Conservation news media bias and reliability
Media Bias/Fact Check places Conservation news as leaning left. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
The short answers
Is Conservation news biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Conservation news as leaning left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Conservation news left or right?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Conservation news as leaning left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Conservation news reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Conservation news are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Conservation news has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Conservation news’s own report linked underneath.
A report documented 124 killings of land and environmental defenders worldwide in 2025. Latin America was the region with the highest number of deaths, making up 85% of the global total. Colombia and Brazil reported the most killings.
Conservation news reported it asLatin America Concentrated 85% of the Murders of Defenders of the Territory and the Environment in 2025 (opens Conservation news in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- Media Bias/Fact CheckleanLeftCheck it
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
High factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- Mongabay.Org CorporationIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Menlo Park, San Mateo County, California, United States
- Official site
- mongabay.com
- Seen publishing on
- es.mongabay.com, mongabay.com
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 1
- Reports listed
- 1
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 16 September 2026
1 of those reports was paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
We have not seen Conservation news cover a story that outlets rated left were largely absent from.
On the one story of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Conservation news: its report arrived a median of 5 minutes after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 16 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 16 September 2026. Ratings pulled 16 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Conservation news, also publishing from United States, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Conservation news publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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