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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Indigenous communities and Mennonite colonies clash in Colombia

Mennonite colonies linked to deforestation of Indigenous territories and protected areas in Paraguay

Deforestation on the rise in Quintana Roo, Mexico, as Mennonite communities move in

Logged and loaded: Cambodian prison official suspected in massive legalized logging operation

Bolivian national park hit hard by forest fires in 2022, satellite data show

Indigenous communities threatened as deforestation rises in Nicaraguan reserves

Deforestation ‘out of control’ in reserve in Brazil’s cattle capital

Top mangrove news of 2022

In Brazil’s Amazon, land grabbers scramble to claim disputed Indigenous reserve

Gold mining invades remote protected area in Ecuador

‘Panic’ sets in as armed groups occupy, deforest Colombian national park

Indigenous communities in Peru ‘living in fear’ due to deforestation, drug trafficking

Indigenous community in Peru losing forests to timber, drug, land trafficking

Bolivian protected areas hit hard by forest fires

The protected area that isn’t: Bolivia’s Ñembi Guasu beset by fires, farms, roads

Mangrove restorers in Haiti bet on resilience amid rising violence

New oil refinery ‘a huge disaster’ for Nigerian forest reserve

The Western Indian Ocean lost 4% of its mangroves in 24 years, report finds

Poverty-fueled deforestation threatens Kenya’s largest water catchment

Niger Delta mangroves in ‘grave danger’ from oil spills, poverty, invasive species

In Brazil’s Pantanal, early flames signal a ‘new normal’

Deforestation intensifies in northern Malaysia’s most important water catchment

Rains quell fire risk around Cambodia’s Tonle Sap, but the future looks fiery

Farmers feel the pressure after conservation crackdown around Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake

Authorities and Yobin communities clash as deforestation spikes in Indian national park

Mennonite colony builds bridge, clears forest in Bolivian protected areas

Miners, drug traffickers and loggers: Is Costa Rica’s Corcovado National Park on the verge of collapse?

Opaque infrastructure project ‘a death sentence’ for Cambodia’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary

Large-scale logging in Cambodia’s Prey Lang linked to politically-connected mining operation

Colombian Indigenous community waits in poverty as courts weigh ownership of ancestral land

Deforestation on the rise as poverty soars in Nigeria

Indigenous communities in Ecuador struggle with the aftermath of another oil spill

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