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Abdi Ahmed, in his late 60s, continues his pastoral life in Guyo Kebele, Somali Region, supporting his 19 children through a lifetime of nomadic herding.

Drought & climate change force Ethiopia pastoralists to go job hunting

Solomon Yimer 9 Oct 2024
Abijata-Shalla National Park’s management is working to build a common understanding of how deforestation and other activities affect the landscape on which communities and wildlife depend. Image by Solomon Yimer for Mongabay.

Holistic care for an Ethiopian lake system: Interview with Redwan Mohammed

Solomon Yimer 6 Aug 2024
Lake Turkana. Image by Aocrane via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Small steps towards larger goal of protecting East African wetlands

Petro Kotzé 6 Aug 2024
Harare locals visit the Mbare Agricultural Market to buy fresh fruit and vegetables. Photo by: Charles Dhewa.

African markets tackle food insecurity and climate change — but lack investment

Aimee Gabay 16 Jul 2024

Protected areas benefit nature & people, study says — with caveats

Malavika Vyawahare 2 Jul 2024
Aba Gebreselassie stands near a big tree in the forest around Ura Kidane Mihret Monastery in the Zege peninsula, Ethiopia.

Guardians of the sacred: Ethiopian Orthodox monks on spiritual forest conservation

Solomon Yimer 27 Jun 2024
Small children from Rira village stand by the roadside near their humble home.

World Heritage Site listing for Ethiopian park leads to eviction of farming community

Solomon Yimer 30 Oct 2023
Fetiya Ousman on a patrol.

Balancing elephant conservation and community needs: Q&A with award-winning ranger Fetiya Ousman

Solomon Yimer 8 Sep 2023
Desta Melaku, one of the board member of Guassa Community Conservation Office, stands in front of a field of guassa grass. Image by Solomon Yimer for Mongabay.

Tested by COVID and war, an Indigenous conservation system in Ethiopia prevails

Solomon Yimer 4 Jul 2023
Farmers in the Lower Omo Valley.

Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area brings Indigenous communities into the fold

Kaleab Girma 13 Jun 2023
Kwegu fishing in the Omo River

Dams and plantations upend livelihoods in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo River Valley

John Cannon, Kaleab Girma 16 May 2023

Ethiopia used chemicals to kill locusts. Billions of honeybees disappeared

Malavika Vyawahare 1 May 2023
Two researchers measuring a Victoria boliviana leaf.

Kew Gardens joins local partners to save tropical plants from extinction

Sue Branford 15 Feb 2023
Herders in the Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia. Image courtesy of the Oakland Institute.

‘Development’ projects in Ethiopia leave starvation, disease in wake: Report

John Cannon 12 Feb 2023
Gura Ferda expedition, Ethiopia, May-June 2022. Image courtesy Christophe Bernier.

Forests & Finance: A road project, food baskets, and unique wildlife

Mongabay.com 18 Oct 2022
Gura Ferda expedition, Ethiopia, May-June 2022. Image courtesy Christophe Bernier.

Ethiopia’s honey forest: People and wildlife living in sweet harmony

Ed Holt 18 Oct 2022
A cattle herder in a cattle camp

Debunking the colonial myth of the ‘African Eden’: Q&A with author Guillaume Blanc

Malavika Vyawahare 23 Sep 2022
A coffee seedling nursery at Yayu, with forest in background.

Coal mining threatens Ethiopia’s ancient coffee forest

Kaleab Girma 14 Jun 2022

‘Water grab’: Big farm deals leave small farmers out to dry, study shows

Caroline Chebet 30 May 2022

As the Horn of Africa heats up, the risks of insecurity are rising (commentary)

Robert Muggah; Peter Schmidt and Giovanna Kuele 28 Mar 2022

As Ethiopia’s war rages, a 400-year-old conservation site is scarred by battle

Kako 16 Dec 2021
Tense and Mulunesh, members of the women-led Nano Hena savings and credit cooperative, pick coffee beans during harvesting season in Illubabor Zone, Ethiopia. The cooperative is supported by Population, Health, and Environment Ethiopia Consortium and Ethio Wetlands and Natural Resources Association, partners working to improve biodiversity and increase resilience in communities in Southwestern Ethiopia. Photo credit: Maheder Haileselassie, Getty Images

Supporting more holistic approaches to conservation: an interview with Kai Carter

Rhett A. Butler 20 Oct 2021

Farmers regreen Kenya’s drylands with agroforestry and an app

David Njagi 26 Aug 2021
The new chameleon species, Trioceros wolfgangboehmei

Spiny new chameleon species described from Bale Mountains of Ethiopia

Liz Kimbrough 6 Apr 2021
Coffee drying outside the house of Abdul Kadeem in Manyate Village on the outskirts of Harenna Forest. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

Coffee sustainability check: Q&A with Sjoerd Panhuysen of Coffee Barometer report

Mongabay.com 1 Apr 2021

Land scarcity and disease threaten a multifaceted indigenous crop in Ethiopia

Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 19 May 2020

$85 million initiative to scale up agroforestry in Africa announced

Erik Hoffner 24 Oct 2019

Dam in Ethiopia has wiped out indigenous livelihoods, report finds

John Cannon 11 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
Aba Gada Kabeto Edamo Wabe(r), leader of the Oda Roba and Aba Gada Azmach Teshita, Sammato Bullo (l) leader of the Hambentu clan pose for a portrait inside Senekele Swayne’s Hartebeest Sanctuary. Photo by Maheder Haileselassie Tadese.

In Ethiopia, a community leans on customs to save an antelope from extinction

Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 6 May 2019
The primary reason for large plantations of Eucalyptus is for cooking. Here a woman makes a traditional non-alcoholic beer served at Islamic celebrations. Photo by Christopher Lett/Mongabay.

In Ethiopia, women and faith drive effort to restore biodiversity

Christopher Lett 20 Mar 2019
1. Adbul Kadeem inspecting drying coffee outside of his house in Manyate Village on the outskirts of Harenna Forest. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

Pressure mounting for the home of wild coffee and Ethiopian wolves

Nathan Siegel 18 Dec 2018

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