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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Though forests burn, trees retake farmland globally as agroforestry advances

Patrick Worms 10 Aug 2020

Does coconut oil really threaten more species than palm oil? No, it doesn’t. (commentary)

Asa Feinstein 30 Jul 2020

Hellbenders, super-spreaders, and other salamanders face uncertain futures

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2020

On World Tiger Day, let’s recommit to the goal of doubling wild tiger populations by 2022 (commentary)

Stuart Chapman 28 Jul 2020

Indigenous-led technology solutions can boost biodiversity and ensure human rights (commentary)

Alice Sheppard, Jerome Lewis, Marcos Moreu, Megan Laws, Simon Hoyte 27 Jul 2020

Mangrove forest restoration boosts Costa Rica communities (commentary)

Andrew Whitworth 24 Jul 2020

Mozambique’s trailblazing Gorongosa Park celebrates 60th anniversary, announces 60 new schools (commentary)

Dominique Gonçalves 23 Jul 2020

Can policy prevent a North American salamander pandemic?

Mongabay.com 15 Jul 2020

Shark fin stories by major media ‘misleading’: Q&A with David Shiffman

Jimmy Thomson 13 Jul 2020

Logging concession in Malaysian Borneo lacks consent of Indigenous communities (commentary)

Fiona McAlpine 13 Jul 2020
Alley cropping is a common form of agroforestry, combining annual crops like hay, grains, or vegetables with long rows of useful fruit or fodder trees. Image courtesy of Caney Fork Farms.

Investors say agroforestry isn’t just climate friendly — it’s also profitable

Stephanie Hanes 8 Jul 2020

International task force unites North America to protect salamander diversity

Mongabay.com 1 Jul 2020

Will U.S. scientists find a silent salamander killer in time?

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2020

Why are salamanders so diverse in North America?

Mongabay.com 3 Jun 2020

Better wines among the pines: Agroforestry can climate-proof grapes, French researchers show

Erik Hoffner 3 Jun 2020

Wildlife conservation needs a post-COVID recovery plan (commentary)

Razan Al Mubarak 3 Jun 2020
Shade grown coffee in Nicaragua. Image courtesy ICRAF/World Agroforestry

Faced with a health crisis, a plea for trees and agroforestry (commentary)

Emmanuel Torquebiau et al 28 May 2020

Consider what’s below the canopy, too, when counting up forest areas (commentary)

Will Baldwin-Cantello 21 May 2020

Audio: North America’s looming salamander pandemic: Is the U.S. ready?

Mongabay.com 20 May 2020

It’s time to implement solutions that make the bushmeat trade unnecessary (commentary)

Cate Twining-Ward, Colin A. Chapman 18 May 2020

Market-based solutions cannot solely fund community-level conservation (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 11 May 2020

Massive erosion likely due to hydropower dam causes oil spill on Ecuador’s Coca River

Antonio José Paz Cardona 6 May 2020

Plans to prevent future pandemics must consider gender issues, too (commentary)

Tyler Nuckols 6 May 2020
Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

As a campaigner against deforestation, almost dying of COVID-19 was ironic (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 29 Apr 2020
Odielca Solis has built a silvopasture system at her farm in Panama, which provides shade and forage to her cattle and fruit for her family. Image by Erin Banks Rusby for Mongabay.

Silvopasturing improves ranches and the environment in Panama

Erin Banks Rusby 29 Apr 2020
Rainforest rainbow in Sabah. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

Transforming conservation at virtual Earth Optimism Summit, April 22-24

Mongabay.com 22 Apr 2020
Blackwater lake in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Earth Day in the coronavirus era: Can resilience thinking provide a way forward? (commentary)

Elizabeth Grennan Browning, IU Research Fellows 20 Apr 2020

Tribute to Garth Owen-Smith, African conservationist (commentary)

Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation 18 Apr 2020

Positive ways forward for chocolate industry tainted by deforestation and child labor (commentary)

Marianne Martinet 15 Apr 2020

80 percent of conservation careers negatively affected by COVID pandemic (commentary)

Kristi Foster 9 Apr 2020

Hanging with Romi: Get to know our camera trap expert and host of Candid Animal Cam

Erik Hoffner 8 Apr 2020

Kenya, conservation and music: Q&A with singer Barbara Guantai

David Njagi 6 Apr 2020

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