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Wisye Sahambangung, front, and other women from Rhizopora work in a muddy mangrove area in Sarawet on Sept. 2, 2026. Image courtesy of Wisye Sahambangung.

Indonesian women cash in on mangrove restoration: Interview with community leader Wisye Sahambangung

Annisa Dinulislam 17 Oct 2026

‘There could be local extinction’: The fight to protect Indonesia’s orangutans as El Niño fuels fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Oct 2026

Indonesia’s new peatland agency faces questions over what it will do differently

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Oct 2026

In North Carolina, a race is on to restore critical peatland before it dries up or is destroyed

Associated Press 9 Sep 2026
A tuskless elephant bull inside the Nyerere-Udzungwa Wildlife Corridor. Pic credit: Southern Tanzania Elephant Program.

Tanzania’s first official wildlife corridor links savanna elephants to rainforest

Ryan Truscott 4 Sep 2026
The southern greater kudu

South Africa’s new gold rush: Big promises, closed books in new carbon frontier

Leonie Joubert 3 Sep 2026
Selumo (Jackiopsis ornata) trees, left, in a village in East Tebing Tinggi, Riau province, Indonesia. Planted by communities to demarcate land boundaries, these trees are also desired for their appearance. Image courtesy of Maryani.

Rooting tree seed production in local knowledge boosts forest restoration outcomes (commentary)

Zu Dienle Tan, Ahmad Muhammad, Sigit Sutikno, Nur Estya Binte Rahman 1 Sep 2026
The number of cuttings this Hive Ecosystem team manages to plant in a day is dizzying. This project is halfway toward its original goal of planting spekboom across nearly 5,500 hectares (nearly 13,000 acres). Image by Leonie Joubert for Mongabay.

South Africa’s new gold rush: Spekboom restoration speeds up, but it’s a bumpy road, insiders report

Leonie Joubert 1 Sep 2026
An agroforestry tour during a workshop at the Permaculture Paradise Institute in Lilongwe, Malawi. Image by Emilie Vansant.

Growing Indigenous food trees in East Africa fights malnutrition and biodiversity loss

Claudia Geib 31 Aug 2026
Angora goats, which produce mohair. Image © Samantha Reinders.

South Africa’s new gold rush: Big money, high stakes in emerging spekboom restoration sector

Leonie Joubert 27 Aug 2026

Indigenous water systems gain ground as climate pressures intensify in Bolivia

Anastasia Austin 26 Aug 2026

In Spain & South Africa, communities use restoration to ‘grow’ fire insurance (commentary)

Claire Patterson, Penelope Choussat 24 Aug 2026

Daniel Janzen and the long work of bringing back a forest

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Aug 2026

In India, sacred groves serve as vital nurseries for future forests

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2026
Ntoiye Kimorgo, a Maasai traditional healer and member of the Paran-affiliated Naretoi Group

Meet the Indigenous women restoring Kenya’s Mau Forest — and reshaping gender roles

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 11 Aug 2026

Forest Restoration Solutions

11 Aug 2026
Volunteers carry bags of straw at a tree planting event in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan on June 7, 2026.

In coastal Japan, one project is planting forests to stand against tsunamis

Jonathan Vit 4 Aug 2026
Renato Moraes de Jesus. Photo courtesy of the Conselho Regional de Engenharia e Agronomia do Espírito Santo (Crea-ES)

Renato Moraes de Jesus was a pioneer of Atlantic Forest restoration in Brazil

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Jul 2026
A local community takes part in a tree plantation project in 2018.

Conservationists urge caution over Bangladesh’s plan to plant 250 million trees

Abu Siddique 20 Jul 2026
A bull elk reintroduced to Kentucky. Image courtesy of Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife.

‘Beasts of the East’ chronicles the unheralded restoration successes of America’s eastern wildlife

Erik Hoffner 16 Jul 2026
Baobab (Adansonia digitata) in Mapungubwe National Park, Limpopo.

Like ‘climbing Kilimanjaro’ without help: Interview with a Limpopo conservationist

Bernard Chiguvare 15 Jul 2026
A seed, ready for planting, at a nursery in Cambodia. Image by John Cannon/Mongabay.

Updated standards make the case for restoration: ‘We have to create uplift’

John Cannon 1 Jul 2026
Tony Parkes. Photo courtesy of Big Scrub Landcare

Tony Parkes, the banker who replanted a rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Jun 2026
Great Cumbung Swamp

Indigenous organization buys wetland property in Australia to help conserve it

Megan Strauss 12 Jun 2026

Environmental group intervenes in lawsuit to help orangutans, tigers in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Jun 2026
Residents in East Lombok plant mangroves. Image by Ahmad H. Ramdhani/Mongabay Indonesia.

In Indonesia’s Lombok, fishers find food security tied to mangrove reforestation

Ahmad H. Ramdhani 11 Jun 2026
These sheep, photographed on a highway in Canada, may have been drawn to the road by deicing salt. Image by Ben Goldfarb.

The long and winding road to safe highways: Inside the global movement to reconnect habitat

Ben Goldfarb 10 Jun 2026

Indigenous communities in eastern Indonesia revive systems for marine protection

Mongabay.com 5 Jun 2026
A local guide training Community-Based Fire Management (CBFiM) members with camera trap set up.

On Southeast Asia’s largest lake, locals wield tech to defend the flooded forest

Claire Turrell 19 May 2026
Miyawai forest planting in New York, U.S.

Popular Miyawaki reforestation method lacks evidence, study finds

Annelise Giseburt 13 May 2026

In eastern Indonesia, communities revive customary systems to protect the seas

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 May 2026

Conservationists fear fires could erase years of orangutan habitat recovery

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 May 2026

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