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Bird business: The man who taught his tribe to profit from conservation

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Dec 2018
Baobab trees in Western Madagascar.

Wildlife, ecotourism industry at stake in Madagascar’s election, says scientist

Mongabay.com 18 Dec 2018
Piupiu ferns (families Blechnaceae and Thelypteridaceae) on the forest floor. Image by Monica Evans for Mongabay.

A Māori community leans on tradition to restore its forest

Monica Evans 17 Dec 2018

COP24: Summit a step forward, but fails to address climate urgency

Justin Catanoso 17 Dec 2018

Purus-Madeira: Amazon parks and extraordinary biodiversity at risk now

Gustavo Faleiros, Images by Marcio Isensee e Sá 17 Dec 2018

Pumas engineer their environment, providing habitat for other species

John Cannon 17 Dec 2018
Indigenous women march in Puyo, Ecuador on March 8, 2018. Photo by Kimberley Brown/Mongabay.

Indigenous peoples denounce ongoing land rights violations in Ecuador

Taran Volckhausen 17 Dec 2018

Deforestation in Brazil’s cerrado falls

Mongabay.com 16 Dec 2018
Brookesia chameleon in the rainforest of Madagascar's Masoala Peninsula. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Challenging the illegal logging regime in Madagascar (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Dec 2018

‘Amazon Besieged’: Q&A with Mongabay contributor Sue Branford about new book

Mike Gaworecki 14 Dec 2018

COP24: Will they stay or will they go? Brazil’s threat to leave Paris

Justin Catanoso 14 Dec 2018

Palm oil giant Wilmar promises to take harder line with errant suppliers

Mongabay.com 14 Dec 2018

One map to rule them all: Indonesia launches unified land-use chart

Basten Gokkon 13 Dec 2018

Dam drove ‘collapse’ of rainforest bird populations in Thailand

Mongabay.com 13 Dec 2018

COP24: Nations complicit in ignoring bioenergy climate bomb, experts say

Justin Catanoso 13 Dec 2018

From a new bird to a new community reserve: India’s tribe sets example

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Dec 2018

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

Tesfa-Alem Tekle 12 Dec 2018
Valentin Suchite patrols the forest searching for signs of deforestation. Image by Anna-Catherine Brigida for Mongabay.

Guatemala: An indigenous community rejects, then accepts, a protected area

Anna-Catherine Brigida 12 Dec 2018

‘We see its value’: Ugandan communities benefiting from agroforestry

Deusdedit Ruhangariyo 11 Dec 2018
An indigenous Colombian takes in deforestation close to the Amacayacu National Park in the Colombian Amazon.

Scientists team up with indigenous, faithful to fight for forests

Andrew J. Wight 11 Dec 2018

The true story of how 96 critically endangered sea turtle hatchlings survived New York City

Mike Gaworecki 11 Dec 2018

A monitoring network in the Amazon captures a flood of data

Elizabeth Oliveira 11 Dec 2018

Belo Monte dam Xingu River Management Plan violates human rights: finding

Max Nathanson 10 Dec 2018

Pesticides could be painting black howler monkeys yellow in Costa Rica

Mongabay.com 10 Dec 2018
Rainforest on Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula. Photo by Rhett Butler.

Secondary forests in Costa Rica are re-cleared within decades

Rodrigo Pérez Ortega 7 Dec 2018

Tropical forest conservation in the Bolsonaro era (commentary)

Dan Nepstad, João Shimada, Oswaldo Carvalho Jr. 6 Dec 2018

‘There are no laws’: Cattle, drugs, corruption destroying Honduras UNESCO site

Taran Volckhausen 6 Dec 2018

Amazon indigenous groups and truckers ally to oppose Brazil’s Grainrail

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 6 Dec 2018

Vast palm oil project in Papua must be investigated by government, watchdogs say

Mongabay.com 6 Dec 2018

Peru’s Brazil nut harvesters learn to monitor forests with drones

Yvette Sierra Praeli 6 Dec 2018

Culls push endangered fruit bat closer to extinction in Mauritius

Mongabay.com 5 Dec 2018

For Ugandan villagers, tradition and tourism help keep the peace with gorillas

Deusdedit Ruhangariyo 5 Dec 2018

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