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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

Biological field stations deliver high return on investment for conservation, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 6 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
A blue monkey in Virunga National Park, DRC.

COP28 cements goal to halt forest loss in 7 years, but where’s the money?

Alec Luhn 15 Dec 2023
Rainforest, reef, and ocean on Maratua Island, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Can blue bonds boost investment in ocean conservation? (commentary)

Mackenzie Audino 27 Oct 2023
A mountain gorilla encountered during a gorilla tourism trek in Uganda.

Gorilla permit fraud dents community-led conservation efforts in Uganda

Malavika Vyawahare, Nangayi Guyson 27 Oct 2023
One Earth Conservation parrot conservationist Steve-o Oldenstam (left) monitoring parrots along a river in Suriname. Photo courtesy of LoraKim Joyner/One Earth Conservation.

More capacity building funds needed for small nonprofit conservation groups (commentary)

Gail Koelln 20 Oct 2023
Moreangels Mbizah, founder of Wildlife Conservation Action, speaking during Fellows Session at TED Talks 2019: Bigger Than Us in Canada.

African NGOs seek more funds, trust, and autonomy in global partnerships

Malavika Vyawahare 20 Oct 2023
A biodiverse island in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

For the oceans, global community must fund Sustainable Development Goal 14 (commentary)

Eric Schwaab 18 Sep 2023
The rhinoceros hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros). Image courtesy of Mark Louis Benedict via Flickr.

What’s next for the new Global Biodiversity Fund? (commentary)

Qingyang Li, Yingxue Ge and Juliet Lu 13 Sep 2023

Peru signs $20-million debt-for-nature swap with focus on Amazon rainforest

Maxwell Radwin 12 Sep 2023
Patagonia. Photo credit: Nancy Butler

‘In business to save the planet,’ Patagonia says people & planet should be the priority of corporations

Mike DiGirolamo 5 Sep 2023

Big promises to Indigenous groups from new global nature fund — but will it deliver?

Spoorthy Raman 29 Aug 2023
Long-tailed macaque. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Skepticism as Cambodia expands protected areas by more than a million hectares

Gerald Flynn 29 Aug 2023
The critically endangered dark sitana (Sitana fusca).

Nepal’s BP Highway threatens endemic, critically endangered lizard

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Jul 2023
The Dehcho First Nations led the creation of the Edéhzhíe Dehcho Protected Area and National Wildlife Area, spanning 14,249 square kilometers of boreal forest and clean waters in the NWT. Image courtesy of Amos Scott.

Making space for Indigenous leadership is crucial for conservation (commentary)

Valérie Courtois and Steve Kallick 26 Jul 2023
The Amazon rainforest in Peru. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Why should funding Amazon forest sustainability be the world’s top priority? (commentary)

Jonah Wittkamper, Mariana Senna, Ricardo Politi 20 Jul 2023
A forest in Indonesia.

Asian Development Bank’s climate commitments require greater accountability (commentary)

Radhika Goyal 12 Jul 2023

Biological field stations: Indispensable but ‘invisible’

Mike DiGirolamo 11 Jul 2023
A cotton-top tamarin.

Effort to save rare Colombian monkey looks to crowdfund its conservation

Aimee Gabay 5 Jul 2023

Indonesia’s Mandalika megaproject still trampling on Indigenous community’s rights: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Jun 2023
Brazilian President Lula met U.S. President Joe Biden in February.

Boosted with fresh donations, Amazon Fund reboots stalled projects

André Schröder 5 Jun 2023

Indonesian project shows how climate funding can — and should — go directly to IPLCs

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 May 2023
One of the major goals of protected areas is to conserve biodiversity. Photo of knobbed hornbill by Rhett A. Butler.

Does the Global Biodiversity Framework give due consideration to market mechanisms? (commentary)

Andre Mader, Kayleigh Crabb 17 May 2023
Fiji banded iguana (Brachylophus fasciatus). Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

It’s time to embrace community-led conservation vs. the colonial kind (commentary)

Audrey Moreng 15 May 2023
Elizabeth Azzuz and Margo Robbins, leaders of the Cultural Fire Management Council, have been helping Yurok Tribal members burn their land to improve the growth of basket materials and other traditional plants. Photo by Jane Braxton Little for Mongabay

Funders commit $102.5 million to support tribal-led conservation efforts in the U.S.

Laurel Sutherland 27 Apr 2023
Dax Dasilva. Photo credit: Monique Weston

We need to show that planetary wins are possible, says Dax Dasilva

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Apr 2023

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