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A woman in a yellow top and bright multicoloured wrapper, smiling as she walks across sandy verge of a paved road to where blue and white bags of dark black charcoal have been set on the ground near Praça das Mangueiras, in southwestern Angola. In the background, more charcoal in tall white sacks. Image by Carsten Ten Brink via Flickr (BY NC-ND 2.0)

Forests & finance: Fears for forests in Angola, flashes of hope from Kenya & Ghana

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2023

Photos: Sri Lanka’s Kalametiya lagoon draws tourists to see native and migrant birds

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 31 Jul 2023
Bajo seafarer named Umar Pasandre has been quietly building a career as an influential environmental defender.

Sulawesi sea nomads who inspired Avatar movie chart new course saving forests

Sarjan Lahay 31 Jul 2023
A snow leopard captured on a camera trap.

When wildlife surveillance tech ‘watches’ people

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Jul 2023

World’s top sovereign fund latest to cut ties with dam in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Jul 2023
A group of UM6P scientists take a visiting forestry scientist from Penn State University on a tour of the experimental farm in Ben Guerir.

Morocco rolls out a phosphorous-fueled plan to heal soils across Africa

Marlowe Starling 31 Jul 2023
The endangered greater green leafbird

Study: More than 900 at-risk species lack international trade protections

Liz Kimbrough 31 Jul 2023
Seabed ecosystem.

Deep-sea mining meetings conclude after stalemate on key agenda items

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 31 Jul 2023
Andrew Dunn, the country director of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Nigeria.

Protecting Nigeria’s gorillas & other endangered species: Q&A with WCS’ Andrew Dunn

Abdulkareem Mojeed 31 Jul 2023
Debbie Saunders

‘Immense potential’ in tech: Q&A with Wildlife Drones CEO Debbie Saunders

Abhishyant Kidangoor 31 Jul 2023
rhinos grazing Nepal

Wild or not? Dilemma over two human-friendly rhinos in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Jul 2023
Evans, a ranger for the REDD+ project Wildlife Works in Kenya's Kasigau Corridor.

Forest campaign group renews charge that carbon credit verification schemes are flawed

Victoria Schneider 28 Jul 2023

In Indonesia’s Aceh, Indigenous communities seek recognition of their forest rights

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Jul 2023
In Bangladesh, around 4.2 million people work in the garment industry.

Bangladesh ramps up use of recycled fabrics in ready-made garments

Abu Siddique 28 Jul 2023
The critically endangered dark sitana (Sitana fusca).

Nepal’s BP Highway threatens endemic, critically endangered lizard

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Jul 2023
Hawks fly along BR230 in the iTerêrim Marmelos Indigenous Territory in Amazonas. Image by Bruno Kelly/Amazonia Real via Wikimedia Commons (CC 2.0).

In Brazil’s Amazon, a ‘new agricultural frontier’ threatens protected lands

Ana Ionova 27 Jul 2023
Sumatran rhino calf in Way Kambas, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Amid government inaction, Indonesia’s rhinos head toward extinction (analysis)

Jeremy Hance 27 Jul 2023
A farmer in Colombia checks her coffee bushes.

The circular economy: Sustainable solutions to solve planetary overshoot?

Sean Mowbray 27 Jul 2023
Syarak, the customary elder in Bumi Harapan, with his wife.

Elders call for Indigenous cultural preservation in new Indonesia capital

Muhammad Razil Fauzan 27 Jul 2023
Canopy in fall.

Genetically engineered trees stoke climate hope — and environmental fears

Juliette Portala 27 Jul 2023

The Andean republics of the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 27 Jul 2023
Swamp deer prefer grassland habitats.

Translocation hurdles prompt new efforts to save rare swamp deer in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Jul 2023
Trapang Ropov community members load a concrete pillar onto a raft.

‘Mud, muck and death’: Cambodia’s plan to obstruct trawlers and revive local fishing

Matt Blomberg 27 Jul 2023
The Dehcho First Nations led the creation of the Edéhzhíe Dehcho Protected Area and National Wildlife Area, spanning 14,249 square kilometers of boreal forest and clean waters in the NWT. Image courtesy of Amos Scott.

Making space for Indigenous leadership is crucial for conservation (commentary)

Valérie Courtois and Steve Kallick 26 Jul 2023
Robert Risch.

Nursing oil palm plantations back to nature in Malaysian Borneo

Louise Hunt 26 Jul 2023

The Human-Modified Landscapes (HML) and the Brazilian highway network

Timothy J. Killeen 26 Jul 2023
The Manobo Houses float along the waterways of Lake Panlabuhan in the Agusan Marsh.

Philippines’ largest freshwater wetland and Indigenous livelihoods face multiple threats

Jewel S. Cabrera 26 Jul 2023
Three Bengal tigers in India.

Critics decry Nepal minister’s ‘terrible idea’ of ‘sport hunting’ tigers

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Jul 2023
The last pocket of forest in Botum Sakor National Park is threatened by new roads, some of which are demarcation boundaries for parcels of forested land that have been awarded to Cambodian senator and tycoon Ly Yong Phat's family. Photo by Gerald Flynn/Mongabay.

Cambodia awards swath of national park forest to tycoon Ly Yong Phat’s son

Gerald Flynn & Meng Kroypunlok 26 Jul 2023
Sea fan in the deep ocean.

Deep-sea mining rules delayed two more years; mining start remains unclear

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Jul 2023

Scores of parliamentarians renew opposition to deep-sea mining at international meeting (commentary)

Caroline Roose and Marie Toussaint 25 Jul 2023

On Indonesia’s Seram Island, a massive oil find lies beneath sacred land

Christ Belseran, Martha Dianti 25 Jul 2023

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