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Flowering tree in the Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Refocusing conservation funding on trust & community leadership after USAID freeze (commentary)

Leona M. Bhuyan 28 Apr 2025
Forest in Panama that Amigos del Bosque aims to conserve via biodiversity credits, carbon offsets, or other payments for ecosystem services. Image courtesy of Amigos del Bosque.

Paying to prevent deforestation is positive & not ‘nothing’ (commentary)

Jessica Ausinheiler 24 Apr 2025
One of approximately 200 kipunji monkeys in the Udzungwa Mountains. Image courtesy Anthony Jarrett.

New strategy launched to protect Tanzanian biodiversity hotspot

Ryan Truscott 2 Apr 2025
Amazon peoples have insisted on the urgency of having their voice and vote taken into account in biodiversity negotiations. Photo by UN biodiversity.

Indigenous leaders optimistic after resumed U.N. biodiversity conference in Rome

Justin Catanoso 5 Mar 2025
Wild male saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) visiting a waterhole at the Stepnoi Sanctuary, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. Photo credit: Andrey Giljov [CC BY-SA 4.0]

Financing conservation of Central Asia’s endangered mammals on World Wildlife Day and every day (commentary)

Anne Neumann, Christiane Röttger, Johannes Stahl 3 Mar 2025
Indonesian rainforest in Bukit Tigapuluh, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

UN biodiversity decision 16/2 is ‘unencumbered by economic thinking’ (analysis)

Joseph Henry Vogel 21 Feb 2025
Two rangers in Kasigau Wildlife Sanctuary, Kenya.

What does an NGO do when its funds are tied to human rights abuses? Interview with John Knox

Latoya Abulu 27 Jan 2025

Brazil’s ‘innovative’ reforestation agenda discussed in Davos (commentary)

Guilherme Leal / Paulo Hartung / Roberto Waack 21 Jan 2025
YEAR IN RAINFORESTS BANNER

The year in tropical rainforests: 2024

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Dec 2024
Tattersalli is an area stewarded by the NGO FANAMBY on the edge of Bekaraoka Forest in Madagascar.

Climate finance must empower grassroots conservation in Africa & beyond (commentary)

Dr. Josia Razafindramanana 3 Dec 2024
The Maasai people in Kenya pass down environmental knowledge through storytelling. Photo courtesy of Joan de la Malla.

We need an Indigenous conservation state of mind (commentary)

Rebecca Adamson 28 Nov 2024
River in the Kosnipata valley, Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Why is a landscape approach needed for funding the global environmental agenda? (commentary)

Aida Greenbury, Robert Nasi 26 Nov 2024
Macaws flying over the rainforest.

Let’s rethink debt-for-nature swaps toward greater sustainability & integrity (commentary)

Daniel Ortega-Pacheco and Jonathan Glennie 22 Nov 2024
A coral reef off the coast of Raja Ampat, Southwest Papua province, Indonesia. Image courtesy of Ronal Mambrasar/Konservasi Indonesia.

$35m debt-for-nature deal aims to protect Indonesia’s coral reefs

M Ambari 30 Aug 2024
A lemur leaf frog in Costa Rica.

‘Fungibility’ could sink Convention on Biodiversity’s funding mechanism Decision 15/9 (commentary)

Joseph Henry Vogel 17 Jul 2024
The Florida corridor would preserve myriad landscapes and ecosystems. Image by Ethan Coyle/Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation.

To conserve large landscapes like the Florida Wildlife Corridor, payments for ecosystem services could be key (commentary)

Joshua Daskin and Jen Guyton 19 Jun 2024
Jaguar drinking from a river in Mexico. Photo courtesy of Gerardo Ceballos/Gerardo Ceballos of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, National Alliance for Jaguar Conservation.

Will a billionaire bankroll biodiversity? CBD Decision 15/9 as potential ‘goldmine’ (commentary)

Joseph Henry Vogel 14 May 2024
Eucalyptus trees at the Burapha Agro-Forestry plantation near Xathany District, Laos, 2023. Image courtesy of Melissa Lo.

Land tenure lesson from Laos for forest carbon projects (commentary)

Melissa Lo / Simran Kaur / Oluwole Soyinka / Sheng Huan Tang / Song Fu 2 Apr 2024
Artistic rendering of a forest shaped like a brain. AI-generated.

To reverse deforestation and protect biodiversity, build a bioeconomy in the Amazon (commentary)

Robert Muggah 23 Feb 2024
Indigenous leader Alessandra Korap Munduruku confronted Anglo American over its attempts to mine on protected Indigenous land, leading the mining giant to withdraw its prospecting applications. Image courtesy of the Goldman Environmental Prize.

Direct funding of Indigenous peoples can protect global rainforests & the climate (commentary)

Joe Eisen, Suzanne Pelletier, Tørris Jæger 24 Jan 2024
Three pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus).

New tool aims to make nature-based solutions projects in SE Asia a better sell

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Dec 2023
A traditional fishermen in an Indigenous territory on the Tapajós River, in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo credit: Marcio Isensee e Sá. Licensed via Adobe Photo Stock

Despite progress, small share of climate pledge went to Indigenous groups: report

Aimee Gabay 4 Dec 2023
Prescribed burns conducted by government organizations don’t face the same high cost of fire insurance as private organizations do. Image courtesy of the Virginia Department of Forestry.

As U.S. insurers stop covering prescribed burns, states and communities step up

Ashli Blow 15 Nov 2023

Can blue bonds boost investment in ocean conservation? (commentary)

Mackenzie Audino 27 Oct 2023
Moreangels Mbizah, founder of Wildlife Conservation Action, speaking during Fellows Session at TED Talks 2019: Bigger Than Us in Canada.

African NGOs seek more funds, trust, and autonomy in global partnerships

Malavika Vyawahare 20 Oct 2023
A kipunji.

World owes it to Tanzania to keep Eastern Arc forests standing, study shows

Ryan Truscott 6 Oct 2023
A biodiverse island in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

For the oceans, global community must fund Sustainable Development Goal 14 (commentary)

Eric Schwaab 18 Sep 2023
The rhinoceros hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros). Image courtesy of Mark Louis Benedict via Flickr.

What’s next for the new Global Biodiversity Fund? (commentary)

Qingyang Li, Yingxue Ge and Juliet Lu 13 Sep 2023

Big promises to Indigenous groups from new global nature fund — but will it deliver?

Spoorthy Raman 29 Aug 2023
One of the major goals of protected areas is to conserve biodiversity. Photo of knobbed hornbill by Rhett A. Butler.

Does the Global Biodiversity Framework give due consideration to market mechanisms? (commentary)

Andre Mader and Kayleigh Crabb 17 May 2023
Sunset over the Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Mobilizing Amazon societies to reduce forest carbon emissions and unlock the carbon market (commentary)

Dan Nepstad, Monica de los Rios, Ronaldo Seroa da Motta 13 Mar 2023
A humpback whale.

Indigenous funding model is a win-win for ecosystems and local economies in Canada

Spoorthy Raman 10 Mar 2023

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