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A lioness with cubs

Return of the lions: Large protected areas in Africa attract apex predator

Petro Kotzé 13 Jun 2023

Award-winning community group in Sumatra cleans up lake

Jaka Hendra Baittri 6 Jun 2023
Burned peat forest in Borneo.

Peatlands, Indonesia’s carbon trove, are mostly unprotected, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Jun 2023

Indonesia’s new capital ‘won’t sacrifice the environment’: Q&A with Nusantara’s Myrna Asnawati Safitri

Basten Gokkon 4 May 2023
Shigeatsu Hatakeyama at a tree-planting festival

Saving forests to protect coastal ecosystems: Japan sets historic example

Annelise Giseburt 27 Apr 2023
Setting a prescribed fire around vernal pools at Agate Desert Preserve. Image courtesy of Evan Barrientos/TNC.

Counterintuitive conservation: Fire boosts aquatic crustaceans in U.S. savannas

Ashli Blow 21 Apr 2023
Lilia Java at Lake Tarapoto.

Indigenous women in Colombia protect rich Amazonian wetland from overfishing

Astrid Arellano 20 Apr 2023
Eurasian lynx mother and cub.

Could biodiversity be a key to better forest carbon storage in Europe?

Mark Hillsdon 13 Apr 2023

To build its ‘green’ capital city, Indonesia runs a road through a biodiverse forest

Basten Gokkon 10 Apr 2023

In Brazil, scientists fight an uphill battle to restore the disappearing Cerrado savanna

Sarah Sax 3 Apr 2023
A Baird's tapir walking at night through her natural habitat.

Rewilding animals could be key for climate: Report

Liz Kimbrough 30 Mar 2023
The endangered golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia).

Reconnecting ‘island habitat’ with wild corridors in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest

Jeremy Hance 30 Mar 2023
A resplendent quetzal.

Mountain islands: Restoring a transitional cloud forest in Costa Rica

Jeremy Hance 29 Mar 2023
The vulnerable ʻiʻiwi (Drepanis coccinea).

From ukuleles to reforestation: Regrowing a tropical forest in Hawai‘i

Jeremy Hance 28 Mar 2023

How you save the world with three words (commentary)

David Gadsden 24 Mar 2023

Loss of wetlands threatens South Sumatra’s rich fish-preserving tradition

Fadhil Nugraha, Mahesa Putra 15 Mar 2023

As Indonesia’s new capital takes shape, risks to wider Borneo come into focus

Basten Gokkon 8 Mar 2023
A lowland tapir with its calf.

Restoration turns pastures into wildlife haven in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest

Sarah Brown 3 Mar 2023
A mining pit transformed into an artificial lake after a mining company’s semi-mechanized operations. Image © Yannick Kenné.

Treacherous pits and lakes left in the wake of Cameroon’s abandoned mining sites

Yannick Kenné 24 Feb 2023
Red poppies among other wild flowers.

Biodiversity conservation needs a more ecological context and transformational concept (commentary)

Anthony Schultz, Ole Sandberg, Ragnhildur Guðmundsdóttir, Skúli Skúlason 17 Feb 2023
A black bear stands onshore looking at four tundra swans on the water.

Peatland restoration in temperate nations could be carbon storage bonanza

Jeremy Hance 9 Feb 2023
Ann Dumaliang.

Saving Masungi, a last green corridor of the Philippines: Q&A with Ann Dumaliang

Jewel S. Cabrera 9 Feb 2023
Aplastodiscus leucopygius.

Restore linked habitat to protect tropical amphibians from disease: Study

Sean Mowbray 8 Feb 2023
A car burns with two people inside, after a Russian bombardment in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, April 21, 2022. Image by AP Photo/Felipe Dana via Flickr.

Ukrainian ecologists say nature will suffer no matter war’s result (commentary)

Oleksii Vasyliuk and Yuliia Spinova 30 Jan 2023
A fisherman looks for crabs.

On Sumatra coast, mangrove clearing sparks scrutiny of loophole

Teguh Suprayitno 30 Jan 2023

Island conservation should focus on land-sea links for most impact, paper says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Jan 2023
Fungi in the forests of Sabah. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

For restoration, microbes below ground are just as crucial as the plants above

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Jan 2023
Anniqa Law Chung-kiu, conservation project manager for The Nature Conservancy Hong Kong.

Restoring Hong Kong’s oyster reefs, one abandoned oyster farm at a time

Peter Yeung 30 Dec 2022
Fire fighters putting out forest fire in Riau, Indonesia.

As dry season looms, Sumatra villagers hope their peat restoration pays off

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Dec 2022
Community members restore coastal mangrove forests.

Nearly half of replanted trees die, but careful site selection can help

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 14 Dec 2022
Deforestation for oil palm in Malaysia.

Report calls on palm oil firms to make up for nearly 1m hectares of forest loss

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Nov 2022
Gumwood trees.

Meet the Millennium Forest: A unique tropical island reforestation project

Jeremy Hance 2 Nov 2022

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