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River in the Kosnipata valley, Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Why is a landscape approach needed for funding the global environmental agenda? (commentary)

Aida Greenbury, Robert Nasi 26 Nov 2024
Banner image of AIIB headquarters by N509FZ via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

$125b in ‘climate finance’ funds polluting, rights-violating projects: Report

Kristine Sabillo 25 Nov 2024
Macaws flying over the rainforest.

Let’s rethink debt-for-nature swaps toward greater sustainability & integrity (commentary)

Daniel Ortega-Pacheco, Jonathan Glennie 22 Nov 2024
A female mountain gorilla carrying her baby on her back.

Biodiversity credit approaches multiply as concerns cloud confidence

John Cannon 19 Nov 2024

Biden tours Amazon Rainforest, pledges funding in advance of Trump

Shanna Hanbury 19 Nov 2024
Banner image of deforestation in Malaysia, by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

WWF gives banks a tool to see if they’re financing environmental crime

Kristine Sabillo 14 Nov 2024
Banner image of a coral reef in Indonesia by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

New ‘Cali Fund’ plans to make companies pay for benefiting from nature

Kristine Sabillo 12 Nov 2024

As Venezuela’s crisis rolls on, its wildlife is increasingly at risk

Mie Hoejris Dahl 7 Nov 2024
Banner image of bats in a Malaysian limestone cave. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Mountain highland bats lack data, face climate threats: Study

Kristine Sabillo 6 Nov 2024
The motto of COP16, the U.N. biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia, was “Paz con la Naturaleza” — “Peace with Nature.”

COP16 biodiversity meeting recap: Progress made, but finance lags

Justin Catanoso 4 Nov 2024

International panel launches guidelines for ‘high integrity’ biodiversity credits

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Oct 2024
Banner image of Turkana women from Kenya by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Women-led groups remain ‘severely underfunded’ for climate action: Report

Kristine Sabillo 29 Oct 2024
Indigenous women of Guatemala’s Polochic Valley

Here’s how to reform multilateral funding to get more money directly to communities (commentary)

Sushil Raj, Minnie Degawan, Rony Brodsky 23 Oct 2024

Australia’s Global ‘Nature Positive’ Summit features Indigenous voices, but little government action

Mike DiGirolamo 22 Oct 2024
Andean Cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruvianus). Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Why biodiversity credits cannot work (commentary)

Byron Swift 14 Oct 2024

Indigenous perspectives and a fossil fuel phaseout treaty featured at Climate Week

Mike DiGirolamo 8 Oct 2024
Javan lutung by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Biodiversity still a low consideration in international finance: Report

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Sep 2024
Grevy's zebras in Samburu Reserve, Kenya

At Climate Week and beyond, investing in community conservation pays big dividends (commentary)

Resson Kantai Duff 26 Sep 2024

Colombia voluntary biodiversity credit methodology is first to be approved

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Sep 2024

In Nicaragua, activists challenge the value of international ‘green’ financing

Maxwell Radwin 30 Aug 2024
A coral reef off the coast of Raja Ampat, Southwest Papua province, Indonesia. Image courtesy of Ronal Mambrasar/Konservasi Indonesia.

$35m debt-for-nature deal aims to protect Indonesia’s coral reefs

M Ambari 30 Aug 2024
The rhinoceros hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros). Image courtesy of Mark Louis Benedict via Flickr.

Biodiversity’s Tower of Babel: The confusion & disorientation of Convention on Biological Diversity Decision 15/9 (commentary)

Joseph Henry Vogel 24 Aug 2024

Short on funds and long on risk, Venezuelan conservation groups worry for future

Maxwell Radwin 25 Jul 2024
An elephant in Udawalawe, Sri Lanka.

Leading the charge in philanthropy across Asia: Interview with Lim Seok Hui

Matthew Boyer 24 Jul 2024
A jaguar

An Indigenous-led biodiversity credit scheme in the Colombian Amazon

Mongabay.com 20 Jul 2024
A lemur leaf frog in Costa Rica.

‘Fungibility’ could sink Convention on Biodiversity’s funding mechanism Decision 15/9 (commentary)

Joseph Henry Vogel 17 Jul 2024
Costa Rica rainforest

Conservation pays and everyone’s benefitting from it (commentary)

Diego Vincenzi 15 Jul 2024
Rainbow over Batanta and Dayang islands in Indonesia.

How philanthropy in Asia is evolving

Matthew Boyer 4 Jul 2024
The sprawling Stung Meteuk hydropower dam being developed in the Cardamom Mountains appears to be illegally logging within Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

History repeats as logging linked to Cambodian hydropower dam in Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 27 Jun 2024

Elon Musk could avert global species extinction with only a portion of his wealth

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jun 2024
The Florida corridor would preserve myriad landscapes and ecosystems. Image by Ethan Coyle/Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation.

To conserve large landscapes like the Florida Wildlife Corridor, payments for ecosystem services could be key (commentary)

Joshua Daskin, Jen Guyton 19 Jun 2024

As Wall Street assigns a dollar value to nature, Indigenous economics charts different path

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 5 Jun 2024

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