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Two researchers measuring a Victoria boliviana leaf.

Kew Gardens joins local partners to save tropical plants from extinction

Sue Branford 15 Feb 2023

Mapping of no-drill areas in Ecuador’s Amazon can be scaled for entire rainforest: Study

Maurício Brum, Sílvia Lisboa 13 Feb 2023
A black bear stands onshore looking at four tundra swans on the water.

Peatland restoration in temperate nations could be carbon storage bonanza

Jeremy Hance 9 Feb 2023
Ann Dumaliang.

Saving Masungi, a last green corridor of the Philippines: Q&A with Ann Dumaliang

Jewel S. Cabrera 9 Feb 2023
Aplastodiscus leucopygius.

Restore linked habitat to protect tropical amphibians from disease: Study

Sean Mowbray 8 Feb 2023

Amazonian countries must act together to reverse rainforest loss, experts say

Jenny Gonzales 7 Feb 2023
Blacktip sharks and remoras.

Study: Paying fishers to ease off sharks and rays is cost-effective conservation

Cassie Freund 6 Feb 2023
Kelly Banda (center, standing) with volunteers and community members.

‘The Mangrove Guy’: Q&A with Kelly Roberts Banda, Kenya’s lawyer-conservationist

Calvin Rock Odhiambo 2 Feb 2023
A Cape Mountain Zebra and Young.

Temperature extremes, plus ecological marginalization, raise species risk: Studies

Tim Vernimmen 31 Jan 2023
A car burns with two people inside, after a Russian bombardment in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, April 21, 2022. Image by AP Photo/Felipe Dana via Flickr.

Ukrainian ecologists say nature will suffer no matter war’s result (commentary)

Oleksii Vasyliuk, Yuliia Spinova 30 Jan 2023
A fisherman looks for crabs.

On Sumatra coast, mangrove clearing sparks scrutiny of loophole

Teguh Suprayitno 30 Jan 2023

Sri Lanka seeks lasting solution as human-elephant conflict takes record toll

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Jan 2023
Blue starfish in coral reef.

Re-carbonizing the sea: Scientists to start testing a big ocean carbon idea

Jeremy Hance 25 Jan 2023
A staffer prepares seedlings in a nursery.

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

Nieves Zúñiga 24 Jan 2023
A crab-eating frog.

EU demand for frogs’ legs raises risks of local extinctions, experts warn

Sean Mowbray 23 Jan 2023
Mangrove restoration.

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

Sahana Ghosh 18 Jan 2023
A heron in a tree.

Birds in Bangladesh find a new lease of life in community-run sanctuaries

Abu Siddique 13 Jan 2023

Dammed, now mined: Indigenous Brazilians fight for the Xingu River’s future

Andrew Johnson 12 Jan 2023

At COP 15, biodiversity finance, Indigenous rights, and corporate influence

Mike DiGirolamo 11 Jan 2023

Weakening of agrarian reform program increases violence against settlers in Brazilian Amazon

Andrew Johnson 10 Jan 2023
An Arctic fox.

Protecting canids from planet-wide threats offers ecological opportunities

Sean Mowbray 10 Jan 2023
Rainbow over rainforest in Sumatra. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Accelerating biodiversity-positive impact: A conversation with Silverstrand Capital’s Kelvin Chiu

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Jan 2023
A narcissus flycatcher.

For Philippines’ unprotected hotspots, new conservation window beckons

Keith Anthony Fabro 9 Jan 2023
Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with Indigenous people.

From deforestation to restoration: Policy plots path to Amazon recovery

André Schröder 6 Jan 2023
Sanjiv is a male Sumatran tiger who has arrived at a captive breeding center in Tacoma, Washington. Photo by Katie Cotterill for Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. Sanjiv.

Sumatran tiger arrives at Tacoma captive-breeding program

Jeremy Hance 6 Jan 2023

Island conservation should focus on land-sea links for most impact, paper says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Jan 2023
Fungi in the forests of Sabah. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

For restoration, microbes below ground are just as crucial as the plants above

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Jan 2023
A man planting a tree.

Dollars and chainsaws: Can timber production help fund global reforestation?

Gianluca Cerullo 5 Jan 2023
Anniqa Law Chung-kiu, conservation project manager for The Nature Conservancy Hong Kong.

Restoring Hong Kong’s oyster reefs, one abandoned oyster farm at a time

Peter Yeung 30 Dec 2022
Rainbow over oil palm plantations and forest in Jambi. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

What happened in the world’s rainforests in 2022?

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2022

Top 15 species discoveries from 2022 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2022
A European bison running.

Mongabay’s 10 most popular videos of 2022

Lucia Torres 28 Dec 2022

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