Morgan Erickson-Davis

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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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Forest advocates say zero-carbon goals too reliant on unrealistic tech

Justin Catanoso 15 Nov 2016

Gold mining invades new areas of Peruvian Amazon

Benji Jones 11 Nov 2016

Another 700 hectares of Bolivian rainforest lost to sugarcane surge

Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Nov 2016

Restoring degraded land could mean big financial gains for Latin America

Morgan Erickson-Davis 4 Nov 2016

Nations come together to save Kenya’s disappearing coastal forests

Sophie Mbugua 3 Nov 2016

Small oil palm plantations are having big impacts on Peru rainforest

Benji Jones 28 Oct 2016

Efforts to stop deforestation in DRC may be misplaced, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 27 Oct 2016

Gold mining deforestation in Peruvian reserve surpasses 450 hectares

Benji Jones 13 Oct 2016

Exclusive: Rainforest rapidly cleared for sugarcane in Bolivia

Eduardo Franco Berton 12 Oct 2016
Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Signs of regrowth offer hope for Peruvian rainforest cleared for gold

Benji Jones 5 Oct 2016

Russia’s Far East: then and now

Jeremy Hance 1 Oct 2016

Indigenous communities take the lead on conservation in Colombia

Laura Dixon 30 Sep 2016

Deforestation jumps into Peru reserve, 1,600 hectares of rainforest lost

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Sep 2016

China’s reforestation program a letdown for wildlife, study finds

Benji Jones 27 Sep 2016

‘We are revolutionaries’: Villagers fight to protect Myanmar’s forests

Katie Arnold 23 Sep 2016

Proposed sale of timber from palm oil concession sparks alarm in Liberia

Jeremy Hance 21 Sep 2016

Wildfires threaten Peruvian Indigenous communities and national park

Alexa Eunoé Vélez Zuazo 19 Sep 2016

Canada’s eastern boreal forest could become a climate change refuge

William H. Funk 16 Sep 2016

‘A major concern’: plantation-driven deforestation ramps up in Borneo

Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Sep 2016

World’s watersheds lost 6 percent of their forests in 14 years

Morgan Erickson-Davis 31 Aug 2016

Logging roads have long-lasting impacts on forests

Morgan Erickson-Davis 29 Aug 2016

New ‘sleeping beauty’ frog discovered in fragmented Peruvian forest

Apoorva Joshi 25 Aug 2016

Timber from Peru 90 percent illegal, finds report issued by U.S. gov’t

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 Aug 2016

‘All they need is a head start’: reforesting India’s Western Ghats

Sibi Arasu 16 Aug 2016

Illegal gold mining eats up more protected Peruvian rainforest

Morgan Erickson-Davis 12 Aug 2016

Deforestation: a lingering legacy

John Cannon 10 Aug 2016

Hundreds of unexpected species found in Mexican UNESCO site slated for gold mine

Martha Pskowski 5 Aug 2016

Peru’s new environmental policies: What are they and will they work?

Justin Catanoso 5 Aug 2016

‘An optimistic place to start’: Myanmar enacts national logging ban

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Aug 2016

A dangerous, illegal necessity: charcoal reform comes to Virunga

Sophie Mbugua 2 Aug 2016

The ‘raven’ whale: scientists uncover new beaked whale

Jeremy Hance 27 Jul 2016

Sri Lanka set to become first nation to protect all mangroves

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Jul 2016

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