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Palm oil executives arrested in bribery scandal in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong, Indra Nugraha 30 Oct 2018

The Brazilian government’s land war against rebel slave descendants

Anna Sophie Gross 29 Oct 2018

Tsetse fly numbers dwindle in the warming Zambezi Valley

Mongabay.com 29 Oct 2018

Machine-learning app to fight invasive crop pest in Africa

Stephanie Parker 26 Oct 2018

Peru seizes plane with 30kg of cocaine in Bahuaja-Sonene National Park

Vanessa Romo 25 Oct 2018

Indonesia’s anti-graft agency ‘eager to intervene’ in palm oil sector

Mongabay.com 25 Oct 2018

Violence spikes during Brazil elections, rural minorities fear worse

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 24 Oct 2018

Absent for decades, zebras reintroduced to park in southern Tanzania

Mongabay.com 24 Oct 2018

Amazon and climate science threatened if Bolsonaro elected Brazil’s president (commentary)

17 Latin American scientists 23 Oct 2018

Grainrail: ‘2nd revolution in Brazilian agribusiness’ and Amazon threat

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 22 Oct 2018

Secrets revealed: Researchers explore unique, isolated forest in Mozambique

Morgan Erickson-Davis 19 Oct 2018

Tropical deforestation now emits more CO2 than the EU

Rachel Fritts 18 Oct 2018

Jair Bolsonaro: looming threat to the Amazon and global climate?

Jenny Gonzales 18 Oct 2018

In a first, DRC communities gain legal rights to forests

Mongabay.com 18 Oct 2018

Real-time plantation map aims to throttle deforestation in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Oct 2018

Fate of the Amazon is on the ballot in Brazil’s presidential election (commentary)

Aline C. Soterroni, Fernando M. Ramos, Michael Obersteiner, Stephen Polasky 17 Oct 2018

Scientists map the impact of trawling using satellite vessel tracking

John Cannon 17 Oct 2018

Is S&P Dow Jones greenwashing conflict palm oil? (commentary)

Gaurav Madan 16 Oct 2018

As climate change takes its toll, world leaders call for adaptation

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Oct 2018

Land rights, forests, food systems central to limiting global warming: report

Justin Catanoso 15 Oct 2018
Aloisio Sampaio, a trade unionist known as Alenquer, the leader of the KM Mil landless peasant occupation. He was murdered on 11 October. Image by Thais Borges.

Landless movement leader assassinated in Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 15 Oct 2018

Latam Eco Review: Millennial trees and Pacific coral larvae

Mongabay.com 12 Oct 2018

Amazonia and the setbacks of Brazil’s political moment (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 12 Oct 2018

Fire fundamentally alters carbon dynamics in the Amazon

John Cannon 12 Oct 2018

Second environmental expert sued over testimony against palm oil firm

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Oct 2018
Elizabeth Azzuz and Margo Robbins, leaders of the Cultural Fire Management Council, have been helping Yurok Tribal members burn their land to improve the growth of basket materials and other traditional plants. Photo by Jane Braxton Little for Mongabay

Fire and agroforestry revive California indigenous groups’ traditions

Jane Braxton Little 11 Oct 2018

Brazil scraps 11 new Amazon protected areas covering 2,316 square miles

Sue Branford 8 Oct 2018
Planet satellite image of Sipatnanam, Fakfak Regency. Taken in September 2018. Courtesy of Planet.

To conserve West Papua, start with land rights (commentary)

Bernadinus Steni, Daniel Nepstad 5 Oct 2018

Hunting, agriculture driving rapid decline of jaguars in South America’s Gran Chaco

Mike Gaworecki 5 Oct 2018

Business and biodiversity benefit from Kyrgyz agroforestry systems

Cholpon Uzakbaeva 5 Oct 2018

Latam Eco Review: Kissable sharks and spectacled bears

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2018
Cattle at one of the 70,000 suppliers used by JBS, one of Brazil's largest beef producers. Photo courtesy of JBS

Pasture expansion driving deforestation in Brazilian protected area

Mike Gaworecki 4 Oct 2018

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