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Pair of zebra in Rwanda. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Momentum is building for a ‘robust’ biodiversity framework: Q&A with Elizabeth Mrema

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Apr 2021
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Mongabay-India editor recognized among ‘16 Women Restoring the Earth’

Liz Kimbrough 8 Mar 2021

Women and girls: Let’s transform the ocean by including everyone (commentary)

Leandra Gonçalves, Paulina Chamorro 11 Feb 2021

The climate crisis needs feminism (commentary)

Belguun Bat-Erdene 1 Feb 2021

Fisheries need to make gender inclusion a norm, not just ‘reach’ women, says Pacific study

Carinya Sharples 12 Jan 2021

In an oil spill’s aftermath in Peru, new voices lead an Indigenous fight for justice

Francesca García Delgado, Vanessa Romo 18 Dec 2020

Nazareth Cabrera fights for Colombia’s Indigenous Uitoto with the strength of her words

Carol Sánchez 17 Dec 2020

In the Colombian Amazon, a leader trains her people to save the forest

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 16 Dec 2020

‘She goes and helps’: Noemí Gualinga, Ecuador’s mother of the jungle

Mayuri Castro 13 Dec 2020
A small village nestled in the Ha Giang province in Vietnam near the border with China. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Sexual harassment rife in Vietnam’s conservation sector, survey reveals

Michael Tatarski 25 Nov 2020

On a Philippine island, Indigenous women get their say on marine conservation

Jen Chan 22 Oct 2020

Camila Chindoy, the Indigenous daughter poised to lead her Amazon community

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 22 Oct 2020

A Philippine stingless bee helps boost coconut yields and empower women

Mavic Conde 29 Sep 2020

TIME’s list of 100 most influential people in 2020 includes Indigenous Waorani leader

Kimberley Brown 24 Sep 2020

Fishing for change: Local management of Amazon’s largest fish also empowers women

Claudia Geib 31 Aug 2020

Amazon ‘women warriors’ show gender equality, forest conservation go hand in hand

Rosamaria Loures, Sarah Sax 21 Aug 2020

Environmental defenders voice concerns as COVID-19 crisis deepens

Lauren Crothers 21 Jul 2020

In the Ecuadoran Andes, protectors of the páramos guard their water source

Sandra Weiss 27 May 2020

Gender-based violence shakes communities in the wake of forest loss

John Cannon 14 May 2020

Seed by seed, a women’s collective helps reforest Brazil’s Xingu River Basin

JoAnna Haugen 12 May 2020

Yehimi Fajardo: A voice for the birds of Putumayo

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 11 May 2020

Plans to prevent future pandemics must consider gender issues, too (commentary)

Tyler Nuckols 6 May 2020

Leaders on the cutting edge of conservation recognized on International Women’s Day

Genevieve Belmaker 6 Mar 2020

Women from the Xingu Territory unite against threats from Bolsonaro administration

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro, Nádia Pontes 18 Dec 2019
Beatrice Rukanyana looks out over a sugar plantation near Bugoma Forest. Photo: Thomas Lewton

Uganda’s eco-feminists are taking on mining and plantation industries

Thomas Lewton 23 Oct 2019

Why more women should be included in the leadership of Virunga National Park (commentary)

Judith Verweijen | Janvier Murairi | Esther Marijnen 5 Jun 2019

Changing energy use in rural Africa with power from solar, clean stoves…and women

David Klinges 2 May 2019

Study concludes that nature benefits when more women make land management decisions

Mongabay.com 8 Apr 2019

Meet eight female conservation scientists who inform and inspire

Erik Hoffner 10 Feb 2019

Agroforestry empowers Morocco’s mountain women

Monica Pelliccia 16 Jan 2019
Dienaba Diedhiou, an oyster collector in her 70s, poses with her grandchildren. Image by Jennifer O’Mahony for Mongabay.

Women’s work in Senegalese conservation includes exorcising demons

Jennifer O’Mahony 19 Oct 2018

Cooperative agroforestry empowers indigenous women in Honduras

Monica Pelliccia 16 Apr 2018

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