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Modern maple (Acer spp.) sap extraction system in eastern North America with a stewarded wild population of ramps (Allium tricoccum) on the forest floor. Based on Indigenous approaches, in these modern systems tree sap is boiled down to produce maple syrup, sugar and other edible products, and the above- and below-ground portion of ramps are sold commercially and consumed as food. In these systems, additional tree species can be tapped for sap, tree fruits and nuts can be harvested, and dozens of edible, medicinal and handicraft herbs and shrubs can be integrated into the system through intentional cultivation or by stewarding existing wild populations.

Bring the forest to the farm or the farm to the forest? Agroforestry faces a dichotomy

Marlowe Starling 23 Jun 2025
Mongabay podcasts

With offerings in 4 languages, Mongabay’s podcasts expand global reach

Mongabay.com 10 Jun 2025
Polar bears near Churchill. Image by Kt Miller / polarbearsinternational.org.

Manage people more and bears less, say Indigenous elders in world’s ‘polar bear capital’

Gabe Allen 29 May 2025
Chrystal Mantyka-Pringle leading cultural mapping exercises with Tr'ondek Hwech'in First Nation citizens Ryan Petersen and Zack Everitt at the community’s Land of Plenty cultural camp in 2019. Image courtesy of Elaine Cordon.

An alternative approach to bridge Indigenous knowledge and Western science for conservation (commentary)

Chrystal Mantyka-Pringle / Natasha Ayoub / Katie Fraser 20 May 2025
With thick coats and broad paws, Canada lynx are supremely adapted to deep snow.

New research sheds light on Canada lynx-snowshoe hare cycle, human impacts

Ruth Kamnitzer 14 May 2025

Winter warming and rain extreme events pose overlooked threat to Arctic life

Elizabeth Devitt 2 May 2025
Banner image of a wildfire in Umatilla National Forest, by Brendan O’Reilly/U.S. Forest Service–Pacific Northwest Region via Flickr (Public domain).

Innovators battling wildfires with AI, drones & fungi get $50k grants to scale up

Kristine Sabillo 2 Apr 2025
Banner image of a roof rat (Rattus rattus) by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Surge in rat numbers linked to climate warming, urbanization: Study

Kristine Sabillo 7 Feb 2025
Banner image of “No Access,” a photograph of a Eurasian badger by Ian Wood/Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

Striking image of badger and graffiti twin wins top photography prize

Kristine Sabillo 7 Feb 2025
A Pacific wren (Troglodytes pacificus).

Indigenous knowledge helps explain bird population changes in Canada’s BC

Jane Palmer 3 Feb 2025
right whale breaching

Right whales can live to 130, but in North America they die young

Edward Carver 10 Jan 2025
An Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, Wales.

Atlantic puffins are perilously attracted to artificial light, new study shows

Spoorthy Raman 7 Jan 2025
Narwhal image by Газпром нефть via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

We need a North Pole Marine Reserve to secure a healthy future for Arctic waters (commentary)

Graeme Chesters 6 Jan 2025
The National Family Farm Coalition protests genetically engineered salmon at an event in Berea, Kentucky in August 2024.

Campaigners celebrate as firm making first-ever GMO fish ceases operations

Edward Carver 31 Dec 2024
Moose (Alces alces) populations in Ontario, Canada, have declined by 20 percent in the last two decades. Photo credit: Richard Lee on Unsplash

Why are Canadian moose declining? Interviews with Indigenous communities offer new clues

Carly Kay 4 Dec 2024
A bobcat navigates a snow-covered branch along the Madison River in Yellowstone National Park.

Bobcats are back, and they’re helping protect people from zoonotic disease

Christine Woodside 12 Nov 2024
Banner image of a curlew sandpiper, courtesy of Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok/BirdLife International.

Shorebird populations drop globally, some by a third: Report

Kristine Sabillo 11 Nov 2024
Boreal Forest Fire in Canada by Markus Mauthe/Greenpeace

Forest fires outside tropics drove 60% CO2 surge since 2001: Study

Kristine Sabillo 6 Nov 2024
Banner image of Indonesian rainforest by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Mining drove 1.4m hectares of forest loss in last 2 decades: Report

Kristine Sabillo 5 Nov 2024

Salmon is ‘everything’ for Lummi Nation highlighted in new PBS documentary

Liz Kimbrough 1 Nov 2024

Near-extinct North Atlantic right whales get a small population boost

Shanna Hanbury 24 Oct 2024
Banner image: JBIC-funded Ilijan LNG Terminal in the Philippines’ Verde Island Passage. Image courtesy of CEED.

Japan’s LNG financing abroad harms biodiversity, human rights: Report

Kristine Sabillo 18 Oct 2024

Indigenous leader freed after Canada pipeline protest ban conviction

Shanna Hanbury 17 Oct 2024

Canada’s 2023 wildfires doubled the previous burning record

Shanna Hanbury 30 Sep 2024
An old growth clear-cut in Kwakwaka'wakw territory, northern Vancouver Island. Image copyright: Mya Van Woudenberg, Sierra Club BC.

As logging intensifies forest fires, Wet’suwet’en fight to protect old growth

Erica Gies 23 Sep 2024

Fishing in a fog: Ship noise hampers orcas’ hunting success

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Sep 2024

Billions in public funds ‘wasted’ on carbon capture projects, report finds

Shanna Hanbury 13 Sep 2024

Northern elephant seals likely used sonar ‘dinner bell’ to find food

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Sep 2024
Puma. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Highways prevent pumas from reclaiming their eastern U.S. range: Study

Bobby Bascomb 5 Sep 2024
Fraser Valley as seen from Sumas Mountain.

Climate change could return a stolen lake to Indigenous people, a century later

Olivia Ferrari 7 Aug 2024

Youth leaders revive Indigenous seafood harvesting heritage

Matthew Reichel, Robyn Huang 6 Aug 2024
Gisele Martin, Hayden Seitcher, and Hughie Watts from Tseshaht nation — blessing the garden, carrying out a small ceremony to honor the land and ocean to ensure the garden's success and to respect their traditions.

On Canada’s West Coast, clam gardening builds resilience among Indigenous youth

Robyn Huang 6 Aug 2024

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