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Market-based solutions cannot solely fund community-level conservation (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 11 May 2020
Hadzabe walinzi wa jadi, or village game scouts patrol the forests of the Yaeda Valley. Their job is to patrol protected forests and report any deforestation, poaching or creation of settlements to local authorities. Their salary is paid by Carbon Tanzania from revenue made from carbon sales. Photo by Sophie Tremblay for Mongabay.

Tourism has crashed: Are carbon credits the future for funding conservation in Africa?

Mantoe Phakathi 29 Apr 2020
The Javari river forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Investing in Amazon Rainforest Conservation: A Foreigner’s Perspective (commentary)

Jonah Wittkamper 21 Apr 2020
Sunrise in East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tropical forests’ lost decade: the 2010s

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Dec 2019

Biodiversity ‘not just an environmental issue’: Q&A with IPBES ex-chair Robert Watson

Mongabay.com 17 Oct 2019

Altered forests threaten sustainability of subsistence hunting

Mongabay.com 29 May 2019

’Unprecedented’ loss of biodiversity threatens humanity, report finds

Mongabay.com 7 May 2019

Community buy-in stamps out elephant poaching in Zambian park

John Cannon 22 Apr 2019

Scientists urge overhaul of the world’s parks to protect biodiversity

John Cannon 11 Apr 2019

Study concludes that nature benefits when more women make land management decisions

Mongabay.com 8 Apr 2019
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018

New research quantifies ecosystem services provided by Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 28 Nov 2018

Tracking the shift of tropical forests from carbon sink to source

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2018

Forest communities pay the price for conservation in Madagascar

John Cannon 25 Jul 2018
A fishing cat near Colombo, Sri Lanka, surrounded by trash.

Conservation Effectiveness

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2018

Payments for ecosystem services can boost social capital in addition to forest management: Study

Mike Gaworecki 3 Jul 2018

Researchers propose framework for designing PES programs that better deliver socioeconomic benefits

Mike Gaworecki 24 May 2018

New research examines spread of payments for ecosystem services around the globe

Mike Gaworecki 6 Apr 2018

Report finds projects in DRC ‘REDD+ laboratory’ fall short of development, conservation goals

John Cannon 16 Mar 2018

Illegal cattle ranching deforests Mexico’s massive Lacandon Jungle

Rodrigo Soberanes 14 Mar 2018

Ecotourism payments for more wildlife sightings linked to conservation benefits in Laos

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2018

Carbon pricing could save millions of hectares of tropical forest: new study

John Cannon 5 Feb 2018

Maps tease apart complex relationship between agriculture and deforestation in DRC

John Cannon 2 Feb 2018
An indri (Indri indri), another critically endangered lemur that lives in Makira Natural Park. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Carbon dreams: Can REDD+ save a Yosemite-size forest in Madagascar?

Rowan Moore Gerety 29 Nov 2017

Experience or evidence: How do big conservation NGOs make decisions?

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Nov 2017

Indonesian rainforests for sale and bat calls of the Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 18 Oct 2017

Cash for conservation: Do payments for ecosystem services work?

Mike Gaworecki 12 Oct 2017

Randomized controlled trial in Uganda finds that paying people not to cut down trees works

Mike Gaworecki 27 Jul 2017
Rhinella granulosa toad in Chocó-Darien, Colombia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Successful Colombian rainforest project exposes problems with carbon emissions trading

Bart Crezee 6 Apr 2017
Two Chaco Chachalacas in Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Photo by Dario Sanches via Wikimedia Commons.

Jurisdictional certification approach aims to strengthen protections against deforestation

Tara MacIsaac 4 Apr 2017

Guyana focuses deforestation prevention efforts on conservation and management

Gaulbert Sutherland 24 Jan 2017

World’s most endangered fruit bat could soon be extinct due to rapid forest loss

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Jan 2017

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