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The reforestation team planting trees.

Across reforestation organizations, best practices claims abound, but details are scarce

Marina Martinez 2 Oct 2024
Belen Perugachi, 16, is an Indigenous Kichwa adolescent from Paquiestancia

Do Indigenous peoples really conserve 80% of the world’s biodiversity?

Latoya Abulu, Aimee Gabay, Sonam Lama Hyolmo 26 Sep 2024
Grevy's zebras in Samburu Reserve, Kenya

At Climate Week and beyond, investing in community conservation pays big dividends (commentary)

Resson Kantai Duff 26 Sep 2024
Fishermen in Robertsport in 2009.

Plan for close season rings alarm bells for Liberia’s artisanal fishers

Edward Blamo 26 Sep 2024
ASH Achuar by Leticia Valverdes Adult, Female, Male, Man, Person, Tribe, Woman Alliance Amazon Headwaters-Achuar by Leticia Valverdes-EarthShot Prize.ASH Achuar by Leticia Valverdes

Earthshot Prize announces 15 finalists solving urgent environmental challenges

Bobby Bascomb 25 Sep 2024
A leopard in India.

Experts call for urgent leopard conservation efforts in Bangladesh

Rafiqul Islam 23 Sep 2024

To save endangered trees, researchers in South America recruit an army of fungi

Sofia Moutinho 12 Sep 2024
Drone image of the erodible bluff (bottom) being stabilized by tiers of logs pinned to the ground, back-filled with soil, and planted among erosion-slowing rocks to keep the rising waters at bay, for a 'living shorelines' project on the Blue Hill Peninsula in Maine. Image by Erik Hoffner for Mongabay.

How coastal communities are adapting to sea level rise with ‘living shorelines’

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Aug 2024
An Amazonian manatee in a zoo.

As Amazonian rivers recede under drought, manatees are left exposed to poaching

Sarah Brown 27 Aug 2024
In community fisheries reserves, fish scouts or guards patrol the rivers to remove illegal nets and enforce local rules. Fish monitors record catches that are taken legally to track the state of their local fish stocks. Photo courtesy of Marcus Westberg.

As southern African freshwater fish & fisheries struggle, collaboration is key (commentary)

Gail Thomson 22 Aug 2024

How a fun women’s gathering led to small wildcat conservation in Peru’s Andes

James Hall 22 Aug 2024
The translocation team leads a sedated rhino to a crate and its journey to a new home. Image © Michael Dexter/African Parks.

African Parks embarks on critical conservation undertaking for 2,000 rhinos

Simon Espley 22 Aug 2024

National Geographic photographer Kiliii Yüyan on why Indigenous peoples are the best conservationists

Mike DiGirolamo 13 Aug 2024
Building a pergola at the entrance to the Cocotá Agroforest, 2023. Image courtesy of Cocotá Agroforest collective.

Rio’s grassroots agroforestry sustains birds, bees & communities

Bernardo Araujo 13 Aug 2024

In a fight to save a rare bird, Indigenous communities in Guyana are winning

Carla Ruas 5 Aug 2024
Agroforestry products Thailand

Agroforestry offers Thai rubber farmers a pathway to profit and sustainability

Carolyn Cowan 31 Jul 2024

Indigenous communities in the Bolivian Amazon combat droughts and floods

Iván Paredes Tamayo 25 Jul 2024
Two school boys planting a tree.

Protecting Nigeria one child & one tree at a time: Interview with Doyinsola Ogunye

Tarinipre Francis 24 Jul 2024
Harare locals visit the Mbare Agricultural Market to buy fresh fruit and vegetables. Photo by: Charles Dhewa.

African markets tackle food insecurity and climate change — but lack investment

Aimee Gabay 16 Jul 2024

Frog ‘saunas’ may help threatened frogs fight off deadly fungus

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jul 2024
Pastoralists in Somalia

To protect the planet’s rangelands, give pastoralists a boost, UN report says

Ashoka Mukpo 5 Jul 2024
Musicians at a 2019 ceremony marking a three-month rāhui closure of the bonefish fishery in Anaa Atoll.

French Polynesians revive traditional rāhui to protect fish — and livelihoods

Amélie David 4 Jul 2024
Significant deforestation was linked to the Lower Russei Chrum dam, which has been operational in Koh Kong province since 2015. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Hydropower dams further undermine REDD+ efforts in Cambodia

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 28 Jun 2024

In ‘the century of Africa,’ Mongabay’s new bureau reports its biggest environmental issues and solutions

Mike DiGirolamo 25 Jun 2024
Beekeeping in Thailand

Beekeeping helps villagers tend coastal forests in Thai mangrove hotspot

Carolyn Cowan 18 Jun 2024

Beekeeping for Mangrove Conservation in Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 18 Jun 2024
An anchored trawler offloads its catch to a smaller boat within the Koh Rong Marine National Park. Screenshot from ‘Illegal fishing and land grabs push Cambodian coastal communities to the brink’ by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Efforts to save Cambodia’s coast tread water as fish stocks plummet

Andy Ball, Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 12 Jun 2024

Scientists and farmers restore Aztec-era floating farms that house axolotls

Aminetth Sánchez 31 May 2024
A rainbow lorikeet

Indigenous people and NGO grow a wildlife corridor in the world’s oldest rainforest

Claire Turrell 30 May 2024

An ancestral solution ensures water for Peruvian alpaca farmers, but is it enough?

Elizabeth Salazar Vega 30 May 2024

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

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