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Amazon ‘women warriors’ show gender equality, forest conservation go hand in hand

Rosamaria Loures, Sarah Sax 21 Aug 2020

Cameroon halts logging plans in Ebo Forest, home to tool-using chimps

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Aug 2020

Guardians of Mexico’s community forests confront climate change

Pablo Hernández Mares 31 Jul 2020

‘Criminalizing’ dissent, martial law fuel attacks on Philippine environmental defenders

Leilani Chavez 28 Jul 2020

New report asks, do land titles help poor farmers?

John Cannon 22 Jul 2020

In Mexico, groups push for reforms to law promoting sustainable forest use

Thelma Gómez Durán 15 Jul 2020

Forest communities in Mexico suffer the blow of COVID-19 pandemic

Emiliano Rodríguez Mega 9 Jul 2020

Māori push for pandemic stimulus spend to save ancestral forest

Monica Evans 11 Jun 2020

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

Kimberley Brown 8 Jun 2020
A young Embera woman from Bajo Lepe. Image courtesy of the Rainforest Foundation.

Harrowing video shows indigenous Colombians fleeing gunfire

Ashoka Mukpo 28 May 2020

Community forest enterprises provide win for forests and people: Study

Thelma Gómez Durán 21 May 2020

Gender-based violence shakes communities in the wake of forest loss

John Cannon 14 May 2020

Naga tribes of Myanmar face loss of land and forest under new law

Robert Bociaga 14 May 2020

‘It was like a church’: Ecuador’s Kichwa community mourns death of sacred tree

Johnny Magdaleno 8 May 2020

Aiming for conservation and development in a corner of Mexico’s Mayan jungle

Thelma Gómez Durán 6 May 2020

The commons, community and conservation: Q&A with anthropologist Leticia Merino

Thelma Gómez Durán 6 Mar 2020

Abraham Khouw, the professor who joined the Save Aru movement

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 18 Feb 2020

Mika Ganobal, the civil servant who risked his job to save his homeland

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 7 Feb 2020

Unknown saviors of the environment: Thirty-five men create a forest from barren land

Gurvinder Singh 24 Jan 2020
A forest elephant in Gabon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Liberia expands a key elephant park again, this time with help of locals

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Jan 2020

Controversial dam gets green light to flood a Philippine protected area

Leilani Chavez 30 Oct 2019

10 takeaways from Indonesia’s grassroots #SaveAru success

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 28 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

Restoring Sumatra’s Leuser Ecosystem, one small farm at a time

Junaidi Hanafiah 30 Sep 2019

Ekuri Initiative: Inside a Nigerian community’s battle to keep its forest

Linus Unah 15 Aug 2019

Peru’s crackdown on coca pushes illegal growers toward protected areas

Vanessa Romo 30 Jul 2019
Bulldozers parked in a muddy clearing near near Okuni, Cross River State, Nigeria

In Nigeria, a highway threatens community and conservation interests

Linus Unah 9 Jul 2019

“Part of something bigger”: the social movement around New Zealand’s Predator-Free 2050 goal

Monica Evans 20 Jun 2019

On the island of Java, a social forestry scheme creates jobs at home

Nuswantoro 15 May 2019

A Malagasy community races the timber mafia to save its forest

Malavika Vyawahare 10 May 2019

In Bali, a village hews to unwritten rules to manage its forest

Luh De Suriyani 14 Apr 2019

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

Mongabay.com 8 Apr 2019

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