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

Yovanda 19 Dec 2017

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

Christopel Paino 14 Dec 2017

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

Dedek Hendry 6 Dec 2017
An indri (Indri indri), another critically endangered lemur that lives in Makira Natural Park. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Carbon dreams: Can REDD+ save a Yosemite-size forest in Madagascar?

Rowan Moore Gerety 29 Nov 2017
Men and women spend hours sowing rice seedlings and ploughing the land. Photo by Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor for Mongabay.

To feed a growing population, farms chew away at Madagascar’s forests

Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor 17 Nov 2017

COP23: Leaders vie for protection of ‘incredibly important’ African peatland

Justin Catanoso 17 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

FSC mulls rule change to allow certification for recent deforesters

John Cannon 24 Oct 2017

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

Rowan Moore Gerety 2 Oct 2017

Does forest certification really work?

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Sep 2017

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

Christopel Paino 15 Aug 2017

Not out of the woods: Concerns remain with Nigerian superhighway

John Cannon 26 May 2017

Communities band together to protect El Salvador’s last mangroves

Martha Pskowski 23 May 2017

A return to mixed roots in a Sumatran forest

Dedek Hendry 2 May 2017

Cross River superhighway changes course in Nigeria

John Cannon 28 Apr 2017

Ebo forest great apes threatened by stalled Cameroon national park

Sean Mowbray 3 Apr 2017

Communities conserving local forest in El Salvador vote to ban mining

Sandra Cuffe 28 Mar 2017

Paying for healthcare with trees: win-win for orangutans and communities

Claire Salisbury 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

Jokowi cancels appearance at rare indigenous peoples congress

Mongabay.com 16 Mar 2017

From conflict to communities: Forests in Liberia

John Cannon 10 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

Proposed Trump policy threatens Critically Endangered Grauer’s gorilla

Sharon Guynup 21 Feb 2017

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

Donny Iqbal 3 Feb 2017

The cousins from Indonesia who revived an ancient spring

Ebed de Rosary 1 Feb 2017

NGO takes action to save great apes in Cameroon’s Lebialem Highlands

Aminateh Nkemngu 31 Jan 2017

Indigenous traditional knowledge revival helps conserve great apes

Giovanni Ortolani 20 Jan 2017

Jokowi grants first-ever indigenous land rights to 9 communities

Mongabay.com 4 Jan 2017

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