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Yohanes Sugihtonugroho, founder of CROWDE.

Building a farmer-friendly future: Q&A with CROWDE’s Yohanes Sugihtonugroho

Sachi Kondo 23 Jun 2022
The invasive lionfish caught in Costa Rican waters.

In Costa Rica, unlicensed fishers and regulators unite over a common enemy

Alfredo Torres, Linus Unah 22 Jun 2022
Salatou Sambou

A tale of successes and new challenges in Senegal: Q&A with ICCA coordinator Salatou Sambou

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 21 Jun 2022
Alex Lucitante and Alexandra Narvaez, Goldman Prize winners for South and Central America in 2022.

For Ecuador’s A’i Cofán leaders, Goldman Prize validates Indigenous struggle

Ana Cristina Alvarado, Diego Cazar Baquero 16 Jun 2022

‘That’s a scam’: Indian firm’s REDD+ carbon deal in the DRC raises concern

John Cannon 14 Jun 2022
Mangroves planted in Satkhira district.

Bangladeshi coastal communities plant mangroves as a shield against cyclones

Abu Siddique 3 Jun 2022
Multi-use MPAs help strike a balance between biodiversity conservation and resource use in Indonesia.

Community participation trumps penalties in protecting seascapes, study suggests

Julia John 1 Jun 2022
Mohéli hosts one of the largest nesting sites for green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) in the Indian Ocean.

For 20 years, Comoros had only 1 national park. It’s now creating 5 more

Malavika Vyawahare 31 May 2022
Marereni Biodiversity Conservancy members during a beach clean-up on the shores of the Indian Ocean in Marereni, Kenya.

200 mysterious sea turtle deaths: Q&A with Kenyan fisherman and turtle rescuer Daniel Katana

Anthony Langat 23 May 2022
Young people at Macatumbalen are trained by their parents to co-manage the community nursery where the tree seedlings are grown and regularly watered.

Devastated by a typhoon, community foresters in the Philippines find little support

Keith Anthony Fabro 23 May 2022
A woman tends to her vegetable garden

In Bangladesh, a community comes together to save a life-giving forest

Abu Siddique 19 May 2022

Malawi steps up action against illegal charcoal trade (analysis)

Nicholas J. Parkinson 12 May 2022
Fishermen on Lake Victoria.

Boom and bust on Lake Victoria: Q&A with author Mark Weston

John Cannon 10 May 2022
Fishermen in a small boat at sea in Koror, Palau.

Scaling Palauan tradition to regional fisheries: Q&A with Noah Idechong

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Apr 2022
Professional hunter (left) with a hunting guest (right) in Namibia. Image by Mikael Tham via Wikidmedia Commons.

Reframing trophy hunting’s socio-economic benefits in Namibia (commentary)

Frowin Becker 28 Apr 2022
A model artesian well that ICRAF installed in Winongan, Pasuruan district. The well is equipped with a valve for more efficient water use.

Better deep-bore wells aim to stop Indonesia’s groundwater waste

Asad Asnawi 28 Apr 2022
Luz Marina Valle shows off produce after working with the Fundación Entre Mujeres in Nicaragua.

Funding for women-led conservation remains tiny, but that’s changing fast

Dimitri Selibas 20 Apr 2022
A Komodo dragon.

‘No’ to corporate-driven tourism development in Komodo National Park (commentary)

Venansius Haryanto 19 Apr 2022

Small farmers take a stand for one of Dakar’s last urban woodlands

Francesco De Augustinis 13 Apr 2022
Men from the San Francisco communal land make use of a tree that fell during the rainy season. Photo by Marlén Castro.

Protecting water by conserving forests puts communities in Mexico to the test

Marlén Castro 5 Apr 2022
Fishing in Fiji. Image courtesy of Tom Vierus/WCS.

Food security framing increases relevance of biodiversity negotiations to less industrialized nations (commentary)

Jean Wiener 30 Mar 2022
Farid Tarabay, the new forest guide, under the Lamartine Cedar, one of the oldest in the SBR. Image by Elizabeth Fitt for Mongabay.

From land mines to lifelines, Lebanon’s Shouf is a rare restoration success story

Elizabeth Fitt 23 Mar 2022

Tree kangaroos may be key to New Guinea forest conservation

Mike DiGirolamo 16 Mar 2022
A herd of elephants gets a drink in Botswana. Image by Roger Borgelid for Mongabay.

Can we plan for a future without trophy hunting? (commentary)

Merrill Sapp 16 Mar 2022
Chimpanzee

Patrols work, but community-based conservation needs a rethink, study shows

Malavika Vyawahare 11 Mar 2022

‘Small-scale fishers have a Ph.D. in the ocean’: Q&A with Vatosoa Rakotondrazafy

Malavika Vyawahare 8 Mar 2022

Globally acclaimed community forest groups in Nepal say new rules threaten their autonomy

Abhaya Raj Joshi 7 Mar 2022

In Nepal, a messy breakup with hybrid seeds is good news for organic farming

Johan Augustin 18 Feb 2022

Nepal’s gharials deserve attention and protection (commentary)

Zach Fitzner 16 Feb 2022
Elephants in Namibia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler.

UK trophy hunting import ban not supported by rural Africans (commentary)

Dr Malan Lindeque, Gail Thomson, Hilma Angula, Kenneth /Uiseb, Rosalia Iileka 11 Feb 2022

With ‘sustainable’ cocoa, Mars pushes climate, market risks onto farmers

Basten Gokkon 26 Jan 2022
Native potato biodiversity. The Andes are the birthplace of the potato. More than 3,500 varieties grow in Peru alone. Photo courtesy of Rene Gomez/International Potato Center.

On agrobiodiversity, the Andes can teach the world much about crop conservation (commentary)

Barbara Wells 12 Jan 2022

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