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Brazilian frog believed ‘extinct’ for 50+ years, found with eDNA testing

Peter Yeung 6 Oct 2020

Stock indices let Brazil meatpackers shed ties to deforestation, draw investors

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 6 Oct 2020

Automakers fuelling deforestation, dispossession in Paraguay’s Gran Chaco: report

Mongabay.com 6 Oct 2020

Indonesia’s food estate program eyes new plantations in forest frontiers

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Oct 2020

More than 470 oil spills in the Peruvian Amazon since 2000: Report

Yvette Sierra Praeli 6 Oct 2020

Diary of a top environmental journalist and bad traveler: Q&A with Jeremy Hance

Erik Hoffner 6 Oct 2020
Flowering rainforest tree in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

‘Deforestation-free’ isn’t working: It’s time to go forest positive (commentary)

Charlotte Opal 5 Oct 2020

Forest degradation outpaces deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Study

Claire Asher 5 Oct 2020
Satellite image of Tribugá, Colombia. Courtesy of Zoom.Earth.

Battle over proposed Colombian port at Tribugá puts sustainable development in focus

Dimitri Selibas 5 Oct 2020

On a Philippine island, a tricky balancing act between development and water

Francesca Edralin 5 Oct 2020

Indian embassy in Madagascar becomes first to go fully solar

Mongabay.com 2 Oct 2020

Top award for Indigenous alliance is most recent in a series of wins for the Amazon

Sarah Sax 2 Oct 2020

Hotter tropics may worsen climate change, reforestation could lessen it: Studies

Taran Volckhausen 2 Oct 2020
A mother brown bear and her two cubs in the Gästrikland region of Sweden. Image by Roger Borgelid for Mongabay.

As predators return to Sweden’s wild, ecotourism looks to change mindsets

Johan Augustin 2 Oct 2020

Alcoa vs. the Amazon: How the ribeirinhos won their collective land rights

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 2 Oct 2020

When roads cross wilderness areas, plant pathogens can hitch a ride

Ian Morse 2 Oct 2020

A Philippine tribe’s plant-based medical tradition gets its moment

Bong S. Sarmiento 2 Oct 2020

Oil tanker fire in Sri Lanka’s rich waters highlights need for preparedness

Malaka Rodrigo 1 Oct 2020

Land grab, logging, mining threaten biodiversity haven of Woodlark Island

Gianluca Cerullo 1 Oct 2020
Mycena haematopus (Burgundydrop Bonnet)

World’s plants and fungi a frontier of discovery, if we can protect them: Report

Liz Kimbrough 1 Oct 2020

World’s protected areas lack connections, recent study finds

John Cannon 1 Oct 2020

Brazilian dry forests are chronically degraded even in non-deforested areas

Meghie Rodrigues 1 Oct 2020

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