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Risking death and arrest, Madagascar fishers chase dwindling sea cucumbers

Chris Scarffe 15 Jul 2020

Mortgaging the future: Report details risks of resource-backed loans

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2020

Madagascar: Is NGO-led conservation too conservative to conserve much?

Edward Carver 16 Dec 2019

Madagascar: Opaque foreign fisheries deals leave empty nets at home

Edward Carver 9 Oct 2019
Villagers from Farihitsara gather near the proposed dam site. Tozzi Green, the Italian company responsible for the hydroelectric project, marked some of the rocks when it did research at the site. Image by Edward Carver for Mongabay.

In Madagascar, villagers oppose plans for a dam that would inundate their land

Edward Carver 18 Jul 2019

Global warming is exacerbating global economic inequality: Study

Mongabay.com 10 May 2019
Just a few baobab trees remain standing in a part of the Menabe Antimena Protected Area near Kirindy village that was forested a few years ago. Image by Pierre Koval.

Illegal corn farming menaces a Madagascar protected area

Emilie Filou 21 Feb 2019

Wildlife rangers in DRC park report waning motivation, job satisfaction

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2019
A fishing boat in the town of Beheloke in southwestern Madagascar. Image by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

Local fishers oppose $2.7 billion deal opening Madagascar to Chinese fishing

Edward Carver 5 Nov 2018
A pile of shrimp in Madagascar. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Top Madagascar shrimp co. moved millions among tax-haven shell companies

Edward Carver, Will Fitzgibbon 11 Oct 2018
Duong Le feeds shrimp on his intensive shrimp farm in Long An Province, Vietnam. Image by Zoe Osborne for Mongabay.

Pushing Vietnam’s shrimp industry toward sustainability

Zoe Osborne 17 Jul 2018
Cyprien Miandrimanana, a botanist now leading efforts to protect Bongolava, quit his job with the Missouri Botanical Garden and moved back home to the area in hopes of stopping the destruction he saw on trips to visit his parents. Photo by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

Angry farmers set fire to offices of Madagascar eco group, gov’t agency

Rowan Moore Gerety 13 Jul 2018

‘Saving the rainforest 2.0:’ New report makes recommendations for improving forest protection

Mike Gaworecki 2 Jul 2018
Undifferentiated catch at a landing site in Karaikal, Tamil Nadu, India. Photo by Amanda Vincent/Project Seahorse.

‘Annihilation trawling’: Q&A with marine biologist Amanda Vincent

Rebecca Kessler 27 Mar 2018
Local fishers in the fishing town of Beheloke in southwestern Madagascar. Photo by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

Will Madagascar’s industrial shrimp trawlers make way for local fishers?

Edward Carver 14 Mar 2018
A boy uses several mosquito nets to catch fish in the coastal waters near Chittagong, Bangladesh. Photo by R.C. Browmick.

Fishing with insecticide-laced mosquito nets is a global phenomenon

Benjamin Graham 6 Feb 2018
A local volunteer plants a mangrove sapling at the Trapeang Sangke inlet. The best time for transplanting is July, the peak of the wet season when the estuary is least salty. With a full team of volunteers, 4,000 saplings get transplanted in the most productive months. Photo by Matt Blomberg for Mongabay.

Mega developments set to transform a tranquil Cambodian bay

Matt Blomberg 31 Jan 2018
Coquerel's sifaka (Propithecus coquereli), a species that lives in Bongolava. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Abandoned by their sponsors, Madagascar’s orphaned parks struggle on

Rowan Moore Gerety 8 Dec 2017
An indri (Indri indri), another critically endangered lemur that lives in Makira Natural Park. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Carbon dreams: Can REDD+ save a Yosemite-size forest in Madagascar?

Rowan Moore Gerety 29 Nov 2017
Sanazy, from Beheloke Haut, says “hunger” pushed her to start farming seaweed three years ago: she earns about $20 from the crop during her best months. Photo by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

Fish vs. forests? Madagascar’s marine conservation boom

Rowan Moore Gerety 1 Nov 2017
With a greater hedgehog tenrec (Setifer setosus) stretched out on her lap, Voahangy Soarimalala of Association Vahatra demonstrates measurement techniques for small mammals to a group of masters students from the University of Antananarivo in the Andranomena Special Reserve. Photo courtesy of Association Vahatra.

Building conservation’s brain trust in Madagascar

Rowan Moore Gerety 25 Oct 2017

Singapore statement on International Day of the Tropics: infrastructure deficit must be met sustainably (commentary)

Mark Ziembicki, Stewart Lockie 28 Jun 2017

Police clash with protesters marching against power plant in Bangladesh

Morgan Erickson-Davis 26 Jan 2017

Climate change publications biased towards ‘richer, cooler and less vulnerable countries’

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Oct 2015

How to solve the global fish crisis? Ban fishing on the high seas

Sandhya Sekar 22 May 2015

Fisheries in developing countries stall on the path to sustainability

Rebecca Kessler 8 May 2015

Did palm oil expansion play a role in the Ebola crisis?

Emmanuel K. Urey 14 Jan 2015

Booming populations, rising economies, threatened biodiversity: the tropics will never be the same

Jeremy Hance 7 Jul 2014

China pledges $10 million to combat poaching in Africa

Jeremy Hance 8 May 2014

The lemur end-game: scientists propose ambitious plan to save the world’s most imperiled mammal family

Jeremy Hance 20 Feb 2014

Richest countries spent $74 billion on fossil fuel subsidies in 2011, eclipsing climate finance by seven times

Jeremy Hance 13 Nov 2013

Colombian mining dispute highlights legislative disarray

Robin Oisín Llewellyn 27 Jun 2013

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