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In race for a sustainable alternative to plastic, Indonesia bets on seaweed

Johan Augustin 25 Mar 2020

Keeping gorillas safe amid COVID-19 concerns

Liz Kimbrough 24 Mar 2020

The commons, community and conservation: Q&A with anthropologist Leticia Merino

Thelma Gómez Durán 6 Mar 2020

Poaching and the problem with conservation in Africa (commentary)

Richard Fynn, Oluwatoyin Kolawole 3 Mar 2020

Marginalized voices from resource conflicts enter the mainstream via video

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Feb 2020

Raze here, save there: Do biodiversity offsets work for people or ecosystems?

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Feb 2020

‘Unless impunity is fought, we will not get anywhere’: Q&A with community forestry expert Lucía Madrid

Thelma Gómez Durán 28 Feb 2020

Western monarch butterfly numbers critically low for second straight year

Liz Kimbrough 26 Feb 2020
A trash picker looks for recyclable plastics at a waste dump in Bali. Image by Jonas Gratzer for Mongabay.

In Bali, young people lead the fight as a plastic plague threatens paradise

Johan Augustin 19 Feb 2020

Abraham Khouw, the professor who joined the Save Aru movement

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 18 Feb 2020

Two deaths trigger alarm at Mexico’s Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve

Agustín del Castillo 17 Feb 2020

Mika Ganobal, the civil servant who risked his job to save his homeland

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 7 Feb 2020

Unknown saviors of the environment: Thirty-five men create a forest from barren land

Gurvinder Singh 24 Jan 2020

Canada working towards new future for Indigenous-led conservation

James Dinneen 23 Jan 2020

Mexico: Community forestry boosts conservation, jobs, and social benefits

Thelma Gómez Durán 22 Jan 2020

Philippine coastal town leads war against plastic trash in Mindanao

Bong S. Sarmiento 19 Dec 2019

Women from the Xingu Territory unite against threats from Bolsonaro administration

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro, Nádia Pontes 18 Dec 2019

Mountain gorilla census reveals further increase in numbers

John Cannon 17 Dec 2019

Saving a Philippine tree last seen a century ago

Jen Chan 3 Dec 2019

It takes a school, and a community, to save this rare Philippine hornbill

Leilani Chavez 28 Nov 2019

10 takeaways from Indonesia’s grassroots #SaveAru success

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 28 Oct 2019

Beach clean-ups, community visits, and compensation to fishers build environmental awareness in Nigeria

Linus Unah 25 Oct 2019

What makes community ecotourism succeed? In Madagascar, location, location, location

Rowan Moore Gerety 25 Oct 2019

Bonobo conservation stymied by deforestation, human rights abuses

Taran Volckhausen 24 Oct 2019
Green sea turtle. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

For one Indonesian fisher, saving caught turtles is a moral challenge

Ian Morse 23 Oct 2019
Beatrice Rukanyana looks out over a sugar plantation near Bugoma Forest. Photo: Thomas Lewton

Uganda’s eco-feminists are taking on mining and plantation industries

Thomas Lewton 23 Oct 2019

Reforesting a village in Indonesia, one batch of gourmet beans at a time

Donny Iqbal 17 Oct 2019

Education, compensation, and spiritual outreach protect threatened whale sharks

Tariq Engineer 14 Oct 2019

Saving an island from the worst oil spill in the Philippines: The case of Guimaras

Arnel Murga 11 Oct 2019

Saving Aru: The epic battle to save the islands that inspired the theory of evolution

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 9 Oct 2019

Bouncing back: The recovery of the tenkile tree kangaroo

Megan Stannard 8 Oct 2019

As wildfires roil Sumatra, some villages have abandoned the burning

Taufik Wijaya 3 Oct 2019

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