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  • Indigenous peoples near Congo parks propose diverse solutions for the future of conservation
  • Michael Painter put Indigenous land rights at the center of conservation
  • Scientific & traditional knowledge are key for effective & community-centered conservation (commentary)

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news.mongabay.com /1 day ago

Indigenous peoples near Congo parks propose diverse solutions for the future of conservation

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — High above the lush forests of protected areas in the Congo Basin in eastern Congo, the calls of endemic birds and monkeys echo through the tre...

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news.mongabay.com /1 week ago

Michael Painter put Indigenous land rights at the center of conservation

In the Bolivian Chaco, the Isoceño Guaraní did not need conservationists to tell them that their land was under pressure. Agricultural settlement was pushing into the region, and t...

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news.mongabay.com /1 month ago

Scientific & traditional knowledge are key for effective & community-centered conservation (commentary)

A group of women often climbs steep cliffs to set up camera traps for snow leopards around Kibber in Spiti Valley, India. The senior women know the landscape intimately, like what...

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news.mongabay.com /3 weeks ago

John Salehe helped shape Tanzania’s community conservation movement

For wildlife moving between Lake Manyara and Tarangire, a line on a map was never enough. Elephants, wildebeest, and other animals crossed land used by pastoralists and farmers, wh...

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audubon.org /2 weeks ago

Connecting the Maya Forest: San Pedro Dzula becomes the first Conserva Aves-supported protected area declared in Mexico

Conservation success often begins at the local level, but its impact can reach far beyond community boundaries. In southern Yucatán, a new achievement is demonstrating exactly that...

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forestsnews.org /1 month ago

Papua New Guinean community members learn new ways to track flora and fauna

What does it take to monitor wildlife across one of Papua New Guinea’s largest conservation areas? Three young Biodiversity Team Leaders share how they use camera traps, acoustic r...

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audubon.org /1 month ago

A Rare Opportunity to Support Indigenous-led Conservation in Canada

The Kaska Nation has spent years developing a vision for a proposed Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area (IPCA) in Northwest British Columbia called Dene K’éh Kusān, which means...

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news.mongabay.com /1 month ago

New ‘conservation deed’ aims to protect tree kangaroos, forests, people in Papua New Guinea

It happened with a few strokes of a pen on a hilltop in northwestern Papua New Guinea on June 30: The leaders of the Tenkile Conservation Alliance (TCA) finalized an agreement to p...

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globalvoices.org /1 month ago

Whose conservation, whose development? The Maasai struggle over land in northern Tanzania

Conservation has become a tool for “green grabbing”: The taking of community land in the name of environmental protection while opening space for tourism, hunting, and investment i...

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news.mongabay.com /2 days ago

In Panama’s Darién, Indigenous communities test a new way to fund conservation

When Elsa Quiroz saw the spotted body of a jaguar appear on her son’s computer screen, she couldn’t believe her eyes. “I’d only seen them in books,” she said. In late 2025, a camer...

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audubon.org /1 month ago

Leading Conservation: CLI Students Unveil Year-End Projects

Audubon Florida’s Conservation Leadership Initiative (CLI) is an immersive program that connects undergraduate students with Audubon chapter leaders for a unique, intergenerational...

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news.mongabay.com /3 weeks ago

New Zealand opens marine reserves with groundbreaking MДЃori co-management model

DUNEDIN, Aotearoa New Zealand — At a U.N. meeting in 2015, Aotearoa New Zealand’s then Prime Minister John Key made a major announcement that drew praise from international conserv...

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news.mongabay.com /1 month ago

Like ‘climbing Kilimanjaro’ without help: Interview with a Limpopo conservationist

In Limpopo province, in the far north of South Africa, where much of the population lives in rural areas, environmental conservation is often not considered very often. Instead, th...

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news.mongabay.com /1 month ago

Women’s collectives are protecting Nigeria’s gorilla wildlife sanctuary

In the communities surrounding Nigeria’s Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary, women’s conservation collectives are transforming the protection of a biodiversity hotspot that’s home to...

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news.mongabay.com /1 day ago

Indigenous territories maintain Amazon forest just as well as protected areas, study finds

A new study has found that in Ecuador’s Amazon, Indigenous territories without formal conservation contracts maintained forest conditions just as well as formal protected areas. Ec...

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thecitizen.co.tz /1 week ago

When conservation becomes a burden for local communities

As Tanzania earns billions of shillings from growing tourist numbers and successful wildlife conservation, communities living around protected areas in Serengeti District, Mara Reg...

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thecitizen.co.tz /1 month ago

How conservation investment is transforming lives beyond tourism

When parents arrived at a paediatric medical camp in Mugumu earlier this year, many expected nothing more than routine consultations for their children. Instead, doctors began not...

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greenpeace.org /2 weeks ago

Aotearoa stands up for conservation land

On 15th August 2026, hundreds of people across Aotearoa came together to send the Government one message: hands OFF conservation land. The post Aotearoa stands up for conservation...

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taifaleo.nation.co.ke /1 week ago

Kenya, China na Tanzania zaimarisha ushirikiano wa uhifadhi wa wanyamapori

Katika wakati ambapo migogoro kati ya binadamu na wanyamapori inaongezeka, Kenya imeandaa mkutano mkubwa wa kubadilishana uzoefu wa uhifadhi wa bioanuwai kati ya China na Afrika, u...

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news.mongabay.com /2 weeks ago

How a rare bird sparked a wildlife movement across 16 villages in Guyana

WICHABAI, Guyana — At sunrise in Guyana’s South Rupununi, Leroy Ignacio stops beside a tree scored with large claw marks. The animal responsible was a giant anteater. “They even ru...

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news.mongabay.com /2 weeks ago

Hands On: Stories that build change

Communities across the globe are responding to environmental pressures like climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution with local knowledge and practical action. This Mongabay...

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news.mongabay.com /1 month ago

‘This is what’s working’: Indigenous leaders on environment solutions in their communities

Eriberto throws his head back with a laugh and shakes it as he tills his plot of land in the Peruvian Amazon, near the Cordillera Azul National Park in central Peru. “That does not...

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news.mongabay.com /3 weeks ago

Indigenous food sovereignty is one of the most overlooked conservation strategies (commentary)

As governments and conservation organizations search for solutions to the interconnected crises of biodiversity loss, climate change and food insecurity, they are overlooking one o...

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audubon.org /1 month ago

Texas Leaders in Conservation – Full Circle

.Every year, Texas Leaders in Conservation (TLC) hosts career panels for its students. Based on their career interests, the program's annual theme, and the availability of professi...

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