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Women carrying saplings.

New online tool is first to track funding to Indigenous, local and Afro-descendant communities

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 11 Apr 2024
Wallace's Passage between Bam and Weigeo islands in Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler.

How effective are giant funding pledges by major conservation donors?

Mike DiGirolamo 19 Mar 2024

Biological field stations deliver high return on investment for conservation, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 6 Mar 2024
Artistic rendering of a forest shaped like a brain. AI-generated.

To reverse deforestation and protect biodiversity, build a bioeconomy in the Amazon (commentary)

Robert Muggah 23 Feb 2024
The new 348,140-hectare (860,272-acre) Sierra Tecuani Biosphere Reserve in the Mexican state of Guerrero. Image by Joaquín Núñez Medrano.

Mexico announces 20 new protected areas despite budget cuts

Aimee Gabay 25 Jan 2024
Indigenous leader Alessandra Korap Munduruku confronted Anglo American over its attempts to mine on protected Indigenous land, leading the mining giant to withdraw its prospecting applications. Image courtesy of the Goldman Environmental Prize.

Direct funding of Indigenous peoples can protect global rainforests & the climate (commentary)

Joe Eisen, Suzanne Pelletier, Tørris Jæger 24 Jan 2024
Planet satellite images of the confluence of the Rio Negro and Rio Jufari near the border of the states of Amazonas and Roraima in Brazil taken in October 2023, revealing sandbars and exposed riverbed during the severe drought that affected large parts of the Amazon rainforest. Photo courtesy of Planet Labs.

The year in rainforests: 2023

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2023
Indigenous elder of the Pataxó tribe in Brazil. Photo credit: Brastock Images. Licensed via Adobe Photo Stock

2023’s top 10 Indigenous news stories (commentary)

Joan Carling, Joseph Itongwa, Juan Carlos Jintiach 28 Dec 2023
Woodpecker Sitting in Tree in Forest

For forests, COP28 was better than expected, but worse than needed

Alec Luhn 28 Dec 2023

Mongabay’s top 10 podcast episodes of 2023

Mike DiGirolamo 26 Dec 2023
A blue monkey in Virunga National Park, DRC.

COP28 cements goal to halt forest loss in 7 years, but where’s the money?

Alec Luhn 15 Dec 2023
Mist rising from the Amazon rainforest at dawn. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Amazon deforestation declines but fossil fuels remain contentious, COP28 shows

Sarah Brown 7 Dec 2023
A traditional fishermen in an Indigenous territory on the Tapajós River, in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo credit: Marcio Isensee e Sá. Licensed via Adobe Photo Stock

Despite progress, small share of climate pledge went to Indigenous groups: report

Aimee Gabay 4 Dec 2023
Keo Seima forest. Image by user Pygathrix nigripes via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Indigenous land rights are key to conservation in Cambodia (commentary)

Emiel de Lange, Sushil Raj, Yun Mane 1 Dec 2023
Sitio Paho, Pala’wan Indigenous leader Mami Lapasan, carrying a heavy load of almaciga resin.

How Indigenous peoples and local communities can make the voluntary carbon market work for them (commentary)

Francisco Souza, Jennifer Tauli Corpuz, Kanyinke Sena, Levi Sucre Romero 27 Nov 2023
Prescribed burns conducted by government organizations don’t face the same high cost of fire insurance as private organizations do. Image courtesy of the Virginia Department of Forestry.

As U.S. insurers stop covering prescribed burns, states and communities step up

Ashli Blow 15 Nov 2023
Woman carrying a solar pannel near Yangambi, DRC.

Can carbon markets solve Africa’s climate finance woes?

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Nov 2023
Skywalker hoolock gibbon

Myanmar’s primates and their guardians need more support, study says

Carolyn Cowan 30 Oct 2023
Rainforest, reef, and ocean on Maratua Island, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Can blue bonds boost investment in ocean conservation? (commentary)

Mackenzie Audino 27 Oct 2023
A mountain gorilla encountered during a gorilla tourism trek in Uganda.

Gorilla permit fraud dents community-led conservation efforts in Uganda

Malavika Vyawahare, Nangayi Guyson 27 Oct 2023

Forest conservation ‘off-track’ to halt deforestation by 2030: New report

John Cannon 24 Oct 2023
One Earth Conservation parrot conservationist Steve-o Oldenstam (left) monitoring parrots along a river in Suriname. Photo courtesy of LoraKim Joyner/One Earth Conservation.

More capacity building funds needed for small nonprofit conservation groups (commentary)

Gail Koelln 20 Oct 2023
Moreangels Mbizah, founder of Wildlife Conservation Action, speaking during Fellows Session at TED Talks 2019: Bigger Than Us in Canada.

African NGOs seek more funds, trust, and autonomy in global partnerships

Malavika Vyawahare 20 Oct 2023
A kipunji.

World owes it to Tanzania to keep Eastern Arc forests standing, study shows

Ryan Truscott 6 Oct 2023
A biodiverse island in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

For the oceans, global community must fund Sustainable Development Goal 14 (commentary)

Eric Schwaab 18 Sep 2023
“We sow our plants and when the time of flowering comes, the drought dries them up and they die,” says Mariano from rural Indigenous Guatemala.

Indigenous peoples undersupported on frontline of hotter, drier, fiery world

Jeremy Hance 13 Sep 2023
The rhinoceros hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros). Image courtesy of Mark Louis Benedict via Flickr.

What’s next for the new Global Biodiversity Fund? (commentary)

Qingyang Li, Yingxue Ge and Juliet Lu 13 Sep 2023

Peru signs $20-million debt-for-nature swap with focus on Amazon rainforest

Maxwell Radwin 12 Sep 2023
The Philippine-endemic JC’s Vine.

Global green growth stalled by climate finance shortfalls (commentary)

Justin Jin Soong Liew 5 Sep 2023
Rainforest in Gabon. Photo credit: ZB

What would it cost to protect the Congo Rainforest?

Mike DiGirolamo 29 Aug 2023

Big promises to Indigenous groups from new global nature fund — but will it deliver?

Spoorthy Raman 29 Aug 2023
A lemur leaf frog in Costa Rica.

New global biodiversity fund to restore nature worldwide by 2030 officially launches

Latoya Abulu 25 Aug 2023

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