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Ali Garama, the Kuruwitu BMU chairman.

Kenyan fishers put new twists on an age-old marine conservation system

Anthony Langat 9 Aug 2023
Women picking the nutritionally rich baobab fruits in Ghana.

Progress is slow on Africa’s Great Green Wall, but some bright spots bloom

Spoorthy Raman 3 Aug 2023
A stream in a forest in Jambi.

In Sumatra’s Jambi, community forest managers fish to protect peatlands

Lili Rambe 2 Aug 2023
A woman in a yellow top and bright multicoloured wrapper, smiling as she walks across sandy verge of a paved road to where blue and white bags of dark black charcoal have been set on the ground near Praça das Mangueiras, in southwestern Angola. In the background, more charcoal in tall white sacks. Image by Carsten Ten Brink via Flickr (BY NC-ND 2.0)

Forests & finance: Fears for forests in Angola, flashes of hope from Kenya & Ghana

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2023
Bajo seafarer named Umar Pasandre has been quietly building a career as an influential environmental defender.

Sulawesi sea nomads who inspired Avatar movie chart new course saving forests

Sarjan Lahay 31 Jul 2023

Seaweed farmers in eastern Indonesia struggle in a changing climate

Jaya Barends 23 Jul 2023
A chainsaw cuts through timber near Afi River Forest Reserve. Image by Orji Sunday.

Forests & Finance: Cameroon raw log ban expands and Nigerian villagers act against ‘forest bandits’

Mongabay.com 18 Jul 2023
A woman carries firewood out of the Mkingu Forest Nature Reserve.

From cardamom to carbon: Bold new Tanzanian project is regrowing a rainforest

Ryan Truscott 18 Jul 2023
Florinda Dominga Par is an active participant in the agroecological and artisanal market

Agroecology schools help communities restore degraded land in Guatemala

Aimee Gabay 7 Jul 2023
Locals planting bamboo.

Villagers turn to charcoal made from bamboo to save a protected forest in Madagascar

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 7 Jul 2023
A kipunji.

Meet the kipunji: A rare primate success story in Tanzania

Ruth Kamnitzer 5 Jul 2023
Desta Melaku, one of the board member of Guassa Community Conservation Office, stands in front of a field of guassa grass. Image by Solomon Yimer for Mongabay.

Tested by COVID and war, an Indigenous conservation system in Ethiopia prevails

Solomon Yimer 4 Jul 2023
Baobabs at sunset in Madagascar.

Fire imperils Madagascar’s baobabs: Q&A with park director Diamondra Andriambololona

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 3 Jul 2023
A fisher in Fiji.

Study finds locally managed marine areas in Fiji yield mixed results

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Jun 2023
Tigers in Nepal. Photo credit: DNPWC/NTNC/Panthera/WWF/ZSL

Tigers cross borders but struggle to move safely within Nepal, study suggests

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Jun 2023
Serge in a greenhouse.

One seed at a time: Lebanese project promotes agroecology for farmer autonomy

Áine Donnellan 29 Jun 2023

Brazil nut harvesting proves a win-win for forest and community livelihood

Carolina Pinheiro 29 Jun 2023
A gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.

Big potential and immense challenges for great ape conservation in the Congo Basin, experts say

Mike DiGirolamo 28 Jun 2023
Women from the Maju Bersama KPPL plant ginger flowers

Indigenous and local communities see big gains in land rights, study shows

Dimitri Selibas 19 Jun 2023
A park blooming with more blue camas.

Volunteers, First Nations work to bring back a disappearing oak prairie

Spoorthy Raman 19 Jun 2023
A spectacled bear.

Learning to live with — and love — bears and eagles in Colombia’s cloud forest

James Hall 8 Jun 2023
Tana is his field.

Africa’s land and forest restoration initiative gathers pace in Malawi

Charles Mpaka 7 Jun 2023

Award-winning community group in Sumatra cleans up lake

Jaka Hendra Baittri 6 Jun 2023
L’Allee des Baobabs, or the Avenue of Baobabs, a famous spot outside Morondava, the nearest town to Belo-Sur-Mer.

Extreme reforestation: Baobab planters confront fires, loggers, cattle and more

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 6 Jun 2023
Aerial view of Congo forest at Lokolama/Penzele around Mbandaka, Équateur province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Image courtesy of Daniel Beltrá / Greenpeace.

Tap African knowledge and culture for Congo Basin forest conservation (commentary)

Sylvie Djacbou Deugoue 5 Jun 2023

In Nepal, Chepang take up the challenge to revive their cultural keystone tree

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 May 2023

Strong like an oak tree: Guardians of the Juanacatlán forest in Mexico

Adriana Navarro Ramírez 31 May 2023
A golden-rumped elephant shrew (Rhynchocyon chrysopygus).

Study shows Kenyan elephant shrew may be adapting to human disturbance, drought

Ryan Truscott 25 May 2023
David Antonioli at COP15 in 2009.

Head of Verra, top carbon credit certifier, to leave in June

John Cannon 25 May 2023
Villagers seeking shelter following the March 2021 airstrikes at an IDP camp within the Salween Peace Park. Image courtesy of KESAN.

Award-winning, Indigenous peace park dragged into fierce conflict in Myanmar

Carolyn Cowan 15 May 2023
The Bungule Women's Group, where women engage in entrepreneurial activities like producing arts and crafts.

Indigenous groups voice support for REDD+, despite flaws

John Cannon 9 May 2023

Colombian farmers turn deforested land into sustainable Amazonian farms

Antonio José Paz Cardona 8 May 2023

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