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Indigenous conservationists lead the fight to save Mentawai’s endangered primates

Ana Norman Bermúdez 15 May 2025
Greater adjutant storks photographed in Assam, India.

In India, folklore is a tool that helps women save the greater adjutant stork

Angana Chakrabarti 15 May 2025
Tsimi Judith harvesting the Gnetum (okok) in the village of Minwoho, Lekié, Center Region, Cameroon.

Report shows policy gaps in safeguarding the carbon rights of forest communities

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 8 May 2025
The 14 women who make up Las Chelemeras.

‘It has been worth it’: The local women saving Yucatán’s mangroves

Astrid Arellano 25 Apr 2025
Ahmed Albaaj of the U.N. World Food Programme planting a mangrove in Basra.

Mangroves mount a fragile green revival in Iraq’s toxic south

Robert Bociaga 21 Apr 2025

How Mexican fishers are protecting an endemic oyster — and its ecosystem

Gonzalo Ortuño López 17 Apr 2025
Zozan Basin Shekho (left)and Suzan Haskani (right) show the decorations crafted from discarded plastic, giving the waste a new life and purpose.

Where war once raged in Iraq, Yezidi women plant hope

Robert Bociaga 14 Apr 2025

As Acapulco’s mangroves disappear, Mexico takes strides to protect its coastal forests

Gonzalo Ortuño López 8 Apr 2025

A Kichwa women’s collective uses ecotourism to safeguard Ecuador’s Amazon

Ana Cristina Alvarado 1 Apr 2025
mangrove conservation

Colombia’s women clam collectors protect Pacific mangroves and mollusks

Catherine Ellis 1 Apr 2025
Tiwai Honey Initiative product picture. Image © Ezekiel Kargbo for The Iris Project.

How a young beekeeper’s initiative brought hope and profit to Sierra Leone communities

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 31 Mar 2025
Two pairs of N. Bald Ibis photographed at the wintering grounds on the Ethiopian highlands in November 2006 (© G. Serra).

The effort to save Syria’s northern bald ibis population failed, but much can be learned (analysis)

Gianluca Serra 28 Mar 2025
Loita forest in Kenya. Image by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay.

Kenya’s cities adopt Miyawaki method to restore lost ecological glory

Dann Okoth 28 Mar 2025

Community-based conservation cuts thresher shark fishing by 91% in Indonesia: Study

Basten Gokkon 28 Mar 2025
Two people sit in conversation on a bench beside a path along a stream in Karurua forest, Nairobi, Kenya. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ninara/51944328733/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

African forum on urban forests calls for greater access to green spaces

Victoria Schneider 25 Mar 2025
A Caribbean reef shark.

Caribbean reef sharks rebound in Belize with shark fishers’ help

Marco Lopez 13 Mar 2025
Suyono shows his biogas reactor surrounded by plants.

Chauffeur at Indonesia energy nonprofit drives uptake of biogas by Java farmers

Toto Sudiarjo 13 Mar 2025
Leroy Ignacio is president of the South Rupununi Conservation Society, which works to protect the red siskin. Image courtesy of Chung Liu/SRCS.

10 unique community-led conservation solutions in the face of environmental despair

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 10 Mar 2025
Shea butter production process near Chiana, Kassena Nankana District, Ghana. Image by Axel Fassio/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Women in Ghana plant ‘diversion’ trees to protect shea trees and their livelihoods

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 8 Mar 2025
Members of the Vohoko Est cooperative with tree seedlings in the nursery, Tewaka, Burkina Faso, where Tree Aid has begun a 12,000 hectare community-owned agroforestry project.

Collaboration, data and tracking move Africa’s Great Green Wall toward its goal

Spoorthy Raman 7 Mar 2025
Two Aboriginal women in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Image of Élie Nzuzi via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

DRC conflict so far ‘devastating’ to Indigenous lands & people: Interview with Samuel Ade Ndasi

Aimable Twahirwa 7 Mar 2025
An African golden cat caught in a snare.

Ugandan researcher wins ‘Emerging Conservationist’ award for work on golden cats

Abhishyant Kidangoor 6 Mar 2025
Ignatius Tondi, a Mekar Raya resident.

Indigenous Dayak community makes strides on Borneo toward forest autonomy

Aseanty Pahlevi 26 Feb 2025
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Labrea, Amazonas state, Brazil. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. Image © Christian Braga / Greenpeace.

Pause to USAID already having impacts on community conservation in the Amazon

Aimee Gabay 24 Feb 2025
A captive Sumatran tiger.

Volunteer radio station brings old media to remote Sumatran tiger habitat

Suryadi 18 Feb 2025

In the high Andes, a dream to restore a special forest takes root

Antonio José Paz Cardona 14 Feb 2025
Melquiades, a Brazil nut producer in the Amazon rainforest. Image by Yoly Gutierrez/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Forest communities craft recommendations for better ART TREES carbon credit standard

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 13 Feb 2025
frailejon tree paramo Ecuador

In Ecuador, a mountain shrub could hold the key to restoring a precious ecosystem

Christina Noriega 5 Feb 2025

A cattle ranch is the unlikely scene for saving a fox found only in Brazil

Letícia Klein 5 Feb 2025

On a São Paulo eco-farm, Brazil’s landless movement makes its case for occupation

Peter Speetjens 30 Jan 2025
A pride of lions inside Queen Elizabeth National Park. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Uganda’s tree-climbing lions grow scarce amid nationwide decline of the big cat

Gilbert Nakweya 29 Jan 2025
Janet Nyakiru Abwoli, Kasese district, Uganda. Image by Innocent Kiiza for Mongabay.

In Uganda, a women-led reforestation initiative fights flooding, erosion

Innocent Kiiza 23 Jan 2025

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