Morgan Erickson-Davis

About

Morgan has been writing for Mongabay since 2008 and came on full-time in 2014. Trained in biology, Morgan has taken any available opportunity to learn more about the world, from working as a fisheries biologist aboard longliners and freighters in the South Pacific to evaluating river health in western Montana. Morgan spent eight years editing technical papers before jumping into journalism, with more than 50 manuscripts under her belt. Currently, she manages Mongabay's forests and global palm oil reporting programs.

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Massacre in Nicaragua: Four indigenous community members killed for their land

Rare trees are disappearing as ‘wood pirates’ log Bolivian national parks

A national park takes shape in Argentina as the forest disappears

Colombia’s ‘Heart of the World’: Mining, megaprojects overrun indigenous land

Communities in Ecuador fight back against palm oil

Illegal tin mining leaves trail of ruin in protected Brazilian rainforest

Palm oil, fire pushing protected areas in Honduras to the ‘point of no return’

Illegal gold rush causing ‘irreversible damage’ to rivers in the Brazilian Amazon

‘A crisis situation’: Extinctions loom as forests are erased in Mozambique

Guyana refutes findings that deforestation skyrocketed after REDD+ payments stopped

Researchers urge sustainability as palm oil tightens its grip on Latin America

‘Timebomb’: Fires devastate tiger and elephant habitat in Sumatra

Mexico plans huge increase in palm oil production in sensitive ecosystems

Colombian town faces earthquakes, pollution, water shortage as industry expands

Saving the Gran Chaco: Conservationists demand protection before it’s too late

Indigenous communities ‘robbed’ as land grabbers lay waste to Brazilian rainforest

Bonobo conservation stymied by deforestation, human rights abuses

Peru: Gold mine operating without license destroys primary forest in protected area

‘Witnessing extinction in the flames’ as the Amazon burns for agribusiness

Gran Chaco: South America’s second-largest forest at risk of collapsing

Indigenous communities, wildlife under threat as farms invade Nicaraguan reserve

Mexican officials battle a tide of fire eating away at a protected reserve

Disaster strikes in Bolivia as fires lay waste to unique forests

‘Not a pretty picture’: South China’s forests vanish as tree farms move in

‘We have cut them all’: Ghana struggles to protect its last old-growth forests

Indigenous communities, nat’l parks suffer as Malaysia razes its reserves

Rainforest destruction accelerates in Honduras UNESCO site

Gov’t takedown of illegal gold mining in Peru shows promise, but at a cost

Logging, mining companies lock eyes on a biodiverse island like no other

Cocoa and gunshots: The struggle to save a threatened forest in Nigeria

Agriculture, mining, hunting push critically endangered gorillas to the brink

Colombia registers first drop in deforestation since 2016 FARC peace deal

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