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Women carrying saplings.

New online tool is first to track funding to Indigenous, local and Afro-descendant communities

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 11 Apr 2024
Women from a village in Bali in front of a house that preserves the traditional architecture with earthen wall on the front.

Indonesian architect presses vision for low-cost homes from nature

Moh Tahmini 29 Jun 2023
Bioacoustic researcher

The more degraded a forest, the quieter its wildlife, new study shows

Carolyn Cowan 24 Apr 2023
Global forest carbon map

New tech aims to track carbon in every tree, boost carbon market integrity

Carolyn Cowan 19 Sep 2022
Rehabilitation of coral reefs in commemoration of Coral Triangle Day 2022 in Oesina Beach.

‘Spiderwebs’ to the rescue for Indonesia’s coral reefs

Agustinus Wijayanto, Warief Djajanto Basorie 7 Aug 2022
Elephants in iSimangaliso Wetland Park

Beyond bored apes: Blockchain polarizes wildlife conservation community

Abhishyant Kidangoor 26 Jul 2022
Indonesian designer Singgih Kartono, founder of Spedagi

Bamboo mamas and bikes help with Indonesian diplomacy

Ebed de Rosary, Nuswantoro 29 Jun 2022
Park rangers walk next to a fenceline

Smart Parks, the Dutch technologists tackling poaching with technology

Jim Tan 20 Jun 2022

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

Carolyn Cowan 9 Jun 2022
A dog from the K9 Unit undergoing training with test bags that resemble luggage bags on a conveyer belt.

In Singapore, a forensics lab wields CSI-like tech against wildlife traffickers

Claire Turrell 20 May 2022

Traditional knowledge guides protection of planetary health in Finland

Jane Palmer 31 Mar 2022
Farid Tarabay, the new forest guide, under the Lamartine Cedar, one of the oldest in the SBR. Image by Elizabeth Fitt for Mongabay.

From land mines to lifelines, Lebanon’s Shouf is a rare restoration success story

Elizabeth Fitt 23 Mar 2022

Researchers turn to drones for that big-picture view of the forest canopy

Caitlin Looby 21 Mar 2022
Toco

Winds of change: Detecting species from airborne DNA just got real

Carolyn Cowan 11 Feb 2022
Fire line moves through a degraded forest area in an undesignated public forest area in Porto Velho, Rondônia on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2021

How wildlife crossings in Canada are inspiring safer roads for global species

Shannon Kelleher 17 Dec 2021

For South Africa’s dwindling renosterveld, there’s now a ‘panic button’ app

Ryan Truscott 25 Nov 2021

From the ocean floor, a startup livestreams the rise of coral cities

Claire Turrell 10 Nov 2021

Cooking with the sun: Entrepreneurs help launch Mexico’s solar revolution

Sandra Weiss 27 Oct 2021

Wildlife releases have a mixed record, and climate change complicates things

Natasha Gilbert 13 Oct 2021

Are nature-based solutions the silver bullet for social & environmental crises?

Victoria Schneider 6 Oct 2021

Creation of three new northern white rhinos embryos may indicate hope for other rhino species

Ashley Stumvoll 16 Sep 2021

Conservation after coronavirus: We need to diversify and innovate (commentary)

Jonathan Ayers and Frederic Launay 2 Sep 2021

End of deforestation tracker for Brazil’s Cerrado an ‘incalculable loss’

Fernanda Wenzel 19 Aug 2021

Shoe-leather science helps quadruple protected area in Peruvian Amazon

Yvette Sierra Praeli 10 Aug 2021

New artificial intelligence tool helps forecast Amazon deforestation

Juliana Ennes 9 Aug 2021
Grizzly bear

For monitoring mammals, eDNA boasts ‘killer feature’ over other methods

Carolyn Cowan 21 Jul 2021

Gabon becomes first African country to get paid for protecting its forests

Jim Tan 20 Jul 2021
A black rhino in Etosha National Park, Namibia. Image by Sonse, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Saving our ‘Beloved Beasts’: Q&A with environmental journalist Michelle Nijhuis

John Cannon 22 Apr 2021

Restaura Cerrado: Saving Brazil’s savanna by reseeding and restoring it

Sarah Sax 14 Dec 2020

Philippine wildlife reporting app promises to upgrade fight against trafficking

Rosy Mina 3 Sep 2020

Facial recognition tech for chimps looks to bust online ape trafficking

Colin Sytsma 4 Aug 2020

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