Myanmar communities decry disempowerment as forest guardians since 2021 coup
Within the shrinking civic space and violent aftermath of Myanmar’s February 2021 military coup, community-level efforts to safeguard Myanmar’s vast tracts of forest from...
Whether humans can survive climate change is the wrong question (commentary)
As delegates debate at the annual UN conference on climate change, we should be looking ahead with more interest to next month’s COP15 of...
In Kenya, a Maasai community burned by ecotourism gives it another...
Shompole Lodge in southern Kenya opened at the start of the millennium as a radical model of what community-based ecotourism could be, promising jobs,...
After 14 years of advocacy, the DRC president finally signs new...
On Wednesday, the president of the DRC, Felix Antoine Tshisekedi, signed and promulgated the new law on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights...
Podcast: Escape into nature’s soundscapes
Mongabay’s podcast explores the growing field of bioacoustics often, and an important subset of this discipline is soundscape recording.Healthy ecosystems are often noisy places:...
Can a luxury chocolate company save a Congolese forest?
The widespread popularity of chocolate has led to a cocoa boom in the DRC, escalating deforestation in the country’s primary forests by impoverished locals...
Indonesia seals $20 billion deal with G7 to speed up clean...
Indonesia and the G7 have agreed on a $20 billion financing deal that will help the Southeast Asian nation speed up its transition from...
It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s a killing field at...
More than 2,000 wildlife strikes with aircraft are reported in Brazil every year, but the numbers are underreported and don’t specify the species affected.The...
Q&A with Chile dam critic Jose Marihuan Ancanao
Jose Marihuan Ancanao, president of the Ayin Mapu La Peña community, spoke to Mongabay’s Maxwell Radwin about the impact of hydropower plants in parts...
Dam construction ignites Indigenous youth movement in southern Chile
Dam construction on the Bío Bío watershed has plagued Indigenous Mapuche-Pehuenche communities in south-central Chile for decades, with many families having to relocate due...
Should we start placing more solar farms in deserts?
Could the complex problem of renewable energy be solved by placing far more solar panels in deserts?
Increasing the number of solar farms worldwide will...
Breeding success raises hopes for future of endangered African penguin
Two African penguin chicks have hatched at a nature reserve in South Africa where conservationists have been working for years to entice the endangered...
