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Suspected poisoning takes down 11 lions in Uganda park

John Cannon 17 Apr 2018

Cooperative agroforestry empowers indigenous women in Honduras

Monica Pelliccia 16 Apr 2018

Report finds projects in DRC ‘REDD+ laboratory’ fall short of development, conservation goals

John Cannon 16 Mar 2018

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

Mongabay.com 14 Mar 2018

Jaguar numbers rising at field sites, WCS says

Mongabay.com 7 Mar 2018

Ecotourism payments for more wildlife sightings linked to conservation benefits in Laos

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2018

Pope set to visit site of deforestation, indigenous struggle in Peru

Mongabay.com 19 Jan 2018

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
Fish swim in a healthy seagrass meadow. The seagrass provides cover from currents and predators. Photo courtesy of MCC.

Bees for trees: testing a potential tool for reducing human-elephant conflict

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 13 Dec 2017

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

Dedek Hendry 6 Dec 2017

Kenyan farmers reap economic, environmental gains from ABCDs of agroforestry

Sophie Mbugua 4 Dec 2017

Indonesian president recognizes land rights of nine more indigenous groups

Basten Gokkon 12 Nov 2017
Shade grown coffee in Nicaragua. Image courtesy ICRAF/World Agroforestry

Agroforestry: An increasingly popular solution for a hot, hungry world

Giovanni Ortolani 26 Oct 2017
chameleon, a species that lives in Ranomafana National Park. Photo by

Conservation in a weak state: Madagascar struggles with enforcement

Rowan Moore Gerety 10 Oct 2017

Birdwatching poised to take flight in Colombia, study reveals

John Cannon 10 Oct 2017

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

Rowan Moore Gerety 2 Oct 2017
Not for republication. Image by Rod Harbinson/Rodharbinson.com

Communities struggle to save Sabah’s shrinking mangroves

Rod Harbinson 13 Sep 2017

Doubts cloud Kenya’s renewed palm oil ambitions

David Njagi 21 Aug 2017

On poaching in South Africa, education “has saved more wildlife than any guard with a gun”

Justin Catanoso 13 Jul 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

On the road to ‘smart development’

John Cannon 25 May 2017

Rebel road expansion brings deforestation to remote Colombian Amazon

Taran Volckhausen 19 May 2017
A snow leopard in the Sanjiangyuan region of China's Qinghai province, captured by camera trap. Photo courtesy of Shanshui Nature Center.

China’s first national park, an experiment in living with snow leopards

Wang Yan 19 May 2017

Over the bridge: The battle for the future of the Kinabatangan

John Cannon 3 May 2017

Delicate Solomon Island ecosystem in danger of heavy logging

Elliot Dawea, John Cannon 1 May 2017

Communities in Mexico step up to protect a disappearing forest

Jonathan Levinson 16 Mar 2017

Successful forest protection in DRC hinges on community participation

John Cannon 12 Mar 2017

From conflict to communities: Forests in Liberia

John Cannon 10 Mar 2017

Forests provide a nutritional boon to some communities, research shows

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2017

A Bornean village conserves a forest the government listed for cutting

Indra Nugraha 2 Mar 2017

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