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Integrated Women’s Development Organization at work in Sidama, Ethiopia. Image courtesy of Ruhama Getahun.

Ethiopian women plant trees, restoring lands & livelihoods

Charles Mpaka 1 Apr 2026
A lemur eating a strawberry guava. Image courtesy of Natalee Phelps.

An invasive guava is muscling out Madagascar’s forests — and lemurs are helping

Ryan Truscott 31 Mar 2026
Residents use canoes to navigate the floodwaters in Banjar Regency.

Indonesia reviews firms in river basins after latest floods affect 7% of Bornean province

Riyad Dafhi Rizki 31 Mar 2026
A dinghy used to sample the lake. Image courtesy of Travis W. Drake.

‘Ancient’ carbon venting from lakes in the Congo Basin peatlands: Study

John Cannon 31 Mar 2026
Portrait of Jacqueline Flores. Image by Heinz Plengue Pardo. Design by Emilie Languedoc.

As traditional forest governance erodes in Peru, ‘ghost permits’ fill the vacuum

Michele Calamaio 30 Mar 2026

Grasslands and wetlands are being lost to agriculture four times faster than forests

Shanna Hanbury 30 Mar 2026
Residents of a buffer zone collecting firewood. Image by Abhaya Raj Joshi/Mongabay.

In Nepal, calls for reform grow louder in buffer zones

Mukesh Pokhrel 27 Mar 2026
Dump trucks maneuver at Indonesia Weda Bay Industrial Park in North Maluku province, June 2024.

US-Indonesia trade deal slammed as ‘extractive colonialism’ over mining, fossil fuels

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Mar 2026
Biruté Mary Galdikas. Photo courtesy of Orangutan Foundation International

Birutė Galdikas, primatologist who spent a lifetime studying & defending orangutans, has died at 79

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Mar 2026

Palm oil clearing advances in Bornean orangutan habitat despite red flags

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Mar 2026
Students are planting indigenous and other fruit tree species on school grounds. Image courtesy of Namulindwa Brendah.

Five more community-led African groups join global landscape restoration network

Charles Mpaka 25 Mar 2026
Galaxy frog in the Western Ghats, India, with photo taken by conservationist Rajkumar K P as part of conservation project (c) Rajkumar K P ZSL .jpg

World Frog Day: New species described amid threats to amphibian survival

Mongabay.com 19 Mar 2026

Indonesia plan to rezone elephant reserve for carbon trading and tourism sparks backlash

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Mar 2026
The endangered Hildegarde’s tomb bat (Taphozous hildegardeae) in flight near its roost in the caves of Mount Suswa, Kenya, during a conservation monitoring survey. Image courtesy of Bat Conservation International.

At dusk in Kenya’s caves, scientists study the hidden lives of bats

Sharon Muzaki 17 Mar 2026
Massaha forest. Image by ZB.

How a community defended its ancestral forest from logging

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Mar 2026
Wood pellets for biomass energy. Image courtesy of Dogwood Alliance.

Forest advocates accuse EU energy firm of Dutch biomass certification fraud

Justin Catanoso 13 Mar 2026
Two Twa women and children are resting under the shade of a cocoa tree next to the Ngite/Mavivi Twa camp in Beni, DRC. Image of Jackson Sivulyamwenge for Mongabay.

Growing number of Indigenous Twa forced out of DRC’s forests and into towns

Jackson Muhindo Sivulyamwenge, Jérémie Kyaswekera 11 Mar 2026
A meeting in the Cinta Larga territory in 2017. Image for representation purpose only. Image by Amazônia Real via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Brazil Supreme Court opens path to mining in Indigenous land for first time

Aimee Gabay 11 Mar 2026
What used to be a dirt road through the heart of the Ngezi Forest Nature Reserve has recently been widened to facilitate development. Image courtesy of Viola Clausnitzer.

Works on planned luxury resort on Pemba island go ahead despite concerns

Victoria Schneider 10 Mar 2026
IKEA allocates 16,000 hectares of forests for research to further improve responsible forest management. Together with European Forest Institute and Preferred by Nature, IKEA will start a research project that will explore, test and scale improved forestry practices, strengthening climate resilience and minimizing negative impacts on biodiversity.

From forest to flatpack, IKEA faces timber traceability test under EUDR

Annelise Giseburt 10 Mar 2026
Ibama (Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources) conducting an operation to combat illegal gold mining in Indigenous territory in the state of Pará, Brazil.

Mining rush for critical minerals threatens Amazon land reform settlements

Sam Cowie, Cícero Pedrosa Neto, Isabel Harari 9 Mar 2026
The Pesalat Reforestation Project in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, restores forest within a national park degraded by fire and logging.

Study maps tree-planting risks and rewards for climate and biodiversity

Ruth Kamnitzer 9 Mar 2026
The Cerrado in Correntina, Bahia. Image courtesy of Thomas Bauer / Earthsight.

The Cerrado is threatened but crucial for Brazil’s biodiversity & water security (commentary)

Cássio Cardoso Pereira, Walisson Kenedy-Siqueira, Domingos de Jesus Rodrigues, Rodolfo Salm, Philip M. Fearnside 9 Mar 2026
An Araucaria angustifolia, a critically endangered conifer, in Itatiaia National Park in the Atlantic Forest.

Restoration of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest may hinge on market for native plants

Sarah Derouin 6 Mar 2026

Indonesian communities push to reclaim lands following company permit revocations

Tonggo Simangunsong 6 Mar 2026
Gelada baboons (Theropithecus gelada) in Ethiopia’s Semien Mountains. Image by Alastair Rae via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Climate or biodiversity? Global study maps out forestation’s dilemma

John Cannon 6 Mar 2026

Beetle known for ravaging mango trees now killing baobabs, study finds

Charles Mpaka 5 Mar 2026

Cameroon’s decade of conflict leaves apes and conservationists in peril

Orji Sunday 3 Mar 2026
Royal flycatcher (Onychorhynchus coronatus). Photo by Mileniusz Spanowicz / WCS.

Birds are changing — and Indigenous memory is the longest record we have

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Mar 2026
Photos from Macron's official visit to Lula in 2024 sparked memes for their resemblance to a “pre-wedding photo shoot.”

Brazil wanted more protections for its endangered national tree. Then France called

Fernanda Wenzel, Spoorthy Raman, Emmanuelle Picaud 27 Feb 2026
A radio-collared slow loris in Bangladesh.

Out of captivity, into conflict: slow lorises struggle to survive after release

Carolyn Cowan 26 Feb 2026

Agroforestry offers market-based way to boost Amazon rains & farmer incomes (analysis)

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Feb 2026

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