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AFIEGO staff with two supporters after their release from jail. Image courtesy AFIEGO.

Ugandan activists’ arrest slammed as threat to space for rights defenders

Terna Gyuse 28 Oct 2021
The forests of the Torricelli Mountain Range. Image courtesy of the Tenkile Conservation Alliance.

Deforestation threatens tree kangaroo habitat in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 14 Oct 2021
Satellites provide a new data point for evaluating the impact of conservation programs. Image credit: Microsoft Zoom Earth

Donor agencies should ditch the club and embrace more locals (commentary)

Aida Greenbury 13 Oct 2021

Razan Al Mubarak becomes first woman from the Arab world to head IUCN

Mongabay.com 8 Sep 2021
Gorilla in Gabon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

How to find the right NGO partner without shooting yourself in the foot (commentary)

Aida Greenbury 6 Sep 2021

Study shows how sustainable livelihood programs for Indonesian fishers can succeed

Cassie Freund 26 Aug 2021
Community Conservation. photo credit: Monica Dalmasso for Honeyguide

Convergence, community and justice: Key emerging conservation trends of the pandemic era (commentary)

Fred Nelson 24 Aug 2021

Road construction imperils tree kangaroo recovery in PNG

John Cannon 19 Jul 2021
Global Forest Watch tree cover loss 2001-2021 set on Planet imagery from Jun-Sep 2020.

Science refutes United Cacao’s claim it didn’t deforest Peruvian Amazon

John Cannon 25 May 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

Can ‘Slow Food’ save Brazil’s fast-vanishing Cerrado savanna?

Sharon Guynup 25 Mar 2021
An Indigenous woman crossing a river. Image by Alicia MucúChoc/FAO.

Nearly half the Amazon’s intact forest on Indigenous-held lands: Report

John Cannon 25 Mar 2021
Banner image of an artisanal palm oil production in Yalifombo village. Image © Oskar Epelde courtesy of Oakland Institute.

Pension and endowment funds linked to conflict-plagued oil palm in DRC

John Cannon 22 Mar 2021

Organizations aim to block funds for East African oil pipeline

Mongabay.com 1 Mar 2021
Young girl in the Kayapó-Mẽbêngôkre village of Aukre in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo credit: Cristina Mittermeier

“Securing Indigenous guardianship of vital ecosystems”: Q&A with Nia Tero CEO Peter Seligmann

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Feb 2021
Satellite image of Mount Aspiring National Park, New Zealand in February 2021. Photo credit: Maxar Technologies and Planet.

‘Everything on this planet is connected’: Q&A with WWF’s Marco Lambertini

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Feb 2021
A Panamanian golden toad. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Indigenous community wins recognition of its land rights in Panama

John Cannon 17 Feb 2021

‘What’s at stake is the life of every being’: Saving the Brazilian Cerrado

Peter Yeung 11 Feb 2021

Seven financial firms key to rooting out deforestation, report finds

John Cannon 29 Jan 2021
A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus). Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

Timber organization’s backing ‘one step’ toward ‘peace park’ in Borneo

John Cannon 26 Jan 2021

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

Sarah Sax 14 Dec 2020
A bison in the holding pen. Image © Clay Bolt/WWF.

Hope and peace: Bison return to the Rosebud reservation

John Cannon 10 Dec 2020

Crimefighting NGO tracks Brazil wildlife trade on WhatsApp and Facebook

Peter Yeung 23 Nov 2020

Deadly anniversary: Rio Doce, Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, 5 years on

Ana Ionova 17 Nov 2020

Mining covers more than 20% of Indigenous territory in the Amazon

John Cannon 9 Oct 2020

Crisis in Venezuela: Non-governmental organizations adapt to survive

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 10 Sep 2020
A puma with a recent kill by Neal Wight/Panthera.

The ‘Cougar Conundrum’: Q&A with author Mark Elbroch

John Cannon 20 Aug 2020

New report asks, do land titles help poor farmers?

John Cannon 22 Jul 2020

After canoe chase, Madagascar authorities seize 144 endangered tortoises

Edward Carver 9 Jul 2020

Overlap of fire, COVID-19 peaks: A ‘catastrophe’ for Brazil’s Amazon

John Cannon 9 Jun 2020

New database wrangles data on land rights projects around the globe

John Cannon 29 Apr 2020

Companies use COVID-19 to weaken standards, secure subsidies: Report

Mongabay.com 23 Apr 2020

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