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A greater one-horned rhino and her calf.

Crafting Nepal’s conservation success: Q&A with Sharad Chandra Adhikary

Abhaya Raj Joshi 21 Dec 2022
Indigenous people in neighboring villages of Glar commune collect dead branches for firewood.

In Vietnam, a forest grown from the ashes of war falls to a resort project

Le Quynh 19 Dec 2022
cocoa beans

Amazon-produced cacao offers climate solutions

Miguel Pinheiro 15 Dec 2022
Daniel Berkembrock.

How agroforestry can restore degraded lands and provide income in the Amazon

Avener Prado, Ignacio Amigo, Sam Cowie 9 Dec 2022
Heng Saphen and her daughter, Chan Lay Phiek

No justice for Indigenous community taking on a Cambodian rubber baron

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 7 Dec 2022
A women harvests leaves.

Indigenous peoples and communities drive climate finance reform

John Cannon 6 Dec 2022
11. Alda prepares branches of wild rosemary (Baccharis dracunculifolia) to use as a duster to keep bees away during handling. An essential plant for bees, the wild rosemary also has a great capacity for regeneration and can be successfully used in the recovery of degraded areas. Lar de Pesquisas Agroecológicas Abacateiro, Egídio Brunetto Agroecological Settlement, Lagoinha, Paraíba Valley, Brazil. Image by Inaê Guion.

Photos: Newcomer farmers in Brazil embrace bees, agroforestry and find success

Inaê Guion 2 Dec 2022
Sitio Paho, Pala’wan Indigenous leader Mami Lapasan, carrying a heavy load of almaciga resin.

A Philippine resin trade proves sustainable for forests, but not tappers

Keith Anthony Fabro 30 Nov 2022
A red panda.

New standard brings best practices to bear in Nepal’s red panda conservation

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Nov 2022

Indigenous cooperative restores forests to form ecological corridor in Bahia

Sibélia Zanon 25 Nov 2022
Lowland forest

Myanmar communities decry disempowerment as forest guardians since 2021 coup

Carolyn Cowan 17 Nov 2022
Plantation of bananas, teak and cocoa in Yanonge – DRC.  Photo by Axel Fassio/CIFOR-ICRAF via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Can a luxury chocolate company help a Congolese forest?

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 16 Nov 2022
Front-end loader in a raw clearing in forests in Sudcam's concession near Cameroon's Dja Faunal Reserve. Image courtesy Nchemty Metimi Ozongashu / Greenpeace.

Forests & Finance: Certification for deforesters, and repression for an evicted community

Mongabay.com 15 Nov 2022

With new EU rules ahead, Indonesia adds sustainability to its timber legality system

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Nov 2022
Millet harvest in the Nyando climate-smart villages.

Breaking free from photosynthesis: Will high-tech foods save nature?

Sue Branford 11 Nov 2022
Surveying Grand Bois National Park.

Amid conflict and chaos, a reforestation project surges ahead in Haiti

Jeremy Hance 10 Nov 2022
Eric Darragh, the co-director of Fire and Forestry for the Mid-Klamath Watershed Council, is pointing out burn sites  within the project area. Images by Carly Nairn.

Tribe and partners light up a forest to restore landscape in California

Carly Nairn 8 Nov 2022
A few meters from the monocultures of the multinational, an inhabitant keeps a small natural forest on his property. The fertility of the land has allowed diverse flora to grow and produce a prosperous biodiverse landscape. Residents say this is very different from monoculture pine and eucalyptus plantations where no plant diversity can be found.

Indigenous lands hold the world’s healthiest forests – but only when their rights are protected

Latoya Abulu, Laurel Sutherland 7 Nov 2022
Farmers with their crop.

Agroecology can feed Africa and tackle climate change — with enough funding

Malavika Vyawahare 7 Nov 2022

At the mouth of the Amazon, sustainable açaí leaves a sweet taste for communities

Carolina Pinheiro 3 Nov 2022
Gumwood trees.

Meet the Millennium Forest: A unique tropical island reforestation project

Jeremy Hance 2 Nov 2022

Who decides on ‘priorities’ for ecosystem restoration?

John Cannon 2 Nov 2022
A handful of hazelnuts harvested by Nutwood Farm co-owner Kalyan Uprichard. Photo by Erik Hoffner for Mongabay.

American agroforestry accelerates with new funding announcements

Erik Hoffner 31 Oct 2022
A member of the Bhimeshwori Sustainable Farming Group at her agroforestry farm in Kavre, Nepal. Image by Abhaya Raj Josh / Mongabay.

EU’s anti-deforestation trade rule should be more women-friendly (commentary)

Simone Lovera 26 Oct 2022
Gura Ferda expedition, Ethiopia, May-June 2022. Image courtesy Christophe Bernier.

Forests & Finance: A road project, food baskets, and unique wildlife

Mongabay.com 18 Oct 2022
Gura Ferda expedition, Ethiopia, May-June 2022. Image courtesy Christophe Bernier.

Ethiopia’s honey forest: People and wildlife living in sweet harmony

Ed Holt 18 Oct 2022
Bôndy nurserymen tending to young eucalyptus

In Madagascar, a tree-planting business goes long on social, short on eco

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 10 Oct 2022

Forests & Finance: Sit-ins, seeds over seedlings, and fuel-saving cookstoves

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2022

In Brazil’s Ribeira Valley, traditional communities combine farming and conservation

Sibélia Zanon 29 Sep 2022

Pioneer agroforester Ermi, 73, rolls back the years in Indonesia’s Gorontalo

Sarjan Lahay 15 Sep 2022
Ledan holding ironwood saplings

After 20 years and thousands of trees planted, Kalimantan’s veteran forester persists

Budi Baskoro, Lusia Arumingtyas 14 Sep 2022
At the beginning of the pandemic, MST launched an ongoing national campaign to take food from the settlements to vulnerable populations in cities. Here, a farmer delivers food to the collection center organized by ELAA for people living in the outskirts of the state capital, Curitiba. Image courtesy of Wellington Lenon/ELAA.

‘Viable, just & necessary’: Agroecology is a movement in Brazil

Anna Lappé 13 Sep 2022

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