Delta

Artificial mangrove roots offer temporary shield for Thailand’s eroding coastline

Coastal communities near Bangkok in Thailand are testing artificial mangrove roots to combat severe shoreline erosion, reports Mongabay’s Carolyn Cowan. The shorelines of Phra Samut Chedi district, located in the Chao Phraya River Delta where Bangkok’s main waterway empties into the Gulf of Thailand, is especially vulnerable to erosion. Each year, strong surges claim 20 […]

Mongabay · 11/4/2026

Payment scheme in Botswana pays communities to coexist with wildlife

A new payments scheme rewards two rural communities on the edge of Botswana’s Okavango Delta for living alongside wildlife. Residents have installed cameras around their villages and earn money from photographs of elephants, lions and other wild animals that might raid vegetable gardens or kill livestock. The scheme is part of the Harmony with Wildlife […]

Mongabay · 11/3/2026

Mozambique safari operator wins conservation award at COP17

YEREVAN, Armenia — A Mozambican safari operator credited with helping restore wildlife populations in Mozambique’s Zambezi Delta, has won the 2026 Markhor Award, which recognizes contributions to conservation through sustainable wildlife management. Zambeze Delta Safaris, led by professional hunter Mark Haldane, received the award on Oct. 22, 2026, at the ongoing U.N. Biodiversity Conference, COP17, […]

Mongabay · 10/23/2026

Artificial mangrove roots offer a stopgap for Thailand’s eroding coastline

Residents of Phra Samut Chedi, one of Thailand’s most erosion-prone districts, have long struggled against coastal erosion. It’s located in the muddy heart of the Chao Phraya River Delta, where Bangkok’s major watercourse empties into the Gulf of Thailand. Here, roughly 20-60 meters (about 66-200 feet) of land is claimed by the sea annually, eating […]

Mongabay · 10/15/2026

New Colorado River Rules Buy Time. They Don’t Solve the Crisis

The Colorado River has been telling us something for more than half a century, and this year the message got harder to ignore. In the 1960s, the river stopped flowing regularly into its delta, once a...

Audubon · 9/25/2026

Nigeria’s Rachel Ikemeh wins Rolex Award for efforts to save rare red monkey

Nigerian conservationist Rachel Ikemeh has been named the 2026 Rolex Award laureate, for her work with communities in the Niger Delta to protect the region’s ecology and the critically endangered Niger Delta red colobus monkey. The red colobus (Piliocolobus epieni), a monkey known as epieni by the region’s communities, is listed as one of the […]

Mongabay · 9/11/2026