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Eric Darragh, the co-director of Fire and Forestry for the Mid-Klamath Watershed Council, is pointing out burn sites  within the project area. Images by Carly Nairn.

Tribe and partners light up a forest to restore landscape in California

Carly Nairn 8 Nov 2022

Amid Mexico’s Day of the Dead, a fish declared extinct comes back to life

Liz Kimbrough 8 Nov 2022
Aerial photo of thick rainforest and the plowed fields of crops.

Growing soy on cattle pasture can eliminate Amazon deforestation in Brazil

Sarah Brown 4 Nov 2022
A sea snake.

Small island, big ocean: Niue makes its entire EEZ a marine park

Monica Evans 3 Nov 2022
Gumwood trees.

Meet the Millennium Forest: A unique tropical island reforestation project

Jeremy Hance 2 Nov 2022

Who decides on ‘priorities’ for ecosystem restoration?

John Cannon 2 Nov 2022
A farmer extracts cacao beans from the pods in Colombia.

Mongabay’s What-To-Watch list for November 2022

Mongabay.com 1 Nov 2022
A handful of hazelnuts harvested by Nutwood Farm co-owner Kalyan Uprichard. Photo by Erik Hoffner for Mongabay.

American agroforestry accelerates with new funding announcements

Erik Hoffner 31 Oct 2022
A gorilla at the habituation project in Campo Ma'an National Park. Image courtesy Campo Ma'an National Park via Wikicommons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Forests & Finance: From logging in Cameroon to cocoa in Côte d’Ivoire

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2022
A white-nosed saki.

To save threatened Amazon primates in Brazil, turn them into the main attraction

Sean Mowbray 27 Oct 2022

To save the Amazon, scientists are listening to its rich sounds

Sibélia Zanon 27 Oct 2022
Deramakot forest reserve is a FSC-certified logging concession in Sabah, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

With FSC rule change, deforesters once blocked from certification get a new shot

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Oct 2022
Rainbow over Jambi, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

Drive for restoration and remedy behind some NGOs’ cautious support for FSC changes (commentary)

Grant Rosoman 21 Oct 2022
A family clears overgrown aquatic weeds in a wetland.

Habitat loss, climate change threaten Bangladesh’s native freshwater fishes with extinction

Rafiqul Islam 20 Oct 2022
The biodiversity of Balkan rivers is now becoming more widely known, and also their beauty, such as Kravice Waterfall in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Photo by Goran Safarek in 2014 for Riverwatch/EuroNatur.

Science that saves free-flowing rivers & rich biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 19 Oct 2022
Gura Ferda expedition, Ethiopia, May-June 2022. Image courtesy Christophe Bernier.

Forests & Finance: A road project, food baskets, and unique wildlife

Mongabay.com 18 Oct 2022
Gura Ferda expedition, Ethiopia, May-June 2022. Image courtesy Christophe Bernier.

Ethiopia’s honey forest: People and wildlife living in sweet harmony

Ed Holt 18 Oct 2022
A black rhino recently dehorned.

Poaching surges in the birthplace of white rhino conservation

Jim Tan 14 Oct 2022
Amazon rainforest in Brazil.

Successes and struggles: Brazil’s 20-year Amazon reforestation carbon sink project

Marina Martinez 12 Oct 2022
small reef fish

A ‘super reef’ recovery raises hopes — but also questions about its resilience

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Oct 2022
A Javan hawk-eagle on a branch

Indonesia foresters hope Garuda poachers turn gamekeepers

L. Darmawan 11 Oct 2022
Bôndy nurserymen tending to young eucalyptus

In Madagascar, a tree-planting business goes long on social, short on eco

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 10 Oct 2022

Mangroves and wildlife in Bornean bay at risk from Indonesia’s new capital

Basten Gokkon, Richaldo Hariandja 7 Oct 2022
Elephant in Dong Nai Biosphere Reserve

In Vietnam, farmers show a willingness to work with the elephant in the room

Sean Mowbray 30 Sep 2022
Adult harpy eagle image courtesy of Tom Ambrose.

Harpy eagle’s return to Costa Rica means rewilding’s time has come (commentary)

Andrew Whitworth 27 Sep 2022
Rhett Butler

Mongabay founder wins prestigious 2022 Heinz Award for the Environment

Mongabay.com 22 Sep 2022
Fire near the Manicoré River in Amazonas state in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

How close is the Amazon tipping point? Forest loss in the east changes the equation

Liz Kimbrough 20 Sep 2022
A deep-sea fish.

Europe moves to protect deep-sea sites in Atlantic from bottom fishing

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Sep 2022
Global forest carbon map

New tech aims to track carbon in every tree, boost carbon market integrity

Carolyn Cowan 19 Sep 2022

Rare turtles hatch from eggs rescued from flood-prone Nepal riverbank

Abhaya Raj Joshi 16 Sep 2022

Eight new-to-science geckos described from biodiversity haven Madagascar

Liz Kimbrough 15 Sep 2022
Tigers on a forest path.

‘South Asia needs its own tiger plan’: Q&A with Nepal’s Maheshwar Dhakal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 14 Sep 2022

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