Bertha Mjawa is credited with sparking a movement to reduce food waste in Tanzania. Credit: Rachel Cernansky. Other Special Reporting Initiatives Articles by Rachel Cernansky Combating food waste in sub-Saharan…
Other Special Reporting Initiatives Articles by Agência Pública Dams or indigenous land: the battle over the Munduruku frontier Exclusive: Funai confirms that land threatened by dam projects belongs to indigenous…
Other Special Reporting Initiatives Articles by Rachel Cernansky Combating food waste in sub-Saharan AfricaNew solutions aim to deliver more grain from farm to table in sub-Saharan Africa Members of a…
A remnant tree looms over the landscape in southwestern Tocantins state. Photo credit: Brendan Borrell Farmers in north-central Brazil, where the savanna meets the Amazon rainforest, are clearing land at…
Blue and yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) are a common sight in the Cerrado. Photo credit: Brendan Borrell At the Los Angeles auto show in November 2008, Hyundai made a groundbreaking…
A trader sorts mangos at the Kilombero wholesale market in Arusha, Tanzania. Credit: Rachel Cernansky. At the bustling Kilombero wholesale produce market in the town of Arusha, Tanzania, traders sort hundreds…
Cerrado corn crop with peccaries. Photo by Brendan Borrell. Margie Peixoto was driving her pickup across her farm in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul one February afternoon…
Kenya’s elephants could be among the animals harmed by harsh new laws to hamstring the programs of international environmental groups such as the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and World Wide…
Mark Kwok, owner of Aquaculture Technology Asia, at his facility in Hong Kong. Kwok's grouper farm uses special skimmers, bacteria, and UV technology that recycles fouled water and returns it…
The city of Itaituba, in western Pará state, is home to several construction projects of strategic interest for the Brazilian government. However, with local infrastructure fragile, residents are worried they…
The life of fisherman Rosinaldo Pereira dos Santos, generally known as Tatá, may take a very different direction from the one that the governments of President Luiz Inácio Lula da…
Other Special Reporting Initiative reporting by Barbara Fraser How do parks affect the poor? Jury's still out, some experts say Innovating Brazil nuts: a business with roots in the rainforest…
Peruvian authorities struggle to restore records lost during government transition Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon. Photos by Rhett A. Butler Non-profit organizations are working with the regional government of…
Other Special Reporting Initiative Articles by Pública Exclusive: Funai confirms that land threatened by dam projects belongs to indigenous tribe After working in the woodland, the Munduruku warriors get together…
Other Special Reporting Initiatives Articles by Pública Dams or indigenous land: the battle over the Munduruku frontier The Brazilian government opposes granting traditional land to the Munduruku people since it…
Other Special Reporting Initiative reporting by Barbara Fraser Innovating Brazil nuts: a business with roots in the rainforest Video: innovative tourism helps protect forests in Amazonian Peru Community tourism fills…
Other Special Reporting Initiative reporting by Barbara Fraser Video: innovative tourism helps protect forests in Amazonian Peru Community tourism fills niche around Tambopata National Reserve Indigenous territories play dual role…
First of its kind audit of world's largest pulp and paper producer yields mixed results Arara Abadi acacia plantation near Pekanbaru, Riau, Sumatra. All photos by Rhett A. Butler. An…
A new short documentary highlights the innovative, locally-grown tourist ventures sprouting up in the buffer zone around Peru's Tambopata National Reserve. Not only do these tourist adventures--some specializing in rehabilitating…
When Víctor Zambrano retired from the military and returned to his family's old homestead outside the fast-growing jungle town of Puerto Maldonado in Peru, he got an unpleasant surprise. Strangers…
Conservation conundrum: indigenous territories or government protected areas Indigenous communities claim—and scientific evidence increasingly shows—that indigenous forested territories are as well protected as, or better protected than, government-designated parks. In…
Enchanted lakes and magic hills: how traditional stories support conservation and abundance "Long ago, when animals were gente..." Those words, uttered countless times by indigenous Amazonian storytellers, blur the boundary…
Regional conservation area safeguards subsistence and spirituality in the Peruvian Amazon For Alfredo Rojas, the history of the remote villages along the Ampiyacu River is one of enslavement. Growing up…
Critically Endangered chimpanzees stand to lose home over giant iron mine in West Africa When I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in West Africa decades ago well-laid plans often crumbled…
Deforestation in Riau, Sumatra in 2014. Photos by Rhett A. Butler. When Indonesia's former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono declared a moratorium in May 2012 on the issuance of new permits…
Can alternative income programs save Fiji's reef fish? If a country's residents, historically, didn't fret about their coastal resources or concern themselves with starvation, what happens when those previously abundant…
Marrying religion and conservation could be key to making Fiji's fisheries sustainable Fijians appear to enter life with vocal cords prepped for singing. It's an ideal trait, because most are…
Peat forest in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photos by Rhett Butler. Indonesia's new Minister of Environment and Forestry Siti Nurbaya Bakar imposed a moratorium on the issuance of all new logging…
Mongabay.org offers journalists opportunity to report on government muzzling of environmental activists Mongabay.org recently announced a new Special Reporting Opportunity for journalists to focus on governmental shutdown of environmental groups…
Illegal oil palm plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett Butler. Newly elected Indonesian president Joko "Jokowi" Widodo announced on October 26th that the Ministry of Forests and the Ministry…