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Elder Donny Abdullah in yellow hi-vis and ranger Kenny Spratt

‘Bring back burning culture’ to save seabirds: Q&A with Wudjari ranger Jennell Reynolds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 May 2022
Fishermen in a small boat at sea in Koror, Palau.

Scaling Palauan tradition to regional fisheries: Q&A with Noah Idechong

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Apr 2022
Two caribou climb a hill. Image courtesy of Kevin L Moore via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Indigenous knowledge and science team up to triple a caribou herd

Chris Arsenault 21 Apr 2022
Piñatex fibers in the drying stage. The pineapple leaf fiber has great tensile strength and flexibility. Image courtesy of Riikka Juva/Ananas Anam.

Sustainable fashion: Biomaterial revolution replacing fur and skins

Jenny Gonzales 8 Apr 2022

Indonesians, too reliant on palm oil, should go back to their roots (commentary)

Taufik Wijaya 7 Apr 2022

Traditional knowledge guides protection of planetary health in Finland

Jane Palmer 31 Mar 2022

Crucial to conservation, Indigenous communities’ environmental leadership endures

Mike Gaworecki 24 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

‘We have a full pharmacopoeia of plants’: Q&A with Māori researcher Nicola Macdonald

Monica Evans 18 Mar 2022
Zimbabwe farmer seed

Farmers rediscover benefits of traditional small grains in Zimbabwe

Tatenda Chitagu 15 Mar 2022

‘Small-scale fishers have a Ph.D. in the ocean’: Q&A with Vatosoa Rakotondrazafy

Malavika Vyawahare 8 Mar 2022
New Zealand Maori

Indigenous knowledge ‘gives us a much richer picture’: Q&A with Māori researcher Ocean Mercier

Monica Evans 25 Feb 2022
Canada marine

In Canada, Indigenous communities and scientists collaborate on marine research

Moira Donovan 15 Feb 2022

Kelp, condors and Indigenous conservation

Mike Gaworecki 9 Feb 2022
Mark Plotkin with an Embera shaman in the Darien on the Colombia-Panama. Photo credit: Amazon Conservation Team

Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin: Indigenous knowledge serves as a ‘connective tissue’ between nature and human well-being

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jan 2022

By cultivating seaweed, Indigenous communities restore connection to the ocean

Claudia Geib 14 Jan 2022

Indonesian research center for medicinal plants displaces incense harvesters

Barita News Lumbanbatu 13 Jan 2022

As its glaciers melt, Nepal is forced into an adaptation not of its choosing

Johan Augustin 27 Dec 2021

Global ayahuasca trend drives deforestation in Brazil’s Acre state

Matthew Meyer 22 Dec 2021

In Guyana, saving an Indigenous language from dying out with its last speakers

Alva Solomon 21 Dec 2021

An Indigenous community in India’s Meghalaya state offers lessons in climate resilience

Sahana Ghosh 13 Dec 2021

In Indonesia’s ‘Dragon Village,’ customs and nature are at the center of life

Donny Iqbal 22 Nov 2021
Medicinal garden

Study confirms anti-inflammatory property of traditional Samoan remedy

Stephanie Melchor 19 Nov 2021

Bali’s new highway project sparks concerns about agriculture and conservation areas

Sachi Kondo 18 Nov 2021

For forest communities in Sumatra, loss of nature means loss of culture

Taufik Wijaya 9 Nov 2021

Indigenous bioacoustics listens to the land for conservation and tradition

Mike Gaworecki 27 Oct 2021
Myrna Cunningham

For some Indigenous, COVID presents possibility of cultural extinction, says Myrna Cunningham

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Oct 2021

Extinction of Indigenous languages leads to loss of exclusive knowledge about medicinal plants

Sibélia Zanon 20 Sep 2021

In Peru, ancient food technologies revived in pursuit of future security

Illa Liendo Tagle 3 Sep 2021

Examining ‘What Works In Conservation’

Mike Gaworecki 1 Sep 2021

On the Mongolian steppe, conservation science meets traditional knowledge

Jacopo Pasotti 2 Jun 2021

Traditional healers are preserving their knowledge, and with it, the biodiversity of Brazil’s savanna

Sarah Sax 12 Mar 2021

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