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Fresh oil palm fruit bunches. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Palm oil giant’s claim it can’t control Liberian subsidiary a ‘red herring,’ NGO says

Daniel Pye 12 Sep 2018
Cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Brazilian legislators break law, attack Amazon, trade freely with world: report

Sue Branford 11 Sep 2018

Plantations can produce more palm oil if they keep riverbanks forested

Rachel Fritts 10 Sep 2018

How land is stolen in Colombia

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 6 Sep 2018

Improving rural credit in Brazil: More production, better environment (commentary)

Juliano Assunção, Priscila Souza 6 Sep 2018

Farmers see promise and profit for agroforestry in southern Kenya

David Njagi 31 Aug 2018

Tech goes back to basics to mitigate human-wildlife conflict near Indian parks

Moushumi Basu 31 Aug 2018

Indonesian government appeals ruling on tighter peat fire regulations

Basten Gokkon 30 Aug 2018

The forested path to climate stability (commentary)

Belinda Morris, Frances Seymour 30 Aug 2018

Fires and haze return to Indonesia as peat protection bid falls short

Aseanty Pahlevi, Hans Nicholas Jong, Zamzami 29 Aug 2018

Brazil’s pesticide poisoning problem poses global dilemma, say critics

Anna Sophie Gross 27 Aug 2018

Indonesia’s land swap program puts communities, companies in a bind

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Aug 2018

Study finds widespread degradation, deforestation in African woodlands

John Cannon 27 Aug 2018

Another mass fish kill hits Indonesia’s largest lake

Ayat S. Karokaro 24 Aug 2018

Community-run trading posts help Amazon forest people reverse rural exodus

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 23 Aug 2018

Brazil hits emissions target early, but rising deforestation risks reversal

John Cannon 23 Aug 2018

Indonesia seeks to get palm oil used as jet fuel in U.S., France

Mongabay.com 23 Aug 2018

Is Indonesia’s celebrated antigraft agency missing the corruption for the trees?

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 22 Aug 2018
Rainforest in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Environmental issues to be a focus of Indonesian presidential debates: official

Basten Gokkon, Indra Nugraha 21 Aug 2018

Report finds APP and APRIL violating zero-deforestation policies with wood purchases from Djarum Group concessions in East Kalimantan

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2018

‘Empty pocket season’: Dayak women farmers grapple with the impacts of oil palm plantations

Tessa Toumbourou 20 Aug 2018

Colombia: Govt rushes to save national park from rampant deforestation

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 16 Aug 2018

Earth has more trees now than 35 years ago

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Aug 2018

South American soy fed to EU livestock drives Gran Chaco deforestation

Jenny Gonzales 15 Aug 2018

Recovering conservationist: Q&A with orangutan ecologist June Mary Rubis

Basten Gokkon 15 Aug 2018

Industrial fishing is dominated by just a few of the world’s wealthiest nations

Mongabay.com 14 Aug 2018

Ruralists in Brazilian congress put nation’s protected areas at risk

Liz Kimbrough 14 Aug 2018

RSPO should ban deforestation, say investors representing $6.7t in assets

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2018

Ecology monks in Thailand seek to end environmental suffering

Kiley Price 13 Aug 2018

Trase.earth tracks commodities, links supply chains to deforestation risk

Claire Asher 13 Aug 2018

Can Ecuador do palm oil right? Jurisdictional RSPO commitment stirs hope

Kimberley Brown 10 Aug 2018

Death foretold? A courageous Amazon peasant couple resists illegal loggers

Thais Borges, Mauricio Torres 10 Aug 2018

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