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Congolese troops in the eastern DRC during fighting with M23 in 2013. Image © MONUSCO/Clara Padovan via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

The key factors fueling conflict in eastern DRC

John Cannon 14 Feb 2025
Pan-fried shea nuts. Image by Pat Robert Larubi for Mongabay.

Uganda community group restores shea groves and livelihoods

Sam Schramski, Pat Larubi 10 Feb 2025
A woman stands in a field, waist-deep in the green of her crops, trees visible in the background. Image by Pat Larubi for Mongabay.

Shea’s silent guardians restore Uganda’s traditional parklands

Sam Schramski, Pat Larubi 7 Feb 2025

In the Pan Amazon, inequality and informality fuel informal economies

Timothy J. Killeen 23 Jan 2025

Climate change forces Jakarta fishing families to marry off young daughters

Kristine Sabillo 23 Dec 2024
A trash picker looks for recyclable plastics at a waste dump in Bali. Image by Jonas Gratzer for Mongabay.

In the battle against plastic pollution, Asia’s informal workers are critical allies (commentary)

Annerieke Douma 2 Oct 2024
A vegetable grower using agroecological methods in Boung Phao Village, Lao PDR. Photo: Asian Development Bank, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

Global ‘Slow Food’ movement embraces agroecology (commentary)

Edward Mukiibi 24 Sep 2024
A coral reef off the coast of Raja Ampat, Southwest Papua province, Indonesia. Image courtesy of Ronal Mambrasar/Konservasi Indonesia.

$35m debt-for-nature deal aims to protect Indonesia’s coral reefs

M Ambari 30 Aug 2024
Efron spending the night in a forest hut.

A one-time illegal logger grows back a forest for his people in Sumatra

Barita News Lumbanbatu 30 Aug 2024
Building a pergola at the entrance to the Cocotá Agroforest, 2023. Image courtesy of Cocotá Agroforest collective.

Rio’s grassroots agroforestry sustains birds, bees & communities

Bernardo Araujo 13 Aug 2024
Agroforestry products Thailand

Agroforestry offers Thai rubber farmers a pathway to profit and sustainability

Carolyn Cowan 31 Jul 2024
Fishermen in the Sundarbans do not have internationally-recognized rights.

Sundarbans fisherfolk are battered by cyclones amid fishing bans

Sadiqur Rahman 15 Jul 2024
Farmers burning cleared forest land after harvesting. Photo courtesy of Buu Nguyen.

Can Vietnam’s forests survive the spread of acacia and eucalyptus plantations? (commentary)

Buu Nguyen 4 Jun 2024
Keo Vannob returns from fishing to his home in Botum Sakor National Park. Screenshot from ‘Illegal fishing and land grabs push Cambodian coastal communities to the brink’ by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Fishers left with no land, no fish, in fire sale of Cambodian coast

Andy Ball, Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 4 Jun 2024
Baby bonga shad (Ethmalosa fimbriata).

As catches fall, Sierra Leone’s artisanal fishers turn to destructive practices

Josef Skrdlik 27 May 2024
A member of the Ghanaian maritime police observes a vessel suspected of fishing illegally prior to boarding it as part of a U.S.-Ghana combined maritime law enforcement operation in 2014. Image courtesy of Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0 Deed).

Fishing by dodgy fleets hurts economies, jobs in developing countries: Report

Mikael Angelo S. Francisco 26 Apr 2024
People watch a forest fire in Kratié Province, Cambodia.

Research links deforestation in Cambodia to stunting in kids, anemia in women

Anton L. Delgado 11 Apr 2024
In Kampong Phluk, a floating village on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake, a fisherman collects his catch.

Report shows dire state of Mekong’s fish — but damage can still be undone

Anton L. Delgado 1 Apr 2024
Trainee Ossam Bassam fishing at sea for the first time.

Lebanese youths take up rods and reels to learn sustainable fishing

Amélie David 27 Mar 2024
Hippos in Queen Elizabeth National Park.

In climate-related flooding, a Ugandan river turns poisonous

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Mar 2024
Children crossing the Nyamwamba.

Climate change brings a river’s wrath down on western Uganda

Ashoka Mukpo 29 Feb 2024
Flood victims in north-central Bangladesh in 2019.

As climate disasters claim their children, Bangladeshi mothers seek safety in bigger families

Mahadi Al Hasnat 16 Feb 2024
Christine Maïsali, a victim of a work accident on SOSUCAM's plantations, with her husband, Farwe Kossombele.

Labor abuse and work accidents on plantations of Cameroon’s largest sugar producer

Yannick Kenné 31 Jan 2024
Ta Heuy villager Khun Nun

Cambodia’s Indigenous communities renounce communal land titles for microloans

Jack Brook 31 Jan 2024

Study: Fishing with pesticides and dynamite puts Ecuadorian Amazon in peril

Mark Hillsdon 2 Jan 2024

Poverty and plantations: Nigerian reserve struggles against the odds

Orji Sunday 1 Dec 2023

‘It’s a real mess’: Mining and deforestation threaten unparalleled DRC wildlife haven

Ruth Kamnitzer 13 Oct 2023
People select fish on Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya.

Kenya’s Lake Victoria floods leave orphaned children to run their households

Mactilda Mbenywe 12 Oct 2023
Trees illegally cut down for firewood in the Zamay forest reserve by Nigerian refugees.

Cut down once again: Uncontrolled logging puts new Sahel reforestation projects at risk

Yannick Kenné | Sabré Na-Ideyam | Georges Messi 6 Oct 2023
A child in Jakarta working in the fishing sector.

On Jakarta’s vanishing shoreline, climate change seen abetting child marriages

Maulia Inka Vira Fadilla 28 Sep 2023

Elephants invade as habitat loss soars in Nigerian forest reserve

Orji Sunday 21 Aug 2023

A just energy transition requires better governance & equity in the DRC

Mike DiGirolamo 19 Jul 2023

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