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Trump’s elephant, lion trophy hunting policy hit with double lawsuits

Jeremy Hance 26 Mar 2018

Cerrado: Agribusiness boomtown; profits for a few, hardships for many

Alicia Prager, Flávia Milhorance 26 Mar 2018
The savannah and grasslands of the Mara conservancies are home to a spectacular abundance of wildlife, lying at the northern end of the greater Serengeti ecosystem. Photo Credit: Maasai Mara Wildlife Conservancies Association

Local conservancies create new hope for wildlife in Kenya’s Maasai Mara (commentary)

Daniel Sopia, Fred Nelson 26 Mar 2018
Local fishers in the fishing town of Beheloke in southwestern Madagascar. Photo by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

Will Madagascar’s industrial shrimp trawlers make way for local fishers?

Edward Carver 14 Mar 2018

Illegal cattle ranching deforests Mexico’s massive Lacandon Jungle

Rodrigo Soberanes 14 Mar 2018

Red Cloud’s Revolution: Oglalla Sioux freeing themselves from fossil fuel

Saul Elbein 19 Feb 2018

East Africa’s Albertine Rift needs protection now, scientists say

Mongabay.com 15 Feb 2018

Trumping Colombia’s peace: U.S. drug war threatens fragile accord, forests

Sean Mowbray 5 Feb 2018

IUCN, UN, global NGOs, likely to see major budget cuts under Trump

Sean Mowbray 8 Jan 2018
A boat load of cut mangroves. High-quality charcoal made from mangroves is exported to Thailand. Photo by Christoph Zockler.

Chainsaws imperil an old-growth mangrove stronghold in southern Myanmar

Benjamin Graham 27 Dec 2017

So long, UNESCO! What does U.S. withdrawal mean for the environment?

Giovanni Ortolani 26 Dec 2017
Coquerel's sifaka (Propithecus coquereli), a species that lives in Bongolava. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Abandoned by their sponsors, Madagascar’s orphaned parks struggle on

Rowan Moore Gerety 8 Dec 2017
An indri (Indri indri), another critically endangered lemur that lives in Makira Natural Park. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Carbon dreams: Can REDD+ save a Yosemite-size forest in Madagascar?

Rowan Moore Gerety 29 Nov 2017
Men and women spend hours sowing rice seedlings and ploughing the land. Photo by Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor for Mongabay.

To feed a growing population, farms chew away at Madagascar’s forests

Dan Ashby, Lucy Taylor 17 Nov 2017

It is time to recognize the limits of certification in agriculture (commentary)

Andre de Freitas 16 Nov 2017

Trump family planning policy may increase population, hurt women and environment

Tina Deines 10 Nov 2017
Sanazy, from Beheloke Haut, says “hunger” pushed her to start farming seaweed three years ago: she earns about $20 from the crop during her best months. Photo by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

Fish vs. forests? Madagascar’s marine conservation boom

Rowan Moore Gerety 1 Nov 2017

Trump budget undercuts U.S. commitment to global wildlife conservation

William H. Funk 30 Oct 2017
Shade grown coffee in Nicaragua. Image courtesy ICRAF/World Agroforestry

Agroforestry: An increasingly popular solution for a hot, hungry world

Giovanni Ortolani 26 Oct 2017
With a greater hedgehog tenrec (Setifer setosus) stretched out on her lap, Voahangy Soarimalala of Association Vahatra demonstrates measurement techniques for small mammals to a group of masters students from the University of Antananarivo in the Andranomena Special Reserve. Photo courtesy of Association Vahatra.

Building conservation’s brain trust in Madagascar

Rowan Moore Gerety 25 Oct 2017

The Philippines commits to science-anchored fishery policies

Mongabay.com 20 Oct 2017
Each dry season, members of the community group VOI Sohisika try to keep brush fires at bay with controlled burns that run along firebreaks on the perimeter of the preserve. Photo courtesy of Missouri Botanical Garden.

How small is too small? The uncertain fate of Madagascar’s forest fragments

Rowan Moore Gerety 18 Oct 2017
chameleon, a species that lives in Ranomafana National Park. Photo by

Conservation in a weak state: Madagascar struggles with enforcement

Rowan Moore Gerety 10 Oct 2017

Can community forestry deliver for Madagascar’s forests and people?

Rowan Moore Gerety 2 Oct 2017

How effective is conservation in Madagascar? Series starts next week

Rowan Moore Gerety 28 Sep 2017
Not for republication. Image by Rod Harbinson/Rodharbinson.com

Communities struggle to save Sabah’s shrinking mangroves

Rod Harbinson 13 Sep 2017

Kenyans fear proposed Trump cuts could threaten elephants, ranger jobs

Gitonga Njeru 18 Aug 2017
A few miners continue to work an old mine called Andasiakondro, where a ruby rush drew some 10,000 people in 2002.

What happens after a mining rush? Photographs from Madagascar

Arnaud De Grave 31 Jul 2017

Trump budget threatens Zimbabwe climate change resilience programs

Andrew Mambondiyani 31 Jul 2017

Singapore statement on International Day of the Tropics: infrastructure deficit must be met sustainably (commentary)

Mark Ziembicki, Stewart Lockie 28 Jun 2017
Indigenous Awajún women in Shampuyacu, Peru. Conservation International has worked with these women to designate a forest of their own where they can cultivate traditional plants. Photo by Freddy Guillen.

Why gender matters in conservation

Roz Evans 26 May 2017

Drylands greener with forests than previously thought

John Cannon 12 May 2017

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