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Illegal trawling ravages Tunisian seagrass meadows crucial for fish

Sara Manisera, Davide Mancini, Arianna Poletti 24 May 2023
Artisanal timber producers in Cameroon. Image by Mokhamad Eldiadi/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.o)

Forests & finance: Protection and restoration in Cameroon and Senegal, fire threat in Angola

Mongabay.com 13 Apr 2023
Oceanographer Canyon, creating an ideal microhabitat for a deep-water coral community and a couple of octopus. Image courtesy of NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, 2013 Northeast U.S. Canyons Expedition.

Win for science as BP pressured into cleaning up offshore gas plans

Elodie Toto 9 Feb 2023

COP27 boosts carbon trading and ‘non-market’ conservation: But can they save forests?

Alec Luhn 22 Nov 2022

COP27: ‘Brazil is back’ to fight deforestation, Lula says, but hurdles await

Alec Luhn 17 Nov 2022

COP27: Climate Loss & Damage talks now on agenda, but U.S. resistance feared

Rachel Donald 8 Nov 2022

Love ‘em and loathe ‘em: Mediterranean grapples with tasty, voracious invasive crabs

Guia Baggi 10 Aug 2022
A male Barbary macaque with a baby.

Hundreds of iconic Barbary macaques feared dead in Morocco forest fire

Anna Weekes 5 Aug 2022
Hornbills — the so-called “farmers of the forest” in Africa and Asia — move more than 700 plant species up to 11 km (7 mi) in a day.

As animal seed dispersers go the way of the dodo, forest plants are at risk

Sharon Guynup 28 Apr 2022
Harvesting oranges near Sicily, Italy.

Cradle of transformation: The Mediterranean and climate change

John Cannon 28 Apr 2022

As the Horn of Africa heats up, the risks of insecurity are rising (commentary)

Robert Muggah, Peter Schmidt, Giovanna Kuele 28 Mar 2022

Despite deals, plans and bans, the Mediterranean is awash in plastic

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Nov 2021

New coating could help seeds survive in drought conditions

Liz Kimbrough 2 Sep 2021

The most widespread pig species on Earth: wild boar | Candid Animal Cam

Romina Castagnino 13 Aug 2021
In sub-Saharan Africa 70% of the population lives from agriculture — and specifically rainfall agriculture.

Humanity’s challenge of the century: Conserving Earth’s freshwater systems

Saul Elbein 10 May 2021

Meet the red fox found in the Northern Hemisphere on Candid Animal Cam

Romina Castagnino 6 Oct 2020
Liz Campbell plays wolf howls into the night. Image by John Wendle for Mongabay.

Howling in the dark: Shining a light on a newly remembered wolf

John Wendle 10 Sep 2020

Dust and blood: Climate-induced conflict fuels migration, study finds

Nina Finley 29 Mar 2019

Agroforestry empowers Morocco’s mountain women

Monica Pelliccia 16 Jan 2019

Global biodiversity treaty still searches for its moment in the spotlight

Isabel Esterman 3 Dec 2018

Deforested, degraded land restoration a top priority for African leaders

Mongabay.com 19 Nov 2018

In Morocco’s markets, conditions for wildlife are ‘universally poor’

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Aug 2018

Wildlife decimated by the surge in conflicts in the Sahara and the Sahel

Mongabay.com 9 May 2018

150 years after being discovered, African monkey with handlebar moustache becomes its own species

Mike Gaworecki 16 Mar 2018

In post-revolution Egypt, a fierce fight over coal imports

Louise Sarant 5 Apr 2017

Reptiles being sold openly and illegally in Moroccan markets

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Apr 2017

Morocco plants millions of trees along roads to fight climate change

Justin Catanoso 17 Nov 2016

Forest advocates say zero-carbon goals too reliant on unrealistic tech

Justin Catanoso 15 Nov 2016

International trade in Barbary macaques banned

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Sep 2016

Fishing nets kill ‘high proportion’ of adult loggerhead turtles in the Mediterranean

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Apr 2016

Two-thirds of the world’s population doesn’t have reliable access to fresh water

Mike Gaworecki 15 Feb 2016

Click to like this: Is Instagram a hub for illegal ape deals?

Christopher Haslett 10 Dec 2015

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