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Carl and Isabel Gakran, leaders of the Zág Institute, with their daughter Zágtxo, on the Ibirama-La Klãnõ Indigenous Territory. Image courtesy of Anderson Coelho.

For Brazil’s Xokleng people, saving a sacred tree means saving their culture

Letícia Klein 23 Jul 2026

Vietnam’s coffee boom fueled by decades of deforestation, report finds

Naina Rao 22 Jul 2026
Following FDA rangers during arrest of a migrant cacao worker in Grand Gedeh, Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Something strange is happening in Liberia

Ashoka Mukpo, Juan Maza 19 Jul 2026
Packaging cocoa beans in Grand Gedeh, Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

The vanishing forests on Liberia’s cocoa frontier

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Jul 2026

How a spiritual practice is preserving Benin’s mangroves

Mongabay.com 15 Jul 2026

Ecuador’s Amazon coffee farmers get ahead of Europe’s deforestation rules

Sibélia Zanon 14 Jul 2026

Thai rubber smallholders race to meet new EU deforestation rules

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2026

Dutch importers linked to suspect Amazon timber, investigation finds

Maxwell Radwin 2 Jul 2026
Nenieveh Glinoga now opens the farm to overnight visitors, something she was previously unable to do because of the lack of potable water and bathroom.

A coastal Philippine farm offers a blueprint for farming with wetlands

Mavic Conde 29 Jun 2026
Cocoa producer Giovanne holds a native Amazon species, which is naturally resistant to pests and extreme weather. Image by Cícero Pedrosa Neto.

Amazon floodplains cocoa offers a climate-resilient and sustainable chocolate

Sam Cowie, Cícero Pedrosa Neto 25 Jun 2026

Global pressure on ayahuasca threatens Amazonian plants and knowledge systems

Carlos Minuano 23 Jun 2026
Ruos Lim, 71, a Kuy Indigenous community leader, harvests corn he planted at the L4 station in Beng Per Wildlife Sanctuary

Indigenous people in Cambodia claim they’re blocked from sacred sites

Andy Ball, Phoung Vantha, Roun Ry 23 Jun 2026
Christine Kouman with a slender-snouted crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus). Image courtesy of Agata Staniewicz.

Côte d’Ivoire’s tree-climbing crocodile needs to be protected, scientist says

Ryan Truscott 19 Jun 2026

Conservation efforts by families displaced for national park sees success in DRC

Mongabay.com 19 Jun 2026
A marbled cat captured on camera trap in Nagaland. Image by Giridhar Malla.

Community-led initiatives safeguard marbled cats in northeast India

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2026
A Mexican long-tongued bat feeds from an agave flower in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, U.S. Image courtesy of Peter Hudson.

The bats that pollinate for tequila: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 15 Jun 2026
Rubber farmer

In Thailand, EUDR pressure on small-scale rubber farmers prompts private-sector assistance

Carolyn Cowan 15 Jun 2026
Residents in East Lombok plant mangroves. Image by Ahmad H. Ramdhani/Mongabay Indonesia.

In Indonesia’s Lombok, fishers find food security tied to mangrove reforestation

Ahmad H. Ramdhani 11 Jun 2026

In Sumatra, social forestry links conservation with livelihoods

Basten Gokkon 9 Jun 2026
Camera-trap photograph of a Chinese pangolin recorded in the Panchakanya forest in Nepal on Jan. 21, 2025. Image courtesy of Tujin Rai.

Rare Chinese pangolin found in a sacred community forest in Nepal

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Jun 2026

Local indigenous people get more land in a DRC community forest

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2026
Gangala Yafali Mangusa Jr. poses for a photo after a community meeting on social cohesion within the Local Community Forest Concession (CFCL). Image by Jéremie Kyaswekera Kakule.

Descendants of people pushed out for DRC national park lead forest conservation efforts

Jérémie Kyaswekera 2 Jun 2026
Camera trap image of an adult male and a baby gorilla in Ebo Forest.

Report alleges élite ties behind logging permits in Cameroon’s Ebo Forest

Ashoka Mukpo 29 May 2026
A local guide training Community-Based Fire Management (CBFiM) members with camera trap set up.

On Southeast Asia’s largest lake, locals wield tech to defend the flooded forest

Claire Turrell 19 May 2026
Goose Island Archipelago is a cluster of tree-covered islands with wild, rocky beaches located off the central coast of British Columbia.

Reciprocity, not extraction: Centering an Indigenous approach to forestry

Mike DiGirolamo 28 Apr 2026
A mountain gorilla in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. Photo by Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo.

Primate Planet

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 15 Apr 2026
Visitors report seeing kalij pheasants (Lophura leucomelanos), a forest-dependent native species, around the reforestation site. Image by Mprasannak via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

30-year Himalayan project shows power of community-led forest restoration

Shradha Triveni 13 Apr 2026
Emergent rainforest tree in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler for Mongabay.

Indigenous & community leaders say, ‘secure forest financing with us, not for us’ (commentary)

Inés Morales Lastra, José Ivanildo, Levi Sucre 7 Apr 2026
Mountain gorilla silverback in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. Image by Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo.

Mongabay launches Solutions Desk to track what works for the planet

Mongabay.com 7 Apr 2026
Agroforestry in Ethiopia. Image by Trees ForTheFuture via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Who gives up land for the world’s climate fixes?

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Apr 2026

In Peru, Indigenous women work to save an ancestral potato from disappearance

Astrid Arellano 31 Mar 2026

Brazilian settlers turn to reforestation in ambitious land recovery plan

Sibélia Zanon 30 Mar 2026

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