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A U.S. agroforestry based farm shows rows of perennial shrubs and trees with annual crops growing between. Photo courtesy of the Savanna Institute.

‘One of our greatest climate solutions’: Q&A with the U.S. National Agroforestry Center’s new director

Sarah Derouin 19 Jan 2023
Fungi in the forests of Sabah. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

For restoration, microbes below ground are just as crucial as the plants above

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Jan 2023
A man planting a tree.

Dollars and chainsaws: Can timber production help fund global reforestation?

Gianluca Cerullo 5 Jan 2023
Indigenous people in neighboring villages of Glar commune collect dead branches for firewood.

In Vietnam, a forest grown from the ashes of war falls to a resort project

Le Quynh 19 Dec 2022
New saplings grow on a rotting stump.

Japan’s example: Can forest planting reduce climate disaster risk?

Annelise Giseburt 15 Dec 2022
Residents of Hanging Site.

In Sierra Leone’s fishing villages, a reality check for climate aid

Ashoka Mukpo 15 Dec 2022
Community members restore coastal mangrove forests.

Nearly half of replanted trees die, but careful site selection can help

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 14 Dec 2022
Deforestation for oil palm in Malaysia.

Report calls on palm oil firms to make up for nearly 1m hectares of forest loss

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Nov 2022

COP27 long on pledges, short on funds for forests — Congo Basin at risk

Alec Luhn 18 Nov 2022
Surveying Grand Bois National Park.

Amid conflict and chaos, a reforestation project surges ahead in Haiti

Jeremy Hance 10 Nov 2022
Temporary shelters.

Deadly landslides prompt Philippine president to call for tree planting

Bong S. Sarmiento 9 Nov 2022

At the mouth of the Amazon, sustainable açaí leaves a sweet taste for communities

Carolina Pinheiro 3 Nov 2022
Gumwood trees.

Meet the Millennium Forest: A unique tropical island reforestation project

Jeremy Hance 2 Nov 2022
Deramakot forest reserve is a FSC-certified logging concession in Sabah, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

With FSC rule change, deforesters once blocked from certification get a new shot

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Oct 2022
Rainbow over Jambi, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

Drive for restoration and remedy behind some NGOs’ cautious support for FSC changes (commentary)

Grant Rosoman 21 Oct 2022
Amazon rainforest in Brazil.

Successes and struggles: Brazil’s 20-year Amazon reforestation carbon sink project

Marina Martinez 12 Oct 2022
Bôndy nurserymen tending to young eucalyptus

In Madagascar, a tree-planting business goes long on social, short on eco

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 10 Oct 2022

Forests & Finance: Sit-ins, seeds over seedlings, and fuel-saving cookstoves

Mongabay.com 5 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

In Brazil’s Ribeira Valley, traditional communities combine farming and conservation

Sibélia Zanon 29 Sep 2022
Global forest carbon map

New tech aims to track carbon in every tree, boost carbon market integrity

Carolyn Cowan 19 Sep 2022
Ledan holding ironwood saplings

After 20 years and thousands of trees planted, Kalimantan’s veteran forester persists

Budi Baskoro, Lusia Arumingtyas 14 Sep 2022

Tiny new tree frog species found in rewilded Costa Rican nature reserve

Liz Kimbrough 9 Sep 2022
Residents paddle a boat down a flooded street in Bojongasih village.

Java communities rally as clock ticks on cleanup of ‘world’s dirtiest river’

Donny Iqbal 31 Aug 2022
Fishers in a boat in the Malampaya Sound mangroves.

Healthy mangroves build a resilient community in the Philippines’ Palawan

Keith Anthony S. Fabro 29 Aug 2022
Greenpeace activists built a carbon bomb to protest Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage at a protest in Germany. Image courtesy of Karsten Smid / Greenpeace Media Library.

Big Oil’s capture of IPCC assessment for policymakers ‘shakes our faith’ (commentary)

Lindley Mease 25 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
Results of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration in Talensi District of Ghana. Image courtesy of World Vision.

Let it grow: Q&A with reforestation and land restoration visionary Tony Rinaudo

Erik Hoffner 17 Aug 2022
Aziil Anwar.

Aziil Anwar, Indonesian coral-based mangrove grower, dies at 64

Agus Mawan 16 Aug 2022

Natural regeneration and women-led initiatives help drive Atlantic Forest Pact

Sibélia Zanon 11 Jul 2022
The nursery at the heart of Minawao nurtures the green shoots of a recovery.

Cameroon’s Nigerian refugees who degraded their camp are now vanguards of reforestation

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 28 Jun 2022
Employee from the MESCOT reforestation initiative showing a sapling in Sabah, Malaysia

Mongabay’s new-look Reforestation.app makes finding the right tree-planting project easier

Mongabay.com 28 Jun 2022

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