A pilot project in Brazil’s Tapajós-Arapiuns Reserve is delivering 24-hour power via solar panels and fish-safe hydrokinetic river turbines.

Designed with filters and slow-rotation grids to protect fauna, the project targets energy gaps in the Amazon, where ~990,000 people still lack electricity.

by Jorge C. Carrasco
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/amazon-villages-build-autonomous-energy-systems-after-mega-dam-failed-pledges/

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The abrupt end of USAID funding has disrupted conservation progress in Ethiopia’s Tama Community Conservation Area (TCCA), where community-led efforts had curbed illegal hunting and led to an increase in elephant and giraffe populations.

In response, local leaders and communities are working to become financially self-sufficient by establishing income-generating initiatives.

By Solomon Yimer
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/after-usaid-cut-ethiopias-largest-community-conservation-area-aims-for-self-sufficiency/

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Recent events and policy decisions across the world are worrying conservationists and climate researchers.

Here, Mongabay lists out ten unique community-led initiatives across the world that show positive and proven impacts.

By Sonam Lama Hyolmo
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/10-unique-community-led-conservation-solutions-in-the-face-of-environmental-despair/

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Bolivia’s Tucabaca Valley Municipal Wildlife Reserve has been beset by clearing and fires over the past several years.

Now, mining, infrastructure development and land trafficking are adding to the pressure faced by the reserve.

Residents of nearby communities have formed an association called Movement in Defense of the Tucabaca Valley.

By Iván Paredes Tamayo
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/communities-band-together-to-save-besieged-reserve-in-bolivia/

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Lake Malawi accounts for more than 90% of landlocked Malawi’s total fish catch, and a key fishing ground is the water around Mbenje Island.

The community here has since the 1950s practiced, and enforced, a fisheries management regime that continues to benefit both fishers and local fish stocks.

By Charles Mpaka
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/how-a-lineage-of-chiefs-built-a-thriving-fish-oasis-in-lake-malawi/

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Community-led approaches to mangrove restoration are increasingly recognized as more effective than many state- or market-driven initiatives in terms of both ecological and economic outcomes.

Nestled within southern Thailand’s mangrove-rich but fast-developing Phang Nga Bay, the village of Ban Nai Nang has developed a mangrove conservation model based on beekeeping.

by Carolyn Cowan
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/beekeeping-helps-villagers-tend-coastal-forests-in-thai-mangrove-hotspot/

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The Aral Sea, once the lifeblood of peoples in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, is parched, shrouded in a layer of toxic salt and dust.

Officials from both countries are working with locals to plant a new forest of drought-resistant plants in the dried-out lakebed, to prevent sandstorms and mitigate the health impacts of breathing in the toxic dust.

by Sonam Lama
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/uzbekistan-plants-a-forest-where-a-sea-once-lay/

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