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Camera traps nab crop-raiding animals near farms in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 14 Mar 2018
María Chaverra, a social leader in the Curvaradó river basin, at home last month. Photo by Pablo Cuellar/Mongabay.

Colombian land defenders: ‘They’re killing us one by one’

Taran Volckhausen 9 Mar 2018

Jaguar numbers rising at field sites, WCS says

Mongabay.com 7 Mar 2018

On an island of plenty, a community tempered by waves braces for rising seas

Ridzki R. Sigit 27 Feb 2018
An indri (Indri indri), another critically endangered lemur that lives in Makira Natural Park. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Study delves into overlooked community perceptions of conservation impact

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Feb 2018

Ecuador announces a new national park in the Andes

Valeria Sorgato 7 Feb 2018

Sumatra’s ‘tiger descendants’ cling to their customs as coal mines encroach

Dedek Hendry 30 Jan 2018

Legal recognition in the works for communities occupying Indonesia’s conservation areas

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Jan 2018

Peru declares a huge new national park in the Amazon

Yvette Sierra Praeli 12 Jan 2018

In a Papuan district, tribes push to revive a legacy of sustainability

Christopel Paino 2 Jan 2018

For indigenous kids in Indonesian Borneo, an early start to forest stewardship

Yovanda 19 Dec 2017

Recognition of Mentawai tribes marks Indonesia’s latest piecemeal concession to indigenous groups

Basten Gokkon 15 Dec 2017

African Parks backs marine reserve brimming with wildlife in Mozambique

Mongabay.com 14 Dec 2017

For Papuan villagers practicing conservation, a bid to formalize the familiar

Christopel Paino 14 Dec 2017

Papua New Guinea gets its largest-ever conservation area

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 Dec 2017

In rural Indonesia, a village learns to embrace its forest through sustainability

Dedek Hendry 6 Dec 2017

Forced out or killed: rare chimps go missing from Cameroon mountain forest

Eugene N. Nforngwa 1 Dec 2017

Experience or evidence: How do big conservation NGOs make decisions?

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Nov 2017

Indonesian president recognizes land rights of nine more indigenous groups

Basten Gokkon 12 Nov 2017
Dani man in Indonesian papua. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Does community-based forest management work in the tropics?

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Nov 2017

Indonesians plant trees to nurse seagrass back to health in Wakatobi

Sean Mowbray 31 Oct 2017

Conservation leaders in Africa call for a crackdown on biopiracy

Sophie Mbugua 13 Oct 2017

UNEP official calls for ‘coherent planning’ as Aichi falters in Africa

Sophie Mbugua 5 Oct 2017

Can community forestry deliver for Madagascar’s forests and people?

Rowan Moore Gerety 2 Oct 2017

Local approaches to conservation may be the most effective, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 15 Sep 2017
Leyew Akalu, a chief gardener at one of the resorts on Lake Tana, pushes weeds to the water’s edge where it will be received by a group of men in a boat to be thrown on a rock. Maheder Haileselassie Tadese/Mongabay

Community pulls water-thirsty invasive weeds from Ethiopia’s Lake Tana

Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 7 Sep 2017

Protecting a forest in the land of the Indonesian deer-pig

Christopel Paino 15 Aug 2017

HydroCalculator: new, free, online tool helps citizens assess dams

Claire Salisbury 7 Aug 2017

Behind rising rhino numbers in Nepal, a complex human story

Alex Dudley 19 Jul 2017

Scientists condemn expansion of industrial monocultures at expense of traditional gardens in Mexico

Mongabay.com 14 Jul 2017

How the World Heritage Convention could save more wilderness: Q&A with World Heritage expert Cyril Kormos

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Jul 2017

Merabu’s efforts to keep the carbon in its trees

Yustinus S. Hardjanto 5 Jul 2017

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