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Harvested American ginseng.

As US agroforestry grows, federal funding freeze leaves farmers in the lurch

Sarah Derouin 1 Apr 2025
A grizzled tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus inustus)

PNG’s Torricelli Mountains teem with life — and the risk of extinction

John Cannon 31 Mar 2025
Dutch forest advocates Maarten Visschers and Fenna Swart (right) protest the burning of forest biomass for energy outside Vattenfall's headquarters in Amsterdam in 2021.

Netherlands’ largest forest biomass plant canceled, forest advocates elated

Justin Catanoso 27 Mar 2025
A wombat in Queensland, Australia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

As Australia’s ‘nature positive’ plans ring hollow, how will other nations respond?

Mike DiGirolamo 25 Mar 2025
Rainstorm over Pillcopata in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett Butler/Mongabay.

What environmental history reveals about our current ‘planetary risk’

Mike DiGirolamo 18 Mar 2025

How ‘ecological empathy’ can help humans reconnect with nature and shape a better world

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 11 Mar 2025
New study assesses threat to wildlife from cacao expansion in Congo Basin.

The environmental toll of the M23 conflict in eastern DRC (Analysis)

Fergus O’Leary Simpson | Lara Collart | Joel Masselink 7 Mar 2025
A housing project from the Sostre Civic housing cooperative in Barcelona. The residents pay below-market rates for units that cannot be bought or sold for a 75-year term. Image courtesy of Alvaro Alvarez.

‘Degrowth’ gains a foothold in Barcelona and support internationally

Mike DiGirolamo 4 Mar 2025
Bubot Bagawan explains how they generate electricity for their rice mill inside the micro-hydro generator’s powerhouse.

In remote Philippine villages, micro-hydro alternatives power Indigenous homes

Geela Garcia, Michael Beltran 27 Feb 2025
Western lowland gorilla.

‘Some people will die’: Conversations with Nigeria’s gorilla hunters

Orji Sunday 27 Feb 2025
Randy Borman. Courtesy of the Cofan Survival Fund

Randy Borman (1955-2025): An unlikely guardian of the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Feb 2025

Many companies meet climate pledges on paper — not on the ground, analyst says

Mike DiGirolamo 18 Feb 2025
Congolese troops in the eastern DRC during fighting with M23 in 2013. Image © MONUSCO/Clara Padovan via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

The key factors fueling conflict in eastern DRC

John Cannon 14 Feb 2025

Bobcats benefit both human and ecological health, but their growing populations are often misunderstood

Mike DiGirolamo 11 Feb 2025

As Africa eyes protected areas expansion of 1 million square miles, concerns over enforcement persist

Mike DiGirolamo 4 Feb 2025
Gerry Flynn

Cambodia denies re-entry to Mongabay journalist who reported on illegal logging

Mongabay.com 3 Feb 2025

Justice for people, animals and the environment are inextricable, Arcus Foundation says

Mike DiGirolamo 28 Jan 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
Cattle grazing in the Amazon.

Probe details the playbook of one of Amazon’s top land grabbers

Fernanda Wenzel 20 Jan 2025

Turn problems into solutions for culture and agriculture across Australia and the Americas, Anthony James says

Mike DiGirolamo 14 Jan 2025
A firefighter in the Xingu Indigenous Territory.

World’s record heat is worsening air pollution and health in Global South

Simrin Sirur (with Orji Sunday and Karla Mendes) 13 Jan 2025
Sunrise over the Pinipini river in the Amazon.

Former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres remains optimistic despite disappointing COP process

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 7 Jan 2025

Conservationists and nature defenders who died in 2024

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2024
The 2024 paper proposes Leopardus pardinoides, or the clouded tiger cat, as a new species. This small wildcat is found in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, south to Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Image courtesy of Johanes Pfleiderer. Article title - A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

Photos: Top new species from 2024

Liz Kimbrough 26 Dec 2024
YEAR IN RAINFORESTS BANNER

The year in tropical rainforests: 2024

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Dec 2024

‘These stories deserve to be told’: Shining a light on secretive fisheries managers

Mike DiGirolamo 23 Dec 2024

What’s the TFFF? A forest finance tool ‘like no other’ shows potential

Mike DiGirolamo 16 Dec 2024

Time for a ‘moral reckoning’ of aquaculture’s environmental impacts

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 10 Dec 2024
As he stepped carefully along the seafloor in the warm shallows of French Polynesia, I could hardly tell where the boy ended and the sea began. The pink whiptail ray swooped playfully around him and for a moment I could see clearly the path to coexistence between humanity and all the denizens of the sea.

How conservation photographer Cristina Mittermeier uses visual storytelling to inspire action

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Dec 2024

Researchers propose a ‘circular economy’ solution to housing affordability against climate change

Mike DiGirolamo 3 Dec 2024

For a storm-prone Philippine city, flood control is about more than infrastructure

Keith Anthony Fabro 3 Dec 2024

How nature protection and inspiring art are key to planetary health & preventing pandemics

Mike DiGirolamo 26 Nov 2024

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