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George Bowey in an illegal cacao farm in the proposed Kwa National Park. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Cacao plantations in Liberia encroach into proposed Kwa national park

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2026

Forest Restoration Solutions

11 Aug 2026
Indigenous representatives interviewed by Mongabay. Illustration by Nadiyah Suyatna.

‘This is what’s working’: Indigenous leaders on environment solutions in their communities

Latoya Abulu 9 Aug 2026

On the frontlines of conservation in Sumatra: Rangers safeguard Batutegi forest

Basten Gokkon 7 Aug 2026

For Brazil’s Xokleng people, saving a sacred tree means saving their culture

Letícia Klein 23 Jul 2026

Vietnam’s coffee boom fueled by decades of deforestation, report finds

Naina Rao 22 Jul 2026
Packaging cocoa beans in Grand Gedeh, Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

The vanishing forests on Liberia’s cocoa frontier

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Jul 2026

Ecuador’s Amazon coffee farmers get ahead of Europe’s deforestation rules

Sibélia Zanon 14 Jul 2026
Nenieveh Glinoga now opens the farm to overnight visitors, something she was previously unable to do because of the lack of potable water and bathroom.

A coastal Philippine farm offers a blueprint for farming with wetlands

Mavic Conde 29 Jun 2026
Cocoa producer Giovanne holds a native Amazon species, which is naturally resistant to pests and extreme weather. Image by Cícero Pedrosa Neto.

Amazon floodplains cocoa offers a climate-resilient and sustainable chocolate

Sam Cowie, Cícero Pedrosa Neto 25 Jun 2026
Christine Kouman with a slender-snouted crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus). Image courtesy of Agata Staniewicz.

Côte d’Ivoire’s tree-climbing crocodile needs to be protected, scientist says

Ryan Truscott 19 Jun 2026
A Mexican long-tongued bat feeds from an agave flower in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, U.S. Image courtesy of Peter Hudson.

The bats that pollinate for tequila: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 15 Jun 2026

In Sumatra, social forestry links conservation with livelihoods

Basten Gokkon 9 Jun 2026
Mountain gorilla silverback in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. Image by Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo.

Mongabay launches Solutions Desk to track what works for the planet

Mongabay.com 7 Apr 2026
Agroforestry in Ethiopia. Image by Trees ForTheFuture via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Who gives up land for the world’s climate fixes?

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Apr 2026

Agroforestry offers market-based way to boost Amazon rains & farmer incomes (analysis)

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Feb 2026
An olive tree and grove. Image by Dimitris Vetsikas via Pixabay.

Europe’s olive grove crisis affects nature & culture, but has solutions

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Jan 2026

In Brazil, planting forests for carbon credits could help ecosystem restoration

Constance Malleret 23 Jan 2026
Participants of Terra Madre Asia Pacific celebrate day 5 of the regional 'good food' event. Image courtesy of Slow Food.

Philippines hosts new Asia-Pacific hub for sustainable agriculture, cuisine

Keith Anthony Fabro 21 Jan 2026

The knowledge to save coffee already exists, now it’s in one e-library

Bobby Bascomb 20 Jan 2026

Silvopasture gains momentum in the Amazon, but can it shrink beef’s footprint?

Charlie Espinosa 12 Jan 2026
Rubber agroforestry in Thailand.

SE Asia’s smallholders struggling to meet EUDR: Interview with RECOFTC’s Martin Greijmans

Carolyn Cowan 29 Dec 2025
A woman stands among coffee bushes in Colombia. Image courtesy of Juliana Cajiao Raigosa.

Agroforestry grows in popularity among central Colombia’s coffee farmers (analysis)

Juliana Cajiao Raigosa 23 Dec 2025
Forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) inhabit the dense rainforests of Central Africa.

Top-down projects, exotic trees, weak tenure: Congo Basin restoration misses the mark

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 12 Dec 2025
A soy plantation borders native Cerrado vegetation, highlighting pressures on Brazil’s ecosystems and the need for community-led bioeconomy alternatives.

New financial tools boost traditional bioeconomy projects in the Amazon

Sarah Brown 8 Dec 2025
A Manggarai village in Flores.

As agroforestry declines in Indonesia’s Flores, a traditional ecological lexicon fades with it

Keith Anthony Fabro 28 Nov 2025
A mandrill is seen in a forest in Gabon.

Congo Basin nations roll out community payments for forest care

Anne Nzouankeu 20 Nov 2025
Maan Alima Tagnan under her gliricidia tree, one of the fertilizer trees she has planted in her field.

Burkina Faso’s women farmers reviving the land with fertilizer trees

Yvette Zongo 25 Sep 2025
Chepsat sorting tomatoes to load on a vehicle for ferrying to the market in Marigat. Image by Gilbert Nakweya for Mongabay.

Permaculture promises peace, food, increased equality in Kenyan county

Gilbert Nakweya 24 Sep 2025
A cocoa pod opened by hand. Exclusion of smallholder farmers from markets, a potential consequence of the EUDR, could result in loss of income leading to environmental harms but also exacerbate existing problems including child labor on cocoa farms. “These risks are known,” says Rainforest Alliance’s Fanny Gauttier. “That's something that we have highlighted many times.”

EUDR implementation comes laden with potential unintended consequences

Sean Mowbray 4 Sep 2025

Indigenous Khasis struggle to sustain forest-based livelihoods in Bangladesh

Sadiqur Rahman 3 Sep 2025
Why is star anise disappearing from northeastern India?

Efforts to revive India’s disappearing endangered star anise

Mongabay.com 4 Aug 2025

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