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A pasture, forest, and town in Austria. Photo via pxhere.

More than half of Europe’s forests lost over 6,000 years

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2018
A luxury yacht at the London Boat Show in January 2018. Photo by Sophie Cohen/Mongabay.

Luxury British yacht makers vow to examine supply chains

Sophie Cohen 23 Jan 2018
Charcoal bags on a boat near Katha, Myanmar. The boat is bound for Bhamo, where the charcoal will be taken by trucks over the order to China. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

Myanmar to target illegal charcoal trade with China

Mongabay.com 18 Jan 2018
Arches National Park. Courtesy of National Parks Service.

U.S. National Park Service advisory panel disintegrates

Mongabay.com 17 Jan 2018
Black-spotted Nudibranch (Ceratophyllidia papilligera). Photo by Nick Hobgood/via Wikimedia Commons.

Haiti’s most popular ecotourism destinations

Mongabay.com 15 Jan 2018
A rebel's weapon and holster. The ELN mostly uses M16, AK47s and Ghalils, Noanamá, Chocó. Photo by Maximo Anderson/Mongabay.

Colombian pipeline bombed hours after end to ceasefire

Maximo Anderson 11 Jan 2018

Study: Amazon dams are disrupting ecologically vital flood pulses

Claire Salisbury 10 Jan 2018
A female ELN fighter practices morning drill, Noanamá, Chocó. Photo by Maximo Anderson/Mongabay.

Chocó at epicenter of Colombia’s social, environmental conflicts

Maximo Anderson 10 Jan 2018
A Rohingya boy carrying a load of firewood through Kutupalong-Balukhali refugee camp in Bangladesh. Photo by Khaamil Ahmed/Mongabay.

Bangladeshi forests stripped bare as Rohingya refugees battle to survive

Kaamil Ahmed 9 Jan 2018
A yacht on the River Thames in London. Photo by Gary Knight via Flickr.

Illegal Burmese wood used in British boats, says organization

Lauren Crothers 9 Jan 2018
A green iguana. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Florida’s iguanas falling from trees in cold snap

Genevieve Belmaker 5 Jan 2018
Heather D'Angelo in front of a Moena Alcanfor grove in Peru. Photo by Shahrzade Ehya with permission.

Former Mongabay intern, now pop star, launches Amazon-friendly perfume

Genevieve Belmaker 2 Jan 2018

Mining concessions in Ecuador stalled over compliance with indigenous rights

Kimberley Brown 13 Dec 2017
A fish die off from chemical spill in Vietnam in 2016. Photo via Maisondelinspir.

Citizen journalist jailed 7 years for reporting environmental disaster in Vietnam

Michael Tatarski 1 Dec 2017
Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Among global companies, efforts on deforestation lag

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Nov 2017
A turtle at Shell Beach in Region 1 of Guyana. Photo courtesy of Guyana Marine Conservation Society.

Guyana seeks offshore oil wealth in a green economy

Carinya Sharples 21 Nov 2017
A dead tree in the Sierra Nevadas in California. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Scientists predict tree death from drought in California’s Sierra Nevadas

Ignacio Amigo 20 Nov 2017
Arley Estupiñan walks towards his house at night. Photo by Ana Cristina Vallejo with permission.

The uncertain future of Bogotá’s shantytowns

Maximo Anderson 16 Nov 2017

Videos detail corruption in massive illegal Peruvian timber case

Genevieve Belmaker 14 Nov 2017
Smallholder Ho Da The at work in his FSC-certified acacia plantation in Phu Loc district, Thua Thien Hue. Photo by James Morgan/WWF with permission.

In Vietnam, small farmers and timber magnates forge uneasy alliance

Zoe Osborne 10 Nov 2017
An orchid. Photo by Džoko Stach/Pixabay.

The lure of wild orchids persists in Colombia

Maximo Anderson 2 Nov 2017
Pyar Chi, 43, poses for a portrait in the corn field she purchased with money made from selling charcoal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

Photo essay: Along Myanmar’s charcoal highway

Nathan Siegel 1 Nov 2017
A forestry department ground inspection team checks the timber to be exported and monitors con-tainer loading at the site before sealing the container. Photo by Ann Wang for Mongabay.

Myanmar struggles to fight the crimes of illegal logging

Ann Wang 1 Nov 2017
A car of seized rosewood close to Yu Pu check point. The driver have heard rumors have an active check point so left the car at a nearby restaurant and disappeared before the officers arrived. Photo by Ann Wang for Mongabay.

Checkpoint China: The shadowy world of timber smuggling

Ann Wang 31 Oct 2017
A​ ​temple​ ​at​ ​night​ ​in​ ​the​ ​town​ ​of​ ​Bhamo,​ ​a​n area​ ​greatly​ ​influenced​ ​by​ ​its​ ​proximity​ ​to​ ​the Chinese​ ​border. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

The wily ways of a Myanmar-China border town

Emmanuel Freudenthal 30 Oct 2017
A boat travels in a tributary to the Irrawaddy River near Katha, northern Myanmar. Along this tributary, charcoal is produced by villages and sold to traders that eventually bring it to China, where it is used in factories that make silicon metal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

The charcoal hunters

Emmanuel Freudenthal, Nathan Siegel 27 Oct 2017
A local cools charcoal at a kiln near Katha, Myanmar. This kiln takes seven days to produce 130 bags of charcoal. Myo Htun, who owns the charcoal, will sell each bag for $0.90 to traders in Bhamo, who will then transport it to China. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

Burning down the house: Myanmar’s destructive charcoal trade

Emmanuel Freudenthal 26 Oct 2017
A member of the Naval Forces of Southern Colombia on patrol near the Putumayo River. Photo by Bram Ebus for Mongabay.

Crackdowns on illegal mining in Colombian Amazon not enough

Bram Ebus 25 Oct 2017

The world’s 5 most Endangered wild cats

Genevieve Belmaker 23 Sep 2017
Courtesy Kratt Brothers Company Ltd.

Wild Kratts episode up for film festival award teaches about rare white bear

Genevieve Belmaker 21 Sep 2017
Kahuzi-Biega National Park rangers stand in formation at the park in October, 2016. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

Pygmy death shows need for land reform, group says

Genevieve Belmaker 15 Sep 2017
The venomous two-striped forest pitviper (Bothriopsis bilineata) waits patiently coiled on a branch a few meters off the ground. A cryptic species and perfect predator, they can sit motionless for hours waiting for their prey. - Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Yasuni Biosphere, Ecuador. ©Ryan P. Killackey/Pollywog Productions

Yasuni indigenous peoples’ fight for survival depicted in new documentary

Genevieve Belmaker 12 Sep 2017

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