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A member of the Indigenous Tikuna nation paddling a dugout canoe on a tributary of the Amazon in Colombia by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Protected areas now cover nearly 17% of Earth’s surface: U.N. report

John Cannon 20 May 2021
African elephants in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. Photo credit: Gregoire Dubois

An engaged society is key for the future of African conservation, says WWF Africa’s Alice Ruhweza

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 May 2021

Settlers invading, deforesting Colombian national parks ‘at an unstoppable speed’

Antonio José Paz Cardona 19 May 2021

Chile’s marine protected areas aren’t safe from its salmon farms

Michelle Carrere, Vanessa Romo 19 May 2021

FSC-certified Indonesian logger may have cleared orangutan habitat: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 May 2021

Study confirms sightings of endangered blue whale in Philippine waters

Mavic Conde 14 May 2021

An owl not seen in over a century makes a brief return — then vanishes again

Romi Castagnino 13 May 2021
Satellite image of Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Image credit: Maxar Technologies

New Australian marine parks protect area twice Great Barrier Reef’s size

Mongabay.com 13 May 2021

In the Honduran Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, an illegal road for cattle and drugs

Ashoka Mukpo 13 May 2021

‘Bad science’: Planting frenzy misses the grasslands for the trees

Shreya Dasgupta 12 May 2021

Indigenous in Salvador: A struggle for identity in Brazil’s first capital

Alexandre Lyrio 11 May 2021
Redwood trees in California. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Biden lays out vision for protecting 30% of US land, waters by 2030

Mongabay.com 6 May 2021

A Colombian national park reveals its natural secrets through camera traps

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 4 May 2021

Casinos, condos and sugar cane: How a Cambodian national park is being sold down the river

James Fair 4 May 2021

“How do we manage fisheries in the midst of climate change?” Q&A with EDF’s Eric Schwaab

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 May 2021

Drugs and agriculture cause deforestation to skyrocket at Honduran UNESCO site

Karen Paredes, Leonardo Guevara, Lesly Frazier 30 Apr 2021

Indigenous in São Paulo: Erased by a colonial education curriculum

Jennifer Ann Thomas 28 Apr 2021

Bolsonaro abandons enhanced Amazon commitment same day he makes it

Sue Branford 27 Apr 2021

Mining and logging threaten a wildlife wonderland on a Philippine mountain

Bong S. Sarmiento 27 Apr 2021
Keo Seima forest. Image by user Pygathrix nigripes via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Deforestation ramps up in Cambodia’s Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary

Morgan Erickson-Davis 26 Apr 2021
Sierra del Divisor. Photo credit: the Field Museum

We need more rewilding and connections to nature, says Enrique Ortiz

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Apr 2021

Companies and officials flout forest-clearing moratorium in Papua, report finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Apr 2021

Countries can transform the climate crisis with ocean-based action (commentary)

Waldemar Coutts 19 Apr 2021

Cattle-driven clearing continues in Brazil’s Triunfo do Xingu protected area

Liz Kimbrough 16 Apr 2021
A group of Yiaku youth scouts, who have been trained by the Kenya Forest Service to take part in forest patrols and other conservation activities. Image by Shadrack Kavilu for Mongabay.

Indigenous peoples are being shortchanged as forest guardians: Report

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 16 Apr 2021

Peru to establish rainforest reserve for isolated Indigenous peoples

Yvette Sierra Praeli 16 Apr 2021

Brazilian Cerrado savanna: Wildcat miners descend on Indigenous reserve

Ana Ionova 16 Apr 2021

Sharks on a knife’s edge as Maldives mulls lifting 10-year fishing ban

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Apr 2021

‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits

Leilani Chavez 15 Apr 2021

Philippine province builds on lessons learned to grow ecotourism industry

Jun N. Aguirre 14 Apr 2021

Landmark decision: Brazil Supreme Court sides with Indigenous land rights

Ana Ionova 13 Apr 2021

New palm oil frontier sparks scramble for land in the Brazilian Amazon

Ana Ionova 12 Apr 2021

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