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30 years of protecting the mysterious Okapi

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jun 2017
Indigenous Awajún women in Shampuyacu, Peru. Conservation International has worked with these women to designate a forest of their own where they can cultivate traditional plants. Photo by Freddy Guillen.

Why gender matters in conservation

Roz Evans 26 May 2017

Communities band together to protect El Salvador’s last mangroves

Martha Pskowski 23 May 2017

Conservation lessons from the bonobos

Kim Harrisberg 1 May 2017

Cross River superhighway changes course in Nigeria

John Cannon 28 Apr 2017
Indigenous Arhuaco peoples ride toward the forest in Colombia. Photo by Bram Ebus for Mongabay.

Colombia’s indigenous Arhuaco awarded 500 hectares in ongoing bid to regain ancestral lands

Bram Ebus 26 Apr 2017

Communities conserving local forest in El Salvador vote to ban mining

Sandra Cuffe 28 Mar 2017

Jokowi reiterates commitment to indigenous rights

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2017

Indonesia’s indigenous peoples will have to keep waiting for a promised task force on their rights

Mongabay.com 18 Mar 2017

Communities in Mexico step up to protect a disappearing forest

Jonathan Levinson 16 Mar 2017

Jokowi cancels appearance at rare indigenous peoples congress

Mongabay.com 16 Mar 2017

Successful forest protection in DRC hinges on community participation

John Cannon 12 Mar 2017

An indigenous group reforests its corner of coastal New Guinea

Agapitus Batbual 7 Mar 2017

A Bornean village conserves a forest the government listed for cutting

Indra Nugraha 2 Mar 2017

Kalaodi, Tidore’s eco-village in Indonesia’s spice capital

M Rahmat Ulhaz 28 Feb 2017

The Republic of Congo: on the cusp of forest conservation

John Cannon 27 Feb 2017

Proposed Trump policy threatens Critically Endangered Grauer’s gorilla

Sharon Guynup 21 Feb 2017

Loving apes celebrated this Valentine’s Day

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2017
A necklace made from mpingo and another local hardwood. Mpingo’s dark, lustrous properties has made it one of the most valuable timbers in the world. Photo by Sophie Tremblay for Mongabay

In one Tanzanian village, survival is intimately linked to forest conservation

Sophie Tremblay, Willy Lowry 12 Feb 2017
A tea kettle boils atop a TK90 stove provided by FFI Vietnam. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay

Efficient stoves and elephant grass aid primate conservation in northern Vietnam

Michael Tatarski 9 Feb 2017

How ‘jobless men managing the sea’ restored a mangrove forest in Java

Donny Iqbal 3 Feb 2017

Scientists launch expedition to find missing monkeys

Christina Selby 2 Feb 2017

‘Running out of time’: 60 percent of primates sliding toward extinction

John Cannon 19 Jan 2017

Jokowi grants first-ever indigenous land rights to 9 communities

Mongabay.com 4 Jan 2017

Study looks at positive and negative impacts of biodiversity offsets on local communities

Mike Gaworecki 23 Dec 2016

Researchers say natural regeneration an overlooked but low-cost option for forest restoration

Mike Gaworecki 13 Dec 2016

Community rights: A key to conservation in Central America

Sandra Cuffe 9 Dec 2016

Which tropical forest conservation strategies are proving most effective?

Mike Gaworecki 30 Nov 2016
The forest of Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Corrupt logging practices in Liberia could mar new era in community forestry

Ashoka Mukpo 29 Nov 2016
Ezekiel Philipo, a member of the Hadzabe tribe, works as a village game scout for Carbon Tanzania. The Hadzabe are considered one of the last hunter-gatherer tribes in the world and are the only remaining hunter-gatherer tribe in Tanzania. They use homemade bows and poison arrows to hunt animals like antelope, gazelles, baboons and quail. Photo by Willy Lowry for Mongabay.

Ancient hunter-gatherer tribe protects traditional forest with help from carbon trading

Sophie Tremblay, Willy Lowry 28 Nov 2016

Don’t feed the orangutans — a warning unheeded at popular ecotourism stop

Aria Danaparamita 21 Nov 2016

Nigerian superhighway project draws international attention over threats to local communities and wildlife

Mike Gaworecki 2 Nov 2016

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