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The Nepalese paper plant is used to make the traditional lokta paper.

Nepal sees positive outcome from reforestation project using local knowledge

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 8 Jul 2025
Red panda photographed in Nepal

The forest guardians along Nepal-India border leading red panda conservation

Deepak Adhikari 4 Jul 2025

Study urges legal protection for Sulawesi’s endangered bear cuscus amid habitat loss

Basten Gokkon 3 Jul 2025
Emmanuel Gona, a fisherman and community scout from Muyu wa Kae village in Marereni, believes that conserving and restoring mangrove ecosystems is key to boosting fish populations.

A Kenya marine biodiversity credit program restores mangroves — and livelihoods

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 1 Jul 2025

After USAID cut, Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area aims for self-sufficiency

Solomon Yimer 27 Jun 2025

In Cameroon, forest mapping app helps Baka protect biodiversity and way of life

David Akana, Yannick Kenné 25 Jun 2025
Indigenous leaders at the first congress in Brazzaville. Image by Maribel Arango.

First congress of forest basin leaders results in call for direct financing

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 24 Jun 2025

An overlooked biocultural landscape in Sri Lanka receives overdue protection

Malaka Rodrigo 24 Jun 2025

Red tape fouls a coastal community’s fight to protect fjords in Chilean Patagonia

Ana Cristina Alvarado 23 Jun 2025
El Rincon frog

On a Patagonian plateau, a microendemic frog makes a hopeful comeback

Mark Hillsdon 20 Jun 2025
Boats sporting "No Dam" parade down the Salween River along the Thai-Myanmar border in March 2025. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Specter of dams and diversion looms over Southeast Asia’s Salween River

Gerald Flynn 19 Jun 2025
The Nyamugasani River flows through the flood plains in the foothills of Rwenzori Mountains National Park, one of the sites supported by the CAPA initiative.

To survive climate change, scientists say protected areas need ‘climate-smart’ planning

Marina Martinez 13 Jun 2025
jaguar

Jaguar recovery unites Brazil and Argentina in conservation effort

Sarah Brown 11 Jun 2025
A herd of female and young Borneo elephants eat chipped palms in a plantation.

Uniting plantations to save Bornean elephants: Interview with Farina Othman

Lee Kwai Han 10 Jun 2025

Pay-to-release program reduces shark deaths, but backfires in some cases

Basten Gokkon 5 Jun 2025
Sakda Khayankitphuanphon took reporters into the old mining tunnels to see the fluorite that Universal Mining seeks to extract from the mountains. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Mining company returns to haunt Thailand’s Karen communities as resistance mounts

Gerald Flynn 4 Jun 2025
A reticulated giraffe (Giraffa reticulata)

USAID cut curbs hopes at Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area

Solomon Yimer 30 May 2025
Banner image: Schoolchildren walk to school in Niamey, Niger in 2013.

Urban forests in Niger’s schoolyards serve climate resilience and education

Victoria Schneider 26 May 2025
Horseback patrolling in a community-based conservancy

Community conservancies in Kyrgyzstan see conservation success against illegal hunting

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 26 May 2025
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute scientist Danny Hernández Cuadra smiles at a small vial of stingless bees she collected for research.

In Panama, an Indigenous-led project rewrites the rules of reforestation

Marlowe Starling 22 May 2025
Helni Gopi (left) with her companions bringing a variety of their harvests back from the pampa forest.

Indigenous rights advocates petition to overturn Indonesian conservation law

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 May 2025
A herder minding his goats in Isiolo County, Kenya. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Crisis hits community-led conservation group in northern Kenya

Ashoka Mukpo 20 May 2025
A sarus crane photographed in Lumbini. Image by Mukesh Pokhrel.

Concrete sprawl in Buddha’s birthplace in Nepal threatens sarus cranes

Mukesh Pokhrel 19 May 2025
Jandhen Gurung, 82, with her juniper leaf collection. Image by Durga Rana Magar.

In Nepal, centuries-old Buddhist incense tradition faces overharvesting, climate threats

Durga Rana Magar 16 May 2025

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

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