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Atlantic blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) in Louisiana

Recycled glass offers a potential new tool to restore a vanishing coastline

Fernanda Biasoli 20 Oct 2026
Wisye Sahambangung, front, and other women from Rhizopora work in a muddy mangrove area in Sarawet on Sept. 2, 2026. Image courtesy of Wisye Sahambangung.

Indonesian women cash in on mangrove restoration: Interview with community leader Wisye Sahambangung

Annisa Dinulislam 17 Oct 2026
A Peruvian artisanal fisher poses with a jumbo flying squid. Image courtesy of National Society of Artisanal Fishing of Peru (SONAPESCAL).

From paper parks to lasting protection, here’s what works in marine conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Oct 2026
Project team members prepare juvenile bull kelp for transplanting in Clayoquot Sound. Image courtesy of Graeme Owsianski/Redd Fish Restoration Society.

First Nation-led effort replants kelp forests in Clayoquot Sound

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Oct 2026
Northern sea otters (Enhydra lutris ssp. kenyoni) in a kelp forest in Strathcona

Science, Indigenous knowledge team up to restore Canada’s kelp. (Sea otters help, too.)

Jennifer Cole 6 Oct 2026

‘There could be local extinction’: The fight to protect Indonesia’s orangutans as El Niño fuels fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Oct 2026

Indonesia’s new peatland agency faces questions over what it will do differently

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Oct 2026

In Peru’s high Andes, restoring ancient ecosystems could help protect water security

Euan Wallace 23 Sep 2026
Freediver and turtle

Tourism has the potential to reverse coral decline at Bali travel hotspot: Study

Carolyn Cowan 22 Sep 2026
anteater Argentina

A giant anteater’s return in Argentina offers a case for letting nature restore itself

Sean Mowbray 17 Sep 2026

In North Carolina, a race is on to restore critical peatland before it dries up or is destroyed

Associated Press 9 Sep 2026
A tuskless elephant bull inside the Nyerere-Udzungwa Wildlife Corridor. Pic credit: Southern Tanzania Elephant Program.

Tanzania’s first official wildlife corridor links savanna elephants to rainforest

Ryan Truscott 4 Sep 2026
Researchers analyzed secondary forests in four municipalities in Pará state.

Key tree species boost Amazon forest restoration, new study shows

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Sep 2026
The southern greater kudu

South Africa’s new gold rush: Big promises, closed books in new carbon frontier

Leonie Joubert 3 Sep 2026

Southeast Asia’s oak trees highly threatened as report warns of lack of protection

Mongabay.com 2 Sep 2026
Selumo (Jackiopsis ornata) trees, left, in a village in East Tebing Tinggi, Riau province, Indonesia. Planted by communities to demarcate land boundaries, these trees are also desired for their appearance. Image courtesy of Maryani.

Rooting tree seed production in local knowledge boosts forest restoration outcomes (commentary)

Zu Dienle Tan, Ahmad Muhammad, Sigit Sutikno, Nur Estya Binte Rahman 1 Sep 2026
The number of cuttings this Hive Ecosystem team manages to plant in a day is dizzying. This project is halfway toward its original goal of planting spekboom across nearly 5,500 hectares (nearly 13,000 acres). Image by Leonie Joubert for Mongabay.

South Africa’s new gold rush: Spekboom restoration speeds up, but it’s a bumpy road, insiders report

Leonie Joubert 1 Sep 2026
An agroforestry tour during a workshop at the Permaculture Paradise Institute in Lilongwe, Malawi. Image by Emilie Vansant.

Growing Indigenous food trees in East Africa fights malnutrition and biodiversity loss

Claudia Geib 31 Aug 2026
Angora goats, which produce mohair. Image © Samantha Reinders.

South Africa’s new gold rush: Big money, high stakes in emerging spekboom restoration sector

Leonie Joubert 27 Aug 2026

Indigenous water systems gain ground as climate pressures intensify in Bolivia

Anastasia Austin 26 Aug 2026

In Spain & South Africa, communities use restoration to ‘grow’ fire insurance (commentary)

Claire Patterson, Penelope Choussat 24 Aug 2026

Daniel Janzen and the long work of bringing back a forest

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Aug 2026
National park staff, government officials and local community members conduct a tree survey in Nakai-Nam Theun National Park, Laos, located in the Annamite mountain range. Image by Oudomphone Insisiengmay.

Southeast Asia is a hotspot for oak trees, many under ‘dire threat’

Sean Mowbray 21 Aug 2026

In India, sacred groves serve as vital nurseries for future forests

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2026
Ntoiye Kimorgo, a Maasai traditional healer and member of the Paran-affiliated Naretoi Group

Meet the Indigenous women restoring Kenya’s Mau Forest — and reshaping gender roles

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 11 Aug 2026

Forest Restoration Solutions

11 Aug 2026
A group of cow elk traverses an active mine site as they move between forest patches. Image courtesy of Brittany L. Slabach.

Wildlife in the eastern US are making a comeback

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Aug 2026
Volunteers carry bags of straw at a tree planting event in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan on June 7, 2026.

In coastal Japan, one project is planting forests to stand against tsunamis

Jonathan Vit 4 Aug 2026
A local community takes part in a tree plantation project in 2018.

Bangladesh plans to plant 250 million trees. Keeping them alive will be harder

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Aug 2026
Renato Moraes de Jesus. Photo courtesy of the Conselho Regional de Engenharia e Agronomia do Espírito Santo (Crea-ES)

Renato Moraes de Jesus was a pioneer of Atlantic Forest restoration in Brazil

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Jul 2026
A local community takes part in a tree plantation project in 2018.

Conservationists urge caution over Bangladesh’s plan to plant 250 million trees

Abu Siddique 20 Jul 2026
A bull elk reintroduced to Kentucky. Image courtesy of Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife.

‘Beasts of the East’ chronicles the unheralded restoration successes of America’s eastern wildlife

Erik Hoffner 16 Jul 2026

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