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Researchers define the importance of the ‘circular seabird economy’

Bobby Bascomb 6 Nov 2025
Rainforest in Vietnam. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Beyond deforestation: redesigning how we protect and value tropical forests (analysis)

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Nov 2025
Wilmar Eliaser Simandjorang

One man’s mission to rewild a dying lake

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Nov 2025
A beaver explores its new home at Tásmam Koyóm in 2023.

California learns from its beaver reintroductions

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Oct 2025
A raft of sea otters off the Alaska coast.

Booming sea otters and fading shellfish spark values clash in Alaska

Justin Catanoso 21 Oct 2025
Wilmar Eliaser Simandjorang

Indonesia retiree rewilds world’s largest volcano lake as church demands plantation closures

Sri Wahyuni 17 Oct 2025
A beaver explores its new home at Tásmam Koyóm in 2023.

When does beaver reintroduction make sense?

John Cannon 23 Sep 2025

From shamba to PELIS: Kenyan farmers derive livelihoods from government timber plantations

Isaiah Esipisu 17 Sep 2025
Staff member of the Kinesi nursery planting seedlings in the pots, August 2019 ©WeForest

Putting the right plants in the right place boosts restoration (commentary)

Willem Ferwerda 16 Sep 2025

Critics say FSC update risks weakening accountability for forest harm

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Sep 2025
A beaver swimming in a pond just after its release at Tásmam Koyóm in northern California.

Beavers restored to tribal lands in California benefit ecosystems

John Cannon 15 Sep 2025
A man walks past kelp in the Pacific Ocean at La Jolla Shores, San Diego.

Post-Blob, California’s kelp crisis isn’t going away

David Helvarg 9 Sep 2025
Joseph Lijodi, a tree nursery owner, with one of his Prunus african seedlings.

Kenya’s PELIS trades biodiversity for livelihoods and tree cover gains

Isaiah Esipisu 9 Sep 2025
A puma in the highlands of the Antisana páramos. Image courtesy of Andean Condor Foundation.

Restoring the Páramo: How Ecuador healed its degraded high-Andean ecosystem

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2025
Marc Stalmans. Courtesy of the Gorongosa Project

Marc Stalmans, ecologist who helped restore Gorongosa’s wildlife, dies at 66

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Aug 2025
Redwood forest in the San Francisco Bay Area in August 2025. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Ecosystems as infrastructure: Tim Christophersen on how to rebuild humanity’s ties to nature

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Aug 2025
Leopard shark. Photo by Alex Kydd.

Can we undo extinction? A growing effort to restore lost sharks

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2025
Banner image of stream restoration being done in Aarhus, Denmark. Image courtesy of Casper Tybjerg/TTF.

Ambitious Denmark project starts farm-to-forest conversion

Kristine Sabillo 30 Jul 2025
Mangroves in Raja Ampat.

Reversing damage to the world’s mangrove forests

Kristine Sabillo 25 Jul 2025
A mangrove forest in the Raja Ampat archipelago in Indonesia.

How much does it cost to restore a mangrove forest?

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jul 2025
The StAR Project, which has been breeding and releasing Indo-Pacific leopard sharks in Indonesia, has now opened a nursery in Phuket.

Conservationists raise sharks to restore reefs in waters around Thailand

Claire Turrell 18 Jul 2025
The nearly $3 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project along the Mississippi River, intended to stave off coastal land loss in southeastern Louisiana, is seen during a flyover with the environmental coalition group Restore the Mississippi River Delta, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Jack Brook, File)

Louisiana cancels $3 billion coastal restoration project funded by oil spill settlement

Associated Press 18 Jul 2025
Harapan rainforest canopy in Jambi, Sumatra, Indonesia, by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

What’s holding back natural climate solutions?

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Jul 2025
Roberto Zolho. From his Facebook page

Roberto Zolho, conservationist who helped restore Mozambique’s wildlife following its civil war, has died at 65.

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Jul 2025
brown spider monkey Colombia

Forest corridors protect Colombia’s critically endangered brown spider monkey

Sean Mowbray 2 Jul 2025
Bulborox orchid

Bangladesh aims to revive five critically endangered plants

Abu Siddique 12 Jun 2025
An Achuar village in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Resilient forests are key to ecological, economic and social resilience, report finds

John Cannon 10 Jun 2025

The Yurok tribe have reclaimed Blue Creek, 138 years after it was taken from them

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Jun 2025
Student from Gales Point primary school planting mangrove seedlings inside bamboo tube.

From local planting to national plan, Belize bets on mangrove recovery

Ruth Kamnitzer 30 May 2025
A botanist scales a Tieghemella heckelii in Yapo-Abbé Forest, Côte d’Ivoire, during a training session by Sebastain Walaita.

To collect native seeds, Ugandan botanists are climbing forest giants

Ruth Kamnitzer 28 May 2025

Deforestation and fires persist in Indonesia’s pulpwood and biomass plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 May 2025
Planted forest in Panama.

Why biological diversity should be at the heart of conservation

Kristine Sabillo 21 May 2025

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