What a photo! A female Amur tiger is released into the wild in Kazakhstan.

Cool photos here of tigers and elephants using underpass infrastructure in India news.mongabay.com/2026/07/indi... @mongabayindia.bsky.social @mongabay.com

Via Langur Penang Project

I'm nominated for a Gabo Award for the Brazil shark meat investigation I did with colleagues last year. It's supposed to be the most prestigious journalism award in Latin America premioggm.org/noticias/202... Read the stories here: news.mongabay.com/specials/202...

Malaysia's The Star newspaper ran the monkey bridge story I did with AFP in a big spread a few days ago

I wrote about how a canopy bridge made of old fire hoses in Malaysia's Penang is helping reduce human-wildlife conflict with dusky langurs in a housing development home mostly to retirees. Article for @mongabay.com in partnership with @afp.com news.mongabay.com/custom-story...

In Malaysia, a bridge helps endangered langurs and humans coexist

In Malaysia’s Penang state, conservationists and residents are collaborating to reduce conflict between humans and endangered dusky langurs displaced by urban development and habitat loss. The Langur ...

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Sharks aren't doing so hot, but there's lots of cool stuff going on in the world of shark science and conservation. I wrote about it for @mongabay.com after attending the world's largest shark conference in Sri Lanka.

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

At world’s largest shark conference, scientists warn of a grim outlook across the board

For the first time ever, an orangutan was filmed using a canopy bridge www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCyj..., www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts..., www.theguardian.com/environment/...

OU WT bridge crossing

YouTube video by Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS)

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Photos from the shark meat processing village of Rumbuk on the Indonesian island of Lombok, and the nearby Tanjung Luar market news.mongabay.com/custom-story... @mongabay.com

The U of São Paulo Med School Hospital cancelled a plan to buy 17 metric tons of shark meat after Sea Shepherd lobbied them about it. Still plenty of open tenders for shark meat in 2026: 80 tons for a school district in Bahia, 70 tons for one in Rio... Story here: news.mongabay.com/2026/04/lati...

Latin America's largest hospital complex cancels plan to buy shark meat

The University of São Paulo Medical School Hospital said it would cancel a plan to buy more than 17 metric tons of shark meat as part of a 2026 procurement, citing concerns over heavy metals. HCFMUSP ...

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Brazilian version of This American Life did an hourlong show about our shark meat investigation, featuring my colleague @bykarlamendes.bsky.social

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Em 2024, o site Mongabay Brasil começou uma investigação para entender o consumo de carne de tubarão. Eles descobriram que essa carne é servida em instituições públicas do país todo – mas sempre sob um outro nome: “cação”. E isso é um problema em várias frentes, de saúde pública à risco ambiental.

Got long-listed for a @oneworldmedia.bsky.social award in the Print 2026 category for our Brazil shark meat investigation oneworldmedia.org.uk/awards/longl...

An injured proboscis monkey was found near a railway track in Thailand. Proboscis monkeys don't live in Thailand. The species is endemic to Borneo, and there's no Thai import permits on record. The animal is likely an escapee from the illegal exotic pet trade. news.mongabay.com/2026/03/prob...

Proboscis monkey found in Thailand adds to evidence of cross-border illegal trade

RATCHABURI, Thailand — On Jan. 6, residents of Samut Sakhon province, central Thailand, found an injured monkey near a railway track. Pot-bellied with reddish-brown fur and a prominent, upturned nose,...

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Mongabay x Bellingcat collab, No. 1 news.mongabay.com/2026/03/face... @mongabay.com @bellingcat.com

Facebook shuts Indonesia groups after Mongabay and Bellingcat report illegal wildlife trade

This story was produced in collaboration with Bellingcat. Read their version here, and Mongabay-Indonesia’s version here. JAKARTA — A new report by Mongabay and independent journalism organization Bel...

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NYT profile of Iran's Shahed drone www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/w... "Iranian drones are the product of four decades of development, born out of military and financial necessity."

[nonprofit #journalism impact] Investigative reporting by @mongabay.com reporters @philjaco.bsky.social @bykarlamendes.bsky.social @nandawenzel.bsky.social spurred the state of Rio to remove #sharks from the menu Education dept announces a ban on serving shark meat in public schools it manages:

Investigation earns Brazil's top education award & ban on shark meat in Rio de Janeiro school cafeterias - Environmental Journalism and Education

In July and August 2025, Mongabay published two investigative reports that uncovered the scale and opacity of shark meat purchases by Brazilian government institutions. These stories triggered immedia...

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"Her career did not produce a single defining theory or moment. Instead, it accumulated into a long record of observation and intervention. The continuity of her presence in the field allowed her to trace changes that were otherwise difficult to capture." news.mongabay.com/2026/03/biru...

Birutė Galdikas, primatologist who spent a lifetime studying & defending orangutans, has died at 79

In the early 1970s, orangutans occupied an ambiguous place in science. They were known to exist, of course, but remained poorly understood, rarely observed, and difficult to study in the wild. Their f...

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Rare photos of a cyberscam center after its capture by rebel forces in Myanmar www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/w...

At This Office Park, Scamming the World Was the Business

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@insightcrime.org been the best on Venezuela coverage insightcrime.org/news/will-ma...

How Maduro’s Ouster Will Shift Criminal Dynamics in Venezuela

The arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro will not upend the Venezuelan government’s permissive stance toward organized crime.

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Interesting article on the possibility of a 'palace coup' behind the capture of Maduro, prospects for a guerilla insurgency, and how Venezuela could see 'double-digit growth for several years' if the US lifts sanctions and the state gets oil production back up www.foreignaffairs.com/venezuela/ve...

Venezuela After Maduro

A conversation with Francisco Rodríguez.

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Elephants who 'cut their tusks' in the 2004 Aceh tsunami relief effort are now helping excavate terrain pummeled by the Cyclone Senyar floods and landslides news.mongabay.com/2025/12/tsun... @mongabay.com @mongabayid.bsky.social

Got this Brazilian trofeu from the Rio Grande do Sul Press Association for our shark meat investigation - placed 2nd in the national reporting category with @bykarlamendes.bsky.social @nandawenzel.bsky.social @kuangkeng.bsky.social @mongabaylatam.bsky.social @pulitzercenter.org 🙏😤🙏

Finally, some major media coverage of China's thorium-powered molten-salt-reactor nuclear program www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

How America Gave China an Edge in Nuclear Power

Though the two countries are now in a race to develop atomic technology, China’s most advanced reactor was the result of collaboration with American scientists.

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I interviewed Diego Cardeñosa about a device he invented to detect illegal shark fins that's now being rolled out in countries across the world, after a successful run in Hong Kong news.mongabay.com/2025/12/the-... @mongabay.com

The lab-in-a-backpack busting illegal shark fins: Interview with Diego Cardeñosa

Diego Cardeñosa always knew he wanted to study sharks. But when he started his Ph.D., he had to make a choice: tagging sharks in the field — the “fun,” typically more-sought-after path — or studying t...

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Just weeks before the recent cyclone disaster that may have wiped out a subpopulation of rare Tapanuli orangutans in N. Sumatra, the govt unveiled a plan to strip legal protections for part of their habitat. Big story from my Indonesian colleagues @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2025/12/tapa...

Tapanuli orangutan, devastated by cyclone, now faces habitat loss under zoning plans

JAKARTA — Reeling from a cyclone that may have erased a chunk of its population, the Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape population, now faces the prospect of losing more of its already c...

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Always fun to go on the @mongabay.com newscast, @mikedigirolamo.bsky.social is a great interviewer and makes it easy

Mike DiGirolamo@mikedigirolamo.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This week on the Mongabay Newscast @philjaco.bsky.social explains how he, @bykarlamendes.bsky.social and @pulitzercenter.org's Kuang Keng Kuek Ser uncovered the fact that state governments in Brazil have been serving shark meat to thousands of public institutions. Listen to full story here:

This week on the Mongabay Newscast @philjaco.bsky.social explains how he, @bykarlamendes.bsky.social and @pulitzercenter.org's Kuang Keng Kuek Ser uncovered the fact that state governments in Brazil have been serving shark meat to thousands of public institutions. Listen to full story here:

Brazilian government serves shark to infants, prisoners and more: How Mongabay broke the story

Mongabay senior editor Philip Jacobson joins Mongabay’s podcast to discuss a two-part investigation published this year in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center about how state governments in Brazil ...

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This is the sort of thing I'd expect to read about China and Taiwan, not the US. But that's where we're at www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Trump orders 'blockade' of sanctioned oil tankers leaving, entering Venezuela

U.S. President Donald Trump ordered on Tuesday a "blockade" of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, in Washington's latest move to increase pressure on Nicolas Maduro's governmen...

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Meta makes billions off scammers in China running ads on its platforms. An anti-fraud team focused on slashing these was disbanded in late 2024 "as a result of Integrity Strategy pivot and follow-up from Zuck," leaked documents show. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Meta tolerates rampant ad fraud from China to safeguard billions in revenue

A Reuters investigation reveals the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp decided to accept high levels of fraudulent advertisements from China. Internal company documents show Meta wanted to mini...

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Malaysian corps hold 65 of 67 'FCA' forest clearance permits in Papua New Guinea, whose massive deforestation is a massively underreported story. 90% of PNG's timber is exported to China. news.mongabay.com/2025/12/mala... by Sonam Lama @mongabay.com

Malaysian companies dominate PNG forest-clearance permits: report

Papua New Guinea’s rainforests, which span 28.2 million hectares (69.6 million acres), are among the most biodiverse in the world, hosting an estimated 5-8% of all species. The country also has one of...

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