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The social network of coral reef fish: Q&A with ecologist Mike Gil

Claudia Geib 8 Oct 2020

With the help of an app, Nunavut hunters document the changing Arctic

Claudia Geib 7 Oct 2020

BlackRock’s $400m stake in Amazon meatpackers defies sustainability cred

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 24 Sep 2020
Tanzanian women carry new beehives into the forest. Photo by Felipe Rodriguez/APW

Beyond tourism: A call for business ideas that protect African wildlife, ecosystems

Heather Richardson 16 Sep 2020
Rangers in neighboring Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Photo for Mongabay.com by Rhett A. Butler.

Communities, conservation, and development in the age of COVID: Time for rethinking approaches (commentary)

Michael Brown, Beth Allgood, John Waugh, Robin Martino, Samantha Cheng, Candice Carr Kelman, Ana Luz Porzecanski 31 Aug 2020

Brazilian meatpacker expands with World Bank funding but fails to reduce impacts in the Amazon

Naira Hofmeister 9 Jul 2020

World Bank’s IFC pumped $1.8b into factory farming operations since 2010

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Jul 2020
Sea lions. Image courtesy of Wildlife Conservation Society.

Effective conservation science must shift away from doomsday views and toward solutions: Study

Monica Evans 15 Jun 2020

Conservationists find opportunity and community amidst current crises

Mike Gaworecki 10 Jun 2020
Cows grazing in Nicaragua's southern indigenous autonomous region in October,

Nicaraguan beef, grazed on deforested and stolen land, feeds global demand

Mario Rautner, Sandra Cuffe 10 Jun 2020
The Fenix ferro-nickel mining project operated for a few years in the late 1970s. The Solway Group, the Russian conglomerate that now owns the project, started up operations again in 2014. Photo by Sandra Cuffe for Mongabay.

Contentious Guatemala nickel mine ‘ignores coronavirus lockdown’

Anna-Catherine Brigida 27 May 2020
Zebra in Rwanda. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

From crisis to solutions for communities and African conservation (commentary)

Dickson Kaelo, Daniel Sopia, Damian Bell, Richard Diggle, Fred Nelson 20 May 2020
Traditional fisherman catching an octopus in Banggai Regency, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Photo © Garth Cripps / Blue Ventures.

COVID underscores the urgency of holistic community-based approaches to conservation (commentary)

Alasdair Harris 22 Apr 2020
Rainforest rainbow in Sabah. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

Transforming conservation at virtual Earth Optimism Summit, April 22-24

Mongabay.com 22 Apr 2020

Fields of Gold: Commodities kingpin leaves a troubling legacy in Moldova

Jack Davies, Liuba Sevciuk 4 Mar 2020

Fred Swaniker on conservation as an economic growth opportunity for Africa

Mike Gaworecki 19 Feb 2020

Window tech could save billions of birds, and it’s already here

Rachael Meyer 24 Jan 2020

‘Rediscovered’ after 100 years, Gurney’s pitta is in peril once again

Megan Stannard 2 Jan 2020
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

2019: The year rainforests burned

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2019

EU/Chinese soy consumption linked to species impacts in Brazilian Cerrado: study

Sarah Sax 24 Dec 2019
Sunrise in East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tropical forests’ lost decade: the 2010s

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Dec 2019
Baobab tree amid rice paddies outside Morondava. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Mongabay at 20: Two decades of news and inspiration from nature’s frontline (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2019

China, EU are importing soybeans from unregistered Brazil farms: report

Shanna Hanbury 30 Oct 2019

What we learned from two years of investigating corrupt land deals in Indonesia

Mongabay, The Gecko Project 8 May 2019

How Mongabay grew from a guy in his pajamas to a multinational media organization (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jan 2019
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018

A carbon bomb in Papua: 7 takeaways from our investigation

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 4 Dec 2018

The secret deal to destroy paradise

Malaysiakini, Mongabay, Tempo, The Gecko Project 28 Nov 2018

A lucky child: Mongabay’s origin story (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2018

Ghosts in the machine: the land deals behind the downfall of Indonesia’s top judge

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 18 Apr 2018

Rainforests: the year in review 2017

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2018

The Palm Oil Fiefdom

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 10 Oct 2017

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