Erik Hoffner

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Erik is a photojournalist, editor, and award-winning podcast producer for Mongabay. Find his latest thoughts posted on Bluesky and see more of his writing and fine art photography via Instagram via @erikhoffner on both platforms.

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At the beginning of the pandemic, MST launched an ongoing national campaign to take food from the settlements to vulnerable populations in cities. Here, a farmer delivers food to the collection center organized by ELAA for people living in the outskirts of the state capital, Curitiba. Image courtesy of Wellington Lenon/ELAA.

‘Viable, just & necessary’: Agroecology is a movement in Brazil

Anna Lappé 13 Sep 2022
Drying fish on raised racks instead of the sand reduced the fish waste, a success of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). Photo by Robert Bociaga for Mongabay.

Human pressures strain Lake Tanganyika’s biodiversity and water quality

Robert Bociaga 9 Sep 2022
Sumatran elephants play in water.

With less than 10 years to save Sumatran elephants, what’s being done?

Mike DiGirolamo 6 Sep 2022
Small forest in Switzerland surrounded by meadow. Photo by Kitsudōte via Unsplash.

Small conservation areas provide large benefits for biodiversity (commentary)

Stephen Taglieri 1 Sep 2022
Greenpeace activists built a carbon bomb to protest Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage at a protest in Germany. Image courtesy of Karsten Smid / Greenpeace Media Library.

Big Oil’s capture of IPCC assessment for policymakers ‘shakes our faith’ (commentary)

Lindley Mease 25 Aug 2022
School of Wildlife Conservation students in the field. Photo courtesy of ALU

It’s time to center African people in the conservation agenda (commentary)

Gail Thomson 24 Aug 2022

Top wildlife photography requires ethics, patience, and kindness

Mike DiGirolamo 23 Aug 2022
A Socorro isopod. Image by Bronwyn H. Bleakley via Creative Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Socorro isopod: Endangered but important (commentary)

Nick D’Onofrio 19 Aug 2022
Results of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration in Talensi District of Ghana. Image courtesy of World Vision.

Let it grow: Q&A with reforestation and land restoration visionary Tony Rinaudo

Erik Hoffner 17 Aug 2022
Long-tailed macaque. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Endangered species listing of long-tailed macaques: ‘shocking, painful, predictable’ (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 17 Aug 2022

Farmer-to-farmer agroecology: Q&A with Chukki Nanjundaswamy of Amrita Bhoomi Learning Centre

Anna Lappé 3 Aug 2022

For World Tiger Day, bold new commitments are needed to expand tiger ranges (commentary)

Coalition for Securing a Viable Future for the Tiger 29 Jul 2022

Mexico’s Maya Train chugs forward, but at what cost to habitats and communities?

Mike DiGirolamo 26 Jul 2022
Monument tree. Image by Bethany Goodrich / Sustainable Southeast Partnership.

‘Monument trees’ underpin Alaska Native cultural resilience: they must be protected (commentary)

Audrey Clavijo 25 Jul 2022
A tiger in Russia. Image courtesy of Panthera.

Tigers may avoid extinction, but we must aim higher (commentary)

John Goodrich 22 Jul 2022
A flycatcher is fed by a wildlife rehabber at Animals In Distress Association (AIDA) in Boise, Idaho. Image courtesy of AIDA.

Wildlife ‘rehabbers’ wage herculean fight for a noble cause

Grace Hansen 19 Jul 2022
Monarch butterfly feeding on non-native bull thistle at the Metropolitan Beach Metropark Nature Area, Clinton, MI. Image by Steve Burt via Creative Commons 2.0 license.

Is invasive species management doing more harm than good? (commentary)

Janae Malpas 14 Jul 2022

‘Water always wins,’ so why are we fighting it?

Mike DiGirolamo 12 Jul 2022
Earth seen from space. Image via Pexels.

Space: New frontier for climate change & commodification, or conservation? (commentary)

Evan Briscoe 11 Jul 2022
A member of the Bhimeshwori Sustainable Farming Group at her agroforestry farm in Kavre, Nepal. Image by Abhaya Raj Josh / Mongabay.

Return to agroforestry empowers women in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 8 Jul 2022
Fish killed by a mine tailings dam breach. Photo courtesy of Andrew Lees Trust.

On hazardous mine tailings dams, ‘safety first’ should be the rule (commentary)

Jan Morrill 6 Jul 2022
L. Bruce Kekule in his element in the Khlong Saeng Wildlife Sanctuary rainforest in southern Thailand. Image courtesy of Greg McCann.

Exploring the deep wildlife photography legacy of Bruce Kekule (commentary)

Gregory McCann 1 Jul 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

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

Marlén Castro, Thelma Gómez Durán 29 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

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

Julien Vincent 24 Jun 2022
Logging operation in Sweden. Image courtesy of Marcus Westberg.

How unsustainable is Sweden’s forestry? ‘Very.’ Q&A with Marcus Westberg and Staffan Widstrand

Erik Hoffner 17 Jun 2022
Scottish wildcat. Photo courtesy of Stewart Grant/Cairngorms National Park.

Scotland changes course to save its last native wildcats

James Fair 16 Jun 2022
A giant mahogany tree, like this one in Cashu, is a rich target for illegal timbering in the Amazon. Photo courtesy Jason Houston.

Mahogany, a pillar of the rainforest, needs support (commentary)

Sheam Satkuru 14 Jun 2022
“Naná" Gracia is an Indigenous P'urhépecha midwife, seen here in her ekuarho with granddaughter Alma in Angahuan, Michoachán, Mexico. Image by Monica Pelliccia for Mongabay.

Indigenous agroforestry dying of thirst amid a sea of avocados in Mexico

Monica Pelliccia 8 Jun 2022

Does citizen ownership of natural resources hold the key to realizing deforestation commitments? (commentary)

Han Overman 6 Jun 2022
A persian leopard. Image via Peoples Trust for Endangered Species.

Protect Persian leopards, and their defenders, for World Environment Day (commentary)

Jane Goodall, Hedieyeh Tehrany 3 Jun 2022

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