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An invite to the tapir toilet buffet (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 15 Oct 2025
A Baird's tapir.

Animals that spread seeds are critical for climate solutions

Liz Kimbrough 19 Sep 2025
Critically endangered African forest elephants act as seed dispersers in the rainforest, taking the seeds far, far away from the mother plants.

As forest elephants plummet, ebony trees decline in Central Africa’s rainforests

Spoorthy Raman 29 Aug 2025

Seed-dispersing animals are in decline, impacting forests and the climate: Study

Kristine Sabillo 14 Aug 2025
A botanist scales a Tieghemella heckelii in Yapo-Abbé Forest, Côte d’Ivoire, during a training session by Sebastain Walaita.

To collect native seeds, Ugandan botanists are climbing forest giants

Ruth Kamnitzer 28 May 2025
Amazonian manatees at a rescue center in Peru.

Amazonian manatees are gardeners of the forests, research shows (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 4 Feb 2025
Chemical lures designed to mimic the scent of ripe fruit have helped attract fruit-eating bats from the genus Carollia, such as Seba's short-tailed bat (C. perspicillata).

Lures that attract seed-dispersing bats could aid tropical reforestation

Sean Mowbray 30 Jan 2025
An aerial image shows rainforest fragmented by cattle ranching.

Study shows degradation changes a forest’s tree profile and its carbon storage

Peter Speetjens 22 Jan 2025

Researcher discovers new role played by manatees, ‘the gardeners of the Amazon’

Tiago Mota e Silva 25 Nov 2024

Weak laws on native seeds undermine Brazil reforestation efforts: Study

Shanna Hanbury 15 Nov 2024
Wreathed hornbill at nest

Successful Thai community-based hornbill conservation faces uncertain future

Carolyn Cowan 10 Sep 2024

In sub-Saharan Africa, ‘forgotten’ foods could boost climate resilience, nutrition

Claudia Geib, Elodie Toto 26 Jul 2024

Large birds can boost forest carbon storage — if deforestation doesn’t interfere

Suzana Camargo 14 Jun 2024
oriental pied hornbill

New database unveils the role of Asian hornbills as forest seed dispersers

Carolyn Cowan 15 May 2024

Forest elephants are the ‘glue’ holding Congo rainforests together

Mike DiGirolamo 7 Nov 2023

Mongabay Explains: How high-tech tools are used for successful reforestation

Mongabay.com 30 Aug 2023
A Luzon tarictic hornbill.

Online trade in Philippine hornbills threatens birds and forests

Jhesset O. Enano 29 Aug 2023
Drone carrying self-burying seed carriers .

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

Claire Asher 12 Jul 2023
An elephant.

Elephants promote jumbo trees, boosting the carbon stores in Africa’s forests

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Jan 2023
Hornbills — the so-called “farmers of the forest” in Africa and Asia — move more than 700 plant species up to 11 km (7 mi) in a day.

As animal seed dispersers go the way of the dodo, forest plants are at risk

Sharon Guynup 28 Apr 2022

Loss of Sumatran rhinos leaves several plant species without a seed disperser

Anna Nordseth 2 Mar 2022
A Bohemian waxwing takes off with a fruit in its bill. (Photo by Christine Johnson)

As animals vanish, the plants they spread can’t keep pace with climate change

Liz Kimbrough 19 Jan 2022

Australia’s rainforest species gain ground through landscape linkages

Amanda Freeman 24 Dec 2021

Seed dispersal is just as important as pollination (commentary)

Ariek Norford 10 Aug 2021

Fruit-eating, seed-pooping animals can help restore degraded forests

Emily Harwitz 9 Feb 2021

Restaura Cerrado: Saving Brazil’s savanna by reseeding and restoring it

Sarah Sax 14 Dec 2020

Madagascar launches massive planting drive, eyes 60 million trees

Malavika Vyawahare, Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 21 Jan 2020

Cities may save some species from extinction, but they don’t save species’ ecological functions

Mike Gaworecki 19 Apr 2019
Photo courtesy Guilherme Rodrigues

In Brazil, a forest community helps seed new trees far and wide

Ignacio Amigo 21 Aug 2018
Germinating seeds in the seed bank. Photo by Ignacio Amigo/Mongabay

Brazil’s plant biodiversity still not fully present in its seed banks

Ignacio Amigo 25 Jul 2018

Plant communities roar back after rat removal from Pacific islands

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2018

Scientists reveal yet another reason fig trees are titans of biodiversity

Mike Shanahan 6 Jul 2018

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