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Korubo people in the Vale do Javarí Indigenous Land. Photo: Enrique Ortiz

Rieli Franciscato died protecting isolated indigenous peoples in the Amazon (commentary)

Enrique Ortiz 18 Sep 2020
Fires burning in the Amazon on August 17 next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Labrea, Amazonas state. Felled forests are intentionally lit in the Amazon to clear land for cattle ranching. Photo by: Christian Braga / Greenpeace

The best news of 2020? Humanity may never hit the 10 billion mark

Jeremy Hance 10 Sep 2020

No, ‘regenerative ranching’ is not good for grassland birds (commentary)

Jennifer Molidor 8 Sep 2020
In Mambele, in Eastern Cameroon, an indigenous Baka woman is raising awareness of other Baka indigenous communities on the importance of washing hands to prevent COVID-19. May 2020. Image courtesy of OKANI.

Filling the vacuum: How civil society is battling COVID-19 in Cameroon (commentary)

Madeleine Ngeunga 3 Sep 2020
Rangers in neighboring Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Photo for Mongabay.com by Rhett A. Butler.

Communities, conservation, and development in the age of COVID: Time for rethinking approaches (commentary)

Michael Brown, Beth Allgood, John Waugh, Robin Martino, Samantha Cheng, Candice Carr Kelman, Ana Luz Porzecanski 31 Aug 2020

Protecting African wildlife: A defense of conservation territories (commentary)

Leif Brottem 27 Aug 2020

Rescuing Achilles: Southern pig-tailed macaques listed as endangered but still persecuted (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 24 Aug 2020
Satellite image of a pulp and paper plantation on peatland in Riau, Sumatra. Courtesy of Zoom Earth.

Is Malaysia’s CIMB serious about addressing deforestation? (commentary)

Gulzhan Musaeva 19 Aug 2020
Microsoft Zoom Earth photo of Western Scotland.

Book Review: Cottongrass Summer – the book every eco-anxious conservationist should read

Erik Meijaard 17 Aug 2020
A grizzly bear cub in Montana. Creative Commons licensed photo by Marshal Hedin.

In the fight against biodiversity loss, connectivity is key (commentary)

Jodi Hilty 12 Aug 2020
Planet image of Altamira (-5.79, -53.69) in the State of Pará, Brazil taken on August 8, 2020. Courtesy of Planet.

Before burning comes felling: Brazil’s half-measure fire ban (commentary)

Angie Bolzan 12 Aug 2020
Santos Sauna at a sacred coastal site where the Sierra Nevada meets the sea.

COVID is killing Indigenous leaders (commentary)

Mark Plotkin 11 Aug 2020
Oil waste pit fire in Shushufindi in 1993 at a facility built by Texaco. Photo by Lou Dematteis

Don’t let Big Oil open a new front in its war on environmental defenders (commentary)

Steven Donziger 11 Aug 2020
Papuan girl swims in Kali Biru in the Knasaimos landscape in Teminabuan, South Sorong, West Papua. Credit line: © Jurnasyanto Sukarno / Greenpeace

Why I stand for my tribe’s forest: It gives us food, culture, and life (commentary)

Arkilaus Kladit 8 Aug 2020

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

Asa Feinstein 30 Jul 2020

We need a green life support plan (commentary)

Gabriel Thoumi, John Waugh 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
NASA Landsat image of agriculture in the Nevada desert.

Population and consumption: challenges we can win (commentary)

Enrique Ortiz 20 Jul 2020

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

Fiona McAlpine 13 Jul 2020

EU and partner countries must protect gains in legal timber trade during COVID-19 (commentary)

Paolo Omar Cerutti 2 Jul 2020
Excavator working an acacia plantation in Riau, the Indonesian province that lost 22% of its primary forest cover between 2002 and 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

It’s time to rein in the industries devouring the world’s last standing forests (commentary)

Gaurav Madan 26 Jun 2020

Nature needs cities, and cities need nature (commentary)

Johan Robinson 15 Jun 2020

The perfect firestorm: COVID-19 in Mesoamerica’s indigenous territories (commentary)

Jeremy Radachowsky 10 Jun 2020

Crediting the lockdown for Sri Lanka’s cleaner air masks the real problem (Commentary)

Lareef Zubair 10 Jun 2020

Triple crisis of pipelines, pesticides and pandemic is an existential threat to Ecuador’s indigenous peoples (commentary)

Mitch Anderson 5 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
Flooded forest in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay

Brazil’s ‘land-grabbers law’ threatens Amazonia (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 25 May 2020

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

Will Baldwin-Cantello 21 May 2020
Zebra in Rwanda. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

From crisis to solutions for communities and African conservation (commentary)

Dickson Kaelo, Daniel Sopia, Damian Bell, Richard Diggle, Fred Nelson 20 May 2020

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