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Young people at Macatumbalen are trained by their parents to co-manage the community nursery where the tree seedlings are grown and regularly watered.

Devastated by a typhoon, community foresters in the Philippines find little support

Keith Anthony Fabro 23 May 2022
A woman tends to her vegetable garden

In Bangladesh, a community comes together to save a life-giving forest

Abu Siddique 19 May 2022

Vandana Shiva on the agroecology solution for the climate, biodiversity crisis and hunger

Mike Gaworecki 18 May 2022
Irma and Heloisa collect Murici fruits ( Byrsonima crassifolia (L.) Rich) at the Ripá tribe on Pimentel Barbosa indigenous territory in Mato Grosso, Brazil

Indigenous village harvests seeds to slow deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado

Daniel Grossman, Dado Galdieri 16 May 2022
Michel Pimbert, founder and director of the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University. Image courtesy of Coventry University.

Food for all: Q&A with Michel Pimbert of the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience

Anna Lappé 11 May 2022
Black-and-yellow broadbill (Eurylaimus ochromalus), a near threatened bird species recorded during point count surveys in an agroforestry orchard in Rembau, Malaysia.

In oil palm-dominated Malaysia, agroforestry orchards are oases of bird life: Study

Grace Dungey 11 May 2022

Partnering with farmers is key to land restoration success (commentary)

Ermias Betemariam, Marcela Quintero 3 May 2022

In Mexico, a divine bird inspires a community’s sustainable forestry efforts

Juan Mayorga 2 May 2022

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

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Apr 2022
Emergent rainforest tree in Malaysia

Asia’s troubled trees need better conservation to reach restoration goals: Study

Carolyn Cowan 26 Apr 2022

Funding, titling project for Indigenous-led organizations launched

Laurel Sutherland 25 Apr 2022

Just outside Mexico City, community-run forests provide eco services, livelihoods

Andrea Vega 22 Apr 2022

In Brazil’s northeast, family farmers are guardians of creole seeds

Sucena Shkrada Resk 19 Apr 2022
Rice planting. Image via MASIPAG.

From traditional practice to top climate solution, agroecology gets growing attention

Anna Lappé 13 Apr 2022

Small farmers take a stand for one of Dakar’s last urban woodlands

Francesco De Augustinis 13 Apr 2022
Road constructed into the forest path near the Liboumba River.

In Gabon, a community’s plea against logging paves the way for a new reserve

Benjamin Evine-Binet 12 Apr 2022
Achiote trees in a Kwicha community in Pastaza province

Ecuador’s Pastaza province, Indigenous groups collaborate on forest conservation

Dimitri Selibas 11 Apr 2022
Men from the San Francisco communal land make use of a tree that fell during the rainy season. Photo by Marlén Castro.

Protecting water by conserving forests puts communities in Mexico to the test

Marlén Castro 5 Apr 2022
A group of community workers from the Ejido Santa Ana rest after a day working in the forest. Image courtesy of UCDFI Topia, S.C.

Opium production down as communities in Mexico’s Golden Triangle turn to forestry

Rodrigo Soberanes 29 Mar 2022

FSC-certified Moorim Paper linked to massive forest clearing in Indonesia’s Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 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

In Brazil, a forest community fights to remain on its traditional land

Natalia Guerrero, Sue Branford 22 Mar 2022

Can a reforestation project stop land grabs? Villagers in the DRC give it a try

Didier Makal 17 Mar 2022

NGOs alert U.N. to furtive 2-million-hectare carbon deal in Malaysian Borneo

John Cannon 17 Mar 2022

To fight invaders, Munduruku women wield drone cameras and cellphones

Joana Moncau, Elpida Nikou, from Repórter Brasil 15 Mar 2022
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Thai tourism elephants are ‘far better off’ in forests: Q&A with photographer Adam Oswell

Carolyn Cowan 15 Mar 2022

In Brazil, Indigenous Ka’apor take their territory’s defense into their own hands

Andrew Johnson 14 Mar 2022

From teak farms to agroforestry: Panama tests reforestation strategies

Colin Sytsma 10 Mar 2022

Gold used in Italian wedding rings linked to Amazon deforestation

Lucas Ferraz, Guilherme Henrique 8 Mar 2022

Globally acclaimed community forest groups in Nepal say new rules threaten their autonomy

Abhaya Raj Joshi 7 Mar 2022

Forest enterprise in Mexico attempts to present opportunities for Indigenous communities

Agustín del Castillo 3 Mar 2022

Brazil’s agroforestry farmers report many benefits, but challenges remain

Claire Asher 2 Mar 2022

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