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Integrated Women’s Development Organization at work in Sidama, Ethiopia. Image courtesy of Ruhama Getahun.

Ethiopian women plant trees, restoring lands & livelihoods

Charles Mpaka 1 Apr 2026
A cocoa pod opened by hand. Exclusion of smallholder farmers from markets, a potential consequence of the EUDR, could result in loss of income leading to environmental harms but also exacerbate existing problems including child labor on cocoa farms. “These risks are known,” says Rainforest Alliance’s Fanny Gauttier. “That's something that we have highlighted many times.”

EUDR implementation comes laden with potential unintended consequences

Sean Mowbray 4 Sep 2025

Global maps reveal where mycorrhizal fungi thrive — and where they’re unprotected

Liz Kimbrough 4 Aug 2025
Banner image of a gelada by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Gelada monkey vocalizations offer insight into human evolution: Study

Kristine Sabillo 9 Jun 2025
Banner image of tiang in South Sudan ©Marcus Westberg/African Parks.

New maps reveal Earth’s largest land mammal migration

Kristine Sabillo 3 Jun 2025

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
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
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 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

Can agroforestry propel climate commitments? Interview with Peter Minang

Giovanni Ortolani 16 Nov 2017
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
Amone Ayesa collects wood in the Entoto forest outside of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Photo by Maheder Haileselassie Tadese

The people of Ethiopia’s forests

Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 15 Nov 2016

Snake photographed in Ethiopia may be new species of venomous viper

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Mar 2016

Norway extends forest conservation initiative

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Dec 2015

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