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An Old English Longhorn at Knepp. Disturbance from large herbivores has restored this landscape by reactivating natural processes that foster healthy ecology.

From debt to diversity: A journey of rewilding, carbon capture and hope

Elizabeth Fitt 9 Aug 2023
Mangroves in Raja Ampat. Photo credit: Rhett A Butler

Study shows how to maximize mangroves as climate and community solution

Sílvia Lisboa and Maurício Brum 8 Aug 2023
Women picking the nutritionally rich baobab fruits in Ghana.

Progress is slow on Africa’s Great Green Wall, but some bright spots bloom

Spoorthy Raman 3 Aug 2023
Robert Risch.

Nursing oil palm plantations back to nature in Malaysian Borneo

Louise Hunt 26 Jul 2023

Green gains: Localized efforts leave a mark, notably in drier areas, study shows

Malavika Vyawahare 24 Jul 2023
Landsat views the forests from high above the Earth.

New Tree Tech: Real-time, long-term, high-tech reforestation monitoring

Claire Asher 13 Jul 2023
Drone carrying self-burying seed carriers .

New Tree Tech: Cutting-edge drones give reforestation a helping hand

Claire Asher 12 Jul 2023
Women carrying saplings.

New Tree Tech: Data-driven reforestation methods match trees to habitats

Claire Asher 11 Jul 2023
A operator flying drones.

New Tree Tech: AI, drones, satellites and sensors give reforestation a boost

Claire Asher 10 Jul 2023

Nearly 85% of Indonesian peatlands aren’t protected, study shows

Basten Gokkon 6 Jul 2023
Baobabs at sunset in Madagascar.

Fire imperils Madagascar’s baobabs: Q&A with park director Diamondra Andriambololona

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 3 Jul 2023
A black beetle.

Sounds of the soil: A new tool for conservation?

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Jun 2023

What’s in store for Colombia’s forests? New modeling tries to predict.

Maxwell Radwin 28 Jun 2023

Indonesia to expand ‘smart fisheries’ program aimed at empowering communities

Basten Gokkon 22 Jun 2023
A Miyawaki forest in Hyderabad.

Miyawaki forests are a global sensation, but not everyone’s sold on them

Annelise Giseburt 21 Jun 2023
A park blooming with more blue camas.

Volunteers, First Nations work to bring back a disappearing oak prairie

Spoorthy Raman 19 Jun 2023

Science and culture join forces to restore 120 miles of Hawaiian reefs

Mongabay.com 13 Jun 2023
Tana is his field.

Africa’s land and forest restoration initiative gathers pace in Malawi

Charles Mpaka 7 Jun 2023

Award-winning community group in Sumatra cleans up lake

Jaka Hendra Baittri 6 Jun 2023
L’Allee des Baobabs, or the Avenue of Baobabs, a famous spot outside Morondava, the nearest town to Belo-Sur-Mer.

Extreme reforestation: Baobab planters confront fires, loggers, cattle and more

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 6 Jun 2023
Burned peat forest in Borneo.

Peatlands, Indonesia’s carbon trove, are mostly unprotected, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Jun 2023

Nearly 30% of all tree cover in Africa may be outside of forests, study says

Malavika Vyawahare 2 Jun 2023
Metal debris in water near SpaceX launch site. Image courtesy of the Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries program of Defenders of Wildlife.

Don’t destroy Earth on the way to Mars (commentary)

Sharon Wilcox 23 May 2023
Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) reefs in the U.S.

Studies show oyster reef restoration can work out well — given enough time

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 May 2023

New research finds slow forest recovery in the Andes — and ways to improve

Mark Hillsdon 16 May 2023
An Atlantic puffin inspecting a decoy

Seabird conservation mostly works, comprehensive new data set shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 May 2023
CI-Brazil and partners mixing the muvuca seeds.

World’s ‘largest’ tropical reforestation project slowed by Covid, Bolsonaro, fires

Jeremy Hance 4 May 2023
Graine de Vie’s reforestation site in Ambohitantely prior to the October 2022 fire.

Madagascar bush fires prompt exasperated NGO to curtail tree planting

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 1 May 2023
Shigeatsu Hatakeyama at a tree-planting festival

Saving forests to protect coastal ecosystems: Japan sets historic example

Annelise Giseburt 27 Apr 2023
Setting a prescribed fire around vernal pools at Agate Desert Preserve. Image courtesy of Evan Barrientos/TNC.

Counterintuitive conservation: Fire boosts aquatic crustaceans in U.S. savannas

Ashli Blow 21 Apr 2023
Harvesting abundance in the Amazon, and extinguishing the poverty mentality.

From scarcity to abundance: The secret of the ‘peace farmers’ of Colombia

Sandra Weiss 17 Apr 2023
Eurasian lynx mother and cub.

Could biodiversity be a key to better forest carbon storage in Europe?

Mark Hillsdon 13 Apr 2023

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