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As wildfires roil Sumatra, some villages have abandoned the burning

Taufik Wijaya 3 Oct 2019

Restoring Sumatra’s Leuser Ecosystem, one small farm at a time

Junaidi Hanafiah 30 Sep 2019

From threat to solution: Rethinking the role of communities in nature conservation (commentary)

Michael Brown, Samantha Cheng, Jim Tolisano 24 Sep 2019

Ekuri Initiative: Inside a Nigerian community’s battle to keep its forest

Linus Unah 15 Aug 2019
The passenger boat that sits empty and unused outside of Andres Machoa’s home in Llanchama, a symbol of unfulfilled promises by the oil industry. Photo by Kimberley Brown for Mongabay.

Life on the Amazon oil frontier: From exploration to ecotourism

Kimberley Brown 2 Aug 2019

Simba’s future depends on putting communities at the forefront of lion conservation (commentary)

Fred Nelson, John Kamanga 25 Jul 2019

Agriculture, mining, hunting push critically endangered gorillas to the brink

Rachel Fritts 16 Jul 2019
Fishers on an artificial reef in Jiquilisco Bay. Image by Max Radwin for Mongabay.

Bringing back the fish: Q&A with a repentant blast fisherman

Maxwell Radwin 15 Jul 2019
Luis Gonzalez Benitez lost an arm while blast fishing and now splits his time between using nets and line fishing on the reef. Image by Max Radwin for Mongabay.

Salvadoran fishermen ditch blast fishing for artificial reefs

Maxwell Radwin 10 Jul 2019
Camera trap photo of a chimpanzee with mangoes.

Chimps in Sierra Leone adapt to human-impacted habitats, but threats remain

Ini Ekott 10 Jul 2019
Bulldozers parked in a muddy clearing near near Okuni, Cross River State, Nigeria

In Nigeria, a highway threatens community and conservation interests

Linus Unah 9 Jul 2019
Planet satellite image showing a mosaic of deforestation and rainforest in São Judas Tadeu, Xapuri in the state of Acre, Brazil in August 2018. Courtesy of Planet.

Amazon REDD+ scheme side-steps land rights to reward small forest producers

Claire Asher 3 Jul 2019
Iban dugout canoes on the Utik river in Sungai Utik's customary forest in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indigenous Iban community defends rainforests, but awaits lands rights recognition

Aseanty Pahlevi, Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jul 2019
A tourist boat in Donsol joins several others in search of whale sharks. Image by Nina Unlay.

What happens to an ecotourism town when the wildlife doesn’t show?

Nina Unlay 28 Jun 2019

First Nations have created a robust conservation economy in Great Bear Rainforest: Report

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2019

Out on a limb: Unlikely collaboration boosts orangutans in Borneo

Nina Finley 12 Jun 2019

Homestay programs in Nepal’s rhino hub hold promise and pitfalls for locals

Abhaya Raj Joshi 12 Jun 2019

Healthy reefs, healthy people: Community-based marine conservation in Papua New Guinea (commentary)

Jonathan Booth 7 Jun 2019

Community conservation in Namibia requires balance and understanding (commentary)

Gail Potgieter 29 May 2019

On the island of Java, a social forestry scheme creates jobs at home

Nuswantoro 15 May 2019

In Indonesia, bigger catches for a fishing village protecting its mangroves

Aseanty Pahlevi 3 May 2019
Western Chimpanzees at Tacugama Chimp Sanctuary in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photo by BigMikeSndTech, licensed under CC by 2.0

Western chimp numbers revised up to 53,000, but development threats loom

Ashoka Mukpo 1 May 2019

Phasepardhis and the lesser florican (commentary)

Neema Pathak Broome, Shrishtee Bajpai 26 Apr 2019

Indonesia trains its citizens to deal with sea-mammal strandings

Basten Gokkon 24 Apr 2019

Peru’s first autonomous indigenous gov’t strikes back against deforestation

Marcio Pimenta 18 Apr 2019

In Bali, a village hews to unwritten rules to manage its forest

Luh De Suriyani 14 Apr 2019

Study concludes that nature benefits when more women make land management decisions

Mongabay.com 8 Apr 2019
Kahuzi Biega National Park

Farming communities abused at troubled DRC mega-farm, campaigners say

Ashoka Mukpo 4 Apr 2019

Nepal reckons with the dark side of its rhino conservation success

Abhaya Raj Joshi 25 Mar 2019

With the legal rights to their forest secure, an indigenous community plans for the future

Donny Iqbal 21 Mar 2019

New MPA established in Philippines includes community-led monitoring program

Mike Gaworecki 7 Mar 2019
A black howler monkey (Alouatta pigra), a resident of Cerro Amay photographed in Belize. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Guatemala: Proposed new park on indigenous land treads fine ethical line

Maxwell Radwin 4 Mar 2019

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