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Indonesian flooding disaster bears the hallmarks of agriculture and mining impacts

Ian Morse 7 Aug 2019

‘The forest is our life’: Hope for change in Guyana’s forests (commentary)

Gaulbert Sutherland 6 Aug 2019
Timber packaged for delivery. Photo courtesy ZSL.

Forestry companies warned over environmental policies

James Fair 5 Aug 2019

Future of Amazon deforestation data in doubt as research head sacked

Karla Mendes 5 Aug 2019
Fresh helmeted hornbill head. Photo by Rangkong Indonesia / Yoki Hadiprakarsa

Hornbill heroes: A conversation with a top Indonesian bird conservation NGO

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2019

Africa’s largest reserve may lose half its area to oil development

Stephen Leahy 2 Aug 2019

New film reveals at-risk ‘uncontacted’ Awá tribe in Brazilian Amazon

Karla Mendes 1 Aug 2019

Logging, mining companies lock eyes on a biodiverse island like no other

Gianluca Cerullo 31 Jul 2019

Forest loss threatens territorial gibbons in southern Borneo

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2019

Study shows how to protect more species for less money in western Amazon

Liz Kimbrough 31 Jul 2019

Deforestation drops in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, but risks remain: experts

Karla Mendes 31 Jul 2019

Peru’s crackdown on coca pushes illegal growers toward protected areas

Vanessa Romo 30 Jul 2019

To regulate or not to regulate? EU climate commitments face key test over global deforestation (commentary)

Sam Lawson 26 Jul 2019
Timber at the port of Antwerp. Photo: Philippe Verbelen/Greenpeace

Gabonese timber linked to illegal logging seized in Antwerp

Jim Tan 25 Jul 2019
A pile of wood that has been prepared to be burned in land controlled by Korindo in Papua. Photo courtesy of Mighty Earth

FSC to keep Korindo in the fold, for now

Mongabay.com 25 Jul 2019

New roads in Papua New Guinea may cause ‘quantum leap’ in forest loss

John Cannon 24 Jul 2019

Fears over Indonesian president’s demand for unfettered investment

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Jul 2019

Cocoa and gunshots: The struggle to save a threatened forest in Nigeria

Orji Sunday 19 Jul 2019
Deforestation for soy production in the Bolivian Amazon and Chaco. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

New initiative aims to jump-start stalled drive toward zero deforestation

Sarah Sax 19 Jul 2019

Corrupt police caught in bust of Peruvian Amazon drug gang

Bethan John 19 Jul 2019

The ambitious plan to recover and rewild the feisty, dwarf cow

Jeremy Hance 19 Jul 2019

Colombian investors push Pacific port project, threatening biodiversity hotspot

Taran Volckhausen 18 Jul 2019

Indonesian officials foil attempt to smuggle hornbill casques to Hong Kong

Basten Gokkon 18 Jul 2019
Villagers from Farihitsara gather near the proposed dam site. Tozzi Green, the Italian company responsible for the hydroelectric project, marked some of the rocks when it did research at the site. Image by Edward Carver for Mongabay.

In Madagascar, villagers oppose plans for a dam that would inundate their land

Edward Carver 18 Jul 2019
Rainforest at Tampolo on the Masoala Peninsula, Madagascar. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

We are planting trees everywhere: Q&A with Madagascar’s environment minister

Malavika Vyawahare 17 Jul 2019

Orangutan habitats being cleared in areas near palm oil mills, report finds

Loren Bell 17 Jul 2019

Agriculture, mining, hunting push critically endangered gorillas to the brink

Rachel Fritts 16 Jul 2019

Agroforestry: An ancient ‘indigenous technology’ with wide modern appeal (commentary)

Erik Hoffner 15 Jul 2019

More than 10,000 animals and plants seized in massive global operation

Mongabay.com 12 Jul 2019
Road running through drained and burned peatlands. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

‘Dangerous’ new regulation puts Indonesia’s carbon-rich peatlands at risk

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jul 2019
Sakondry, ready to eat. Image by Brian Fisher.

Eat the insects, spare the lemurs

Emilie Filou 11 Jul 2019

‘Let us trade’: Debate over ivory sales rages ahead of CITES summit

Busani Bafana 11 Jul 2019

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