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Solar panels at Madhya Dhalpur school in Assam’s Darrang district. Image by Shailesh Shrivastava/Mongabay India.

From chalkboards to e-learning, solar boosts schooling in an Indian floodplain

Mongabay.com 23 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
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 Save The Elephants researcher studies elephants at Lake Jipe in Kenya. Image courtesy of Wildlife Conservation Network.

African wildlife conservation is local communities’ burden (commentary)

Kendi Borona 9 Sep 2025
Critically endangered African forest elephants act as seed dispersers in the rainforest, taking the seeds far, far away from the mother plants.

As forest elephants plummet, ebony trees decline in Central Africa’s rainforests

Spoorthy Raman 29 Aug 2025
A flowering shoot of jambu.

Amazon jambu blends tradition and science for numbing flavors and healthcare

Sarah Brown 18 Aug 2025
A female greater honeyguide eating wax combs left behind by a honey-hunter. Image courtesy of Dom Cram.

Eswatini’s young honey-hunters sustain a rare bond with wild birds

Ryan Truscott 13 Aug 2025
Ampalaya, or bitter gourd (Momordica charantia)

Filipino communities use vast variety of endemic plants for health: Study

Keith Anthony Fabro 12 Aug 2025
The Indigenous Tompoun community celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day in 2024. Image courtesy of Tompoun Culture.

How Cambodia’s new environmental code undermines Indigenous peoples’ rights (commentary)

Rithy Bun 30 Jul 2025
A woman prepares a field for paddy farming after harvesting foxtail millet.

Indigenous knowledge & agroecology must be at the center of food system transformation (commentary)

Juan Lucas Restrepo 29 Jul 2025

Sri Lanka’s plant messiah spreads optimism for biodiversity & conservation

Rohan Pethiyagoda 17 Jul 2025
Snow leopard approaches camera trap, Kyrgyzstan. Photo credit: Panthera-SAEF-NAS-UW.

Culture and spirit belong at the center of wildlife conservation (commentary)

Beth Allgood, John Waugh, Craig Talmage 9 Jul 2025
Latex collected from the trees is pressed and formed into blocks, which are easier to transport from the territory.

Indigenous rubber bounces back for Amazon conservation and higher income

Sarah Brown 8 Jul 2025
The Nepalese paper plant is used to make the traditional lokta paper.

Nepal sees positive outcome from reforestation project using local knowledge

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 8 Jul 2025

As Thailand’s fishing cats face habitat loss & conflict, experts seek resolution

Carolyn Cowan 3 Jul 2025

Predatory snakehead fish poses invasive threat after sighting in Sri Lanka reservoir

Malaka Rodrigo 28 Jun 2025

After USAID cut, Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area aims for self-sufficiency

Solomon Yimer 27 Jun 2025
For the Maya people, fire has always been a sacred element, central in ancestral Mother Earth celebration ceremonies.

Fire is both destruction and rebirth for Maya communities of Belize

Monica Pelliccia 27 Jun 2025
The Magpie River, known to the Indigenous Innu people as Mutehekau Shipu, in eastern Quebec, a region they know as Nitassinan. Image courtesy of Robert Macfarlane.

Some rivers have rights, but author Robert Macfarlane argues they’re also alive

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 24 Jun 2025
Fishermen releasing a sea turtle.

Peru’s new bycatch training aims to help save hooked sea turtles: Q&A with fisher Gustavo Rosales

Ana Cristina Alvarado 18 Jun 2025
Mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) in Virunga National Park.

‘Culture & nature are one’: Interview with Mudja Chief Bitini Ndiyanabo Kanane

Blaise Kasereka Makuta 13 Jun 2025

New environmental licensing will build a power plant in the Cerrado and demolish a school

Guilherme Cavalcanti/Agência Pública 13 Jun 2025
Sailboat at night. Image by Johannes Plenio via Unsplash.

Stars & lighthouses: Marine conservation that blends Pacific Islander wisdom and Western knowledge (commentary)

Angelo Villagomez 11 Jun 2025
A seaweed farmer on Nusa Lembongan flashes a warm, cheeky smile as she moves through her daily harvesting routine.

Indonesian women sustain seaweed traditions in a changing climate

Maddy Bolt 10 Jun 2025

Ecological crisis in Brazil’s Pantanal fuels human-jaguar conflict

Júlia Moa 2 Jun 2025
Image courtesy of Lucy Calderón/EcoLogic Development Fund.

Conservation tech without Indigenous knowledge and local context has limits (commentary)

Marco Acevedo 28 May 2025
Locals worship an old banyan (Ficus benghalensis) tree in Narayanganj district.

Bangladesh protects sacred forests to strengthen biodiversity conservation

Abu Siddique 23 May 2025
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute scientist Danny Hernández Cuadra smiles at a small vial of stingless bees she collected for research.

In Panama, an Indigenous-led project rewrites the rules of reforestation

Marlowe Starling 22 May 2025
Chrystal Mantyka-Pringle leading cultural mapping exercises with Tr'ondek Hwech'in First Nation citizens Ryan Petersen and Zack Everitt at the community’s Land of Plenty cultural camp in 2019. Image courtesy of Elaine Cordon.

An alternative approach to bridge Indigenous knowledge and Western science for conservation (commentary)

Chrystal Mantyka-Pringle, Natasha Ayoub, Katie Fraser 20 May 2025

Indigenous conservationists lead the fight to save Mentawai’s endangered primates

Ana Norman Bermúdez 15 May 2025
Fishers camp in grass shelters at Mbenje Island, which is located 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the beachshore of Lake Malawi, in a cluster of fivesix islands. – Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

Community-led system boosts fisheries in a corner of fast-depleting Lake Malawi

Mongabay.com 14 May 2025

A migrating flycatcher returning to the same Sri Lankan garden sparks interest in birders

Malaka Rodrigo 11 May 2025

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