Niue makes its entire EEZ a marine park
In April, Niue, a small island nation in the South Pacific Ocean, designated its entire exclusive economic zone — an area about the size...
The call of the African Fish Eagle returns to Crocworld Conservation...
For 34 years, the iconic call of the African Fish Eagle welcomed visitors to Crocworld Conservation Centre in Scottburgh, but when the beloved Isis...
Bolsonaro loses election but finds big support in Amazon Arc of...
In a close runoff, incumbent Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was defeated in his reelection bid against former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.Bolsonaro, however,...
Q&A with Steve Trent on how China can rein in illegal...
Earlier this week, Mongabay published an article uncovering a massive illegal shark finning scheme across the fleet of one of China’s largest tuna companies,...
Honduran forest governance agreement brings cautious hope
A timber trade agreement that aims to ensure Honduras exports only legally harvested timber products to the European Union is the first of its...
At the mouth of the Amazon, sustainable açaí leaves a sweet...
Residents of the Bailique Archipelago, which lies at the mouth of the Amazon River, established a community protocol to promote their traditional açaí cultivation...
A unique tropical island reforestation project
A two-decade reforestation project on the tropical island of St. Helena in the southern Atlantic Ocean has not only restored trees found nowhere else...
Forest conservation for climate defense & cultural preservation
“Ecuador had not declared community protected area management by Indigenous peoples until Tiwi Nunka Forest. This area is the first of its kind in...
Who decides on ‘priorities’ for ecosystem restoration?
A set of maps from research published in 2020 in the journal Nature suggested that restoring ecosystems in “priority areas” offered a cheap and...
Another winter of discontent as Kathmandu braces for deadly air pollution
As winter sets in, residents of Kathmandu are bracing for worsening air pollution levels that can exceed by a hundredfold the safe limit prescribed...
Fish eggs return to Bangladesh’s Halda River following conservation efforts
The Halda River, considered the world’s only natural gene bank for several pure Indian carp species, as well as home to dozens of endangered...
Shark finning rampant across Chinese tuna firm’s fleet
Dalian Ocean Fishing used banned gear to deliberately catch and illegally cut the fins off of huge numbers of sharks in international waters, Mongabay...
