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‘I’ll never be ready for this port,’ locals say of Colombia’s proposed project

Kimberley Brown 8 Jun 2020

How coffee growers can adapt to a precipitous industry: Q&A with Dean’s Beans founder Dean Cycon

Justin Catanoso 1 Jun 2020
Zebra in Rwanda. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

From crisis to solutions for communities and African conservation (commentary)

Dickson Kaelo, Daniel Sopia, Damian Bell, Richard Diggle, Fred Nelson 20 May 2020

In South Korea, centuries of farming point to the future for sustainable agriculture

Latoya Abulu 18 May 2020
Odielca Solis has built a silvopasture system at her farm in Panama, which provides shade and forage to her cattle and fruit for her family. Image by Erin Banks Rusby for Mongabay.

Silvopasturing improves ranches and the environment in Panama

Erin Banks Rusby 29 Apr 2020

New database wrangles data on land rights projects around the globe

John Cannon 29 Apr 2020

Positive ways forward for chocolate industry tainted by deforestation and child labor (commentary)

Marianne Martinet 15 Apr 2020

Defining ‘development’ in the Aru Islands: Q&A with anthropologist Chris Chancellor

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 7 Apr 2020

The fight goes on for opponents of a Philippine mine given a new lease on life

Leilani Chavez 9 Mar 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

Illegal industrial fishing hampers small-scale African fisheries

John Cannon 3 Feb 2020

Young farmers apply ancient agroforestry practices in the heart of Sardinia

Monica Pelliccia 29 Jan 2020

Subsistence farming topples forests near commercial operations in Congo

John Cannon 23 Jan 2020
Camvert has moved to establish a nursery in anticipation of logging FMU 0925. Image courtesy John Takang.

NGOs reject new oil palm plantation in southern Cameroon

Eugene N. Nforngwa 25 Dec 2019

Madagascar suspends activities at controversial Base Toliara mine

Malavika Vyawahare 8 Nov 2019

10 takeaways from Indonesia’s grassroots #SaveAru success

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 28 Oct 2019

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

Rowan Moore Gerety 25 Oct 2019

$85 million initiative to scale up agroforestry in Africa announced

Erik Hoffner 24 Oct 2019

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

Donny Iqbal 17 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

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

Notes from the road: 5 revelations from traveling the Pan Borneo Highway

John Cannon 25 Sep 2019

15 years after tsunami, Aceh reckons with an inconsistent fisheries recovery

Sonali Prasad 23 Sep 2019
Silhouette of man standing by oil palm tree on a plantation still belonging to local residents in Malen Chiefdom in Pujehun district of Sierra Leone, West Africa.

Industrial palm oil investors struggle to gain foothold in Africa

Ashoka Mukpo 20 Sep 2019

The end of the road: The future of the Pan Borneo Highway

John Cannon 30 Aug 2019

New roads in Papua New Guinea may cause ‘quantum leap’ in forest loss

John Cannon 24 Jul 2019

Agroforestry: An ancient ‘indigenous technology’ with wide modern appeal (commentary)

Erik Hoffner 15 Jul 2019

Out on a limb: Unlikely collaboration boosts orangutans in Borneo

Nina Finley 12 Jun 2019

‘We come from the earth’: Q&A with Goldman Prize winner Alfred Brownell

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Jun 2019

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