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

Rivonala Razafison, Malavika Vyawahare 20 Aug 2020

Though forests burn, trees retake farmland globally as agroforestry advances

Patrick Worms 10 Aug 2020

Life among the turtles: Traditional people struggle inside an Amazon reserve

Thais Borges, Sue Branford 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

Risking death and arrest, Madagascar fishers chase dwindling sea cucumbers

Chris Scarffe 15 Jul 2020

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, 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

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
Brookesia chameleon in the rainforest of Madagascar's Masoala Peninsula. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

As visitors vanish, Madagascar’s protected areas suffer a ‘devastating’ blow

Malavika Vyawahare 5 May 2020

Feed your neighbor, solve big problems (commentary)

Darrel Webber 5 May 2020

No tourism income, but this Philippine community still guards its environment

Keith Anthony Fabro 30 Apr 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

COVID-19 will hurt Madagascar’s conservation funding: Q&A with Minister Vahinala Raharinirina

Malavika Vyawahare 24 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

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

Marianne Martinet 15 Apr 2020

For nesting hawksbill turtles, this Philippine community is a sanctuary

Erwin M. Mascariñas 31 Mar 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

What makes community ecotourism succeed? In Madagascar, location, location, location

Rowan Moore Gerety 25 Oct 2019

$65 million deal to protect Congo’s forests raises concerns

John Cannon 14 Oct 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

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