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“Guardians of the Forest” Paulo Paulino Guajajara (left) and Laércio Guajajara (right)

Indigenous advocates sense a legal landmark as a guardian’s killing heads to trial

Karla Mendes 30 Jun 2022

‘Beenome’ project aims to boost bee conservation with genetic mapping

Liz Kimbrough 30 Jun 2022
A farmer in a village in the Kerinci region.

A conservation failure in Sumatra serves a cautionary tale for PES schemes

Cassie Freund 30 Jun 2022

Andean eagles have managed to adapt to fragmenting habitats — for now

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jun 2022
Erasmo and Natalha Theofilo

Amazon rainforest activist under threat in Brazil plans to flee his home

Shanna Hanbury 30 Jun 2022
A red jellyfish

A year before deep-sea mining could begin, calls for a moratorium build

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Jun 2022

‘Fitbit for whales’ and other tagging tech help reshape wildlife conservation

Abhishyant Kidangoor 30 Jun 2022
A young birder from the United States, Heather Levy, scanning for imperial parrots at a viewpoint in Dominica’s Morne Diablotin National Park. Image by Peter Kleinhenz for Mongabay.

Parrots of the Caribbean: Birding tourism offers hope for threatened species

Peter Kleinhenz 29 Jun 2022
Indonesian designer Singgih Kartono, founder of Spedagi

Bamboo mamas and bikes help with Indonesian diplomacy

Ebed de Rosary, Nuswantoro 29 Jun 2022
A huge swarm of locusts devours corn

High tech early warning system could curb next South African locust swarms

Anna Majavu 29 Jun 2022

As Jakarta chokes on toxic air, Indonesian government stalls on taking action

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Jun 2022

Room to roam: Biologists and communities create corridors for jaguars in Mexico

Marlén Castro and Thelma Gómez Durán 29 Jun 2022
amazon landscape

Indigenous communities in Colombia’s Amazon move closer to self-governance

Dimitri Selibas 29 Jun 2022
Fishers in Siompu, Southeast Sulawesi with their daily catch. September 2019. Photo credit: Rare.

WTO ban on ‘harmful’ subsidies won’t impact small-scale fishers, Indonesia says

Basten Gokkon 29 Jun 2022
Caroline Chepkoeh poses for a photo with her husband and extended family outside of her home near the Mau Forest Complex in western Kenya. Image by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

African court rules in favor of Indigenous land titles, reparations from the Kenyan government

Laurel Sutherland 28 Jun 2022
A dead vaquita floats in the ocean. Image by Robbie Newby for Sea Shepherd.

Experts fear end of vaquitas after green light for export of captive-bred totoaba fish

Michelle Carrere 28 Jun 2022
tiger problem nepal

As Nepal’s tigers thrive, Indigenous knowledge may be key in preventing attacks

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Jun 2022

Planned coal plants fizzle as Japan ends financing in Indonesia, Bangladesh

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Jun 2022
The nursery at the heart of Minawao nurtures the green shoots of a recovery.

Cameroon’s Nigerian refugees who degraded their camp are now vanguards of reforestation

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 28 Jun 2022
Employee from the MESCOT reforestation initiative showing a sapling in Sabah, Malaysia

Mongabay’s new-look Reforestation.app makes finding the right tree-planting project easier

Mongabay.com 28 Jun 2022

Mennonite colony builds bridge, clears forest in Bolivian protected areas

Iván Paredes Tamayo 27 Jun 2022
Illegal gold mining inside the Munduruku and Sai Cinza Indigenous Lands

Swiss pledge to stop illegal gold imports from Brazil Indigenous reserves

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 27 Jun 2022
A herd of elephants gets a drink in Botswana. Image by Roger Borgelid for Mongabay.

Twenty years since a massive ivory seizure, what lessons were learned? (commentary)

Julian Newman 27 Jun 2022
A framed photo of Ari Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau

In Brazil, an Indigenous land defender’s unsolved killing is the deadly norm

Sarah Brown 27 Jun 2022
Lilian’s lovebirds perching on a branch.

Home away from home: Researchers trial artificial nests for Lilian’s lovebirds

Charles Mpaka 27 Jun 2022

We’re winning with climate activism, ‘just not fast enough,’ says Goldman Prize winner Julien Vincent (commentary)

Julien Vincent 24 Jun 2022
A Brachycephalus ephippium on leaves

Pumpkin toadlets can’t jump: The frog that gave up balance for size

Liz Kimbrough 24 Jun 2022
Yohanes Sugihtonugroho, founder of CROWDE.

Building a farmer-friendly future: Q&A with CROWDE’s Yohanes Sugihtonugroho

Sachi Kondo 23 Jun 2022

Study: Marine governance in Indonesia pursues exploitation over sustainability

Basten Gokkon 23 Jun 2022

For Brazil communities along a mining railway, impacts outweigh any benefits

Maurício Angelo / Observatório da Mineração 23 Jun 2022
Oil palm nursery and processing facility, Indonesia.

Indonesian palm oil audit a chance to clean up ‘very dirty’ industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Jun 2022
Members of Las Chelemeras consult with Keila Vazquez (in hat) before continuing their work.

Dig, dump, repeat, then watch the forest grow: Q&A with mangrove restorer Keila Vazquez

Caitlin Cooper 23 Jun 2022

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