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A Rainforest Alliance / UTZ Program that provides training of tea farmers in climate smart agriculture methods, which are designed to help farmers adapt to and prepare for the impacts of climate change. Photo credit: Giuseppe Cipriani

‘Collaboration is key’ to address big environmental challenges, says Daniel Katz

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Dec 2021

Conflict and climate change are big barriers for Africa’s Great Green Wall

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Nov 2021

Questions over who gets the billions pledged to Indigenous causes at COP26

Latoya Abulu 23 Nov 2021

Indigenous people get less than 1% of climate funding? It’s actually worse (commentary)

Torbjørn Gjefsen 19 Nov 2021
Indigenous family in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

New global partnership aims to remove barriers to Indigenous climate finance

Laurel Sutherland 9 Nov 2021

$1.7 billion pledged in support of Indigenous and local communities’ land tenure

Laurel Sutherland 2 Nov 2021
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Cilegon city, Banten Province, Indonesia.

Indonesia’s ‘green’ electricity plan undermines its climate vows, activists say

Basten Gokkon 28 Oct 2021
Indigenous woman speaking at COP25

Indigenous leaders to push for land tenure rights as climate solution at COP26

Sandra Cuffe 27 Oct 2021
Tense and Mulunesh, members of the women-led Nano Hena savings and credit cooperative, pick coffee beans during harvesting season in Illubabor Zone, Ethiopia. The cooperative is supported by Population, Health, and Environment Ethiopia Consortium and Ethio Wetlands and Natural Resources Association, partners working to improve biodiversity and increase resilience in communities in Southwestern Ethiopia. Photo credit: Maheder Haileselassie, Getty Images

Supporting more holistic approaches to conservation: an interview with Kai Carter

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Oct 2021
El Cono in Sierra Del Divisor National Park, Peru. Photo credit: Diego Perez / CEDIA

Conservation will only scale when non-conservationists see its value, says James Deutsch

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Oct 2021
Road through a Redwood forest in Northern California. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

How can philanthropy be more effective in environmental grant making? (commentary)

Byron Swift 4 Oct 2021
Ivindo River in Gabon. The Congo Basin has been identified as a strategic priority region for support by the Bezos Earth Fund. Photo credit: ZB / Mongabay

Bezos, Bloomberg among donors committing $5b to protect biodiversity

Maxwell Radwin 24 Sep 2021
Clouded leopard in India. Photo credit: Steve Winter/National Geographic

Small cats should be a conservation priority, says Panthera’s new board chair Jonathan Ayers

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Sep 2021
Logging concession in Indonesia. Photo credit: Yudhi Mahendra / Mighty Earth

Fomenting a “Perfect Storm” to push companies to change: Q&A with Glenn Hurowitz

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Sep 2021
Pine forest in California's Sierra Nevada. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Climate philanthropy’s opportunity for impact: Q&A with Bridgespan’s Sonali Patel

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Sep 2021

Indonesia still clinging to coal despite phaseout pledge, new plan shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Sep 2021
Ivindo River in Gabon. Photo credit: ZB

Building the Campaign for Nature: Q&A with Brian O’Donnell

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Aug 2021
Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak

Conservation needs more women, says Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Aug 2021
Community Conservation. photo credit: Monica Dalmasso for Honeyguide

Convergence, community and justice: Key emerging conservation trends of the pandemic era (commentary)

Fred Nelson 24 Aug 2021
Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco). Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Betting big on bioacoustics: Q&A with philanthropist Lisa Yang

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jul 2021
Blackwater lake, rainforest, and the whitewater Zacambu River in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

The conservation gains we’ve made are still fragile, says Aileen Lee of the Moore Foundation

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jul 2021
Tourists in South Africa's Kruger National Park photograph wildlife. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

Private investors look to high-end tourism to fund conservation in Mozambique

Marlowe Starling 24 Jun 2021
Brett Jenks visits with Mabi, the clown fish mascot of a community Pride campaign in the Philippines in 2011. Photo credit: Rare

‘Inspiring behavior change so people and nature thrive’: Q&A with Rare’s Brett Jenks

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jun 2021

Behind the buzz of ESG investing, a focus on tech giants and no regulation

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Apr 2021
Sierra del Divisor. Photo credit: the Field Museum

We need more rewilding and connections to nature, says Enrique Ortiz

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Apr 2021
California redwoods. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Nature is no longer “a nice to have,” it’s “a must-have”: Q&A with André Hoffmann

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Apr 2021
A group of Yiaku youth scouts, who have been trained by the Kenya Forest Service to take part in forest patrols and other conservation activities. Image by Shadrack Kavilu for Mongabay.

Indigenous peoples are being shortchanged as forest guardians: Report

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 16 Apr 2021

Recognizing the true guardians of the forest: Q&A with David Kaimowitz

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Apr 2021
Layang Layang Atoll, Spratly Islands, South China Sea.

‘We’re at a tipping point with coal’: Q&A with Bloomberg’s Antha Williams

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Apr 2021

“Activism gives you hope”: Q&A with Wallace Global Fund’s Ellen Dorsey

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Apr 2021
The border region between Bears Ears and Navajo Nation. Photo credit: NASA Landsat

Conservation would be more effective with more Indigenous leadership, says Patrick Gonzales-Rogers

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Mar 2021
Satellite image of Reserve de chasse de la Lefini in Republic of Congo. Photo credit: NASA Landsat

‘There are no silver bullets’ in conservation: Synchronicity Earth’s Jessica Sweidan

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Mar 2021

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