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

Mike DiGirolamo 19 Jul 2023
The Txori Argi fishing trawler in port.

West African fishers strike for fair wages and ‘respect’ on EU-owned vessels

Malavika Vyawahare 18 Jul 2023
A Cambodian man rides a minivan loaded with timber destined for a garment factory.

Forests in the furnace: Cambodia’s garment sector is fueled by illegal logging

Gerald Flynn, Andy Ball 11 Jul 2023
A black-shanked douc langur in a tree.

Can community payments with no strings attached benefit biodiversity?

John Cannon 13 Jun 2023
A boat merchant in the canals of Bangkok, Thailand.

For urban poor in Global South, nature-based solutions have always been a way to get by

Spoorthy Raman 8 Jun 2023
A photo of dead fish on the shores of lake Ambavarano.

Fish deaths near Rio Tinto mine in Madagascar dredge up community grievances

Malavika Vyawahare 16 May 2023
Fiji banded iguana (Brachylophus fasciatus). Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

It’s time to embrace community-led conservation vs. the colonial kind (commentary)

Audrey Moreng 15 May 2023
It’s early morning and Lun Yi feeds her chicken.

Small farmers in limbo as Cambodia wavers on Tonle Sap conservation rules

Hanna Hett, Shaurya Kshatri, Megan Wilde, Aastha Sethi 28 Apr 2023
The QMM mine is on a peninsula near Fort-Dauphin in Madagascar. Image via Rio Tinto website.

Rio Tinto must repair the damage caused by their Madagascar mine (commentary)

Ketakandriana Rafitoson 28 Apr 2023
A girl carries sustainably foraged fruits back to her village. Image courtesy of John Novis / Greenpeace.

Mongabay Explores the Congo Basin: The ‘heart of the world’ is at a turning point

Mike DiGirolamo 25 Apr 2023
A farmer embracing agroecological approaches in Haiti. Photo credit: Ben Depp

Agroecology is a poverty solution in Haiti (commentary)

Cantave Jean-Baptiste, Steve Brescia 6 Mar 2023
The daily livestock market in Lodwar, Turkana County's biggest business hub. Image by Kang-Chun Cheng.

‘During droughts, pivot to agroecology’: Q&A with soil expert at the World Agroforestry Centre

Kang-Chun Cheng 28 Feb 2023
Fishermen at dawn heading out onto Lake Turkana to try their luck for the day. Image by Kang-Chun Cheng.

Herders turn to fishing in the desert amid severe drought, putting pressure on fish population

Kang-Chun Cheng 28 Feb 2023
A fresh tilapia from Lake Toba, where the fish are raised by small farmers and large companies, for local consumption and for export to countries like the U.S. Photo by Drriss & Marrionn/Flickr

Sustainable fish farming & agroecology buoy Kenyan communities

David Njagi 8 Feb 2023

Changing circumstances turn ‘sustainable communities’ into deforestation drivers: Study

Kimberley Brown 1 Feb 2023
Humboldt penguins in Peru. Image by Víctor Bautista via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Chile’s denial of Dominga port project is a just energy transition victory and lesson (commentary)

Daniel Gajardo 24 Jan 2023

Dammed, now mined: Indigenous Brazilians fight for the Xingu River’s future

Andrew Johnson 12 Jan 2023

Weakening of agrarian reform program increases violence against settlers in Brazilian Amazon

Andrew Johnson 10 Jan 2023
Sitio Paho, Pala’wan Indigenous leader Mami Lapasan, carrying a heavy load of almaciga resin.

A Philippine resin trade proves sustainable for forests, but not tappers

Keith Anthony Fabro 30 Nov 2022
Fishermen making hilsa nets.

Saving the economically important hilsa fish comes at a cost to Bangladesh fishers

Abu Siddique 28 Oct 2022
Alice Gama looks at cracks that have developed on the wall of her house in Arda Transau, an area near Zimbabwe’s Chiadzwa diamond fields. Image courtesy Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe. Image courtesy of Evidence Chenjerai.

Broken houses and promises: residents still in poverty near massive diamond project

Anna Weekes 24 Oct 2022
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With fracking promising a quick energy boost, can Colombia say no?

Dimitri Selibas 11 Oct 2022
Mangroves in Los Haitises National Park, Dominican Republic. Image by Anton Bielousov via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Mangrove restorers in Haiti bet on resilience amid rising violence

Conrad Fox 29 Sep 2022
Residents of Port-au-Prince wait outside a store to purchase bottled water.

Haiti: An island nation whose environmental troubles only begin with water

Conrad Fox 28 Sep 2022
At the beginning of the pandemic, MST launched an ongoing national campaign to take food from the settlements to vulnerable populations in cities. Here, a farmer delivers food to the collection center organized by ELAA for people living in the outskirts of the state capital, Curitiba. Image courtesy of Wellington Lenon/ELAA.

‘Viable, just & necessary’: Agroecology is a movement in Brazil

Anna Lappé 13 Sep 2022
Fishermen going out to the river

For lightning-prone communities in Bangladesh, new warning system may not be enough

Rafiqul Islam 9 Sep 2022
Drying fish on raised racks instead of the sand reduced the fish waste, a success of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). Photo by Robert Bociaga for Mongabay.

Human pressures strain Lake Tanganyika’s biodiversity and water quality

Robert Bociaga 9 Sep 2022
Mangrove forest on Nosy Lonjo, Antsiranana, Madagascar. Image by Kenguinaud via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The Western Indian Ocean lost 4% of its mangroves in 24 years, report finds

Mark Hillsdon 7 Sep 2022
Josefina Santiago in her agroecological farm where she crops maize, beans, and pumpkins close to the water pans. El Porvenir, San José del Progreso, Oaxaca, Mexico, May 2022, Monica Pelliccia

On the frontlines of drought, communities in Mexico strive to save every drop of water

Monica Pelliccia 6 Sep 2022
A young fisherman uses a legal net.

Fisheries crackdown pushes Cambodians to the brink on Tonle Sap lake

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 26 Aug 2022
A community member carries mangrove seedlings to be planted. Image by Orji Sunday for Mongabay.

Niger Delta mangroves in ‘grave danger’ from oil spills, poverty, invasive species

Orji Sunday 22 Aug 2022
A beetle on an Inírida flower.

How a rare Colombian flower cultivated with Indigenous know-how is changing lives

Soraya Kishtwari 18 Aug 2022

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