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Polar bears.

‘No end in sight’ for potential of conservation tech: Q&A with Megan Owen

Abhishyant Kidangoor 5 Jan 2024
A Karen man in his boat in Myanmar.

Who protects nature better: The state or communities? It’s complicated

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Jan 2024
Indigenous Borana women farmers and their children in Ethiopia.

‘Indigenous’ and ‘local’ shouldn’t be conflated: Q&A with Indigenous leader Sara Olsvig

Alec Luhn 4 Jan 2024

False claims of U.N. backing see Indigenous groups cede forest rights for sketchy finance

Gloria Pallares 4 Jan 2024

Extreme drought in western Pará pushes family farmers into agroforestry

Sibélia Zanon (text) and Julia Lima (video and photos) 4 Jan 2024
Sumber Makmur Farmers’ Collective's seed nursery.

Sumatra coffee farmers brew natural fertilizer as inflation bites

Themmy Doaly 4 Jan 2024
Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) in a dry forest in Madagascar. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Beyond the myths: Anthropologist Alison Richard on Madagascar’s environmental realities and future

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Jan 2024
A group of elephants observed during the 2022 KAZA aerial survey. Photo courtesy of Dylan Blew and Ty-Mason James/KAZA Elephant Survey.

Count, connect, conserve: Southern Africa elephant survey points the way (commentary)

Russell Taylor, Robin Naidoo, Lisa Steel, Michael Knight, Steven A. Osofsky 3 Jan 2024
A fisher casts a net in Malaysia.

Forest carbon credits and the voluntary market: A solution or a distraction?

John Cannon 3 Jan 2024
A black bear fishes for salmon.

Salmon and other migratory fish play crucial role in delivering nutrients

Ruth Kamnitzer 3 Jan 2024

In Brazil’s Caatinga, adapted agroforests are producing food from dry lands

Xavier Bartaburu 3 Jan 2024
A captive-bred Karoo dwarf tortoise hatchling. Image courtesy Victor Loehr.

Study: Tiny tortoise may play large role in South Africa’s Karoo landscape

Sean Mowbray 3 Jan 2024

Finance and support are key to fishers adopting eco-friendly gear, study shows

Basten Gokkon 3 Jan 2024
Rainforest in Sulawesi. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

2024 outlook for rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Jan 2024
A dugong.

Sumatran dugong hunter struggles to adapt to changing times

Dody Hidayat, Yogi Eka Sahputra 3 Jan 2024

Illegal gold mining devastates Peruvian Amazon river and communities

Enrique Vera 2 Jan 2024

Amazon chocolatiers: Biofactory offers ‘new way of living’ for forest communities

Sarah Brown 2 Jan 2024

Study: Fishing with pesticides and dynamite puts Ecuadorian Amazon in peril

Mark Hillsdon 2 Jan 2024
A woman prepares a field for paddy farming after harvesting foxtail millet.

Indigenous Gurung farmers revive climate-resilient millet in Nepal

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 1 Jan 2024
Danilo Villafañe in the Sierra Madre in Colombia in 2010. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indigenous leader Danilo Villafañe dies at 49 in trying to save drowning women in Colombia

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2023
leopard ntnc Nepal

Leopards, Nepal’s other, other big cats, face unprecedented threats

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Dec 2023
Indigenous women of Guatemala’s Polochic Valley

Indigenous-led coalition calls for moratorium on terrestrial carbon trade

John Cannon 29 Dec 2023

Extreme drought in the Brazilian Amazon forces small farmers to look for alternatives

Julia Lima 29 Dec 2023
A sarus crane flies over an agricultural field.

Nepal’s birds pay cost for country’s infrastructure development

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Dec 2023
Planet satellite images of the confluence of the Rio Negro and Rio Jufari near the border of the states of Amazonas and Roraima in Brazil taken in October 2023, revealing sandbars and exposed riverbed during the severe drought that affected large parts of the Amazon rainforest. Photo courtesy of Planet Labs.

The year in rainforests: 2023

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2023
Indigenous elder of the Pataxó tribe in Brazil. Photo credit: Brastock Images. Licensed via Adobe Photo Stock

2023’s top 10 Indigenous news stories (commentary)

Joan Carling, Joseph Itongwa, Juan Carlos Jintiach 28 Dec 2023
Woodpecker Sitting in Tree in Forest

For forests, COP28 was better than expected, but worse than needed

Alec Luhn 28 Dec 2023

In Brazil’s Caatinga, these families excel in farming productivity

Rafael Martins 28 Dec 2023
Bigai Reserve in the Western Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

Top stories of change from Latin America in 2023

Alexandra Popescu 28 Dec 2023
A logger carries his chainsaw through the forest of the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia. He will sell the timber to garment factories.

Shrinking civil space and persistent logging: 2023 in review in Southeast Asia

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 28 Dec 2023
Dholes (Cuon alpinus) are wild canids that range throughout South, Central, East and Southeast Asia. They are listed as endangered, with fewer than 2,500 adults remaining in the wild. Image by Davidvraju via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

In 2023, Nepal’s ‘uncelebrated’ wildlife continued wait for attention

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Dec 2023

Newly described tree species from Sumatra could be vital for threatened orangutans

Liz Kimbrough 28 Dec 2023

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