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Mirnawati in front of the ancient Semokan Ruak mosque

Indonesian beauty queen founds Indigenous coffee brand in her native Lombok

Fathul Rakhman 13 Oct 2022
Ledan holding ironwood saplings

After 20 years and thousands of trees planted, Kalimantan’s veteran forester persists

Budi Baskoro, Lusia Arumingtyas 14 Sep 2022
Fadly has created an avocado nursery.

An Indonesian rock star shines his light on mangroves, urban farming and more

Wahyu Chandra 8 Sep 2022
Mbah Gimbal

In Indonesian Papua, a one-time gun trafficker now preaches permaculture

Tantowi Djauhari 30 Aug 2022
Aziil Anwar.

Aziil Anwar, Indonesian coral-based mangrove grower, dies at 64

Agus Mawan 16 Aug 2022
The flesh-footed shearwater (Ardenna carneipes)

In a hotter, drier climate, how serious is fire risk to island seabirds?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Aug 2022
Sadikin

A utopia of clean air and wet peat amid Sumatra’s forest fire ‘hell’

Suryadi 1 Aug 2022

Kigali call to action a step forward but not far enough, Indigenous and local leaders say

Malavika Vyawahare 29 Jul 2022
Debbie Ngawera-Packer.

‘The sea means everything’: Q&A with deep-sea mining opponent Debbie Ngarewa-Packer

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Jul 2022
Members of Las Chelemeras consult with Keila Vazquez (in hat) before continuing their work.

Dig, dump, repeat, then watch the forest grow: Q&A with mangrove restorer Keila Vazquez

Caitlin Cooper 23 Jun 2022
Salatou Sambou

A tale of successes and new challenges in Senegal: Q&A with ICCA coordinator Salatou Sambou

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 21 Jun 2022
Alex Lucitante and Alexandra Narvaez, Goldman Prize winners for South and Central America in 2022.

For Ecuador’s A’i Cofán leaders, Goldman Prize validates Indigenous struggle

Ana Cristina Alvarado, Diego Cazar Baquero 16 Jun 2022
A king cobra in Nepal.

Nepal conservationists work to overturn ‘all snakes are venomous’ mindset

Abhaya Raj Joshi 15 Jun 2022
Marereni Biodiversity Conservancy members during a beach clean-up on the shores of the Indian Ocean in Marereni, Kenya.

200 mysterious sea turtle deaths: Q&A with Kenyan fisherman and turtle rescuer Daniel Katana

Anthony Langat 23 May 2022
A woman tends to her vegetable garden

In Bangladesh, a community comes together to save a life-giving forest

Abu Siddique 19 May 2022
Highlining, an outdoor activity that helps with conservation efforts, in the Karst Citatah area, Padalarang, West Java. Image by Donny Iqbal/Mongabay.

Environment award stokes urge to save Indonesia’s karst landscape

Donny Iqbal, Warief Djajanto Basorie 16 May 2022
West African slender-snouted crocodile, Tano River basin, Ghana. Image courtesy Threatened Species Conservation Alliance

Slender-snouted crocodile savior: Q&A with Whitley Award winner Emmanuel Amoah

Mohamed Fofanah 13 May 2022
Elder Donny Abdullah in yellow hi-vis and ranger Kenny Spratt

‘Bring back burning culture’ to save seabirds: Q&A with Wudjari ranger Jennell Reynolds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 May 2022
Estrela Matilde

Biologist fighting plastic pollution to save sea turtles wins ‘Green Oscar’

Kaleab Girma 11 May 2022
Fishermen in a small boat at sea in Koror, Palau.

Scaling Palauan tradition to regional fisheries: Q&A with Noah Idechong

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Apr 2022
In addition to playing an active role in building Rammang-rammang as a nature tourism center, Iwan Dento is also active in promoting organic agriculture.

Iwan Dento, ‘hero’ of South Sulawesi’s karst mountains

Wahyu Chandra 25 Apr 2022
Farid Tarabay, the new forest guide, under the Lamartine Cedar, one of the oldest in the SBR. Image by Elizabeth Fitt for Mongabay.

From land mines to lifelines, Lebanon’s Shouf is a rare restoration success story

Elizabeth Fitt 23 Mar 2022

‘Small-scale fishers have a Ph.D. in the ocean’: Q&A with Vatosoa Rakotondrazafy

Malavika Vyawahare 8 Mar 2022

Sabino Gualinga, Amazon shaman and defender of the ‘living forest,’ passes away

Kimberley Brown 23 Feb 2022

Kelp, condors and Indigenous conservation

Mike Gaworecki 9 Feb 2022

With the passing of two icons, who will lead the conservation movement?

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jan 2022

Uganda’s ‘Dr. Gladys’ honored by U.N. for work linking conservation and health

Malavika Vyawahare 13 Dec 2021

Betty Rubio, the tech-savvy Kichwa leader defending threatened territory

Cristina Fernández Aguilar 10 Dec 2021

In Nepal, doubling down on tiger conservation looks to pay off

Johan Augustin 11 Nov 2021
Tense and Mulunesh, members of the women-led Nano Hena savings and credit cooperative, pick coffee beans during harvesting season in Illubabor Zone, Ethiopia. The cooperative is supported by Population, Health, and Environment Ethiopia Consortium and Ethio Wetlands and Natural Resources Association, partners working to improve biodiversity and increase resilience in communities in Southwestern Ethiopia. Photo credit: Maheder Haileselassie, Getty Images

Supporting more holistic approaches to conservation: an interview with Kai Carter

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Oct 2021
Myrna Cunningham

For some Indigenous, COVID presents possibility of cultural extinction, says Myrna Cunningham

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Oct 2021

Women on storm-hit Philippine island lead Indigenous effort to restore mangroves

Keith Anthony Fabro 7 Oct 2021

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