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In syntropic agriculture, farmers stop fighting nature and learn to embrace it

Sandra Weiss 30 Jul 2020

Environmental defenders voice concerns as COVID-19 crisis deepens

Lauren Crothers 21 Jul 2020
Pardalis chameleon (Furcifer pardalis), a resident of the Masoala Peninsula in northeastern Madagascar, where illegal rosewood logging has taken a heavy toll on forests. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

In the battle to save forests, a make-or-break moment for REDD+

CJ Clouse 15 Jul 2020

The U.N.’s grand plan to save forests hasn’t worked, but some still believe it can

CJ Clouse 14 Jul 2020

Perfume coalition’s conservation-first approach: Q&A with Heather D’Angelo

Mongabay.org 13 Jul 2020

Court forces Ecuador government to protect Indigenous Waorani during COVID-19

Kimberley Brown 26 Jun 2020

The fire prophet: Dolors Armenteras on saving the Amazon and fighting misogyny in science

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 23 Jun 2020
Mangrove forest at MSN island, where groups hope to use the land as an educational center and nursing ground for various mangroves species. Photo by Ann Wang

Mangrove collapse ‘inevitable’ unless emissions curbed

Lauren Crothers 18 Jun 2020
Sea lions. Image courtesy of Wildlife Conservation Society.

Effective conservation science must shift away from doomsday views and toward solutions: Study

Monica Evans 15 Jun 2020

Colombian farmers, ranchers join businesses to turn the tide on Amazon deforestation

Dimitri Selibas 12 Jun 2020

Māori push for pandemic stimulus spend to save ancestral forest

Monica Evans 11 Jun 2020

‘I’ll never be ready for this port,’ locals say of Colombia’s proposed project

Kimberley Brown 8 Jun 2020

In Hawai’i, researchers work to slow the rapid death of a beloved tree

Shannon Brown 5 Jun 2020

In the Ecuadoran Andes, protectors of the páramos guard their water source

Sandra Weiss 27 May 2020

Ecuador’s Kichwa implement innovative approach to rainforest conservation

Matthew Wilburn King 20 May 2020

Land scarcity and disease threaten a multifaceted indigenous crop in Ethiopia

Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 19 May 2020

In South Korea, centuries of farming point to the future for sustainable agriculture

Latoya Abulu 18 May 2020

Naga tribes of Myanmar face loss of land and forest under new law

Robert Bociaga 14 May 2020

In Colombia’s La Guajira, the native Wayuu are forgotten in the dust

Nicoló Filippo Rosso 13 May 2020

Seed by seed, a women’s collective helps reforest Brazil’s Xingu River Basin

JoAnna Haugen 12 May 2020

Yehimi Fajardo: A voice for the birds of Putumayo

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 11 May 2020

World lost forest ‘the size of Libya’ since 1990, FAO says

Lauren Crothers 8 May 2020

‘It was like a church’: Ecuador’s Kichwa community mourns death of sacred tree

Johnny Magdaleno 8 May 2020
Oil palm fruit in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Dayak women of Indonesia resist gender inequality exacerbated by palm oil production

Lauren Bowman 7 May 2020

Indigenous solutions to climate crisis could lie in archaeology, experts say

Ian Morse 6 May 2020
Matsés woman with traditional facial tattoos, piercings, and face paint. Photo: Alicia Fox

Painstaking mapping initiative helps indigenous Peruvians defend their land

Yvette Sierra Praeli 5 May 2020
Baobab trees at sunset in Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

From writing to VR, finding ways to connect to nature during isolation

Carinya Sharples 4 May 2020

China held water back from drought-stricken Mekong countries, report says

Michael Tatarski 30 Apr 2020

Rwanda’s Akagera park thrives thanks to community-led anti-poaching drive

Maggie Andresen 29 Apr 2020

Some ranchers and conservationists agree: Grazing and logging can save birds

Jennifer Oldham 28 Apr 2020

Indigenous groups in Myanmar lash out at ‘restrictive’ conservation policies

Emily Fishbein 27 Apr 2020
Flowering rainforest tree in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Colombia wants to plant 180 million trees: Is it a realistic goal?

Antonio José Paz Cardona 23 Apr 2020

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