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Building a road to recovery for subtle racism in conservation (commentary)

Resson Kantai Duff 19 Nov 2020

REDD+ carbon and deforestation cuts in Amazon overestimated: Study

Peter Yeung 2 Nov 2020

The post-COVID opportunity for the environment: An interview with the GEF’s Carlos Manuel Rodriguez

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Oct 2020

The Amazon savanna? Rainforest teeters on the brink as climate heats up

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2020

Madagascar reopens national parks shuttered by COVID-19

Rivonala Razafison 17 Sep 2020

Crisis in Venezuela: Non-governmental organizations adapt to survive

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 10 Sep 2020

Rangers protecting Philippine tamaraws go hungry as pandemic bites

Mavic Conde 20 Aug 2020

From parks to payments, which conservation strategies work best?

Mike Gaworecki 4 Aug 2020

We need a green life support plan (commentary)

Gabriel Thoumi, John Waugh 28 Jul 2020
Pardalis chameleon (Furcifer pardalis), a resident of the Masoala Peninsula in northeastern Madagascar, where illegal rosewood logging has taken a heavy toll on forests. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

In the battle to save forests, a make-or-break moment for REDD+

CJ Clouse 15 Jul 2020

The U.N.’s grand plan to save forests hasn’t worked, but some still believe it can

CJ Clouse 14 Jul 2020
Sea lions. Image courtesy of Wildlife Conservation Society.

Effective conservation science must shift away from doomsday views and toward solutions: Study

Monica Evans 15 Jun 2020

U.S. fund that supports Sumatran rhino research faces deep cuts under Trump

Charles Pekow 14 May 2020

Market-based solutions cannot solely fund community-level conservation (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 11 May 2020
Brookesia chameleon in the rainforest of Madagascar's Masoala Peninsula. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

As visitors vanish, Madagascar’s protected areas suffer a ‘devastating’ blow

Malavika Vyawahare 5 May 2020
Hadzabe walinzi wa jadi, or village game scouts patrol the forests of the Yaeda Valley. Their job is to patrol protected forests and report any deforestation, poaching or creation of settlements to local authorities. Their salary is paid by Carbon Tanzania from revenue made from carbon sales. Photo by Sophie Tremblay for Mongabay.

Tourism has crashed: Are carbon credits the future for funding conservation in Africa?

Mantoe Phakathi 29 Apr 2020

COVID-19 will hurt Madagascar’s conservation funding: Q&A with Minister Vahinala Raharinirina

Malavika Vyawahare 24 Apr 2020
Elephant in South Africa. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

As wildlife tourism grounds to a halt, who will pay for the conservation of nature?

Johan Robinson 23 Apr 2020
The Javari river forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Investing in Amazon Rainforest Conservation: A Foreigner’s Perspective (commentary)

Jonah Wittkamper 21 Apr 2020

Overworked, underpaid and lonely: Conservationists find a new community online

Jeremy Hance 23 Mar 2020

Drones in the canopy: Project aims to save the Amazon with technology

Sibélia Zanon 9 Mar 2020

Raze here, save there: Do biodiversity offsets work for people or ecosystems?

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Feb 2020

Economists, conservationists, political leaders urge adoption of carbon tax to halt tropical deforestation

Mongabay.com 13 Feb 2020

Deforestation for potential rubber plantation raises concerns in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 19 Dec 2019
Sunrise in East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tropical forests’ lost decade: the 2010s

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Dec 2019

The role of sustainable finance in Forest Landscape Restoration (commentary)

Ruben Coppus 17 Dec 2019

A Philippine conservation park juggles funding needs with animal welfare

Arnel Murga 16 Dec 2019

Madagascar: Is NGO-led conservation too conservative to conserve much?

Edward Carver 16 Dec 2019

Nepal won its first climate grant; now comes the hard work of making it count

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Nov 2019

Biodiversity ‘not just an environmental issue’: Q&A with IPBES ex-chair Robert Watson

Mongabay.com 17 Oct 2019

Gabon could earn up to $150 million for forest conservation

Mongabay.com 27 Sep 2019

A lifeline for the last leopards (commentary)

Thomas S. Kaplan 10 Sep 2019

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