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Indigenous peoples and local communities’ territories, like this shown in the Peruvian Amazon, are under active conservation management and make important contributions to 30x30 and such initiatives, but often receive little recognition or support. Image courtesy of Siyu Qin.

Inclusive tracking and recognition of area-based conservation helps people & planet (commentary)

Yifan He / Siyu Qin / Rachel Golden Kroner 30 Oct 2024
Indigenous Masai women at a community leadership meeting in Kenya. Photo by Edna Kaptoyo, Community Conservation Resilience Initiative, 2018

Indigenous land rights take center stage in a new global framework for biodiversity conservation (commentary)

Karl Burkart 24 Mar 2022

E.O. Wilson’s last dream

Jeremy Hance 3 Jan 2022
Sea turtle swimming under sunset.

Half-Earth, conservation, and hope: An interview with E.O. Wilson, Paula Ehrlich and Sir Tim Smit    

Liz Kimbrough 20 Oct 2021
Daroyen in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Photo credit: NASA Landsat

30×30 is not a one-size-fits-all biodiversity target (commentary)

Karl Burkart 15 Oct 2021
El Cono in Sierra Del Divisor National Park, Peru. Photo credit: Diego Perez / CEDIA

Conservation will only scale when non-conservationists see its value, says James Deutsch

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Oct 2021
Photo credit: Samantha du Toit

‘Conservation should be seen as what communities have always done’, says John Kamanga

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Sep 2021

OECM concept may bring more inclusive approach to conserving biodiversity

Jim Tan 13 Sep 2021
Ivindo River in Gabon. Photo credit: ZB

Building the Campaign for Nature: Q&A with Brian O’Donnell

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Aug 2021
A member of the Indigenous Tikuna nation paddling a dugout canoe on a tributary of the Amazon in Colombia by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Protected areas now cover nearly 17% of Earth’s surface: U.N. report

John Cannon 20 May 2021
A local fisherman in Tonga. Tonga has less than 1% marine protected areas around the island. Photo by Asian Development Bank via Flickr. (CC BY-NC 2.0).

We’re not protecting enough of the right areas to save biodiversity: Study

Liz Kimbrough 9 Oct 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)

M.I. Brown; B. Allgood; J. Waugh; R. Martino; S. Cheng; C.C. Kelman; & A.L. Porzecanski 31 Aug 2020

New paper proposes a science-based ‘Global Deal for Nature’

Mongabay.com 19 Apr 2019

Global agreement on ‘conserved areas’ marks new era of conservation (commentary)

Harry D. Jonas and Holly C. Jonas 13 Dec 2018

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