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A Bornean orangutan. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

Forest patches amid agriculture are key to orangutan survival: Study

John Cannon 26 Feb 2021
Young girl in the Kayapó-Mẽbêngôkre village of Aukre in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo credit: Cristina Mittermeier

“Securing Indigenous guardianship of vital ecosystems”: Q&A with Nia Tero CEO Peter Seligmann

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Feb 2021

‘What’s at stake is the life of every being’: Saving the Brazilian Cerrado

Peter Yeung 11 Feb 2021

Mob killing of Malagasy officer spotlights risks faced by forest guardians

Malavika Vyawahare, Rivonala Razafison 2 Feb 2021
Cyclists with firewood on the road from Kisangani to Masako village, Democratic Republic of Congo. Image by Ollivier Girard/CIFOR (CC BY-NC-ND-2.0)

Ambitious return to carbon markets to conserve Africa’s forests

Mongabay 28 Jan 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical importance of community-driven conservation efforts and grassroots organizations in the face of global disruptions. Credit: Felipe Rodriguez.

Transforming conservation in times of crisis and opportunity (Commentary)

Fred Nelson, Alasdair Harris, Leela Hazzah, Lúcia G. Lohmann 25 Jan 2021

Mozambique’s new fisheries law expands protections but old problems persist

Malavika Vyawahare 19 Jan 2021
Photo by the members of the community of Santa Martha.

Indigenous Cacataibo of Peru threatened by land grabbing and drug trade

Enrique Vera 15 Jan 2021
Rainforest in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

What are the tropical forest storylines to watch in 2021?

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jan 2021

Industrial agriculture threatens a wetland oasis in Bolivia

Gustavo Jiménez Gonzáles 30 Dec 2020

Illegal deforestation rises in South America’s Indigenous territories, parks

Vanessa Romo 29 Dec 2020
Mendouga Rita plants Gnetum in the village of Minwoho. Lekié, Center Region, Cameroon. Photo by Ollivier Girard/CIFOR

Human rights-based conservation is key to protecting biodiversity: Study

Liz Kimbrough 23 Dec 2020
A village near a community forest in River Cess County, Liberia, 2016. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Liberia gave villagers control over their forests. Then a mining company showed up

Ashoka Mukpo, James Giahyue 22 Dec 2020

‘She goes and helps’: Noemí Gualinga, Ecuador’s mother of the jungle

Mayuri Castro 13 Dec 2020

Money to burn: Study finds fire-prevention incentives in Indonesia don’t work

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Dec 2020

Philippine ‘raptor boy’ shows it takes a village to protect a migration route

Bong S. Sarmiento 22 Nov 2020

A Malagasy community wins global recognition for saving its lake

Malavika Vyawahare 18 Nov 2020

Indigenous Colombians mount a spiritual defense of the Amazon

Ocean Malandra 4 Nov 2020

From the ashes of a volcano: Mexico’s Purépecha Forest

Agustín del Castillo 20 Oct 2020

A radio program is helping save critically endangered gorillas in Nigeria

Mike Gaworecki 14 Oct 2020

Mexico: Four decades of community lessons from the forests of Durango

Marco A. Hernández T. 13 Oct 2020

Mining covers more than 20% of Indigenous territory in the Amazon

John Cannon 9 Oct 2020

With the help of an app, Nunavut hunters document the changing Arctic

Claudia Geib 7 Oct 2020

Great ape ‘forest gardeners of Africa’ benefit from conservation victory

Mike Gaworecki 16 Sep 2020

How do we avert global warming, extinctions and pandemics? New app has answers

Morgan Erickson-Davis 4 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
Indigenous Waorani marching to the judicial office Friday April 26 to hear the ruling for their lawsuit against the government. Photo by Mitch Anderson/Amazon Frontlines.

Latin America unites to fight global inequalities in new regional pact

Kimberley Brown 27 Aug 2020

Amazon ‘women warriors’ show gender equality, forest conservation go hand in hand

Rosamaria Loures, Sarah Sax 21 Aug 2020

Madagascar minister calls protected areas a ‘failure,’ seeks people-centric approach

Rivonala Razafison, Malavika Vyawahare 20 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

From parks to payments, which conservation strategies work best?

Mike Gaworecki 4 Aug 2020

In Bogotá, communities weave an unlikely wetland success story

Genevieve Glatsky 4 Aug 2020

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