Frogs of Madagascar
The Boophis goudoti is one of hundreds of frogs endemic to the island of Madagascar. Every single frog species in Madagascar can be found now where else in the world,…
Child in a Vezo fishing village in Madagascar
Child in Arovana (Ankorohoke), a transient Vezo fishing village in southwestern Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler, 2009. The Vezo, subgroup of the Sakalava ethnic group in Madagascar, typically form…
Strange plants of Mt. Kenya
Senecio keniodendron, endemic to Mount Kenya. Giant Rosette Plant (Lobelia keniensis). ?. Lobelia telekii. Senecio plant. Senecio keniodendron, endemic to Mount Kenya. Lobelia keniensis. Photos by Rhett A. Butler, 2007.…
Mangrove roots in Gabon
Mangrove roots in Gabon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler 2006. According to research published last December in Tropical Conservation Science, commercial fish smoking is the "most pervasive" threat to mangrove…
Congo Basin sunrise
Sunrise in Gabon. Payments for ecosystem services and sustainable forest management may be key components in maintaining Central Africa's rainforests as healthy and productive ecosystems, finds a comprehensive assessment of…
Polers propelling makoros in the Okavango River Delta, Botswana
Polers propelling makoros in the Okavango. Photo by Tiffany Roufs. Last summer mongabay writer Jeremy Hance visited the Okavango Delta in Botswana ("Camping in the Okavango Delta in Botswana") with…
Approaching cyclone could worsen rosewood logging in Madagascar
Red ruffed lemur from the Masoala Peninsula. This endangered red ruffed lemur is endemic to Masoala, where much of the current rosewood logging in Madagascar is occurring. The more widespread…
Shoebill
Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex). Photo taken by Rhett A. Butler in 2006 Uganda's wetland ecosystems are increasingly under pressure from industrial agriculture and plantation development. Local protests have thwarted several projects…
Christmas chameleon
Male panther chameleon near Maroantsetra, Madagascar The male panther chameleons found near Maroantsetra, Madagascar are known for their striking red-and-green coloration, especially during the breeding season when they are competing…
Lion cubs in Tanzania
Lion cubs in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania. While lions may seem abundant when one visits a national park in Kenya, Tanzania, or South Africa, Africa's lion population has plunged by…
Turkana woman in northern Kenya
Turkana woman in northern Kenya. The Turkana—340,000 in all—are a fiercely traditional tribe living mostly in this North Carolina-sized region of Kenya, west of Lake Turkana, south of Sudan, and…
Dancing lemurs
These male sifakas are in the midst of a territorial dispute. The dominant male is chasing off another male Verreaux's sifaka from southern Madagascar is known as the dancing lemur…
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Forest Trackers
- Bolivia’s El Curichi Las Garzas protected area taken over by land-grabbers
- Authorities struggle to protect Bolivian national park from drug-fueled deforestation
- Poverty and plantations: Nigerian reserve struggles against the odds
- Logging, road construction continue to fuel forest loss in Papua New Guinea
Oceans
- Warming seas push India’s fishers into distant, and more dangerous, waters
- No protection from bottom trawling for seamount chain in northern Pacific
- Annual ocean conference raises $11.3b in pledges for marine conservation
- Caribbean startups are turning excess seaweed into an agroecology solution
Amazon Conservation
- Deforestation haunts top Peruvian reserve and its Indigenous communities
- Amid record-high fires across the Amazon, Brazil loses primary forests
- A web of front people conceals environmental offenders in the Amazon
- Brazil boosts protection of Amazon mangroves with new reserves in Pará state
Land rights and extractives
- Hyundai ends aluminum deal with Adaro Minerals following K-pop protest
- Brazil’s illegal gold trade takes a hammering, but persists underground
- Maluku bone collector unearths troubling consequence of coastal abrasion
- New FPIC guide designed to help protect Indigenous rights as mineral mining booms
Endangered Environmentalists
- Indonesian activists face jail over FB posts flagging damage to marine park
- Vietnamese environmentalist sentenced to 3 years in prison for tax evasion
- Son of slain Quilombola leader will still strive for community’s rights
- Video: Five Tembé Indigenous activists shot in Amazonian ‘palm oil war’
Indonesia's Forest Guardians
- Fenced in by Sulawesi national park, Indigenous women make forestry breakout
- In Borneo, the ‘Power of Mama’ fight Indonesia’s wildfires with all-woman crew
- Pioneer agroforester Ermi, 73, rolls back the years in Indonesia’s Gorontalo
- After 20 years and thousands of trees planted, Kalimantan’s veteran forester persists
Conservation Effectiveness
- The conservation sector must communicate better (commentary)
- Thailand tries nature-based water management to adapt to climate change
- Forest restoration to boost biomass doesn’t have to sacrifice tree diversity
- How scientists and a community are bringing a Bornean river corridor back to life
Southeast Asian infrastructure
- Study: Indonesia’s new capital city threatens stable proboscis monkey population
- Indonesia’s new capital ‘won’t sacrifice the environment’: Q&A with Nusantara’s Myrna Asnawati Safitri
- Small farmers in limbo as Cambodia wavers on Tonle Sap conservation rules
- To build its ‘green’ capital city, Indonesia runs a road through a biodiverse forest
