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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
Two researchers measuring a Victoria boliviana leaf.

Kew Gardens joins local partners to save tropical plants from extinction

Sue Branford 15 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 coffee seedling nursery at Yayu, with forest in background.

Coal mining threatens Ethiopia’s ancient coffee forest

Kaleab Girma 14 Jun 2022

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

Ethiopia: Khat farming threatens food security, biodiversity, women, and agroforestry

Tesfa-Alem Tekle 12 Dec 2018

Agroforestry ‘home gardens’ build community resilience in southern Ethiopia

Tesfa-Alem Tekle 4 Dec 2018
Clergymen at Tsegur Michael Church near Debretabor, Ethiopia. Photo by Maheder Haileselassie Tadese for Mongabay.

Land restoration makes progress in Ethiopia

Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 31 Oct 2018

Why keep Africa’s dryland forests alive?

Sophie Mbugua 12 Sep 2018
Gullele Botanic Garden. Photo by Asaye Nigusie.

Ethiopia’s first botanic garden aims to preserve country’s flora heritage

Elias Gebreselassie 12 Jun 2017
A woman and donkey carry firewood and tree material from the Entoto forest. Photo by Ji-Elle via Wikimedia Commons.

Despite population growth and management challenges, hope for forests in Ethiopia

Elias Meseret 17 Mar 2017
Soda volcano in Oromia region, Ethiopia. Photo by Katy Anis/UNESCO

Ethiopia looks to carbon trading as it gears up to be net carbon neutral by 2025

Elias Gebreselassie 6 Mar 2017
Bags of coffee at the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange's warehouse in Awassa. Photo courtesy of DFID - UK Department for International Development

Development of Ethiopia’s Yayu biosphere a lifeline for organic coffee

Elias Gebreselassie 27 Nov 2016

Snake photographed in Ethiopia may be new species of venomous viper

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Mar 2016

Norway extends forest conservation initiative

Rhett A. Butler 14 Dec 2015

Your name here: auctioning the naming rights to new species to fund conservation

Heather D'angelo 17 Apr 2015

Researchers, locals work together to save Ethiopia’s ‘church forests’

Heather D'angelo 3 Mar 2015

One-two punch: farming, global warming destroying unique East African forests

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Dec 2014

Forest restoration commitments: driven by science or politics?

John Cannon 10 Oct 2014

Four countries pledge to restore 30 million hectares of degraded lands at UN Summit

Jeremy Hance 25 Sep 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation: Reconnecting faith and forests

Dr Liz Kimbrough 24 Jul 2014

‘Borne by the rest of the world’: deforestation has global impact, reduces food security

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 13 Jun 2014

Sky islands: exploring East Africa’s last frontier

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2013

Featured video: local communities successfully conserve forests in Ethiopia

Jeremy Hance 17 Apr 2013

Wolves, mole rats, and nyala: the struggle to conserve Ethiopia’s highlands

Jeremy Hance 20 Nov 2012

King of the jungle: lions discovered in rainforests

Jeremy Hance 13 Aug 2012

How do we save Africa’s forests?

Karimeh Moukaddem 19 Jun 2011

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