Andrews et al. combine 15 years of forestry arrest records from Pemba, Tanzania, with high-frequency household economic data to show that seasonal income cycles drive illegal resource extraction, whic...

In 1993, I was sitting on a mud floor with a small group of women in a village in Karnataka, trying to start a conversation about their lives.

One statistic helps us understand climate change—and why we are lurching from droughts to floods to droughts again

Das Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung (ZMT) erforscht tropische und subtropische Küstenökosysteme und ihre Bedeutung für Natur und Menschen erforscht.

Global risks are too great for markets alone to curb. Political considerations must come before economic ones.

Coral rag forests are a dry, and usually dwarfed, forest type scattered along an extensive coastline from Kenya to Mozambique, representing major hubs…

Header image: Moderate cross-country slopes (Photo: By Erik W. Kolstad - Flickr, CC BY 2.0,) Here’s a particular genre of article that relies on multiple data collection sites, such as studies anal...

Humans occupy a geographic and ecological range wider than that of any other extant vertebrates, having rapidly expanded into nearly every habitat ...

Between 2008 and 2018, the CARE-World Wildlife Fund Alliance implemented an integrated conservation and development project in the Primeiras e Segunda…

A comparison of 10 global forest datasets showed that technical differences created substantial uncertainty in estimates in forest carbon, forest-poverty relationships, and forest biodiversity habitat...

Experts say the issue may be far more widespread than is recognised — and we should be keeping track.

Amidst the collective push to establish nature conservation initiatives, little attention has been paid to ensuring that they persist over time. The abandonment of conservation commitments is a blind ...

By Ranjini Murali, Altynai Adabaeva, Sixto Angulo, Rosario Arispe, Matthias Baumann, Arash Ghoddousi, Amirhossein Khaleghi Hamidi, Martin Jansen, Leili Khalatbari, Igor Khorozyan, Oswaldo Maillard,…

Zanzibar has a reputation as an island paradise in the Indian Ocean. Lying 20 kilometers (12 miles) off the East African mainland, it is governed as a semiautonomous zone of the United Republic of…

Zanzibar has a reputation as an island paradise in the Indian Ocean. Lying 20 kilometers (12 miles) off the East African mainland, it is governed as a semiautonomous zone of the United Republic of Tan...

Global environmental scientists have urged the Zanzibar Investment Promotion Authority (Zipa) to relocate construction of a five-star tourist hotel from Pemba’s Ngezi Forest Reserve

Human actions have shaped ecosystems for thousands of years, and have profound effects on biodiversity and environmental processes. This Review explores the ways that humans have modified past ecosystems and the methods available for researchers to study these changes, as well as indicating how understanding historic change can inform conservation strategies.

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

The NOAA has reported a steep increase in large whale deaths by entanglement in fishing gear, news that follows federal budget cut backs

Our mission is to protect and help transmit to the next generation of Pembans the rich biodiversity and cultural heritage of Ngezi forest. We aim to connect the people living around the forest, and fu...

The moist broadleaf forests located on the coasts of Tanzania and Kenya and on nearby archipelagos such as Zanzibar are highly fragmented hotspots of plant and animal diversity (1). On Pemba, the 988-...

Scaling area-based conservation, including initiatives led or comanaged by Indigenous Peoples and local communities, is a flagship goal of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Conserva....