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Study concludes that nature benefits when more women make land management decisions

Nepal reckons with the dark side of its rhino conservation success

With the legal rights to their forest secure, an indigenous community plans for the future

In Nigeria, hunters turn into guardians of the rarest gorilla on Earth

The secret to a town’s perfect potatoes? Its well-preserved forest.

Short film celebrates community forest titles in DRC

Ancient spirituality guides a Maya town’s conservation efforts

How a Mayan town restored its sacred cloud forest and water supply

Funds tripled and target slashed, but Indonesia still off pace for reforestation

Liberia’s community forestry becoming a front for deforestation: Report

Karen indigenous communities in Myanmar have officially launched the Salween Peace Park

Māori community reconnects youth with their ancestral forests

What makes a forest healthy? Māori knowledge has some answers.

A Māori community leans on tradition to restore its forest

Guatemala: An indigenous community rejects, then accepts, a protected area

For Kenya’s Yiaku, medicinal herbs are their forest’s blessing and curse

Kenya: Bees help indigenous Yiaku defend and monitor their ancestral forest

A forest of their own: The Yiaku as Kenya’s model forest stewards

Timor-Leste: With sacrifice and ceremony, tribe sets eco rules

Timor-Leste: Maubere tribes revive customary law to protect the ocean

Women’s work in Senegalese conservation includes exorcising demons

In a first, DRC communities gain legal rights to forests

Watching the wildlife return: Q&A with a rural Senegalese river monitor

Senegal: After reviving fish and forests, Jola villages tackle new threats

Kenya: Indigenous Ogiek face eviction from their ancestral forest… again

Amid ongoing evictions, Kenya’s Sengwer make plans to save their ancestral forest

Recovering conservationist: Q&A with orangutan ecologist June Mary Rubis

Indonesia’s ‘one-map’ database blasted for excluding indigenous lands

‘High risk’ that China’s timber from PNG is illegal: New report

Community groups in Cambodia say logging surged with approaching election

DRC adopts a strategy that will bolster community forestry, conservation group says

Illegal logging persists in Borneo orangutan habitat despite government ban

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