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Women sorting tree seedlings for reforestation in Uganda.

Funding freeze threatens global reforestation and restoration efforts

Marina Martinez 8 Apr 2025

Indonesia’s peatlands face growing flood risks amid widespread degradation

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Apr 2025
Fire in an area newly deforested in Brazil.

Brazil is speeding-up forest fire prevention to avoid dangerous tipping points in the Amazon (commentary)

Robert Muggah and Ilona Szabo 6 Apr 2025
Euperfadis Cardenas Vargas in his finca (2 hectarias of Cacao) Photo © Victor Raison

Colombian farmers switch from coffee to cacao as temperature and prices soar

Victor Raison 4 Apr 2025
Roots and nodules of a lab-grown yam plant. Image courtesy of Asrat Amele / IITA.

Farmers turn to living ‘yam sticks’ to grow their crop and spare the forest

Mark Hillsdon 3 Apr 2025
The Pesalat Reforestation Project in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Humanity’s long standing bet on the persistence of forest carbon storage capacity urgently needs to be reassessed, says study lead author Michael Windisch

Betting on future forest carbon storage endangers Paris Agreement targets

Sean Mowbray 3 Apr 2025
One of approximately 200 kipunji monkeys in the Udzungwa Mountains. Image courtesy Anthony Jarrett.

New strategy launched to protect Tanzanian biodiversity hotspot

Ryan Truscott 2 Apr 2025

A Kichwa women’s collective uses ecotourism to safeguard Ecuador’s Amazon

Ana Cristina Alvarado 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
Construction of the first section of the motorway. Image courtesy of Corrine Rahoeliarisoa.

Madagascar highway pushes on through controversy

Rivonala Razafison 31 Mar 2025
Loita forest in Kenya. Image by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay.

Kenya’s cities adopt Miyawaki method to restore lost ecological glory

Dann Okoth 28 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
Zeeshan Mirza with one of the new tarantula species from the Western Ghats. Mirza has discovered several species of reptiles in India as well. Photo courtesy of Mirza.

Exploring India, finding new species: Interview with biologist Zeeshan Mirza

Liz Kimbrough 27 Mar 2025

Colombia creates landmark territory to protect uncontacted Indigenous groups

Maxwell Radwin 27 Mar 2025
Pine cone of a white pine (Pinus strobus).

Beyond reforestation, let’s try ‘proforestation’

Sruthi Gurudev 26 Mar 2025

Climate change spikes wildfire risk in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 25 Mar 2025

Indonesians suing pulpwood firms over haze face intimidation, seek human rights protection

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Mar 2025
A young orangutan grasps and hangs on to a woody liana.

As apes adapt to human disturbance, their new behaviors also put them at risk: Study

Charles Mpaka 24 Mar 2025
The first Indigenous man from the Mamoriá Grande area to contact non-Indigenous society received medical assistance at a Funai base in early February. Image courtesy of Funai and Sesai (Indigenous Health Secretariat).

Pressure bears down around uncontacted tribes at the edge of Brazil’s arc of deforestation

Fernanda Wenzel 21 Mar 2025

Uncontacted Ayoreo could face health risks as Gran Chaco shrinks, experts warn

Maxwell Radwin 21 Mar 2025

‘Sustainable’ palm oil firms continue illegal peatland clearing despite permit revocation

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Mar 2025
Wooded landscape in Kõrvemaa Nature Park, Estonia. Image courtesy of Ireen Trummer via Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0.

With Europe’s forests, we can’t manage what we can’t measure (commentary)

Sten B. Nilsson 20 Mar 2025
Giant quiver tree, Namaqualand, South Africa. Image by Leonie Joubert.

Bleak future for Karoo succulents as desert expands in South Africa

Leonie Joubert 20 Mar 2025
In a vibrant green forestscape, a man in a blue t-shirt and gumboots stretches his arms across the dark bole of an enormous, extravagantly buttressed tree.. Image courtesy Andrea Bianchi.

‘3,000 year-old’ trees in Tanzania are new species

Ryan Truscott 20 Mar 2025

Global outcry as petitioners demand no mining expansion in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Mar 2025
In October 2024, deforestation linked to the construction of the Middle Russei Chrum dam was already spilling over into the Southern Cardamom REDD+ project area. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

New dams call into question Cambodia’s commitment to REDD+ projects

Gerald Flynn 19 Mar 2025
Logging operation for timber Brazilian Amazon.

EUDR compliance costs to be minimal, report finds — but industry disagrees

John Cannon 18 Mar 2025
Haze rising from an oil palm plantation and forest in Riau province.

Political appointments in Indonesian climate program spark outcry over accountability

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Mar 2025
Aerial photograph of land being cleared for a nickel mine in North Morowali.

Indonesian watchdog demands prosecution for environmental crime ‘cartels’

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Mar 2025
tree timber Brazil

Forest management ambitions in Brazilian Amazon aim to make up for lost time

Jenny Gonzales 12 Mar 2025
Locals look at a herd of elephants passing close to their village in northeastern Bangladesh.

Asian elephants fall victim to poor development policies in Bangladesh

Abu Siddique 12 Mar 2025
A collared wolf from the Druid pack

How one woman’s wolf ‘moon shot’ changed Yellowstone forever: Interview with director Tom Winston

Jeremy Hance 11 Mar 2025

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