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Abraham Khouw, the professor who joined the Save Aru movement

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 18 Feb 2020

Mika Ganobal, the civil servant who risked his job to save his homeland

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 7 Feb 2020

From scorpion skewers to cricket flour, bug protein is becoming big business

Michael Tatarski 3 Jan 2020
Dry riverbed. Image by Dellane Masiya Mhlanga for Mongabay.

Water flowing up the mountain: Development devours forest reserve in Zambia

Carien Du Plessis 4 Dec 2019

10 takeaways from Indonesia’s grassroots #SaveAru success

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 28 Oct 2019

Reforesting a village in Indonesia, one batch of gourmet beans at a time

Donny Iqbal 17 Oct 2019

Saving Aru: The epic battle to save the islands that inspired the theory of evolution

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 9 Oct 2019

As wildfires roil Sumatra, some villages have abandoned the burning

Taufik Wijaya 3 Oct 2019

Give it back to the gods: Reviving Māori tradition to protect marine life

Monica Evans 27 Sep 2019

Notes from the road: 5 revelations from traveling the Pan Borneo Highway

John Cannon 25 Sep 2019

Paradise, polluted: Cook Islands tries to clean up its tourism sector

Monica Evans 23 Sep 2019

World’s biggest meatpackers buying cattle from deforesters in Amazon

André Campos - Repórter Brasil, Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Sep 2019

Pan Borneo Highway development endangers the Heart of Borneo

John Cannon 18 Sep 2019

UN and policymakers, wake up! Burning trees for energy is not carbon neutral (commentary)

Mary Booth 16 Sep 2019

The end of the road: The future of the Pan Borneo Highway

John Cannon 30 Aug 2019

For Indonesia’s Kendari Bay, silting is a death sentence

Ian Morse 28 Aug 2019

Madagascar: What’s good for the forest is good for the native silk industry

Edward Carver 16 Aug 2019

New roads in Papua New Guinea may cause ‘quantum leap’ in forest loss

John Cannon 24 Jul 2019

In Indonesia, a land ‘left behind’ weighs its development alternatives

Ian Morse 9 Jul 2019

Amazon rural development and conservation: a path to sustainability?

Jaqueline Sordi 2 Jul 2019

Carbon to burn: UK net-zero emissions pledge undermined by biomass energy

Justin Catanoso 19 Jun 2019

Dam in Ethiopia has wiped out indigenous livelihoods, report finds

John Cannon 11 Jun 2019

Altered forests threaten sustainability of subsistence hunting

Mongabay.com 29 May 2019

’Unprecedented’ loss of biodiversity threatens humanity, report finds

Mongabay.com 7 May 2019

In traffic-blighted Penang, transport upgrade plans raise hopes and fears

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 3 May 2019

Changing energy use in rural Africa with power from solar, clean stoves…and women

David Klinges 2 May 2019

Community buy-in stamps out elephant poaching in Zambian park

John Cannon 22 Apr 2019

Deforestation diminishes access to clean water, study finds

John Cannon 15 Apr 2019

In Bali, a village hews to unwritten rules to manage its forest

Luh De Suriyani 14 Apr 2019

New report lays out low-carbon development path for Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Mar 2019

Malaysian state chief: Highway construction must not destroy forest

Mongabay.com 26 Mar 2019

Proximity to towns stretches giraffe home ranges

Mongabay.com 6 Mar 2019

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