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Protecting the Amazon requires fresh thinking, veteran ecologist argues

Mike DiGirolamo 8 Aug 2023

Biological field stations: Indispensable but ‘invisible’

Mike DiGirolamo 11 Jul 2023
A fisher in Fiji.

Study finds locally managed marine areas in Fiji yield mixed results

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Jun 2023
A gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.

Big potential and immense challenges for great ape conservation in the Congo Basin, experts say

Mike DiGirolamo 28 Jun 2023
A Miyawaki forest in Hyderabad.

Miyawaki forests are a global sensation, but not everyone’s sold on them

Annelise Giseburt 21 Jun 2023

Congo Basin communities left out by ‘fortress conservation’ fight for a way back in

Mike DiGirolamo 16 May 2023
Shigeatsu Hatakeyama at a tree-planting festival

Saving forests to protect coastal ecosystems: Japan sets historic example

Annelise Giseburt 27 Apr 2023

Bankrolling biodiversity: How are private philanthropists investing in nature?

Daniel Pye 14 Apr 2023
A pastoralist leads her goat for grazing in Borana, Ethiopia.

15 community-based conservation opportunities to help people and the planet

Jana McPherson, Nafeesa Esmail 10 Apr 2023
A staffer prepares seedlings in a nursery.

From Japan to Brazil: Reforesting the Amazon with the Miyawaki method

Nieves Zúñiga 24 Jan 2023
Mangrove restoration.

Biodiversity, human rights safeguards crucial to nature-based solutions: Critics

Sahana Ghosh 18 Jan 2023
Acampamento Terra Livre Indigenous protest in Brazil, April 6, 2022. Image by Mídia NINJA Via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Top 10 notable Indigenous stories of 2022

Latoya Abulu 28 Dec 2022

Mongabay’s Conservation Potential series investigates: Where do we need to protect biodiversity?

Liz Kimbrough 19 Dec 2022
African buffalo in Kenya. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Latest ‘plan for the planet’ calls for protecting 44% of land, home to 1.8b humans

Malavika Vyawahare 14 Jun 2022
A red-eyed tree frog in Brazil.

Global biodiversity is in crisis, but how bad is it? It’s complicated

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Apr 2022
New Zealand Maori

Indigenous knowledge ‘gives us a much richer picture’: Q&A with Māori researcher Ocean Mercier

Monica Evans 25 Feb 2022

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

Kimberley Brown 23 Feb 2022
Kahuzi-Biega National Park

A conservation paradigm based on Indigenous values in DR Congo (commentary)

Sushil Raj; Dr. Albert Kwokwo Barume 17 Feb 2022
Fire line moves through a degraded forest area in an undesignated public forest area in Porto Velho, Rondônia on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2021

In Guyana, saving an Indigenous language from dying out with its last speakers

Alva Solomon 21 Dec 2021

In Indonesia’s ‘Dragon Village,’ customs and nature are at the center of life

Donny Iqbal 22 Nov 2021

WWF distances itself from rights abuses at U.S. congressional hearing

Latoya Abulu, Laurel Sutherland 2 Nov 2021

Wildlife releases have a mixed record, and climate change complicates things

Natasha Gilbert 13 Oct 2021

Are nature-based solutions the silver bullet for social & environmental crises?

Victoria Schneider 6 Oct 2021

Leveraging Nature-based Solutions for transformation: Reconnecting people and nature (commentary)

Alexandre Chausson, E.A. Welden, Marina S. Melanidis 15 Sep 2021

Saving sea turtles in the ‘Anthropause’: Successes and challenges on the beach

Elizabeth Fitt 15 Sep 2021

OECM concept may bring more inclusive approach to conserving biodiversity

Jim Tan 13 Sep 2021

What’s fair in conservation to locals? Just ask, study says

Nanditha Chandraprakash 9 Sep 2021

In Peru, ancient food technologies revived in pursuit of future security

Illa Liendo Tagle 3 Sep 2021

Conservation after coronavirus: We need to diversify and innovate (commentary)

Jonathan Ayers, Frederic Launay 2 Sep 2021

Next to India’s capital, a village looks to the past for its forest’s future

Manon Verchot, Sanshey Biswas 30 Aug 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

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