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Mark Plotkin with an Embera shaman in the Darien on the Colombia-Panama. Photo credit: Amazon Conservation Team

Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin: Indigenous knowledge serves as a ‘connective tissue’ between nature and human well-being

Rhett A. Butler 31 Jan 2022

Malaysian officials deny deforestation drives deadly human-wildlife conflict

Rachel Donald 31 Jan 2022

Sixty of one, half a dozen of the other: Rare magnolias get a new start in Ecuador’s Chocó

Liz Kimbrough, Maxwell Radwin 31 Jan 2022

For the Year of the Tiger, a shared vision for the future of the iconic cat (commentary)

Coalition for Securing a Viable Future for the Tiger 31 Jan 2022

Displaced and deprived, Indigenous communities suffer from hunger in Nicaragua

Maxwell Radwin 28 Jan 2022
Redwood forest in Muir Woods, Marin County, California. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

California redwood forest returned to Indigenous guardianship, conservation

Laurel Sutherland 28 Jan 2022

Full steam ahead for Tren Maya project as lawsuits hit judicial hurdles

Maxwell Radwin 28 Jan 2022

The Years of the Tiger: The demand for tigers and the price they pay (commentary)

Chris Slappendel 28 Jan 2022

Raid against Sumatran official uncovers use of slave labor on oil palm farm

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Jan 2022
Park rangers

What went wrong with conservation at Kahuzi-Biega National Park and how to transform it (commentary)

Deborah S. Rogers 27 Jan 2022

Cuba boosts marine protected coverage with new area spanning reefs to mangroves

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2022

Western monarchs make a spectacular comeback in California

Liz Kimbrough 27 Jan 2022
Solitary figure in a partly cultivated field, Nimba mountain range in the background. Image by Maarten van der Bent via Flickr CC BY-SA-2.0

Liberian villagers threaten to leave mining agreement, citing broken promises

Varney Kamara 27 Jan 2022
Indigenous salmon fishers

Alaskan Indigenous leaders fear impacts on salmon streams by mining project

Laurel Sutherland 26 Jan 2022

Online trade and pet clubs fuel desire for little-known Javan ferret badgers

Carly Nairn 26 Jan 2022
New oil palm planting near a protected area in Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Indonesia is clearing less forest for palm oil, but it’s still not sustainable, activists say

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Jan 2022

With ‘sustainable’ cocoa, Mars pushes climate, market risks onto farmers

Basten Gokkon 26 Jan 2022

South Africa authorizes dumping at sea of cargo that turned volatile

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Jan 2022

Colombo’s seagoing crocodiles under pressure after diver’s killing

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Jan 2022

Elephant protector and fossil hunter Richard Leakey leaves outsized legacy in Kenya

Jeremy Hance 25 Jan 2022

Innovative sewage solutions: Tackling the global human waste problem

Sean Mowbray 25 Jan 2022

Mau Forest rehabilitation still overshadowed by forced evictions

Keit Silale 25 Jan 2022

Spurred by investor-friendly law, palm oil firms sue to get licenses back

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Jan 2022

Attack on environmental lawyer’s home alarms DRC rights defenders

Soraya Kishtwari 25 Jan 2022

Efforts to dim Sun and cool Earth must be blocked, say scientists

Shanna Hanbury 24 Jan 2022

Young environmentalists ‘plant the future’ in Colombia’s Amazon

Dimitri Selibas 24 Jan 2022

Typhoon exposes biodiversity haven Palawan’s vulnerability — and resilience

Keith Anthony S. Fabro 24 Jan 2022

Déjà vu for Indigenous villagers in Brazil as floods leave them homeless again

Sarah Brown 21 Jan 2022
Yanomami community in northern Brazil saying ‘Go away, mining companies’. Image by Victor Moriyama/ISA.

Amazon to Alps: Swiss gold imports from Brazil tread a legal minefield

Fernanda Wenzel, Olivier Christe 21 Jan 2022

As climate change melts Antarctic ice, gentoo penguins venture further south

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Jan 2022

Bleached reefs still support nutritious fish, study finds

John Cannon 21 Jan 2022

COP27 must deliver climate finance where it is needed most (commentary)

Jack Stuart, Sally Yozell, Valentine Ochanda 20 Jan 2022

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