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28/05/2026

Mongabay is opening applications for the Southeast Asia Ocean Reporting Fellowship. This initiative extends our Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship model to focus entirely on critical ocean challenges and solutions across coastal Southeast Asia.

This 6-month program is designed specifically for early- and mid-career environmental journalists from coastal nations in the region. The Southeast Asia Ocean Reporting Fellowship offers specialized training in investigative techniques, fisheries, and climate change, with the long-term goal of integrating fellows into Mongabay's global network.

The fellowship offers hands-on experience by allowing participants to work directly with international editors, including specialists from our Southeast Asia and Oceans desks, to pitch, research, and publish 4 to 6 original stories.

Help us tell the stories that shape the future of our oceans.

View the full call for applications and review requirements!
https://mongabay.cc/hiyXj4

26/05/2026

In Kyrgyzstan, a climate-ready corridor is demonstrating that effective conservation does require working with local communities.

Officially designated as the Ak Ilbirs ecological corridor, this 800,000-hectare (2 million-acre) high-altitude terrain connects critical protected areas. It is the first corridor in Central Asia designed explicitly around climate models projected through 2070, ensuring long-term habitat connectivity for the region's vulnerable snow leopards, argali sheep, Asiatic ibex, and gray wolves.

Unlike rigid, traditional protected zones, Ak Ilbirs utilizes a regulatory rather than a restrictive framework where local herding, forestry, and tourism continue under a strict, community-led monitoring system. Grazing rules mandate leaving 40% of vegetation cover to support wild prey populations, balancing livestock needs with ecosystem health, while the climate-ready design successfully captures more than 60% of future suitable habitat for target species.

Learn more about how this climate-ready corridor functions.
👉https://mongabay.cc/kjLySY

25/05/2026

More and more people are raising pet ants around the world. They are small, low-maintenance, and display complex behaviors that fascinate humans. But this fascination is leading to a bigger issue: an underground global trade of ants. Wild ants are now popping up in places where they are not supposed to. This trade could have serious environmental and financial repercussions, and is also making pet ants very expensive.

In the latest episode of Mongabay Explains, we look at why people are obsessed with pet ants and why these insects are costing a fortune.

Watch the full video 👉 https://mongabay.cc/LAyrt4

24/05/2026

Jane Goodall’s grandson on hope after loss

Five months after Jane Goodall’s death, her grandson Merlin Van Lawick appeared at the ChangeNOW environmental forum in Paris carrying something both public and personal. He was there not as a substitute for his grandmother, but as someone shaped by her work and now helping to carry it forward.

The easiest way to misunderstand Goodall’s message is to treat hope as a feeling. For her, as Van Lawick describes it, hope was closer to discipline. She used the image of a dark tunnel with light at the end. The light did not come to you. You had to crawl toward it, over obstacles and under them. “Hope is rooted in action,” he said.

That phrase can sound almost too easy until one considers the work behind it. Goodall’s career began with field research at Gombe, where she helped change how science understood chimpanzees. It became something larger: a life spent asking people to see animals as individuals, ecosystems as living communities, and young people as participants rather than spectators.

In Van Lawick’s telling, Goodall’s influence came through example. She did not push people into service. She made them aware of the consequences of their choices, then left the decision to them. Even with her grandchildren, the pressure was light. He once wanted to be a footballer. She told him she thought he would become a conservationist. She did not insist. The seed did its own work.

That may be the more useful lesson for conservation now. The movement does not lack warnings. It has plenty. What it often lacks is a way to keep people engaged without overwhelming them or making the future feel already settled. Goodall’s answer was not optimism in the sentimental sense. It was agency, practiced in small acts and carried by many people.

This is why Roots & Shoots, the youth program she founded, is such a central part to carrying on her legacy. Its premise is simple and demanding: young people should identify problems in their own communities and act on them. The scale can grow, but the starting point is local. A child plants a tree, protects an animal, cleans a stream, speaks to neighbors. None of this is enough by itself. That is not the point.

The point is that despair asks nothing of us. Hope, as Goodall taught it, begins when people act.

Merlin's interview with Juliette Chapalain linked in the comments.

24/05/2026

Norlan Pagal, fisherman and guardian of Tañon Strait, died on May 14th, aged 56

Norlan Pagal knew the waters of Tañon Strait from a lifetime spent fishing them. By the early 2000s he had watched catches decline as commercial boats entered waters reserved for small fishers and destructive fishing practices damaged reefs. In 2002 he joined the bantay dagat, the volunteer sea patrol that protects coastal waters in the Philippines. Three years later he became chair of the Anapog Fishermen Association.

For more than a decade he helped defend the Anapog Marine Protected Area and the wider Tañon Strait Protected Seascape. The work was often dangerous. Volunteers patrolled in small boats, reported violations, organized clean-ups, and helped restore mangroves. They also faced retaliation.

In 2010, men threw dynamite into his patrol boat. He survived. In 2013, after confronting illegal fishers near a marine sanctuary, he was beaten with a paddle and left needing 14 stitches. Two years later, after speaking about fisheries protection at a village celebration, gunmen ambushed him on his way home. A bullet struck his spine, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.

The attack ended his patrols by sea. It did not end his watch.

Each day he made his way to the shore with binoculars and a handheld radio. From there he monitored the water and reported suspected violations to municipal authorities. A man once known for pursuing illegal fishers by boat became a watchman from land.

Recognition followed. Oceana named him one of its first Ocean Heroes in 2016. In 2018 he received a Local Hero award from the Ocean Awards. He accepted the honors with gratitude and said the prize money would support local conservation efforts.

What mattered most to him was that others continue the work. He wanted younger people to protect the strait and leave it richer than they found it.

Pagal died on May 14th, aged 56. By then, his watch over Tañon Strait had become part of the story people told about what it takes to protect a place when the law is weak and the sea is close enough to see from home.

The bullet that struck Norlan Pagal was meant to stop a fisherman from defending his waters. It left him in a wheelchair beside them. From there he kept watch

💐 Full obituary by Rhett Ayers Butler: https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/shot-for-defending-the-sea-norlan-pagal-kept-watching-from-shore/

22/05/2026

In Malaysia, urban development has pushed the endangered dusky langur out of its natural habitat and straight onto residential rooftops. While human-wildlife encounters often lead to state-sanctioned culling, one community in Penang state is choosing a different path.

Partnering with the Langur Project Penang, local residents and citizen scientists built "Numi’s Crossing", a canopy bridge made from recycled fire hoses spanning over a busy urban road. The bridge allows a resident group of eight langurs to safely cross traffic and access the nearby forested hills, drastically reducing road incidents.

As habitat fragmentation rises globally, this project shows that education and community-led infrastructure can replace conflict with coexistence.

“Coexistence is the situation we need to practice,” notes project executive Wong Hui Yi.

Learn more 👉https://mongabay.cc/AmVYOD

21/05/2026

“I know the sleepless nights, the threats, the separation from family, the daily hardships. Rangers should be recognized while they are still living.”

In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, protecting the planet's most biodiverse forests is a life-threatening job.

For former Virunga ranger Emmanuel Bahati Lukoo, this reality is deeply personal. In 2018, he narrowly survived a deadly militia ambush that killed five of his colleagues. Despite being shot and psychologically traumatized, he refused to walk away.

Now an official at Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Bahati is speaking out in a raw new book, "Conservation at the Cost of My Youth." He details the invisible realities forest rangers face daily: armed conflict, political interference, severe trauma, and low pay.

As the international community pushes to protect 30% of the planet by 2030, Bahati warns that global conservation targets cannot be met by treating rangers as "dead heroes." They need safety, psychological support, and decent wages while they are still alive.

Read our full interview with Emmanuel Bahati Lukoo.
https://mongabay.cc/KxHE2b

20/05/2026

What happens when a global "superfood" trend fades?

In Bolivia’s southern Altiplano, the 2010-2014 quinoa boom brought temporary economic gains to rural Indigenous communities. But today, the region is paying the ecological price. Intensified monocultures have left behind a legacy of soil degradation, erosion, and biodiversity loss.

Compounding these hurdles are shifting regional weather patterns. A 15% drop in precipitation over the last 25 years has brought a wave of unseasonal rains, frequent frosts, and at least 18 new agricultural pests. For the 70,000 families depending on the crop, farming is becoming increasingly volatile.

While farmers cultivate a premium, nutrient-dense variant known as Royal Quinoa, a lack of direct market pathways means much of their harvest is smuggled into Peru and sold without its premium distinction. Experts argue that without robust public export policies and sustainable practices, the future of this ancient Andean staple remains at risk.

Read the full story 👉 https://mongabay.cc/z6Mr6p

17/05/2026

Monica Montefalcone, a marine biologist who restored seagrass in the Mediterranean, has died, aged 51

To Monica Montefalcone, the sea was a place to study: its plants, reefs, hidden habitats and seasonal changes. A meadow of Posidonia oceanica was not just a patch of green beneath the water. It provided nursery habitat, shelter, carbon storage and coastal protection. To most swimmers it might have looked like seagrass. To her it was a living system, and one that recovered slowly once damaged.

That slowness mattered. Across the Mediterranean, more than half of Posidonia meadows have been lost over the past century; in Liguria, the losses were especially severe. Laws and European directives could protect what remained, she argued, but protection alone was not enough. Where hundreds of hectares had disappeared, waiting for nature to repair itself would leave the work to future generations. Restoration, including the manual replanting of seagrass, was a practical response to a practical problem.

Montefalcone died on May 14th in a diving accident in the Maldives. Her daughter, Giorgia Sommacal, 23, died with her, along with Muriel Oddenino, a research fellow who had worked with her, Federico Gualtieri, a recent marine-biology graduate, and Gianluca Benedetti, a diving instructor and boat operations manager. Four of the victims were connected to the University of Genoa, where Montefalcone was an associate professor of ecology.

Her work ranged across coastal marine ecology, benthic habitats, coralligenous assemblages, marine caves, seagrass meadows and climate impacts on marine ecosystems. She mapped, monitored and measured. She also restored. WWF described her as one of the foremost experts on Mediterranean Posidonia ecosystems.

She was also a teacher. She took pride in the Marine Landscape Ecology Laboratory she coordinated at DiSTAV, but worried that young researchers in Italy often gave years of talent to a system that could not offer them stability.

In tributes, colleagues remembered a scientist who could make the underwater world intelligible. In Mandriola, in Sardinia, where she had spent summers for decades with her family, friends remembered her swimming, running, watching sunsets, and talking about Posidonia as naturally as others might talk about the weather. Her daughter Giorgia had grown up there too.

After a death like this, the sea can seem cruel. Montefalcone’s work points to something less simple. She knew the sea as a place of beauty, risk, and damage, but also as a place where careful study could still matter. She spent her career measuring what was being lost, teaching others how to see it, and helping repair what could still be repaired.

💐 Her obituary: https://mongabay.cc/Montefalcone

16/05/2026

Nearly a decade after Scotland established the South Arran Marine Protected Area and banned bottom trawling, the seafloor is staging an incredible comeback.

A new study reveals that life on the seabed has thrived since the ban, with researchers finding three times more organisms and twice as many species compared to nearby unprotected waters.

Now, the South Arran MPA is showing what recovery looks like. In just a small sample of sediment, researchers recorded more than 150 species—including spoon worms, bobbit worms, and tower snails. These small organisms act as "gardeners of the seabed," turning over sediment, rebuilding long-lost ecosystems, and playing a vital role in global carbon storage.

Learn more 👉 https://mongabay.cc/u4eBBi

14/05/2026

For most birds, a broken beak is a death sentence. But for Bruce, an endangered kea parrot in New Zealand, missing his entire upper beak hasn't just been a hurdle, it’s been a catalyst for innovation.

A new study reveals that Bruce has developed a unique "jousting" technique, using his lower beak to win 36 out of 36 combative interactions. By distributing his attacks across his opponents' bodies in ways other parrots don't, Bruce has risen to become the undisputed alpha male of his flock.

Beyond combat, Bruce has also pioneered the use of pebbles to preen his feathers, a tool-use behavior never before seen in his species.

Learn more about Bruce's story.
👉https://mongabay.cc/Uiib0I

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