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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On a Philippine island, indigenous groups take the fight to big palm oil

Two studies provide dueling looks at where trees should go

Land thieves ramp up deforestation in Brazil’s Jamanxim National Forest

Saving Guatemala’s vanishing macaws: Q&A with veterinarian Luis Fernando Guerra

Fire, cattle, cocaine: Deforestation spikes in Guatemalan national park

Land grabbing, cattle ranching ravage Colombian Amazon after FARC demobilization

Where the forest has no name

Tall and old or dense and young: Which kind of forest is better for the climate?

Solomon Islanders imprisoned for trying to stop the logging of their forests

A new election brings little hope for Solomon Islands’ vanishing forests

Illegal logging poised to wipe Cambodian wildlife sanctuary off the map

Huge rubber plantation in Cameroon halts deforestation following rebuke

The world lost a Belgium-size area of old growth rainforest in 2018

Peru’s first autonomous indigenous gov’t strikes back against deforestation

How a sheriff in Brazil is using satellites to stop deforestation

‘It’s getting worse’: National parks in Honduras hit hard by palm oil

Video: Scientists surprised to discover tiny toadlets can glow

Liberia’s new land rights law hailed as victory, but critics say it’s not enough

‘It is open season right now’: Martial law intensifies in the Philippines

Putting the Blue in the Green New Deal (commentary)

Tiny subterranean Texas salamanders could be extinct in 100 years

Norway divests from plantation companies linked to deforestation

Brazil to receive first-ever results-based REDD+ payment, but concerns remain

New study finds young forests have a huge climate impact

What the Congo Basin can learn from Filipino community forestry laws (commentary)

Habitat loss, pigs, disease: U.S. salamanders face a ‘tough situation’

As a pandemic looms, researchers rush to test salamander vulnerability

Cocaine blamed for rising deforestation in Peru’s Bahuaja-Sonene National Park

Devastating Laos dam collapse leads to deforestation of protected forests

An expanding frontier: Top 10 global palm oil stories of 2018

Disappearing salamanders: New research aims to solve a decades-old mystery

Copper mine destroying forests in Panama’s Mesoamerican Biological Corridor

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