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Ecuador's Tapichalaca Reserve, created by Jocotoco Conservation Foundation.

How to conserve species in a much hotter world

Mongabay.com 29 Apr 2025
Why are the British flooding parts of their coast? Once farmland protected by flood defenses, Steart Marshes in southwest England now thrives as a restored salt marsh. As the defences weakened, the land became increasingly vulnerable to flooding. Instead of rebuilding defenses, conservationists, the government and local communities made a bold choice to let the sea reclaim the landscape. Just over 10 years ago the sea wall was breached, allowing the sea to take over the land, transforming the area into a vital wetland habitat. Salt marshes, which have declined by 85% in the U.K. since the 19th century, play a crucial role in coastal ecosystems. They provide shelter for wetland wildlife, act as natural flood defenses by absorbing storm surges, stabilize coastlines against erosion, and store carbon to help combat climate change. Managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Steart Marshes now provides a model for future restoration projects, proving that working with nature can protect communities while rebuilding lost habitats.

England’s flooded farmlands offer habitat, carbon storage & storm protection

Mongabay.com 29 Apr 2025
The 14 women who make up Las Chelemeras.

‘It has been worth it’: The local women saving Yucatán’s mangroves

Astrid Arellano 25 Apr 2025
An agamid lizard in a Chinese rainforest.

Diverse forests and forest rewilding offer resilience against climate change

Sean Mowbray 15 Apr 2025
Zozan Basin Shekho (left)and Suzan Haskani (right) show the decorations crafted from discarded plastic, giving the waste a new life and purpose.

Where war once raged in Iraq, Yezidi women plant hope

Robert Bociaga 14 Apr 2025
Eurasian brown bear courtesy of Magnus Lundgren/Swedensbigfive.org.

Coexistence with Europe’s carnivores is possible (commentary)

John Linnell 10 Apr 2025
Dugong in Thailand

Dugong numbers plummet amid seagrass decline in Thailand’s Andaman Sea

Carolyn Cowan 10 Apr 2025

As Acapulco’s mangroves disappear, Mexico takes strides to protect its coastal forests

Gonzalo Ortuño López 8 Apr 2025
Women sorting tree seedlings for reforestation in Uganda.

Funding freeze threatens global reforestation and restoration efforts

Marina Martinez 8 Apr 2025

Indonesia’s peatlands face growing flood risks amid widespread degradation

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Apr 2025
One of approximately 200 kipunji monkeys in the Udzungwa Mountains. Image courtesy Anthony Jarrett.

New strategy launched to protect Tanzanian biodiversity hotspot

Ryan Truscott 2 Apr 2025
mangrove conservation

Colombia’s women clam collectors protect Pacific mangroves and mollusks

Catherine Ellis 1 Apr 2025
Why are the British flooding parts of their coast? Once farmland protected by flood defenses, Steart Marshes in southwest England now thrives as a restored salt marsh. As the defences weakened, the land became increasingly vulnerable to flooding. Instead of rebuilding defenses, conservationists, the government and local communities made a bold choice to let the sea reclaim the landscape. Just over 10 years ago the sea wall was breached, allowing the sea to take over the land, transforming the area into a vital wetland habitat. Salt marshes, which have declined by 85% in the U.K. since the 19th century, play a crucial role in coastal ecosystems. They provide shelter for wetland wildlife, act as natural flood defenses by absorbing storm surges, stabilize coastlines against erosion, and store carbon to help combat climate change. Managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Steart Marshes now provides a model for future restoration projects, proving that working with nature can protect communities while rebuilding lost habitats.

Why are the British flooding parts of their coast?

Leo Plunkett, Sandy Watt 19 Mar 2025
Image of a board at the entrance to Aravalli Biodiversity Park in New Delhi. Image by ccarlstead via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

New Delhi transforms degraded lands into biodiversity parks

Mongabay.com 19 Mar 2025

Scientists study plant restoration in Argentina’s deserts

Claudia Geib 17 Mar 2025
Banner image of a kākāriki karaka at Pukenui/Anchor Island, courtesy of RealNZ.

Critically endangered parakeets get a new home on New Zealand island

Kristine Sabillo 14 Mar 2025
A collared wolf from the Druid pack

How one woman’s wolf ‘moon shot’ changed Yellowstone forever: Interview with director Tom Winston

Jeremy Hance 11 Mar 2025

A bird last seen by Darwin 190 years ago reappears on a Galápagos island

Bobby Bascomb 11 Mar 2025
Shea butter production process near Chiana, Kassena Nankana District, Ghana. Image by Axel Fassio/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Women in Ghana plant ‘diversion’ trees to protect shea trees and their livelihoods

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 8 Mar 2025
Members of the Vohoko Est cooperative with tree seedlings in the nursery, Tewaka, Burkina Faso, where Tree Aid has begun a 12,000 hectare community-owned agroforestry project.

Collaboration, data and tracking move Africa’s Great Green Wall toward its goal

Spoorthy Raman 7 Mar 2025
COP16 President Susana Muhamad.

COP16 biodiversity summit in Rome OKs finance pathway; big obstacles loom

Justin Catanoso 5 Mar 2025
A flooded field in Lake Province, Chad, in October 2024. The Lutheran World Foundation (LWF) is working with farmers groups as part of their three year "Gender Transformative Climate Adaptation" project. Image courtesy of Marie Renaux/LWF

Lake Chad isn’t shrinking — but climate change is causing other problems

Ruth Kamnitzer 28 Feb 2025
In São Paulo, Brazil a farm with a mix of native Atlantic Forest species as well as other species for the production of wood, food, and seeds.

To benefit biodiversity & climate, restoring lost forests works best: Study

Marlowe Starling 27 Feb 2025
A researcher notes biomass measurements in a mangrove forest in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Image by Kate Evans/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Mangrove deforestation for commodities limits conservation funding in SE Asia

Carolyn Cowan 25 Feb 2025
Masked Tree Frog (Smilisca phaeota) in the Ecuadorian Choco.

An Ecuadorian hotspot shows how forests can claw back from destruction

Ruth Kamnitzer 24 Feb 2025
Liberia is home to three species of pangolin, which are also referred to scaly anteaters. This tree pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) is listed as Endangered while the other two - the giant pangolin (Manis gigantea) and long-tailed pangolin (Manis tetradactyla) - are listed as Vulnerable. Image by Sharp Photography, sharpphotography.co.uk via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How ‘country palm’ could help pave the way toward a sustainable palm oil future in Liberia

Louise Hunt 18 Feb 2025
An ocelot walks tentatively into a pre-release enclosure.

Getting rewilding right with the reintroduction of small wildcats

Sean Mowbray 18 Feb 2025
Peatland forest in Central Kalimantan.

Protecting peatlands and mangroves could halve Southeast Asia’s land-use emissions

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Feb 2025

In the high Andes, a dream to restore a special forest takes root

Antonio José Paz Cardona 14 Feb 2025

Darfur’s women refugees lead reforestation of war-blighted Sudan–Chad borderland

Robert Bociaga 10 Feb 2025

Study says land restoration worldwide can be funded with tiny fraction of global GDP

Liz Kimbrough 7 Feb 2025
frailejon tree paramo Ecuador

In Ecuador, a mountain shrub could hold the key to restoring a precious ecosystem

Christina Noriega 5 Feb 2025

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