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Drawing the wrong lessons from Sri Lanka’s organic farming experience (commentary)

Nethmi S. Perera Bathige, William G. Moseley 12 Aug 2022

Farmer-to-farmer agroecology: Q&A with Chukki Nanjundaswamy of Amrita Bhoomi Learning Centre

Anna Lappé 3 Aug 2022
A member of the Bhimeshwori Sustainable Farming Group at her agroforestry farm in Kavre, Nepal. Image by Abhaya Raj Josh / Mongabay.

Return to agroforestry empowers women in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 8 Jul 2022
Erasmo and Natalha Theofilo

Amazon rainforest activist under threat in Brazil plans to flee his home

Shanna Hanbury 30 Jun 2022

Room to roam: Biologists and communities create corridors for jaguars in Mexico

Marlén Castro, Thelma Gómez Durán 29 Jun 2022
The Goro Mine in southern New Caledonia. Image courtesy of Lachie Carracher.

All eyes on Tesla as it invests in a troubled nickel mine

Nick Rodway 22 Jun 2022
“Naná" Gracia is an Indigenous P'urhépecha midwife, seen here in her ekuarho with granddaughter Alma in Angahuan, Michoachán, Mexico. Image by Monica Pelliccia for Mongabay.

Indigenous agroforestry dying of thirst amid a sea of avocados in Mexico

Monica Pelliccia 8 Jun 2022

Does citizen ownership of natural resources hold the key to realizing deforestation commitments? (commentary)

Han Overman 6 Jun 2022

Cambodia: Development threatens a last refuge of wildlife rescued from illegal trade (commentary)

Greg Mccann 20 May 2022

Malawi steps up action against illegal charcoal trade (analysis)

Nicholas J. Parkinson 12 May 2022
Professional hunter (left) with a hunting guest (right) in Namibia. Image by Mikael Tham via Wikidmedia Commons.

Reframing trophy hunting’s socio-economic benefits in Namibia (commentary)

Frowin Becker 28 Apr 2022
A model artesian well that ICRAF installed in Winongan, Pasuruan district. The well is equipped with a valve for more efficient water use.

Better deep-bore wells aim to stop Indonesia’s groundwater waste

Asad Asnawi 28 Apr 2022

Community empowerment and forest conservation grow from the galip nut in Papua New Guinea

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Apr 2022
Fishing in Fiji. Image courtesy of Tom Vierus/WCS.

Food security framing increases relevance of biodiversity negotiations to less industrialized nations (commentary)

Jean Wiener 30 Mar 2022
Farid Tarabay, the new forest guide, under the Lamartine Cedar, one of the oldest in the SBR. Image by Elizabeth Fitt for Mongabay.

From land mines to lifelines, Lebanon’s Shouf is a rare restoration success story

Elizabeth Fitt 23 Mar 2022

Donors must rethink Africa’s flagging Green Revolution, new evaluation shows (commentary)

Timothy A. Wise 22 Mar 2022
A herd of elephants gets a drink in Botswana. Image by Roger Borgelid for Mongabay.

Can we plan for a future without trophy hunting? (commentary)

Merrill Sapp 16 Mar 2022

Climate-positive, high-tech metals are polluting Earth, but solutions await

Claire Asher 15 Mar 2022

An Indigenous basket-weaving tradition keeps a Philippine forest alive

Keith Anthony Fabro 6 Mar 2022

The Trans-Papua Highway could lose billions and deforest millions of hectares

Mike DiGirolamo 2 Mar 2022

Caffeine: Emerging contaminant of global rivers and coastal waters

Sean Mowbray 22 Feb 2022

Protecting New Guinea’s forests with birds-of-paradise and ecotourism

Mike DiGirolamo 16 Feb 2022

Nepal’s gharials deserve attention and protection (commentary)

Zach Fitzner 16 Feb 2022
Elephants in Namibia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler.

UK trophy hunting import ban not supported by rural Africans (commentary)

Dr Malan Lindeque, Gail Thomson, Hilma Angula, Kenneth /Uiseb, Rosalia Iileka 11 Feb 2022

Malaysian officials dampen prospects for giant, secret carbon deal in Sabah

John Cannon 10 Feb 2022

As world drowns in plastic waste, U.N. to hammer out global treaty

Charles Pekow 2 Feb 2022

‘Carbon cowboys’ and illegal logging

Mike DiGirolamo 1 Feb 2022

With ‘sustainable’ cocoa, Mars pushes climate, market risks onto farmers

Basten Gokkon 26 Jan 2022

Innovative sewage solutions: Tackling the global human waste problem

Sean Mowbray 25 Jan 2022

COP27 must deliver climate finance where it is needed most (commentary)

Jack Stuart, Sally Yozell, Valentine Ochanda 20 Jan 2022
Native potato biodiversity. The Andes are the birthplace of the potato. More than 3,500 varieties grow in Peru alone. Photo courtesy of Rene Gomez/International Potato Center.

On agrobiodiversity, the Andes can teach the world much about crop conservation (commentary)

Barbara Wells 12 Jan 2022
A sewage outlet in Bangkok.

The thick of it: Delving into the neglected global impacts of human waste

Sean Mowbray 11 Jan 2022

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