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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
A koala.

Australian state fails on koala conservation while relying on faulty offset schemes, experts say

Mike DiGirolamo 28 May 2024
Jaguar drinking from a river in Mexico. Photo courtesy of Gerardo Ceballos/Gerardo Ceballos of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, National Alliance for Jaguar Conservation.

Will a billionaire bankroll biodiversity? CBD Decision 15/9 as potential ‘goldmine’ (commentary)

Joseph Henry Vogel 14 May 2024
A man from the Vedda community in Sri Lanka.

In largest ever study, Indigenous and local communities report the impacts of climate change

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 18 Apr 2024
Women carrying saplings.

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

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 11 Apr 2024
Eucalyptus trees at the Burapha Agro-Forestry plantation near Xathany District, Laos, 2023. Image courtesy of Melissa Lo.

Land tenure lesson from Laos for forest carbon projects (commentary)

Melissa Lo, Simran Kaur, Oluwole Soyinka, Sheng Huan Tang, Song Fu 2 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
A jaguar

Are biodiversity credits just another business-as-usual finance scheme?

Shreya Dasgupta 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
A bear with its salmon catch.

New guidebook supports U.S. tribal nations in adopting rights-of-nature laws

Liz Kimbrough 8 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
Three pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus).

New tool aims to make nature-based solutions projects in SE Asia a better sell

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 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

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