Maxwell Radwin

Maxwell Radwin

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Max Radwin is a staff writer covering Latin America for Mongabay. For updates on his work, follow him on Twitter via @MaxRadwin.

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Luxury wood market driving extinction of rare ipê trees, report warns

Maxwell Radwin 14 Mar 2022
The Bialowieza Forest at sunrise. Photo courtesy of Aleksander Bolbot / WWF. 

WWF report calls forests a vital public health solution

Maxwell Radwin 10 Mar 2022

El Salvador declares rare ‘red alert’ amid surge in forest fires

Maxwell Radwin 4 Mar 2022

Honduras bans open-pit mining, citing environmental and public health concerns

Maxwell Radwin 3 Mar 2022

Threatened wetlands in Paraguay’s Lake Ypacaraí raise legal questions

Maxwell Radwin 25 Feb 2022

Afro-Colombian community safeguards pristine oceans with new protected area

Maxwell Radwin 21 Feb 2022

Mexico’s top court cancels mining concessions near Indigenous communities

Maxwell Radwin 18 Feb 2022

Fires threaten vital peatland in Chile’s Tierra del Fuego

Maxwell Radwin 7 Feb 2022

Paraguay’s drought hits biodiversity, Indigenous communities the hardest

Maxwell Radwin 3 Feb 2022

Sixty of one, half a dozen of the other: Rare magnolias get a new start in Ecuador’s Chocó

Liz Kimbrough, Maxwell Radwin 31 Jan 2022

Displaced and deprived, Indigenous communities suffer from hunger in Nicaragua

Maxwell Radwin 28 Jan 2022

Full steam ahead for Tren Maya project as lawsuits hit judicial hurdles

Maxwell Radwin 28 Jan 2022

Mongabay’s 10 hardest-hitting investigations of 2021

Maxwell Radwin 29 Dec 2021

Mexican firm profits from reforestation, empowers Indigenous people

Maxwell Radwin 21 Dec 2021

Death threats and friction with military force Guatemalan rangers to flee

Maxwell Radwin 20 Dec 2021

French deforestation database pressures Brazilian soy traders to clean up supply chain

Maxwell Radwin 14 Dec 2021

In southern Colombia, Indigenous groups fish and farm with the floods

Maxwell Radwin 8 Dec 2021

El Salvador women’s group takes a stand for river system targeted by development

Maxwell Radwin 6 Dec 2021

Indigenous community saves Colombia’s poison dart frog from coca and logging

Maxwell Radwin 30 Nov 2021

Venezuelans hit by cooking gas shortages look to forests for firewood

Maxwell Radwin 24 Nov 2021

EU proposes ambitious ban on products tied to legal and illegal deforestation

Maxwell Radwin 19 Nov 2021

New study helps cattle ranchers monitor ecological impact on U.S. rangelands

Maxwell Radwin 12 Nov 2021

FARC peace deal in Colombia sparked war on forests, report says

Maxwell Radwin 8 Nov 2021

In Mexico City’s urban sprawl, an unexpected illegal logging network thrives

Maxwell Radwin 5 Nov 2021
Beach at Cabo Pulmo National Marine Park

Local communities saved Cabo Pulmo with a national park. Then came the tourists.

Maxwell Radwin 30 Oct 2021

Inga tree points to way out of slash-and-burn for Central American farmers

Maxwell Radwin 27 Oct 2021

Deforestation from cattle ranching also hurts rivers in Nicaragua, study says

Maxwell Radwin 22 Oct 2021

Paraguay failed to stop soy farms from poisoning Indigenous land, UN says

Maxwell Radwin 21 Oct 2021

Guatemala tightens cattle ranching rules, but can they stop deforestation?

Maxwell Radwin 15 Oct 2021

Environmental defenders in Nicaragua denounce government crackdown as elections loom

Maxwell Radwin 13 Oct 2021
Indonesia-Palm Oil

FOREST Act bill would hold global suppliers accountable for illegal deforestation

Maxwell Radwin 8 Oct 2021

Oil spills plague Venezuelan coast, but cleanup efforts are lacking: Report

Maxwell Radwin 4 Oct 2021

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