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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
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
Fishers in Ghana carry their nets on the beach.

USAID funding cuts jeopardize creation of Ghana’s first Marine Protected Area

Victoria Schneider 13 Mar 2025
A coral reef and marine life in the waters off Raja Ampat in Southwest Papua province, Indonesia. Image courtesy of Econusa.

Indonesia seeks alternative funding as USAID freeze delays marine conservation efforts

Basten Gokkon 7 Mar 2025
A fisherman at the Laa River, North Morowali, cleans clams before selling them.

‘Without us, no scrutiny’: Indonesia’s independent media count cost of US funding cuts

Mongabay.com 6 Mar 2025
Amazon peoples have insisted on the urgency of having their voice and vote taken into account in biodiversity negotiations. Photo by UN biodiversity.

Indigenous leaders optimistic after resumed U.N. biodiversity conference in Rome

Justin Catanoso 5 Mar 2025
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Labrea, Amazonas state, Brazil. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. Image © Christian Braga / Greenpeace.

Pause to USAID already having impacts on community conservation in the Amazon

Aimee Gabay 24 Feb 2025
Two rangers in Kasigau Wildlife Sanctuary, Kenya.

What does an NGO do when its funds are tied to human rights abuses? Interview with John Knox

Latoya Abulu 27 Jan 2025

Nepal created a forest fund to do everything; five years on it’s done nothing

Abhaya Raj Joshi 19 Dec 2024
Emergent rainforest tree in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler for Mongabay.

Can the Cali Fund provide a rights-based remedy for biopiracy? (commentary)

Alex Reep, Jasmine Betancourt, Nissim Roffe Piket, Victoria Osanyinpeju 18 Dec 2024
Second edition YOFAFA Conference in Yaounde. Image by Leocadia Bongben.

Young people in Africa call for a fair increase in funding for climate adaptation

Leocadia Bongben 16 Dec 2024
Tattersalli is an area stewarded by the NGO FANAMBY on the edge of Bekaraoka Forest in Madagascar.

Climate finance must empower grassroots conservation in Africa & beyond (commentary)

Dr. Josia Razafindramanana 3 Dec 2024
The Maasai people in Kenya pass down environmental knowledge through storytelling. Photo courtesy of Joan de la Malla.

We need an Indigenous conservation state of mind (commentary)

Rebecca Adamson 28 Nov 2024
River in the Kosnipata valley, Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Why is a landscape approach needed for funding the global environmental agenda? (commentary)

Aida Greenbury, Robert Nasi 26 Nov 2024
1_Alpine Mountan Blue (Albulina orbitulus lobbichleri)_Mustang_susceptible(NRDB1995)_©sanejprasadsuwal

‘Scratching the surface’ of Nepal butterfly research: Interview with Sanej Suwal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 20 Nov 2024
Woman carrying a solar pannel near Yangambi, DRC.

Africa needs COP29 funding & international finance reform to manage climate change (commentary)

David Akana 4 Nov 2024
Mammalogists often use ear tags to identify individuals in their research. But Echidnas do not have external ears to attach a tag. Opiang used color-coded plastic tubing, glued to spines to identify individuals (visible on the right forelimb). Quiet, rare, nocturnal, hard-to-tag and found in remotest parts of New Guinea, field study of echidnas presents tremendous challenges. Photo by Muse Opiang

With rare mammal tourism, observing means conserving (commentary)

Charles Foley and Jon Hall 1 Nov 2024

COP16: ‘A fund unlike any other’ will pay tropical nations to save forests

Justin Catanoso 30 Oct 2024
Grevy's zebras in Samburu Reserve, Kenya

At Climate Week and beyond, investing in community conservation pays big dividends (commentary)

Resson Kantai Duff 26 Sep 2024

In Nicaragua, activists challenge the value of international ‘green’ financing

Maxwell Radwin 30 Aug 2024

Short on funds and long on risk, Venezuelan conservation groups worry for future

Maxwell Radwin 25 Jul 2024
Xayaburi Dam

Banks backing Mekong hydropower failing on due diligence, report reveals

Carolyn Cowan 20 May 2024
Women carrying saplings.

New online tool is first to track funding to Indigenous, local and Afro-descendant communities

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 11 Apr 2024

Brazil’s Cerrado is main beneficiary of 2021 pledge to end deforestation

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Apr 2024

How to reward tropical forest conservation: Interview with Tasso Azevedo

Jenny Gonzales 22 Mar 2024
Inauguration of minister Flávio Dino as minister of the STF.

Brazil’s Amazonian states push for court reforms in bid for justice

Luiz Antônio Araujo 14 Mar 2024
African elephants

Cornell receives $35m gift for research at nexus of wildlife and health

Carolyn Cowan 9 Feb 2024
Vintage telephones by Pavan Trikutam via Unsplash.

The conservation sector must communicate better (commentary)

Tania Paschen 22 Jan 2024
Western hoolock gibbon. Image credit: Scott Trageser Photography/Creative Conservation Alliance.

Western hoolock gibbon conservation in Bangladesh urgently needs funding (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 18 Jan 2024

Guyana Amerindian communities fear Venezuela’s move to annex oil-rich region

Aimee Gabay 17 Jan 2024
Indigenous elder of the Pataxó tribe in Brazil. Photo credit: Brastock Images. Licensed via Adobe Photo Stock

2023’s top 10 Indigenous news stories (commentary)

Joan Carling, Joseph Itongwa, Juan Carlos Jintiach 28 Dec 2023
Woodpecker Sitting in Tree in Forest

For forests, COP28 was better than expected, but worse than needed

Alec Luhn 28 Dec 2023

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