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First-ever video of Amazon weasel recorded in Bolivia

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Jul 2024

In Cambodia, Indigenous villagers lose forest & land amid carbon offset project

Jack Brook 24 Jul 2024

Bangladesh wildlife sanctuary continues to lose primary forest

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Jul 2024

Beleaguered Indonesian civil society gets lift in push for just energy transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jul 2024

What’s at stake for the environment in Venezuela’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jul 2024
A Maasai man armed with a spear stands on a hilltop close to the highest point of the Loita hills.

Photos: For Kenya’s Maasai, will a new faith undo age-old conservation traditions?

Stuart Butler 23 Jul 2024

Trophy hunting of Amboseli’s super-tuskers in Tanzania sparks outrage, calls for a ban

Malavika Vyawahare 22 Jul 2024
Service in Östersund.

How Europe’s only Indigenous group is inspiring a greener Christianity

John Last 17 Jul 2024
Results of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration in Talensi District of Ghana. Image courtesy of World Vision.

Harnessing ‘invisible forests in plain view’ to reforest the world

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 16 Jul 2024

‘Extinct’ trees found in Tanzania spark hope for ecosystem recovery

Ryan Truscott 16 Jul 2024

Ugandan chimps are eating bat guano, raising concerns over human epidemics

Juliette Portala 15 Jul 2024

Sumatra pulp & paper giants violate zero-deforestation pledge, activists allege

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jul 2024
Soil fertilization process in an oil palm plantation.

Indonesia’s oil palm smallholders get a boost in bid for sustainability

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jul 2024

As logging booms in Suriname, forest communities race to win land rights

Maxwell Radwin 4 Jul 2024

Brazil’s new pro-agribusiness pesticide law threatens Amazon biodiversity

André Schröder 3 Jul 2024
A peyote (Lophophora williamsii).

The Wixárika community’s thirteen-year legal battle to stop mining in their sacred territory

Astrid Arellano 2 Jul 2024
Significant deforestation was linked to the Lower Russei Chrum dam, which has been operational in Koh Kong province since 2015. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Hydropower dams further undermine REDD+ efforts in Cambodia

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 28 Jun 2024
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

Canada’s 2023 wildfires outsmoked global aviation, yet emissions go uncounted

Liz Kimbrough 27 Jun 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
The sprawling Stung Meteuk hydropower dam being developed in the Cardamom Mountains appears to be illegally logging within Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

History repeats as logging linked to Cambodian hydropower dam in Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 27 Jun 2024
Chocolate pastries. Image by Chris Hardy via Unsplash.

As chocolate prices skyrocket from decades of deforestation, adopting agroforestry is key (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 26 Jun 2024

Living under the apartheid of Brazil’s soybean capital

Luiz Felipe Silva 26 Jun 2024

Elon Musk could avert global species extinction with only a portion of his wealth

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jun 2024
Handils are the boundaries of fields as well as paths for transportation and waters to fish in.

Borneo’s Dayak adapt Indigenous forestry to modern peat management

Titik Kartitiani 25 Jun 2024

How agroecological cacao can save an endangered lion tamarin in southern Bahia

Elizabeth Oliveira 21 Jun 2024
Members of BirdWatch Zambia with binoculars, pointing at something interesting out of the frame. Image © WeForest

Zambian forest reserve rebounds with a little assistance

Ryan Truscott 20 Jun 2024

How effective is the EU’s marquee policy to reduce the illegal timber trade?

Mike Gaworecki 19 Jun 2024
Beekeeping in Thailand

Beekeeping helps villagers tend coastal forests in Thai mangrove hotspot

Carolyn Cowan 18 Jun 2024
Prof. Hariadi Kartodiharjo. Image from Prof Hariadi Kartodiharjo's Facebook

Indonesians mourn loss of Hariadi Kartodiharjo, beloved ‘father of governance’

Christ Belseran, Sarjan Lahay 12 Jun 2024

Burning wood is not ‘renewable energy,’ so why do policymakers pretend it is?

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 11 Jun 2024

Verra suspends carbon credit projects following police raid in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 11 Jun 2024

Brazil police raid Amazon carbon credit projects exposed by Mongabay

Fernanda Wenzel 7 Jun 2024

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