others and to give the \[…\] ## [Elders, conservationists race to record fading sacred ties to Philippines’ endemic birds](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/elders-conservationists-race-to-record-fading-sacred-ties-to-philippines-endemic-birds/) _2026-08-18 · Keith Anthony Fabro · Conservation news_ PUERTO GALERA, Philippines — The forest settles into a gentle rhythm as the trail climbs into the Iraya Mangyan ancestral domain in Puerto Galera town, on the Philippines’ Mindoro Island. Only birdsong breaks the silence as towering trees sway overhead. A clear stream tumbles across the trail over smooth rocks. Ahead walks 43-year-old Lenito Pampilo. Every \[…\] ## [On the Great Barrier Reef, management by Traditional Owners is growing](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/on-the-great-barrier-reef-management-by-traditional-owners-is-growing/) _2026-08-18 · Cat Williams · Conservation news_ PERTH, Australia — “There’s this beautiful underwater garden out there,” says Mercy Singleton, referring to the vast network of colorful corals that make up the Great Barrier Reef off eastern Australia’s Queensland coast. “We’d like to see it safe and recovering.” Singleton is Yirrganydji and director of Research and Engagement Services at Dawul Wuru Aboriginal Corporation. \[…\] ## [A looming rock collapse threatens a Swiss village as thawing permafrost destabilizes the Alps](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/a-looming-rock-collapse-threatens-a-swiss-village-as-thawing-permafrost-destabilizes-the-alps/) _2026-08-18 · Associated Press · Conservation news_ KANDERSTEG, Switzerland (AP) — An unstable mountain rock formation looming above the Swiss village of Kandersteg threatens a landslide that could rival the disaster that destroyed nearby Blatten last year, a collapse scientists linked to thawing permafrost and glacier dynamics. The 1,300 residents of Kandersteg, in Switzerland’s Bern canton, live amid a quintessential Alpine landscape of sharp \[…\] ## [Indigenous food sovereignty is one of the most overlooked conservation strategies (commentary)](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/indigenous-food-sovereignty-is-one-of-the-most-overlooked-conservation-strategies-commentary/) _2026-08-18 · Brijlal ChaudhariGemma Sethsmith · Conservation news_ As governments and conservation organizations search for solutions to the interconnected crises of biodiversity loss, climate change and food insecurity, they are overlooking one of the most effective approaches already working on the ground: Indigenous food sovereignty. Around the world, Indigenous communities manage or hold tenure rights to roughly a quarter of Earth’s land surface, \[…\] ## [Texas activist’s claims of Indigenous ancestry face scrutiny](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/texas-activists-claims-of-indigenous-ancestry-face-scrutiny/) _2026-08-17 · Mongabay.com · Conservation news_ A recent investigation from Grist, a U.S.-based nonprofit media organization, raises questions about environmental activist Juan Mancias’ Indigenous claim to the land he works to protect in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2017, Mancias traveled to France and helped pressure French banks to withdraw support for oil and gas projects that he said threatened \[…\] ## [Lake Powell hits record low, threatening key water and electricity supply for millions](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/lake-powell-hits-record-low-threatening-key-water-and-electricity-supply-for-millions/) _2026-08-17 · Associated Press · Conservation news_ The water level at Lake Powell, the United States’ second-largest reservoir, has fallen to a record low, heightening concerns about the ongoing crisis in the Colorado River system. The alarming milestone at Lake Powell, reached Saturday, comes about a week after the river’s other major reservoir, Lake Mead, also hit a historic low. Plummeting water levels \[…\] ## [Fatal barge crashes fuel fear over Madeira River waterway expansion in Brazil](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/fatal-barge-crashes-fuel-fear-over-madeira-river-waterway-expansion-in-brazil/) _2026-08-17 · Karla Mendes · Conservation news_ With an election looming, Amazon communities worry their safety will be traded for faster agribusiness growth. ## [Concerns grow over ‘green’ biomass power in Japan after spate of accidents](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/concerns-grow-over-green-biomass-power-in-japan-after-spate-of-accidents/) _2026-08-17 · Nithin Coca · Conservation news_ For the past decade, Japan has been expanding the use of woody biomass for power generation to replace or be mixed and burned with coal. The country is now the second-largest wood pellet consumer in the world after the U.K. But there are concerns that burning wood pellets or palm kernel shells to generate electricity \[…\] ## [Collect Open Source Legends (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/WEXtgt3ELwxU) _2026-08-17 · **Sponsored**_ Open-licensed art, limited foil trading packs, and optional on-chain mints. ## [Increasingly rare: Jaguarundi moves up a notch on the endangered species list](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/increasingly-rare-jaguarundi-moves-up-a-notch-on-the-endangered-species-list/) _2026-08-17 · Sean Mowbray · Conservation news_ Distinct for their rather uncat-like appearance, jaguarundis have long flown under the research and conservation radar. However, its latest uplisting to near threatened on the IUCN Red List could change that. These small cats — weighing up to around 7 kilograms (15 pounds) — roam savannah and forest landscapes across a massive range stretching from \[…\] ## [Only a few hundred Timor green pigeons may remain. There is still time to save them](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/only-a-few-hundred-timor-green-pigeons-may-remain-there-is-still-time-to-save-them/) _2026-08-17 · Rhett Ayers Butler · Conservation news_ Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. On April 20, on the south coast of Timor-Leste, Jafet Potenzo Lopes saw three green pigeons. He had not seen the species for years. The birds were Timor green pigeons, and the site, in Manatuto municipality, had no \[…\] ## [Safeguarding passageways is the next step for India’s growing tiger populations](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/safeguarding-passageways-is-the-next-step-for-indias-growing-tiger-populations/) _2026-08-17 · Mongabay.com · Conservation news_ As Bengal tiger numbers rebound in India and increasingly disperse into human-dominated areas, conservationists are urging the government to prioritize protecting ecological corridors that connect vital habitats and tiger populations. But they also warn that corridors shouldn’t become sticking plasters for compromised core habitats, reports contributor Nirmal Ghosh for Mongabay. India is home to… ## [Aceh’s community fishers struggle to preserve tradition amid blooms of plastic pollution](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/acehs-community-fishers-struggle-to-preserve-tradition-amid-blooms-of-plastic-pollution/) _2026-08-17 · Nurul Hasanah · Conservation news_ BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — Seven fishers moved in concert along the shore of Gampong Jawa Beach in Banda Aceh, Indonesia’s westernmost city, hauling in a blue net nearly half a mile long from the Indian Ocean. “Forward … Keep it going … Now, move back!” instructed Surya Abid, the panglima laot, or “sea commander,” of \[…\] ## [Logging and the slow disappearance of Australia’s large old trees (commentary)](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/logging-and-the-slow-disappearance-of-australias-large-old-trees-commentary/) _2026-08-17 · David Lindenmayer · Conservation news_ Large old trees are among the most important structures in native forests, in Australia and around the world. They store disproportionately large amounts of carbon relative to small, young trees, and they provide the nesting and denning hollows that hundreds of animal species depend on. A single large old tree can take two or three \[…\] ## [South Africa’s top court blocks Shell oil exploration off country’s Wild Coast](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/south-africas-top-court-blocks-shell-oil-exploration-off-countrys-wild-coast/) _2026-08-17 · Victoria Schneider · Conservation news_ In a landmark judgment on Aug. 14, South Africa’s Constitutional Court set aside exploration rights held by oil giant Shell and Impact Africa, a South African oil and gas company. The ruling prevents the companies from exploring for fossil fuels off South Africa’s Wild Coast. The case was brought by Wild Coast communities and environmental \[…\] ## [Is this the world’s loneliest tree?](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/is-this-the-worlds-loneliest-tree/) _2026-08-16 · Sam Lee · Conservation news_ The last known wild individual of Dendroseris neriifolia hangs off the side of a steep cliff on a remote island. To try to prevent its total extinction in the wild, conservationists recently went to great lengths—and heights—to collect seeds from the tree. They have begun trials to cultivate them with the help of the Millennium \[…\] ## [Steve Smit, South Africa’s “Monkey Man,” has died](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/steve-smit-south-africas-monkey-man-has-died/) _2026-08-15 · Rhett Ayers Butler · Conservation news_ In 2015 Steve Smit badly injured his right eye while trying to round up rescued chickens in his garden in Westville, near Durban. A branch struck him and almost cost him his sight. Doctors told him to rest. Within weeks he had gone on more than 20 wildlife rescues, wearing an eye patch. For three \[…\] ## [John Salehe helped shape Tanzania’s community conservation movement](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/john-salehe-helped-shape-tanzanias-community-conservation-movement/) _2026-08-15 · Rhett Ayers Butler · Conservation news_ For wildlife moving between Lake Manyara and Tarangire, a line on a map was never enough. Elephants, wildebeest, and other animals crossed land used by pastoralists and farmers, where roads, cultivation, and settlements were expanding. Keeping such routes open meant persuading people who lived there that wildlife had a place in their future. It meant \[…\] ## [The king of the Andes: How a village learned to coexist with condors](https://news.mongabay.com/video/2026/08/the-king-of-the-andes-how-a-village-learned-to-coexist-with-condors/) _2026-08-15 · Christina NoriegaJulia LimaMonica Wise Robles · Conservation news_ PÁRAMO EL ALMORZADERO, Colombia — Doris Torres is a sheepherder who grew up seeing Andean condors as enemies. In this remote village high in the Colombian Andes, the birds were blamed for livestock losses and often killed through poisoning or shooting — persecution that helped push their population to the brink. But as Torres learned \[…\] ## [Global marine protected areas fail to safeguard most sharks and rays: Study](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/global-marine-protected-areas-fail-to-safeguard-most-sharks-and-rays-study/) _2026-08-14 · Madeline Shaw · Conservation news_ In 2022, 196 countries agreed to the ambitious conservation goal of “30×30”: setting aside 30% of the planet’s coastal and marine areas for conservation by 2030 as part of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Now, halfway to 2030, only about 10% of the ocean is covered by protected areas, leaving many countries far short of \[…\] ## [Among the sacred hills of Colombia’s Guainía](https://news.mongabay.com/custom-story/2026/08/among-the-sacred-hills-of-colombias-guainia/) _2026-08-14 · Rhett Ayers Butler · Conservation news_ I had been struck by photographs of the Cerros de Mavicure rising above the forest and the Inírida River in eastern Colombia. The dark rock, exposed against an almost unbroken expanse of green, seemed unlike anywhere else I had visited in the Amazon. Last month, ahead of Mongabay Latam’s PUMA FEST in Bogotá, I finally \[…\] ## [Caught on camera: Sand cats may have a ‘sizable population’ in Qatar](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/caught-on-camera-sand-cats-may-have-a-sizable-population-in-qatar/) _2026-08-14 · Alex Megerle · Conservation news_ Muhammad Ali Nawaz didn’t expect to see so many cats. Nawaz, a wildlife ecologist at Qatar University, had set out to survey Qatar for the sand cat, a tiny, seldom-studied felid that lives in deserts across Southwest and Central Asia, northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Though there were anecdotal reports of the species in \[…\] ## [New studies portray Amazon as surprisingly resilient, but tipping point looms](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/new-studies-portray-amazon-as-surprisingly-resilient-but-tipping-point-looms/) _2026-08-14 · Amanda Magnani · Conservation news_ Three 2026 studies reveal that the Amazon can regrow quickly, but deforestation and warming could trigger a system-wide tipping point in the next 15 years. ## [How women farmers are helping elephants and forests in a Sumatran national park](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/how-women-farmers-are-helping-elephants-and-forests-in-a-sumatran-national-park/) _2026-08-14 · SuryadiYenni Kwok · Conservation news_ LUBUK KEMBANG BUNGA, Indonesia — Tesso Nilo National Park, located on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, often makes headlines due to human-wildlife conflict — a byproduct of illegal encroachment and deforestation by oil palm plantations. However, there is a ray of hope, thanks to female farmers who live in a buffer zone of the national \[…\] ## [Sand mining plans spark opposition from fishers in Indonesia’s Riau Islands](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/sand-mining-plans-spark-opposition-from-fishers-in-indonesias-riau-islands/) _2026-08-14 · Basten GokkonYogi Eka Sahputra · Conservation news_ NUMBING ISLAND, Indonesia — The waters off Numbing Island, part of the Riau archipelago between Sumatra and Singapore, are among Indonesia’s richest fishing grounds. Local fisher Edy says the abundant fish stocks have enabled him to support his family and pay for his children’s university education. He typically earns between 1 million and 2 million \[…\] ## [How AI helps gather remote biodiversity data: Interview with Microsoft’s Juan Lavista Ferres](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/how-ai-helps-gather-remote-biodiversity-data-interview-with-microsofts-juan-lavista-ferres/) _2026-08-14 · Abhishyant Kidangoor · Conservation news_ At a meeting with conservationists a couple of years back, Juan Lavista Ferres had a eureka moment. As the director of Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab, Lavista Ferres has extensively worked on projects that use artificial intelligence technology to process and analyze biodiversity data. At that particular meeting, however, he realized that a glaring gap \[…\] ## [‘To speak of agroecology is to speak of farmers’ autonomy’: Interview with Olga Muthambe](https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/to-speak-of-agroecology-is-to-speak-of-farmers-autonomy-interview-with-olga-muthambe/) _2026-08-14 · Far Vubil · Conservation news_ In Mozambique, southeast Africa, more than 1,600 women participate in agroecological practice programs across the provinces of Maputo and Gaza (both in the south), Tete (central region) and Cabo Delgado (far north). These initiatives are led by Hikone Moçambique, a civil society association founded in 2013 that seeks to empower rural women. The organization’s work \[…\] ## [Infrastructure and land use behind devastating India monsoon floods](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/infrastructure-and-land-use-behind-devastating-india-monsoon-floods/) _2026-08-14 · Naina Rao · Conservation news_ Widespread flooding in northeastern India that affected more than 500,000 people and claimed at least 99 lives between June and August 2026 was primarily driven by human factors like rapid urbanization, deforestation, and destruction of wetlands, new research says. It also points to structural failures rather than climate change. The findings were published by World \[…\] ## [100 species on the brink get a $200m conservation lifeline](https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/100-species-on-the-brink-get-a-200m-conservation-lifeline/) _2026-08-14 · Shanna Hanbury · Conservation news_ Recovery projects for 100 critically endangered and extinct-in-the-wild species across the world are set to receive new funding under a conservation initiative announced Aug. 4. Re:wild and the Bezos Earth Fund, both U.S.-based environmental organizations, created the Phoenix Species Project and committed $100 million each, for a total of $200 million, to the project. The \[…\]