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A participant plants local green plants in a park as part of Ethiopia's Green Legacy Initiative, which aims to plant 7.5 billion trees by the end of the year, at Jifara Ber site, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Thursday, July 31, 2025.

There’s far less land available for reforestation than we think, study finds

Justin Catanoso 2 Oct 2025

Mozambican reserve harbors largest documented breeding population of rare falcon

Ryan Truscott 18 Sep 2025

Growing trees on farms boosts nutrition in rural Malawi

Liz Kimbrough 17 Sep 2025
Staff member of the Kinesi nursery planting seedlings in the pots, August 2019 ©WeForest

Putting the right plants in the right place boosts restoration (commentary)

Willem Ferwerda 16 Sep 2025
Aerial view of West Kalimantan

Warming triggers unprecedented carbon loss from tropical soils, study finds

Claire Asher 16 Sep 2025
A forest elephant in Gabon.

Ebony’s uncertain future without elephants

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Sep 2025
An illegal araucaria logging station uncovered inside the Mangueirinha Indigenous Territory, in Brazil’s Paraná state. Image courtesy of IBAMA.

Brazilian police arrest Indigenous chief accused of logging endangered trees

Shanna Hanbury 8 Sep 2025
Researcher Anna Gee and GIS specialist Antony Zacarías Morales track tree growth in the TreeMapper app.

After controversies, Plant-for-the-Planet plots its comeback

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Sep 2025
A walk through the Sardinilla Experiment.

New study pinpoints tree-planting hotspots for climate and biodiversity gains

Marina Martinez 3 Sep 2025
The Bialowieza Forest at sunrise. Photo courtesy of Aleksander Bolbot / WWF. 

Last chance to save Europe’s greatest old-growth forest? (commentary)

Alan Weiss 3 Sep 2025
Critically endangered African forest elephants act as seed dispersers in the rainforest, taking the seeds far, far away from the mother plants.

As forest elephants plummet, ebony trees decline in Central Africa’s rainforests

Spoorthy Raman 29 Aug 2025

Thailand’s living floral heritage takes root in a park of rare and ancient trees

Ron Emmons 28 Aug 2025
Banner image of a firefighter trying to extinguish a wildfire as a helicopter flies over Athens on July 26, 2025, by AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis.

Climate change intensified wildfire weather in Greece, Türkiye and Cyprus: Study

Kristine Sabillo 28 Aug 2025

Social media post sparks rediscovery of endemic Sri Lanka rainforest plant

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Aug 2025

Fate of iconic, and endangered, Brazilwood pits musical tradition against conservation

Fernanda Wenzel 20 Aug 2025
2017's Jones Fire in Oregon, U.S.

Old forests, new fires, and a scientific standoff over active management

John Cannon 18 Aug 2025
View of central Kampala.

From counting trees to enhancing climate resiliency, Kampala focuses on its forests

Victoria Schneider 15 Aug 2025
A crew of firefighters fights the Vees Fire near Ten Sleep, Wyoming, in July 2025.

Fixing forests or fueling fires? Scientists split over active management

John Cannon 13 Aug 2025
Rex Mann. Image courtesy of the American Chestnut Foundation.

Rex Mann, American chestnut evangelist, died July 2, aged 81

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Aug 2025
Why is star anise disappearing from northeastern India?

Efforts to revive India’s disappearing endangered star anise

Mongabay.com 4 Aug 2025
The critically endangered lemur leaf frog (Agalychnis lemur), found in Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Requiem for the nearly lost

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Aug 2025
Isidrio Hernandez-Ruiz and his son are participants of the collaborative reforestation trial with Smithsonian and Traditional Leadership.

Indigenous leadership and science revive Panama’s degraded lands

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2025

Ethiopia’s national tree campaign underway with aim to plant 700 million seedlings in one day

Associated Press 31 Jul 2025
A forest gardener waters vegetables in his forest garden in Kaffrine, Senegal.

A forest garden project attempts to expand into the Sahel

Victoria Schneider 28 Jul 2025
Mangroves in Raja Ampat.

Reversing damage to the world’s mangrove forests

Kristine Sabillo 25 Jul 2025

Uruguay confronts a powerful new threat to its palm trees: A tiny red bug

Associated Press 24 Jul 2025
Sunset at Joshua Tree National Park

In a warming world, can California save its Joshua trees?

Maya L. Kapoor 17 Jul 2025
Amanda L. Cordeiro (left), a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Minnesota and Daniela F. Cusack, Associate Professor in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability at Colorado State University at one of their research sites to investigate how root systems react to climatic changes.

Tropical forest roots show strain as changes aboveground filter below

Petro Kotzé 15 Jul 2025
Tropical forests in places like Costa Rica (pictured) can be an important source of livelihoods by attracting nature-oriented tourists. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Nearly half of tree species in Mexico and Central America threatened with extinction

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jul 2025
Bulborox orchid

Bangladesh to save critically endangered orchids and trees

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2025
The Nepalese paper plant is used to make the traditional lokta paper.

Nepal sees positive outcome from reforestation project using local knowledge

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 8 Jul 2025
Red panda photographed in Nepal

The forest guardians along Nepal-India border leading red panda conservation

Deepak Adhikari 4 Jul 2025

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