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Indigenous Ashaninka launch fundraiser to help Amazon neighbors amid pandemic

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro 29 Jul 2020

A Brazilian forest community shows certified timber really does work

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro 22 Jul 2020

Environmental defenders voice concerns as COVID-19 crisis deepens

Lauren Crothers 21 Jul 2020

In Mexico, groups push for reforms to law promoting sustainable forest use

Thelma Gómez Durán 15 Jul 2020

Turtles and tortoises in trouble: More than half of all species face extinction

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jul 2020

Five years after the death of Cecil the Lion, trophy hunting debate rages on

Mike Gaworecki 8 Jul 2020

Māori push for pandemic stimulus spend to save ancestral forest

Monica Evans 11 Jun 2020

Conservationists find opportunity and community amidst current crises

Mike Gaworecki 10 Jun 2020

For forest communities without a legal footing, new guideline is a starting template

Mongabay.com 10 Jun 2020

‘I’ll never be ready for this port,’ locals say of Colombia’s proposed project

Kimberley Brown 8 Jun 2020

How coffee growers can adapt to a precipitous industry: Q&A with Dean’s Beans founder Dean Cycon

Justin Catanoso 1 Jun 2020
A young Embera woman from Bajo Lepe. Image courtesy of the Rainforest Foundation.

Harrowing video shows indigenous Colombians fleeing gunfire

Ashoka Mukpo 28 May 2020

In the Amazon, a farmer practices the future of sustainable cattle ranching

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro 28 May 2020

Evidence that fish flourish in a community-managed marine area offers hope

Malavika Vyawahare 21 May 2020

Community forest enterprises provide win for forests and people: Study

Thelma Gómez Durán 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

In South Korea, centuries of farming point to the future for sustainable agriculture

Latoya Abulu 18 May 2020

A Philippine village on lockdown delivers nearly 300 turtle hatchlings to sea

Erwin M. Mascariñas 15 May 2020

Naga tribes of Myanmar face loss of land and forest under new law

Robert Bociaga 14 May 2020

Yehimi Fajardo: A voice for the birds of Putumayo

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 11 May 2020

‘It was like a church’: Ecuador’s Kichwa community mourns death of sacred tree

Johnny Magdaleno 8 May 2020

Aiming for conservation and development in a corner of Mexico’s Mayan jungle

Thelma Gómez Durán 6 May 2020
Matsés woman with traditional facial tattoos, piercings, and face paint. Photo: Alicia Fox

Painstaking mapping initiative helps indigenous Peruvians defend their land

Yvette Sierra Praeli 5 May 2020

No tourism income, but this Philippine community still guards its environment

Keith Anthony Fabro 30 Apr 2020

Healing the world through ‘radical listening’: Q&A with Dr. Kinari Webb

Justin Catanoso 30 Apr 2020
Hadzabe walinzi wa jadi, or village game scouts patrol the forests of the Yaeda Valley. Their job is to patrol protected forests and report any deforestation, poaching or creation of settlements to local authorities. Their salary is paid by Carbon Tanzania from revenue made from carbon sales. Photo by Sophie Tremblay for Mongabay.

Tourism has crashed: Are carbon credits the future for funding conservation in Africa?

Mantoe Phakathi 29 Apr 2020

Rwanda’s Akagera park thrives thanks to community-led anti-poaching drive

Maggie Andresen 29 Apr 2020

Some ranchers and conservationists agree: Grazing and logging can save birds

Jennifer Oldham 28 Apr 2020

Bold project hopes to DNA barcode every species in Costa Rica

Jeremy Hance 27 Apr 2020

Indigenous groups in Myanmar lash out at ‘restrictive’ conservation policies

Emily Fishbein 27 Apr 2020
Traditional fisherman catching an octopus in Banggai Regency, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Photo © Garth Cripps / Blue Ventures.

COVID underscores the urgency of holistic community-based approaches to conservation (commentary)

Alasdair Harris 22 Apr 2020

For nesting hawksbill turtles, this Philippine community is a sanctuary

Erwin M. Mascariñas 31 Mar 2020

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