Other stories in Mongabay’s series on changing forest practices in China: China’s Wanglang panda reserve, once an ecotourism model, faces new threatsChinese villagers turn from logging to forest patrols, bees,…
Other stories in Mongabay’s series on changing forest practices in China: China’s Wanglang panda reserve, once an ecotourism model, faces new threatsChinese villagers turn from logging to forest patrols,…
Other stories in Mongabay's series on changing forest practices in China: China’s Wanglang panda reserve, once an ecotourism model, faces new threats Can China’s first private nature reserve become truly sustainable?…
Veteran Mongabay reporter Jeremy Hance’s hard-hitting series investigating recent changes in the field of conservation drew tens of thousands of readers and sparked intense conversation. Catch all four parts of…
Other stories in Mongabay's series on changing forest practices in China: Chinese villagers turn from logging to forest patrols, bees, and fish Can China’s first private nature reserve become truly sustainable?…
Other stories in Mongabay's Conservation, Divided series: Part 1: Has big conservation gone astray? Part 2: How big donors and corporations shape conservation goals Part 3: Conservation today, the old-fashioned…
Other stories in Mongabay's Conservation, Divided series: Part 1: Has big conservation gone astray? Part 2: How big donors and corporations shape conservation goals Part 3: Conservation today, the old-fashioned…
Other stories in Mongabay's Conservation, Divided series: Part 1: Has big conservation gone astray? Part 2: How big donors and corporations shape conservation goals Part 4: Conservation's people problem Epilogue: Conservation still…
Other stories in Mongabay's Conservation, Divided series: Part 1: Has big conservation gone astray? Part 3: Conservation today, the old-fashioned way Part 4: Conservation's people problem Epilogue: Conservation still divided, looking…
Other stories in Mongabay's Conservation, Divided series: Part 2: How big donors and corporations shape conservation goals Part 3: Conservation today, the old-fashioned way Part 4: Conservation's people problem Epilogue: Conservation…
onservation is messy. Conservation is complicated. Conservation is really, really difficult. But if we are to avoid mass extinction, conservation, most of all, is necessary. Beginning next Tuesday, Mongabay will…
n the library shelves of its Nyaru Menteng rehabilitation center in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF) has row upon row of bound volumes, each bearing the…
oop,” went the hi-tech pressurized Spezialgeräte GmbH Telinject gun. And yet again “foop.” The crack sniper from the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF) lumbered about on the boggy forest floor,…
Concentrated in the Congo Basin, lush Guineo-Congolian rainforests stretch across Africa's midsection, from West Africa down to northern Angola and eastward towards the Great Rift Valley. But only one small…
amily planning can prevent unwanted pregnancies, increase birth spacing, and improve women’s reproductive rights. All of this can reduce human populations, theoretically taking pressure off local environments. In recent years,…
The theft of bigleaf maple to feed the demand for rare tonewoods used by musical instrument makers has been a persistent problem in the U.S. Pacific Northwest for years, but…
t the start of the rainy season thousands of people trudge across tropical landscapes lugging baskets full of tree saplings on their backs. These men and women are carrying the…
new study of market-based forest conservation schemes in Chile provides rare insight into the effectiveness of this relatively new approach to preventing deforestation. The schemes, known as non-state, market-driven (NSMD)…
mid headlines screaming about climate change and ecological collapse, it is easy to forget just how much nature is left. Two parallel rings of so-called “primary forest” — areas largely…
anaging national parks and conservation areas is expensive. Paying staff salaries, maintaining buildings, managing land, and conserving wildlife: these things don’t come cheap. Traditionally governments have carried the tab, but…
When the final Great Bear Rainforest Agreement was announced earlier this month, it was not only a historic moment in forest conservation but also represented a significant shift in how…
The recent Paris climate agreement included REDD+, the UN’s Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation program, as a key tool for combating climate change. It is widely expected — or…
n the Mediterranean island of Malta, rocky shrublands known as garrigues face several threats, including development and invasive species. Many Maltese disregard garrigues as barren wastelands. Yet they are home…
hen one of the big names in international football gets involved in an event in a small, sleepy Nigerian town, everyone turns up. Football is big in Nigeria, so big…
Editor’s note (22-Jan-2016): An earlier version of this story contained several errors that have now been corrected. See the end for a summary of the changes. n September 2015, a…
Though deforestation in Brazil has fallen sharply over the past decade, the production of beef and other cattle products continues to be a significant driver of forest destruction in the…
As the turn of the twentieth century loomed, a horrific drought swept through China. Nearly 700 kilometers of the Huang He, or Yellow River, the second longest in the country,…
n Christmas Eve in 1968, on their fourth orbit around the moon, the three American astronauts aboard Apollo 8 were startled to see the Earth, a pale blue orb, rising…
There was a moment during the harvest season in 2012, after a devastating drought crushed the Midwest breadbasket, when it became apparent in the glance of an eye that Dave…
Fifteen years ago, Cyril Kormos helped create the Central Suriname Nature Reserve — 1.6 million hectares (about 4 million acres) of protected tropical forest that provides habitat for jaguars, giant…
