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A graceful grey crested crane in the Eldoret-Iten watershed-Image Courtesy of TNC.

In Kenya, a water fund brings to light Indigenous cultural identity issues

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 12 Nov 2024
Paul Sang, a community leader of the Indigenous Ogiek community

A Kenya water fund partners with farmers to protect vital resources

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 11 Nov 2024
Nya Dosem, a specially prepared smoked fish made from snowtrout (Schizothorax genus).

In Bhutan, a smoked fish tradition helps sustain a vanishing ethnic group

Choki Wangmo 4 Nov 2024
Oil palm plantation and native tropical rainforest on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler

Indonesia investigates suspected corruption in palm oil amnesty program

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Oct 2024

‘Thugs’ disrupt Jakarta climate march as attacks on civil liberties increase

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Oct 2024

Celestún refuge fights illegal fishing & helps revive species in Mexico’s Yucatán

Astrid Arellano 1 Oct 2024

In Mexico, scientists race to save Marietas Islands’ corals from ocean warming

Agustín del Castillo 30 Sep 2024
Bhuddhist prayer flags ib Pachu Community Tourism center.

Ecotourism offers new hopes for Bhutanese youth — and local environments

Choki Wangmo 6 Sep 2024

A Mexican marine park shelters giant manta rays: Interview with Madalena Pereira Cabral

Astrid Arellano 4 Sep 2024
An aerial view of illegally logged timber in Chhaeb-Preah Roka Wildlife Sanctuary that was documented on a patrol in April 2023 by members of the Prey Preah Roka Community Network – a grassroots activism group made up of communities around the wildlife sanctuary. Image by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

World’s top timber companies are dropping the ball on ESG reporting: Analysis

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Aug 2024

Indonesia expands IPLC land recognition — but the pace is too slow, critics say

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2024
Seema Devi and other women from her village line up at the aquifer beneath the newly constructed field that doubles as a helipad.

Uttarakhand villagers thirst for water as tourism, temps & development rise

Swati Thapa 9 Aug 2024

Saving Lake Victoria from plastic: Interview with Kenya’s teenage Muchilwa siblings

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 31 Jul 2024

Palm oil company fined for cheating; Sulawesi farmers to reap their due rupiah

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Jul 2024
Two school boys planting a tree.

Protecting Nigeria one child & one tree at a time: Interview with Doyinsola Ogunye

Tarinipre Francis 24 Jul 2024
A farmer applies biochar in the field.

Biochar could play big role in Bhutan’s carbon storage — but it’s news to farmers

Choki Wangmo 24 Jul 2024

Trophy hunting of Amboseli’s super-tuskers in Tanzania sparks outrage, calls for a ban

Malavika Vyawahare 22 Jul 2024
An endangered Gee's golden langur (Trachypithecus geei).

‘A harmonious human-primate society’: Interview with Whitley winner Kuenzang Dorji

Choki Wangmo 17 Jul 2024

Loopholes allow multilateral development banks to fund captive coal in Indonesia: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Jul 2024

Sumatra pulp & paper giants violate zero-deforestation pledge, activists allege

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jul 2024

Protected areas benefit nature & people, study says — with caveats

Malavika Vyawahare 2 Jul 2024
An Amazon kingfisher (Chloroceryle amazona)

‘It is indeed our problem’: Interview with Mário Soares on Brazil’s mangroves

Vitor Alexandre Araujo Prado dos Anjos 1 Jul 2024
Farmer Florence Ochieng harvests green maize in Trans-Nzoia, Kenya.

Kenyan farmers turn to WhatsApp & AI tools to combat crop diseases

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 27 Jun 2024
Stilt mangrove roots in West Bengal's Sundarbans.

Caught in the net: Unchecked shrimp farming transforms India’s Sundarbans

Niladry Sarkar 19 Jun 2024

‘Weather whiplash’ cycles of floods & droughts imperil Nigerian farming

Tarinipre Francis 15 May 2024

An ancient Indigenous lagoon system brings water back to a dry town in Ecuador

Alexis Serrano Carmona 15 May 2024

African health experts warn of climate change & rising vector-borne diseases

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 13 May 2024
A climate change protest in the U.S. in 2017.

Experts highlight importance of ‘prebunking’ to combat climate disinformation

Choki Wangmo 10 May 2024
A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) hangs from the trees. Fewer than 100,000 orangutans remain on Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesian company defies order, still clearing peatlands in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 May 2024
Farming in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand limits agricultural land sales amid protests & tourism development

Swati Thapa 22 Apr 2024

Hyundai ends aluminum deal with Adaro Minerals following K-pop protest

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Apr 2024
A tapir amid a harvested cornfield in northern Mato Grosso, west-central Brazil, in a transition area between the Cerrado and the Amazon.

Tapirs in Brazil’s Cerrado inspire research on human health & pesticides

Michael Esquer 10 Apr 2024

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