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Exploring New Guinea’s extraordinary natural and cultural richness

Mike DiGirolamo 5 Jan 2022

Indigenous leader sues over Borneo natural capital deal

John Cannon 17 Dec 2021
primary forest in Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, by John C. Cannon/Mongabay

Bornean communities locked into 2-million-hectare carbon deal they don’t know about

John Cannon 9 Nov 2021

Plantation giant Socfin accused of dodging taxes in Africa

Ashoka Mukpo 21 Oct 2021

Forests falling for cashew monocultures: A ‘repeated mistake’ in Côte d’Ivoire (commentary)

Cathy Watson 13 Oct 2021

For Costa Rica’s Indigenous Bribri women, agroforestry is an act of resistance and resilience

Monica Pelliccia 29 Sep 2021

Shea trees are falling fast across Africa, victims of new pressures (commentary)

Larry Becker 22 Sep 2021

Study shows how sustainable livelihood programs for Indonesian fishers can succeed

Cassie Freund 26 Aug 2021
Proboscis monkeys in Malaysian Borneo. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

Scientists call for solving climate and biodiversity crises together

John Cannon 14 Jun 2021

A tale of two seas: Closed season is a mixed bag for Philippine sardines industry 

Bong S. Sarmiento 18 Feb 2021

Teachers create lasting change for people and primates via clean cookstoves (commentary)

Corinne Kendall 10 Feb 2021
Cesar, a Matses shaman. Photo courtesy of Acaté.

Investment in Indigenous peoples’ knowledge can drive their economic growth (commentary)

Tatiana Botelho 26 Jan 2021

With just 10 years left to save Sumatran elephants, what can be done now?

Mongabay.com 22 Jan 2021

Nature-based solutions needed to enhance climate resilience in Southeast Asia (commentary)

John Leo Algo 19 Jan 2021

Sumatra’s deforestation demystified

Mongabay.com 18 Nov 2020

Conservation must be primary goal of great ape tourism, despite COVID-driven recessions (commentary)

Trang Chu Minh 12 Nov 2020

Gorongosa National Park is being reforested via coffee and agroforestry

Erik Hoffner 15 Oct 2020

In Sumatra, forest edge communities must be at the center of conservation efforts (commentary)

Roderick T.J. Buiskool 30 Sep 2020

Protecting African wildlife: A defense of conservation territories (commentary)

Leif Brottem 27 Aug 2020

New road cutting into Manu Biosphere Reserve in Peruvian Amazon sparks debate, fears and a film

Mongabay.com 20 Aug 2020

Madagascar minister calls protected areas a ‘failure,’ seeks people-centric approach

Rivonala Razafison and Malavika Vyawahare 20 Aug 2020

Though forests burn, trees retake farmland globally as agroforestry advances

Patrick Worms 10 Aug 2020

Helping the poor can protect forests too, Indonesian welfare program shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Aug 2020

Mangrove forest restoration boosts Costa Rica communities (commentary)

Andrew Whitworth 24 Jul 2020

World Bank-backed attempt to commercialize Madagascar’s beef industry falters

Malavika Vyawahare 24 Jul 2020

Mozambique’s trailblazing Gorongosa Park celebrates 60th anniversary, announces 60 new schools (commentary)

Dominique Gonçalves 23 Jul 2020

One-two punch of drought, pandemic hits Madagascar’s poor and its wildlife

Malavika Vyawahare 12 Jun 2020

How coffee growers can adapt to a precipitous industry: Q&A with Dean’s Beans founder Dean Cycon

Justin Catanoso 1 Jun 2020

It’s time to implement solutions that make the bushmeat trade unnecessary (commentary)

Cate Twining-Ward, Colin A. Chapman 18 May 2020

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

Sinan Serhadli 11 May 2020
Odielca Solis has built a silvopasture system at her farm in Panama, which provides shade and forage to her cattle and fruit for her family. Image by Erin Banks Rusby for Mongabay.

Silvopasturing improves ranches and the environment in Panama

Erin Banks Rusby 29 Apr 2020
Traditional fisherman catching an octopus in Banggai Regency, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Photo © Garth Cripps / Blue Ventures.

COVID underscores the urgency of holistic community-based approaches to conservation (commentary)

Alasdair Harris 22 Apr 2020

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