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Mongabay's environmental journalism packed a serious punch in 2025.
Their reporting exposed illegal Amazon activities, spotlighted conservation wins in Colombia and Mexico, and tackled wildlife trafficking. The impact? Real indictments in Brazil, policy recommendations, and action from major orgs like WWF.
Over 870 documented impacts—all empowering communities to protect their land and ecosystems.

How Mongabay's journalism made an impact in 2025
The guiding star at Mongabay isn’t pageviews or clicks; it’s meaningful impact. As 2025 draws to a close, we look back at some of the ways Mongabay’s journalism made a difference this year. Empowering Indigenous and local communities A Mongabay Latam investigation found 67 illegal airstrips were cut into the Peruvian Amazon to transport drugs, […]

Katherine Mansfield Society Essay Prize 2026: Placing Katherine Mansfield https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/29/katherine-mansfield-society-essay-prize-2026-placing-katherine-mansfield

Deforestation climbs in Central America’s largest biosphere reserve https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/deforestation-climbs-in-central-americas-largest-biosphere-reserve/

Deforestation climbs in Central America’s largest biosphere reserve
Encompassing some 7,400 square kilometers, or 2,860 square miles, along the Honduran border, Nicaragua’s Bosawás Biosphere Reserve is the largest biosphere reserve in Central America. It’s home to the Miskito and Mayanga Indigenous groups as well as countless species; endangered Geoffrey’s spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) and Baird’s tapirs (Tapirus bairdii) inhabit Bosawas, as do critically […]

Without wanting to detract from the main thrust of the article, I find the usage "new species" interestingly anthropocentric.
A new frog species emerges from Peru’s cloud forests — and it’s already at risk
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A new frog species emerges from Peru’s cloud forests — and it’s already at risk
Deep within the cloud forests of the San Martín region of Peru lie two places so high, cold and remote that they remained virtually unexplored for decades. In 2022, and again in 2025, monitors from three Indigenous and local associations guided a team of scientists from Peru and France on a series of expeditions to […]

❓ Can two Amazons survive? Invisible e-waste is poisoning the world
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/can-two-amazons-survive-invisible-e-waste-is-poisoning-the-world/

Can two Amazons survive? Invisible e-waste is poisoning the world
“I live in Accra, Ghana,” says Isaac Dinwe, who works for Closing the Loop, a Dutch company that works with the electronics industry to increase global recycling. “The e-waste problem in my country is so huge we are unable to manage it. Most of our e-waste ends up in city centres. Informal workers extract what […]

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

Volume 19 of Katherine Mansfield Studies: Placing Katherine Mansfield https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/29/volume-19-of-katherine-mansfield-studies-placing-katherine-mansfield

Indonesia closes 2025 with rising disasters and stalled environmental reform https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/indonesia-closes-2025-with-rising-disasters-and-stalled-environmental-reform/

Indonesia closes 2025 with rising disasters and stalled environmental reform
JAKARTA — Indonesia closed 2025 facing an uncomfortable reality: climate disasters are escalating while policy direction has remained largely unchanged during President Prabowo Subianto’s first year in office, with the country still heavily dependent on fossil fuels and extractive industries such as palm oil and mining. One of the deadliest disasters in Indonesia in recent […]

Mercury, dredges and crime: Illegal mining ravages Peru’s Nanay River https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/mercury-dredges-and-crime-illegal-mining-ravages-perus-nanay-river/

Mercury, dredges and crime: Illegal mining ravages Peru’s Nanay River
On a small airplane, José Manuyama, a professor, frowns and shakes his head with anguish while  thousands of feet below, five dredges operated by illegal miners excavate the Nanay River Basin, in the Loreto region in the Peruvian Amazon. “They are like enormous leeches in the water,” said Manuyama. The plane has begun its second […]

Katherine Mansfield Society Essay Prize 2026: Placing Katherine Mansfield https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/29/katherine-mansfield-society-essay-prize-2026-placing-katherine-mansfield