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Oil palm plantation

Degraded, but not defunct: Modified land still has wildlife value, study says

Carolyn Cowan 7 Jul 2023
Desta Melaku, one of the board member of Guassa Community Conservation Office, stands in front of a field of guassa grass. Image by Solomon Yimer for Mongabay.

Tested by COVID and war, an Indigenous conservation system in Ethiopia prevails

Solomon Yimer 4 Jul 2023
rhino in Nepal

Nepal’s rhinos are eating plastic waste, study finds

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jun 2023
A park blooming with more blue camas.

Volunteers, First Nations work to bring back a disappearing oak prairie

Spoorthy Raman 19 Jun 2023
The orange ground-thrush.

Fires threaten Afromontane forests’ ‘whole new world’: Q&A with Martim Melo

Ryan Truscott 22 May 2023
Tiger on a rock.

Lack of large prey may be feeding rise in Nepal’s human-tiger conflicts

Abhaya Raj Joshi 11 May 2023
An illustration of a hispid hare

Rare hispid hares feel the heat from Nepal’s tiger conservation measures

Abhaya Raj Joshi 7 Apr 2023

In Brazil, scientists fight an uphill battle to restore the disappearing Cerrado savanna

Sarah Sax 3 Apr 2023
A tiger in water.

Do tiger-dense habitats also help save carbon stock? It’s complicated

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Mar 2023
Samburu pastoralists walking with their herd.

Carbon credits from award-winning Kenyan offset suspended by Verra

Ashoka Mukpo 21 Mar 2023
Harvested sugarcane in Karnataka, India.

A liquid biofuels primer: Carbon-cutting hopes vs. real-world impacts

Sean Mowbray 20 Mar 2023
Trees in the plains of Sahel.

Scientists map nearly 10 billion trees, stored carbon, in Africa’s drylands

John Cannon 10 Mar 2023
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with his environmental and climate change minister, Marina Silva on his first day in office on Jan. 1.

Lula wants to mirror Amazon’s lessons in all biomes, but challenges await

Sarah Brown 16 Feb 2023

‘Grumpiest cat’ leaves its calling card on the world’s highest mountain

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Jan 2023

Zero-deforestation commitments can push agriculture to other rich biomes, study warns

Maurício Brum and Sílvia Lisboa 27 Dec 2022
Wildebeest in the savannas.

Counterintuitive: Large wild herbivores may help slow climate change

Tim Vernimmen 13 Dec 2022
Cattle ranch in Mato Grosso

New Brazil bill puts cattle pasture over Pantanal wetland

Sarah Brown 9 Aug 2022

Rains quell fire risk around Cambodia’s Tonle Sap, but the future looks fiery

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 27 Jul 2022

New near-real-time tool reveals Earth’s land cover in more detail than ever before

Carolyn Cowan 9 Jun 2022
Snow leopard at ease in its high-mountain habitat. Image courtesy of Madhu Chetri.

‘Protecting snow leopards benefits other species’: Q&A with Rinzin Phunjok Lama

Abhaya Raj Joshi 9 Jun 2022
A Bengal tiger in Nepal's Chitwan National Park.

Tiger-centric conservation efforts push other predators to the fringes

Abhaya Raj Joshi 24 May 2022
According to the Forest Code, rural properties located in the Cerrado biome of Mato Grosso state must maintain 35% of their native vegetation.

Brazil bill seeks to redraw Amazon borders in favor of agribusiness

Jenny Gonzales 25 Apr 2022
A lesser adjutant stork in a farm.

Study: Farmland birds in Nepal, India in dire need of conservation action

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Apr 2022

Stamping out savanna fires doesn’t bolster carbon sink by much, study finds

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2022

Civil conflict in Cameroon puts endangered chimpanzees in the crosshairs

Aminateh Nkemngu 15 Mar 2022

Pay or punish? Study looks at how to engage with farmers deforesting the Cerrado

Sarah Sax 25 Feb 2022

Fires threaten vital peatland in Chile’s Tierra del Fuego

Maxwell Radwin 7 Feb 2022

As its end looms, Cerrado tracker records 6-year deforestation high

Fernanda Wenzel 12 Jan 2022

Getting African grasslands right, for people and wildlife alike: Q&A with Susanne Vetter

Kang-Chun Cheng 31 Dec 2021

Agricultural frontier advances in Nicaraguan biosphere reserve

Leonardo Guevara 30 Dec 2021

Decline of threatened bird highlights planning importance of bison releases

John Cannon 21 Dec 2021

As Ethiopia’s war rages, a 400-year-old conservation site is scarred by battle

Kako 16 Dec 2021

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