Agroecology schools help communities restore degraded land in Guatemala
The transformation of ancestral lands into intensive monoculture plantations has led to the destruction of Guatemala’s native forests and traditional practices, as well as...
New Tree Tech: Real-time, long-term, high-tech reforestation monitoring
This four-part Mongabay mini-series examines the latest technological solutions to help tree-planting projects achieve scale and long-term efficiency. Using these innovative approaches could be...
Virtual fences can benefit both ranchers and wildlife
Virtual fencing manages livestock using GPS-linked collars to train animals to stay within a set boundary, similar to an invisible dog fence.Coupled with the...
Philippines’ largest freshwater wetland and Indigenous livelihoods face multiple threats
The floating community of the Manobo Indigenous tribe depend on the rise and fall of water in the Philippines’ Agusan Marsh; however, the marsh...
Takin’ out the trash: How do transnational waste traffickers operate?
Despite Western European countries having increasingly high rates of recycling, difficult-to-recycle plastic and other trash are frequently sent abroad.Sneaky use of waste codes, fake...
Wildlife management platform EarthRanger goes mobile with new app
Since it was launched in 2017, the EarthRanger software has helped protected-area managers, law enforcement agencies and wildlife conservationists to collect, visualize and track...
