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Aigamo method: using ducks as rice farmers

Romi Castagnino 9 Jan 2024
A Siekopai leader prepares to testify about his people’s ancestral territory, Pë’këya, before the court.

Historic land win for Ecuador’s Siekopai sets precedent for other Indigenous peoples

Aimee Gabay 8 Jan 2024
Sumber Makmur Farmers’ Collective's seed nursery.

Sumatra coffee farmers brew natural fertilizer as inflation bites

Themmy Doaly 4 Jan 2024

In Brazil’s Caatinga, adapted agroforests are producing food from dry lands

Xavier Bartaburu 3 Jan 2024
A woman prepares a field for paddy farming after harvesting foxtail millet.

Indigenous Gurung farmers revive climate-resilient millet in Nepal

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 1 Jan 2024
Danilo Villafañe in the Sierra Madre in Colombia in 2010. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indigenous leader Danilo Villafañe dies at 49 in trying to save drowning women in Colombia

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2023

In Brazil’s Caatinga, these families excel in farming productivity

Rafael Martins 28 Dec 2023
A logger carries his chainsaw through the forest of the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia. He will sell the timber to garment factories.

Shrinking civil space and persistent logging: 2023 in review in Southeast Asia

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 28 Dec 2023

Newly described tree species from Sumatra could be vital for threatened orangutans

Liz Kimbrough 28 Dec 2023
Oil palm plantation and native tropical rainforest on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler

A decade of stopping deforestation: How the palm oil industry did the seemingly impossible (commentary)

Glenn Hurowitz 27 Dec 2023
One of the six newly described chameleons from Tanzania

Photos: Top species discoveries from 2023

Liz Kimbrough 27 Dec 2023
Raising awareness about fishing cats during an education program.

Conservationists in Nepal say government must step up in coming years

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Dec 2023
A summer tanager (Piranga rubra).

Cocopah Tribe aims to restore Colorado River habitat — and tribal culture

Evan Bourtis 22 Dec 2023
Altasea is a marine renewable energy and conservation technology hub on an old wharf in the port of Los Angeles. Image courtesy of Altasea.

Marine conservation technology hub rises from old L.A. wharf (analysis)

David Helvarg 20 Dec 2023
Wine bottles in a vineyard.

Some hemp with your wine? Study shows better soil, potentially flavors from intercropping

Sarah Derouin 19 Dec 2023
Scarlet tanager. Photo by Jen Goellnitz via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Bird-friendly maple syrup boosts Vermont forest diversity & resilience

Nina Foster 18 Dec 2023

Protecting the Brazilian Caatinga from desertification

Rafael Martins, Xavier Bartaburu 13 Dec 2023

A community-led strategy to save Brazil’s dry forests from desertification

Xavier Bartaburu 11 Dec 2023
Petrel chick in the Galapagos. Photo credit: James Muchmore

How a group in Ecuador protects 10% of the world’s bird species

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Dec 2023
A miyamashijimi rests on a buckwheat flower. Image courtesy of Todai University.

Japanese butterfly conservation takes flight when integrated with human communities

Keona Blanks 8 Dec 2023

A Brazilian NGO restores widely degraded Atlantic Forest amid mining threats

Sarah Brown 6 Dec 2023

NGO restores the Atlantic Forest amid mining threats in Brazil

Sarah Brown 5 Dec 2023

New guidebook draws on real-world experiences for running private nature reserves

Liz Kimbrough 1 Dec 2023

In reversal, Mexico calls for moratorium on international deep-sea mining

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 28 Nov 2023

Panama copper mine to close after Supreme Court rules concession unconstitutional

Maxwell Radwin 28 Nov 2023

Collaboration key to rediscovery of egg-laying mammal in Papua’s Cyclops Mountains

Basten Gokkon 28 Nov 2023

New calf brings new hope, and new concerns, for embattled Sumatran rhinos

Jeremy Hance 27 Nov 2023

Jane Goodall and Dax Dasilva partner with Amazon Indigenous youth for new Roots & Shoots program

Liz Kimbrough 24 Nov 2023
Reserva Narupa in Ecuador. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Mongabay CEO discusses slowdown in Amazon loss and other positive news

Mike DiGirolamo 21 Nov 2023

Indonesia launches new front in climate campaign focusing on seagrass

Basten Gokkon 21 Nov 2023
Posito Daom, a Pala'wan, pauses on his descent to the lowlands to sell chayote cultivated using the no-till method, a sustainable practice that avoids turning over and disturbing the soil, according to studies.

Indigenous farmers’ hard work protects a Philippine hotspot, but goes overlooked

Keith Anthony Fabro 16 Nov 2023
A sperm whale calf swims near the surface in waters off Dominica.

Dominica set to open world’s first reserve centered around sperm whales

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Nov 2023

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