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Questions over who gets the billions pledged to Indigenous causes at COP26

Latoya Abulu 23 Nov 2021
Cattle drive in Mato Grosso. Photo credit: Justiniano

Forest declarations are nice, but profitability determines land use in the Amazon (Book excerpt)

Timothy J. Killeen 12 Nov 2021
Indigenous family in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

New global partnership aims to remove barriers to Indigenous climate finance

Laurel Sutherland 9 Nov 2021
primary forest in Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, by John C. Cannon/Mongabay

Bornean communities locked into 2-million-hectare carbon deal they don’t know about

John Cannon 9 Nov 2021

The ‘net zero’ bridge to saving the Amazon (commentary)

Daniel Nepstad 3 Nov 2021

$1.7 billion pledged in support of Indigenous and local communities’ land tenure

Laurel Sutherland 2 Nov 2021
Satellites provide a new data point for evaluating the impact of conservation programs. Image credit: Microsoft Zoom Earth

Donor agencies should ditch the club and embrace more locals (commentary)

Aida Greenbury 13 Oct 2021
El Cono in Sierra Del Divisor National Park, Peru. Photo credit: Diego Perez / CEDIA

Conservation will only scale when non-conservationists see its value, says James Deutsch

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Oct 2021
Road through a Redwood forest in Northern California. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

How can philanthropy be more effective in environmental grant making? (commentary)

Byron Swift 4 Oct 2021

Indigenous Land in the Brazilian Amazon is a brake on deforestation and may start generating carbon credits

Sibélia Zanon 20 Sep 2021

African Parks secures $100M for conservation in Africa

Mongabay.com 16 Sep 2021
Pine forest in California's Sierra Nevada. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Climate philanthropy’s opportunity for impact: Q&A with Bridgespan’s Sonali Patel

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Sep 2021
Community Conservation. photo credit: Monica Dalmasso for Honeyguide

Convergence, community and justice: Key emerging conservation trends of the pandemic era (commentary)

Fred Nelson 24 Aug 2021

Gabon becomes first African country to get paid for protecting its forests

Jim Tan 20 Jul 2021
Brett Jenks visits with Mabi, the clown fish mascot of a community Pride campaign in the Philippines in 2011. Photo credit: Rare

‘Inspiring behavior change so people and nature thrive’: Q&A with Rare’s Brett Jenks

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jun 2021
African elephants in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. Photo credit: Gregoire Dubois

An engaged society is key for the future of African conservation, says WWF Africa’s Alice Ruhweza

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 May 2021

Is planting trees as good for the Earth as everyone says?

Mike Gaworecki 13 May 2021

Behind the buzz of ESG investing, a focus on tech giants and no regulation

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Apr 2021
Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

Governments, companies pledge $1 billion for tropical forests

Aurora Solá, Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Apr 2021
California redwoods. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Nature is no longer “a nice to have,” it’s “a must-have”: Q&A with André Hoffmann

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Apr 2021

As COP26 looms and tropical deforestation soars, REDD+ debate roars on

Peter Yeung 15 Apr 2021

Government inaction prompts voluntary REDD+ carbon credit boom in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 6 Apr 2021
Sunrise over the Amazon rainforest

Bipartisan group recommends how Joe Biden can help save the Amazon

Mongabay.com 29 Jan 2021
Cyclists with firewood on the road from Kisangani to Masako village, Democratic Republic of Congo. Image by Ollivier Girard/CIFOR (CC BY-NC-ND-2.0)

Ambitious return to carbon markets to conserve Africa’s forests

Mongabay 28 Jan 2021
Squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) play in the trees, along the Yasuni river. Image by Kimberley Brown for Mongabay.

France contributes to protection of Amazon stronghold, Yasuní National Park

Vincent Ricci 27 Jan 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical importance of community-driven conservation efforts and grassroots organizations in the face of global disruptions. Credit: Felipe Rodriguez.

Transforming conservation in times of crisis and opportunity (Commentary)

Fred Nelson, Alasdair Harris, Leela Hazzah, Lúcia G. Lohmann 25 Jan 2021

A good year for the Philippine eagle in 2020, but not for its supporters

Bong S. Sarmiento 8 Jan 2021
Blackwater oxbow lake, rainforest, and a whitewater river in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

How the pandemic impacted rainforests in 2020: a year in review

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Dec 2020

Sustainable financing is pivotal for marine conservation beyond 2030 pledges (commentary)

Simon Cripps 28 Dec 2020
A world turned weird. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Top 10 environmental news stories of 2020

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Dec 2020

To fund biodiversity conservation, redirect subsidies from these three industries (commentary)

Michelle Chong 17 Dec 2020
Redwood forest in California. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

‘Nature is next’: Q&A with Finance for Biodiversity’s Simon Zadek

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Nov 2020

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