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Brazil’s indigenous hit especially hard by COVID-19: why so vulnerable?

Sue Branford 25 Jun 2020

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

Malavika Vyawahare 12 Jun 2020

MRN bauxite mine leaves legacy of pollution, poverty in Brazilian Amazon

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 4 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

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

Sinan Serhadli 11 May 2020

Feed your neighbor, solve big problems (commentary)

Darrel Webber 5 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

Positive ways forward for chocolate industry tainted by deforestation and child labor (commentary)

Marianne Martinet 15 Apr 2020

A new dawn: The story of deforestation in the next decade must be different to the last (commentary)

Bastien Sachet 16 Jan 2020

Madagascar: Is NGO-led conservation too conservative to conserve much?

Edward Carver 16 Dec 2019

Madagascar: Opaque foreign fisheries deals leave empty nets at home

Edward Carver 9 Oct 2019

Demand for charcoal threatens the forest of Madagascar’s last hunter-gatherers

Sam Friedberg 3 Oct 2019

Manila’s informal settlers face relocation in exchange for clean bay

Micah Castelo 2 Oct 2019

Notes from the road: 5 revelations from traveling the Pan Borneo Highway

John Cannon 25 Sep 2019

Pan Borneo Highway development endangers the Heart of Borneo

John Cannon 18 Sep 2019

REDD+ more competitive than critics believe, study finds

John Cannon 12 Sep 2019

The end of the road: The future of the Pan Borneo Highway

John Cannon 30 Aug 2019

The Pan Borneo Highway on a collision course with elephants

John Cannon 28 Aug 2019

Aimed at linking communities, Malaysian highway may damage forests

John Cannon 23 Aug 2019

Connecting an island: Traveling the Pan Borneo Highway

John Cannon 19 Aug 2019

Madagascar: What’s good for the forest is good for the native silk industry

Edward Carver 16 Aug 2019
Sakondry, ready to eat. Image by Brian Fisher.

Eat the insects, spare the lemurs

Emilie Filou 11 Jul 2019

In India’s Sundarbans, communities shrink as their island sinks

Erin Stone, Lisa Hornak 1 Jul 2019

As climate chaos escalates in Indian Country, feds abandon tribes

Saul Elbein 1 Jul 2019

Dam in Ethiopia has wiped out indigenous livelihoods, report finds

John Cannon 11 Jun 2019

Altered forests threaten sustainability of subsistence hunting

Mongabay.com 29 May 2019

Global warming is exacerbating global economic inequality: Study

Mongabay.com 10 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

Deforestation diminishes access to clean water, study finds

John Cannon 15 Apr 2019

Malaysian state chief: Highway construction must not destroy forest

Mongabay.com 26 Mar 2019

Proximity to towns stretches giraffe home ranges

Mongabay.com 6 Mar 2019

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