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Rewilding efforts throw a lifeline to Brazil’s most trafficked endangered bird

James Hall 30 May 2024

Campesinos bring life back to a deforestation hotspot in the Colombian Amazon

Astrid Arellano 30 May 2024
Local and International organizations participated in the plantation.

Uzbekistan plants a forest where a sea once lay

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 29 May 2024
A lemur leaf frog in Costa Rica.

Are carbon credits another resource-for-cash grab? Interview with Alondra Cerdes Morales & Samuel Nguiffo

Latoya Abulu, Sonam Lama Hyolmo 22 May 2024
Catherine Toro

Tackling climate change in one of Colombia’s largest wetlands

César Giraldo 15 May 2024
The red siskin.

Shade-grown coffee benefits birds, forests & people in Venezuela

James Hall 14 May 2024
Salt tolerant plants are part of a 'living shorelines' project on the Blue Hill Peninsula in Maine. Image by Erik Hoffner for Mongabay.

U.S. East Coast adopts ‘living shorelines’ approach to keep rising seas at bay

Erik Hoffner 24 Apr 2024
Savannah elephants at Majete NP, Malawi. Image by Peter Steward via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Malawi police arrest elephant poachers in Kasungu National Park

Charles Mpaka 18 Apr 2024
Sargassum in Villa Clara province, Cuba.

Caribbean startups are turning excess seaweed into an agroecology solution

Marlowe Starling 16 Apr 2024
Citrus fruits affected by citrus greening disease, like this lemon, turn green. Image by Marlowe Starling for Mongabay.

Florida growers eye agroecology solution to devastating citrus disease

Marlowe Starling 3 Apr 2024
Tagbanua chieftain Ruben Basio

Indigenous Filipinos fight to protect biodiverse mountains from mining

Keith Anthony Fabro 28 Mar 2024
African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana). Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons.

Conservation comeback in Central African Republic’s Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park (commentary)

Dodé H.M. Houehounha / Ichu G. Ichu / Paul Telfer / Felin Twagirashyaka / Jennica Betsch / Jean Hugé / Baudouin Michel / Cédric Vermeulen 26 Mar 2024
Cows in a farm with trees.

New U.S. agroforestry project will pay farmers to expand ‘climate-smart’ acres

Sarah Derouin 25 Mar 2024

‘Planting water, eating Caatinga & irrigating with the sun’: Interview with agroecologist Tião Alves

Xavier Bartaburu 25 Mar 2024
A tiger in Sundarbans.

Despite investment in conservation, Bengal tigers still struggling in Bangladesh

Farhana Parvin 25 Mar 2024
A manta ray.

E-Sak Ka Ou Declaration underscores Indigenous rights as a conservation solution (commentary)

Minh Tran 14 Mar 2024
Agroforestry practices in action in Zambia.

Global conference to accelerate nature-based solutions: Q&A with Self Help Africa’s Patricia Wall

Ruth Kamnitzer 11 Mar 2024
A harvester navigating the wild rice beds on the canoe.

Culture and conservation thrive as Great Lakes tribes bring back native wild rice

Spoorthy Raman 4 Mar 2024
Noman Masondo, a farmer in Chirundu District of Zambia, implements effective agroecological methods to cultivate his maize crop sustainably, Zambia.

Agroecological solutions better than pesticides in fighting fall armyworm, experts say

Ruth Kamnitzer 29 Feb 2024
Nubian flapshell turtle (Cyclanorbis elegans) in its preferred riverbank habitat. Image courtesy of ONG OeBenin via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-NC).

Nile Basin farmers grow food forests to restore wetlands and bring back a turtle

David Njagi 28 Feb 2024
A black rhino in Loisaba Conservancy.

Black rhinos moved to Kenya’s Loisaba Conservancy as species recovers

Graeme Green 13 Feb 2024
Koraï divers prepare to install a frame housing young hard corals in the protected waters of Antsoha Island, off northwestern Madagascar.

From exporting coral to restoring reefs, a Madagascar startup rethinks business

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 6 Feb 2024
Remberto Gil shows three varieties of corn

Indigenous Zenú turn to ancestral seeds, agroecology to climate-proof their farming

Monica Pelliccia 6 Feb 2024
A camera trap image of a mountain lion feeding on a mule.

‘We’re doing so much with so little’: Interview with WildLabs’ Talia Speaker

Abhishyant Kidangoor 6 Feb 2024
Workers at a mangrove nursery in Dam, a coastal town in Pakistan's Balochistan province. Image by Ayaz Khan for Mongabay.

Pakistan bucks global trend with 30-year mangrove expansion

Ayaz Khan 5 Feb 2024
Bolivian red howler monkeys in Madidi Landscape.

New fund supports Indigenous-led land management in biodiverse area of Bolivia

Aimee Gabay 1 Feb 2024
Salmon being traditionally baked by Council Member Jaytuk Steinruck of the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation.

First ever U.S. Indigenous Marine Stewardship Area declared in California

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jan 2024

Kenyan villagers show how to harvest more octopus by fishing less

Diana Wanyonyi 24 Jan 2024
Farmers in Bihar, India, growing crops amidst solar panels.

We need a better understanding of how crops fare under solar panels, study shows

Ruth Kamnitzer 23 Jan 2024
If necessary, community people buy fish from the market to meet their protein demand, but they do not catch fish from springs.

Indigenous effort in Bangladesh helps reverse endangered fish’s slide to extinction

Rafiqul Islam 19 Jan 2024
Smooth-coated otter

Camera-traps help identify conservation needs of Thailand’s coastal otters

Carolyn Cowan 8 Jan 2024
Samburu pastoralists walking with their herd.

How will we know when local communities benefit from carbon offset schemes? (commentary)

Beth Allgood/John Waugh/Craig A. Talmage/Laura Musikanski/Dehara Weeraman 5 Jan 2024

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