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Sri Lanka has declared the Nilgala wilderness, a unique landscape harboring the island’s largest savanna ecosystem interwoven with a mosaic of unique habitats, as a national forest reserve.

Despite being home to numerous endemic and range-restricted species found nowhere else on the island, Nilgala had long been an overlooked conservation priority, facing continuous environmental threats.

By Malaka Rodrigo
news.mongabay.com/2025/06/an-o

Mongabay Environmental News · An overlooked biocultural landscape in Sri Lanka receives overdue protectionCOLOMBO — Nestled in the eastern edge of Sri Lanka’s Uva province, Nilgala stands out as a landscape of remarkable ecological and cultural importance. Long overlooked in mainstream conservation efforts despite its significance, Nilgala finally received due recognition on June 2 when it was declared a forest reserve covering its full extent of 40,685 hectares […]
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Mongabay

Mongabay staff reporter Ashoka Mukpo traveled to several nations to assess the current state of conservation in key protected areas. He joined Mongabay’s podcast to describe what he’s seen in his reporting.

news.mongabay.com/podcast/2025

Mongabay’s new series, Beyond the Safari, examines conservation’s colonial origins in East Africa—and how rural communities are building a new future: news.mongabay.com/specials/202

Mongabay Environmental News · As Africa eyes protected areas expansion of 1 million square miles, concerns over enforcement persistThe global effort to protect 30% of Earth’s land and water by 2030, known as the 30×30 goals, means nations across the world are expanding their protected areas. In Africa, that would mean an additional 2.59 million square kilometers, or 1 million square miles roughly — about the size of the Democratic Republic of the […]
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Mongabay

The “fortress conservation” model is under pressure. Mongabay’s new series, Beyond the Safari, explores history, human rights, and biodiversity in East Africa.

Read the first article on protected areas and wildlife by Ashoka Mukpo
here: news.mongabay.com/2024/12/like

Mongabay Environmental News · ‘Like you, I fear the demise of the elephants’On June 13, 1959, the Waata hunter Galogalo Kafonde surrendered himself to colonial Kenya’s “Field Force,” Africa’s first militarized antipoaching unit. For centuries, the ethnic Waata had hunted elephants. Killing one was a rite of passage; unlike their neighbors, who raised and kept cows, the Waata lived off game meat and wore elephant skins. Ivory […]
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Mongabay

A new report has found that protected areas and Indigenous territories in the Amazon store more aboveground carbon than the rest of the rainforest.

Protected areas and Indigenous territories were also found to serve as significant carbon sinks between 2013 and 2022, absorbing 257 million metric tons of carbon dioxide.

By Abhishyant Kidangoor
news.mongabay.com/2025/04/new-

Mongabay Environmental News · New report reinforces critical role of Amazonian protected areas in climate fightA new report adds to the already overwhelming case that protected areas and Indigenous territories in the Amazon Rainforest serve as a critical carbon sink. The report, based on satellite data gathered by Earth imaging company Planet and analyzed by the nonprofit organization Amazon Conservation, reinforces the critical role of protected areas and Indigenous territories […]
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Mongabay

Indigenous iTaukei people across Fiji have historically protected their freshwater and marine areas in memory of chiefs and community members who have passed away. These are called aquatic funerary protected areas (FPAs).

By Sonam Lama
news.mongabay.com/2025/02/fune

Mongabay Environmental News · Funerary practices in Fiji protect marine areas while honoring the deceasedOn the fifth day after the burial of their chief, Seru Moce, 66, and other clan members gathered for a meeting to decide what portion of the sea to protect in memory of their deceased leader. For generations, Indigenous iTaukei people in Fiji have not only protected a loved one’s burial grounds, but also freshwater […]
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Mongabay

[PODCAST] As Africa eyes protected areas expansion of 1 million square miles, concerns over ‘brutal’ enforcement persist

Mongabay staff reporter Ashoka Mukpo traveled to several nations to assess the current state of conservation in key protected areas. He joins Mongabay’s podcast to describe what he’s seen in his reporting so far, and what he’s publishing next in the series.

news.mongabay.com/podcast/2025

Mongabay Environmental News · As Africa eyes protected areas expansion of 1 million square miles, concerns over enforcement persistThe global effort to protect 30% of Earth’s land and water by 2030, known as the 30×30 goals, means nations across the world are expanding their protected areas. In Africa, that would mean an additional 2.59 million square kilometers, or 1 million square miles roughly — about the size of the Democratic Republic of the […]
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Mongabay

South Africa-based conservation NGO African Parks signed a long-term deal in December 2024 to manage Gambella National Park in Ethiopia.

The agreement brings the number of protected areas under management by African Parks to 23 in 13 countries.

By Ashoka Mukpo
news.mongabay.com/2025/01/afri

Mongabay Environmental News · African Parks closes deal to manage Ethiopia’s Gambella National ParkSouth Africa-based conservation NGO African Parks has signed a long-term deal with Ethiopian authorities to manage Gambella National Park. The park is Ethiopia’s largest protected area, a 4,575-square-kilometer (1,766-square-mile) landscape on the border with South Sudan. Its savannas, floodplains, and woodlands host some of the highest concentrations of wildlife in Ethiopia, including threatened species such […]
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Mongabay

There are nearly 9,000 inland protected areas across the African continent, covering 4.37 million square kilometers.

These protected areas are at the center of conservation policymaking by African countries hoping to safeguard nature and threatened wildlife.

news.mongabay.com/2024/12/like

The Mongabay Data Studio helps journalists visualize data and use it in their reporting. Check it out at studio.mongabay.com

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Mongabay

Ship strikes are a leading threat to large whales, with global shipping routes overlapping 92% of their habitats, a new study finds. But protecting whales in the most dangerous collision hotspots would require action over just 2.6% of the ocean’s surface, researchers conclude, potentially saving thousands of whales with minimal disruption to global trade.

By Shanna Hanbury
news.mongabay.com/short-articl

Mongabay Environmental News · Protecting 2.6% of oceans could prevent deadly whale-ship collisions: StudyShip strikes are a leading threat to large whales, with global shipping routes overlapping 92% of their habitats, a new study finds. But protecting whales in the most dangerous collision hotspots would require action over just 2.6% of the ocean’s surface, researchers conclude, potentially saving thousands of whales with minimal disruption to global trade. The […]
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Mongabay

Bolivia’s Tucabaca Valley Municipal Wildlife Reserve has been beset by clearing and fires over the past several years.

Now, mining, infrastructure development and land trafficking are adding to the pressure faced by the reserve.

Residents of nearby communities have formed an association called Movement in Defense of the Tucabaca Valley.

By Iván Paredes Tamayo
news.mongabay.com/2024/11/comm

Mongabay Environmental News · Communities band together to save besieged reserve in BoliviaTucabaca Valley Municipal Wildlife Reserve comprises more than 2,640 square kilometers (1,020 square miles) of semi-arid forest and tropical savannah in the heart of southern Bolivia’s Chiquitania region. However, this protected area and surrounding habitat is being lost to industrial agriculture and associated fires and infrastructure development. The Tucabaca (also referred to as “Tucavaca”) reserve […]
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Mongabay

In Brazil’s state of Maranhão, one of the last slices of remaining rainforest is under threat from invasions and fires, which has complicated efforts to protect this area of rich biodiversity from the advance of agriculture and cattle ranching.

By Ana Ionova
news.mongabay.com/2024/08/in-b

Mongabay Environmental News · In Brazil’s Amazon, land invasions — and fires — threaten a protected reserveBOM JARDIM, Brazil – Amid corn fields and pastures, miles of barbed wire enclose an island of pristine rainforest, likely next in line to be razed. Just beyond, in the Gurupi Biological Reserve, a web of dusty roads splinters the canopy, leading deep into one of the last slices of protected forest in this part […]
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Mongabay

Nepal’s government has issued a controversial ordinance bypassing parliament to enable foreign investment in various sectors, including protected areas.

The ordinance coincides with Nepal’s Investment Summit, facilitating projects like cable car routes and hotels within national parks.

by Abhaya Raj Joshi

news.mongabay.com/2024/04/nepa

Mongabay Environmental News · Nepal govt bypasses parliament to allow commercial projects in protected areasKATHMANDU — Nepal’s government has bypassed the country’s parliament to issue a controversial ordinance facilitating foreign investment in different sectors of the country, including protected areas, in a move that could have long-term consequences for the country’s hard-won conservation gains, experts say. Although the details of the ordinance, signed into law by President Ram Chandra […]
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Mongabay

In February 2024, Papua New Guinea’s parliament passed the Protected Areas Bill, first introduced two decades ago, into an act, which aims to establish a national system of protected areas to achieve the conservation target of protecting 30% of PNG’s territory by 2030.

By Spoorthy Raman
news.mongabay.com/2024/04/cons

Mongabay Environmental News · Conservationists welcome new PNG Protected Areas Act — but questions remainWith more than 70% of the country blanketed by tropical rainforests, Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a megadiverse country home to more than 5% of the world’s biodiversity, including charismatic tree kangaroos, egg-laying echidnas and flightless cassowaries. However, since 1972, nearly a third of the country’s rainforest has been lost or degraded due to logging, […]
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