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Before and after of a restoration project in Spain. Image courtesy of AlVelAl.

Why I quit the film industry to work on ecological restoration (commentary)

John D. Liu 12 Sep 2024
Women's cooperative farm in Dogba. Image by Leocadia Bongben for Mongabay.

How the Zai farming technique is transforming soil fertility in North Cameroon

Leocadia Bongben 11 Sep 2024
Peter Kamowa settled in the edge of the forest and helps to guard it from invasion. Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

As Malawi government struggles to protect a forest, communities show the way

Charles Mpaka 29 Aug 2024
Entrepreneur Namita Mondal is watering mangrove saplings at her nursery.

In the Sundarbans, women are embracing mangrove restoration as an alternative livelihood

Sadiqur Rahman 15 Aug 2024
Fraser Valley as seen from Sumas Mountain.

Climate change could return a stolen lake to Indigenous people, a century later

Olivia Ferrari 7 Aug 2024
Red-throated bee-eaters (Merops bulocki), Pehonko, Benin. Image by Yves Bas via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0).

Birdsong rings out once again in Togo’s sacred forest of Titiyo

Charles Kolou 7 Aug 2024

Rhino poop draws all the deer (and boars and more) to the yard, study finds

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Jul 2024
Members of BirdWatch Zambia with binoculars, pointing at something interesting out of the frame. Image © WeForest

Zambian forest reserve rebounds with a little assistance

Ryan Truscott 20 Jun 2024

Water is key as study shows restoration of drained tropical peat is possible

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jun 2024

Campesinos bring life back to a deforestation hotspot in the Colombian Amazon

Astrid Arellano 30 May 2024
Fire fighters cooling burnt peatlands.

Floods set to worsen on Sumatra peat as landscape gives way

Suryadi 30 May 2024
A herd of deer in Bardiya National Park.

Nepal’s tigers & prey need better grassland management: Interview with Shyam Thapa

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Apr 2024
Two male proboscis monkeys in Malaysian Borneo.

Indonesian capital project finally gets guidelines to avoid harm to biodiversity

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Apr 2024

‘Planting water, eating Caatinga & irrigating with the sun’: Interview with agroecologist Tião Alves

Xavier Bartaburu 25 Mar 2024

Reforestation and restoration: Two ways to make the Pan Amazon greener

Timothy J. Killeen 14 Mar 2024
A harvester navigating the wild rice beds on the canoe.

Culture and conservation thrive as Great Lakes tribes bring back native wild rice

Spoorthy Raman 4 Mar 2024
Jokowi visiting the location of Indonesia's new capital Nusantara with the Governor of East Kalimantan in 2019.

Indonesia to offer tax perks to companies investing in reforestation of its new capital city

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Feb 2024
A Bengal tiger in neighboring India.

UN award for Nepal’s tiger range restoration spurs euphoria amid challenges

Abhaya Raj Joshi 15 Feb 2024

Mini rainforest project aims to serve as Kalimantan reforestation blueprint

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Feb 2024

Reforestation of Indonesia’s new capital city stumped by haphazard planting

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Feb 2024

Study: Indonesia’s new capital city threatens stable proboscis monkey population

Basten Gokkon 8 Feb 2024
Workers at a mangrove nursery in Dam, a coastal town in Pakistan's Balochistan province. Image by Ayaz Khan for Mongabay.

Pakistan bucks global trend with 30-year mangrove expansion

Ayaz Khan 5 Feb 2024
India’s new forest rules spark dismay — and hope: Q&A with activist Soumitra Ghosh

India’s new forest rules spark dismay — and hope: Q&A with activist Soumitra Ghosh

Niladry Sarkar 17 Jan 2024

In Brazil’s Caatinga, adapted agroforests are producing food from dry lands

Xavier Bartaburu (words and photos) & Rafael Martins (video) 3 Jan 2024
A car burns with two people inside, after a Russian bombardment in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, April 21, 2022. Image by AP Photo/Felipe Dana via Flickr.

Nature-based recovery needed for Ukraine’s damaged protected areas (analysis)

Hannah L. Timmins 22 Dec 2023

A community-led strategy to save Brazil’s dry forests from desertification

Xavier Bartaburu (words and photos) & Rafael Martins (video and photos) 11 Dec 2023
A miyamashijimi rests on a buckwheat flower. Image courtesy of Todai University.

Japanese butterfly conservation takes flight when integrated with human communities

Keona Blanks 8 Dec 2023

A Brazilian NGO restores widely degraded Atlantic Forest amid mining threats

Sarah Brown 6 Dec 2023

Keeping herbivores at bay helps in early stages of restoration, studies show

Tim Vernimmen 28 Nov 2023
Borneo forest

Forest restoration to boost biomass doesn’t have to sacrifice tree diversity

Carolyn Cowan 28 Nov 2023
Mona Webber pointing at a mangrove restoration site on Norman Manly Highway.

Jamaica battles relentless plastic pollution in quest to restore mangroves

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Nov 2023
Prescribed burns conducted by government organizations don’t face the same high cost of fire insurance as private organizations do. Image courtesy of the Virginia Department of Forestry.

As U.S. insurers stop covering prescribed burns, states and communities step up

Ashli Blow 15 Nov 2023

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