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A buffer zone for Thailand, last great hope for wildlife in Southeast Asia (commentary)

Gregory McCann 7 Jun 2021
A plastic beverage bottle floats in the shallow waters of Sand Island in Hawaii. Image by David Slater / NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program Marine Debris Team, 2015.

As the world’s biggest users of water, business must act to save it (commentary)

Roan du Feu, Georg Kell 4 Jun 2021
Smoke rising from smoldering peatland in PT Raja Garuda Mas Sejati. Photo courtesy of Greenpeace Media Library.

Efforts to restore tropical peatlands need fire-free plantations (commentary)

Evi Wulandari, Dilva Terzano 2 Jun 2021

In the International Year of Caves and Karst, Brazilian caves are at high risk (Commentary)

Enrico Bernard | Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira | Francisco W. Cruz | Luís Piló | Allan Calux 31 May 2021

What stops the rubber industry from being sustainable? (commentary)

Stefano Savi 26 May 2021

Belize’s Maya Forest Corridor a ‘missing link’ to giant rainforest reserve (commentary)

Jut Wynne 24 May 2021
Documentation of landcover and oil palm plantation development in PT Internusa Jaya Sejahtera (PT IJS), part of the Central Cipta Murdaya group, in April 2018. Photo credit: © Ulet Ifansasti / Greenpeace

As illegal forest conversion for industrial ag worsens, this moment is pivotal (commentary)

Sam Lawson 20 May 2021

Amazon palm oil has not lived up to its promise of sustainability (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 May 2021
Rainforest in Malaysian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

The Pope, a prince and a judge walk into a bar…to argue for nature’s rights (commentary)

Mari Margil 19 May 2021
Lioness in Tanzania. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Keeping animals wild vs ‘safe’ should be prioritized, lion biologists argue (commentary)

Pride Lion Conservation Alliance 14 May 2021
Planted mangrove seedlings. Image by Irwandi wancaleu via Wikimedia Commons (CC 4.0)

The climate crisis solutions we need are already here (commentary)

Steve Trent 10 May 2021

NRA Video: Conquering nature will never be the silver bullet (commentary)

Kate Dylewsky 6 May 2021
Pangolin in Cambodia. Pangolins are among the most trafficked animals in the world. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

We can prevent the next pandemic (commentary)

Sonila Cook, Nigel Sizer 4 May 2021

‘Zero illegal deforestation’ – One more Bolsonaro distortion (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 3 May 2021

Criticizing Brazil over Amazon conservation will likely backfire (commentary)

Andrea Garcia, Gustavo Macedo 3 May 2021

Fear not the bobcat (Commentary)

Mark Elbroch 23 Apr 2021

The birds of Zoom (commentary)

Enrique Ortiz 22 Apr 2021

Countries can transform the climate crisis with ocean-based action (commentary)

Waldemar Coutts 19 Apr 2021
Deforestation for oil palm in Malaysian Borneo.

Despite flaws, commodity eco-labels contribute to sustainability (commentary)

Matthias Diemer 14 Apr 2021

The world needs a food movement based on agroecology and equity (commentary)

Pat Mooney 12 Apr 2021

Reveling in complexity: Remembering a man who ‘truly lived’ conservation (commentary)

Gregory McCann 7 Apr 2021
The Javari River where it forms the border between Peru and Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Rivers can be climate change solutions, too (commentary)

Michele Thieme 30 Mar 2021

‘Like losing half the territory.’ Waorani struggle with loss of elder, and of land to oil (commentary)

Danilo Borja, Juan Bay, Conny Davidsen 23 Mar 2021

Brazil must do more to protect its people, forests, and the planet (commentary)

Steve Trent 15 Mar 2021

The Hungry Mills: How palm oil mills drive deforestation (commentary)

Rob McWilliam 12 Mar 2021

First female leader signals new day for WTO (commentary)

Isabel Jarrett 10 Mar 2021

The singing apes of Sumatra need rescuing, too (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 3 Mar 2021
New cutting-edge technology can monitor illegal activities and movements of species across vast areas.

How technology can help us achieve at least 30% ocean protection (commentary)

Simon Cripps 3 Mar 2021

An economic case for competing in the XPRIZE Rainforest contest (commentary)

Jonah Wittkamper 1 Mar 2021

Declaring key ocean habitats off-limits to human activities protects biodiversity and guards against climate change (commentary)

Kelsey Lamp 26 Feb 2021

The perils of relying on high-tech networks in a warmer world (commentary)

Simon Pollock 25 Feb 2021

Women and girls: Let’s transform the ocean by including everyone (commentary)

Leandra Gonçalves, Paulina Chamorro 11 Feb 2021

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