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Crowned eagles (Stephanoaetus coronatus), Uganda. Image by Rafael Vila via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Communities not the true threat to Mabira Forest: Q&A with Ugandan conservationist Achilles Byaruhanga

Ryan Truscott 25 Aug 2023
An Old English Longhorn at Knepp. Disturbance from large herbivores has restored this landscape by reactivating natural processes that foster healthy ecology.

From debt to diversity: A journey of rewilding, carbon capture and hope

Elizabeth Fitt 9 Aug 2023
Women picking the nutritionally rich baobab fruits in Ghana.

Progress is slow on Africa’s Great Green Wall, but some bright spots bloom

Spoorthy Raman 3 Aug 2023
Robert Risch.

Nursing oil palm plantations back to nature in Malaysian Borneo

Louise Hunt 26 Jul 2023

Green gains: Localized efforts leave a mark, notably in drier areas, study shows

Malavika Vyawahare 24 Jul 2023
A Sharpe’s longclaw (Macronyx sharpei) in Kinangop Plateau.

Sheep offer a livelihood for Kenyan farmers, and a lifeline for a rare bird

Caroline Chebet 17 Jul 2023
Landsat views the forests from high above the Earth.

New Tree Tech: Real-time, long-term, high-tech reforestation monitoring

Claire Asher 13 Jul 2023
Drone carrying self-burying seed carriers .

New Tree Tech: Cutting-edge drones give reforestation a helping hand

Claire Asher 12 Jul 2023
Women carrying saplings.

New Tree Tech: Data-driven reforestation methods match trees to habitats

Claire Asher 11 Jul 2023
A operator flying drones.

New Tree Tech: AI, drones, satellites and sensors give reforestation a boost

Claire Asher 10 Jul 2023

Nearly 85% of Indonesian peatlands aren’t protected, study shows

Basten Gokkon 6 Jul 2023
Baobabs at sunset in Madagascar.

Fire imperils Madagascar’s baobabs: Q&A with park director Diamondra Andriambololona

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 3 Jul 2023
A black beetle.

Sounds of the soil: A new tool for conservation?

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Jun 2023
A Miyawaki forest in Hyderabad.

Miyawaki forests are a global sensation, but not everyone’s sold on them

Annelise Giseburt 21 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
Convoy of four logging trucks in Gabon, following each other from right to left along a paved road out of the frame, green foliage on the hillside above the dry gray and brown of the road . Image by jbdodane via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Forests & finance: communities turn to tree-planting, zero-logging, and mushrooms to protect forests

Mongabay.com 15 Jun 2023
Tana is his field.

Africa’s land and forest restoration initiative gathers pace in Malawi

Charles Mpaka 7 Jun 2023
L’Allee des Baobabs, or the Avenue of Baobabs, a famous spot outside Morondava, the nearest town to Belo-Sur-Mer.

Extreme reforestation: Baobab planters confront fires, loggers, cattle and more

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 6 Jun 2023

Nearly 30% of all tree cover in Africa may be outside of forests, study says

Malavika Vyawahare 2 Jun 2023
CI-Brazil and partners mixing the muvuca seeds.

World’s ‘largest’ tropical reforestation project slowed by Covid, Bolsonaro, fires

Jeremy Hance 4 May 2023

Forests & Finance: Agroforestry in Cameroon and reforestation in South Africa

Mongabay.com 3 May 2023
Graine de Vie’s reforestation site in Ambohitantely prior to the October 2022 fire.

Madagascar bush fires prompt exasperated NGO to curtail tree planting

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 1 May 2023
Setting a prescribed fire around vernal pools at Agate Desert Preserve. Image courtesy of Evan Barrientos/TNC.

Counterintuitive conservation: Fire boosts aquatic crustaceans in U.S. savannas

Ashli Blow 21 Apr 2023

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

Sarah Sax 3 Apr 2023
A lowland tapir with its calf.

Restoration turns pastures into wildlife haven in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest

Sarah Brown 3 Mar 2023
A mining pit transformed into an artificial lake after a mining company’s semi-mechanized operations. Image © Yannick Kenné.

Treacherous pits and lakes left in the wake of Cameroon’s abandoned mining sites

Yannick Kenné 24 Feb 2023

Forests & finance: A lawsuit, an import ban, and restoring Zambian forests

Mongabay.com 23 Feb 2023
Ann Dumaliang.

Saving Masungi, a last green corridor of the Philippines: Q&A with Ann Dumaliang

Jewel S. Cabrera 9 Feb 2023
Kelly Banda (center, standing) with volunteers and community members.

‘The Mangrove Guy’: Q&A with Kelly Roberts Banda, Kenya’s lawyer-conservationist

Calvin Rock Odhiambo 2 Feb 2023
A car burns with two people inside, after a Russian bombardment in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, April 21, 2022. Image by AP Photo/Felipe Dana via Flickr.

Ukrainian ecologists say nature will suffer no matter war’s result (commentary)

Oleksii Vasyliuk and Yuliia Spinova 30 Jan 2023
Fungi in the forests of Sabah. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

For restoration, microbes below ground are just as crucial as the plants above

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Jan 2023
Fire fighters putting out forest fire in Riau, Indonesia.

As dry season looms, Sumatra villagers hope their peat restoration pays off

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Dec 2022

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