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Homestay programs in Nepal’s rhino hub hold promise and pitfalls for locals

Abhaya Raj Joshi 12 Jun 2019
Students of Bole Gerji Primary and Secondary school in Addis Ababa planting trees that they received from the botanical garden as part of its ‘Model Gardening’ Project. Image courtesy Gullele Botanical Garden.

In Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa, Gullele Botanical Garden captivates city dwellers

Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 3 Jun 2019

On the island of Java, a social forestry scheme creates jobs at home

Nuswantoro 15 May 2019
The youngest Cat Ba langur, which was recorded last week, sits with its mother atop a limestone tower, while a juvenile langur climbs nearby. Photo by Neahga Leonard for the Cat Ba Langur Conservation Project.

On one island, a microcosm of Vietnam’s environmental challenges

Michael Tatarski 22 Apr 2019

A plea to Botswana: Please rethink a “Not Enough Fences” approach (commentary)

Steve Osofsky 14 Mar 2019
Camera trap image showing a jaguar on a road at San Miguelito. Courtesy of Duston Larsen.

Can jaguar tourism save Bolivia’s fast dwindling forests?

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Mar 2019

Giant pines a tourist draw, cash cow for Yogyakarta farmers

Nuswantoro 19 Feb 2019
Student government president Gaymon Edwards leads a meeting of his fellow students. Their current requests from the school administration include sprinklers for the kitchen garden, new locks for the classrooms, and full electricity in the dorms. Image by Carinya Sharples for Mongabay.

Guyana: The school where indigenous youth learn about their land

Carinya Sharples 15 Feb 2019

DRC’s Virunga to welcome visitors again after 8-month closure

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2019
Turtles in the conservation project in Guyana. Photo courtesy Ereika DeAndrade.

A community in Guyana relies on indigenous knowledge in conservation

Akola Thompson 24 Jan 2019

Bans on the bird trade in South America yield mixed results

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2019

Saving the forests of the Congo Basin: Q&A with author Meindert Brouwer

Mongabay.com 23 Jan 2019

‘Ecosystem guardians’ remain passionate despite dicey conditions

Nora Ward 15 Jan 2019

‘Conservation never ends’: 40 years in the kingdom of gorillas

Giannella M. Garrett 28 Dec 2018

Deforestation and mining threaten a monarch butterfly reserve in Mexico

Martha Pskowski 19 Dec 2018

Bird business: The man who taught his tribe to profit from conservation

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Dec 2018

Peru’s Brazil nut harvesters learn to monitor forests with drones

Yvette Sierra Praeli 6 Dec 2018

In West Papua’s Arfak Mountains, local leaders plot ecotourism boom

Christopel Paino 9 Nov 2018
Leopard. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Language and conservation (insider)

Jeremy Hance 1 Nov 2018

Limi Valley: A threatened Shangri-La for wildlife (commentary)

Yadav Ghimirey 24 Sep 2018

As the DMZ turns 65, a call for Korean peace through conservation (commentary)

Russell A. Mittermeier and Michael I. Crowther 24 Aug 2018

Komodo protesters say no to development in the dragons’ den

Basten Gokkon 21 Aug 2018

‘Biological passports’ show whale sharks travel less than we thought

Mongabay.com 15 Aug 2018
A tourist from Jakarta poses with the Indonesian flag. Image by Sarah Hucal for Mongabay.

An indigenous village navigates its ecotourism success

Sarah Hucal 6 Aug 2018
A butterfly in the forest outside Son Doong Cave. (Photo courtesy Professor Phuong Ta)

In Vietnam, cable car plans continue to threaten important cave system

Chris Humphrey 24 Jul 2018
Cesar Benedict goes on air at Faluma Bimetu community radio station in Triunfo de la Cruz. Image by Christopher Clark for Mongabay.

Honduras: Indigenous Garifuna use radio to fight for their land

Christopher Clark 25 Jun 2018
Rangers in neighboring Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Photo for Mongabay.com by Rhett A. Butler.

DRC’s Virunga National Park closes until 2019 due to violence

Mongabay.com 14 Jun 2018

Tanzania’s Maasai losing ground to tourism in the name of conservation, investigation finds

John Cannon 11 May 2018

Suspected poisoning takes down 11 lions in Uganda park

John Cannon 17 Apr 2018
The savannah and grasslands of the Mara conservancies are home to a spectacular abundance of wildlife, lying at the northern end of the greater Serengeti ecosystem. Photo Credit: Maasai Mara Wildlife Conservancies Association

Local conservancies create new hope for wildlife in Kenya’s Maasai Mara (commentary)

Daniel Sopia and Fred Nelson 26 Mar 2018

Over $720 million in profit from tourism in Peru’s protected natural areas

Alexa Eunoé Vélez Zuazo 22 Mar 2018

Ecotourism payments for more wildlife sightings linked to conservation benefits in Laos

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2018

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