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Honduras aims to save vital wildlife corridor from deforestation

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2018

The last trees of the Amazon

Nelly Luna Amancio 12 Nov 2018

Indonesia leans on businesses to do more about plastic waste

Basten Gokkon 12 Nov 2018

End of funding dims hopes for a Sumatran forest targeted by palm oil growers

Elviza Diana, Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Nov 2018

Latam Eco Review: Hungry manatees and grand theft tortoise

Mongabay.com 9 Nov 2018

In West Papua’s Arfak Mountains, local leaders plot ecotourism boom

Christopel Paino 9 Nov 2018
A map of Biacou (also spelled Beacou) made by residents of the village shows the location of various protected sites. Click here to enlarge. Image courtesy of RFLP/Sergio Pedroco.

Timor-Leste: With sacrifice and ceremony, tribe sets eco rules

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 8 Nov 2018

Four of six black rhinos translocated to Chad are now dead

Mongabay.com 8 Nov 2018

Cerrado farm community fights for life against dam and eucalyptus growers

Anna Sophie Gross 7 Nov 2018

In funding palm oil giants, banks may share in ‘sins of the companies’

Tessa Toumbourou 7 Nov 2018

Protection flip-flop leaves rare Indonesian shrikethrush in harm’s way

Petrus Riski, Rahmadi Rahmad, Themmy Doaly 7 Nov 2018

The ongoing trade in conflict timber (commentary)

Arthur Blundell, Jade Saunders 6 Nov 2018
A fishing boat in the town of Beheloke in southwestern Madagascar. Image by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

Local fishers oppose $2.7 billion deal opening Madagascar to Chinese fishing

Edward Carver 5 Nov 2018

Bear-human conflict risks pinpointed amid resurgent bear population

Mongabay.com 5 Nov 2018

Call to protect dwindling wilderness ‘before it disappears forever’

John Cannon 1 Nov 2018

Colombia: Dying of thirst, Wayuu blame mine, dam, drought for water woes

Lucy Sherriff 1 Nov 2018

Thousands of radiated tortoises seized from traffickers in Madagascar

John Cannon 31 Oct 2018

In the Peruvian Amazon, the prized shihuahuaco tree faces a grim future

Leslie Moreno Custodio, Ojo Público 31 Oct 2018

The legal institutionalization of FSC certification in Gabon (commentary)

Alain Karsenty 31 Oct 2018

With a feast of grubs, a tribe makes its case for forest stewardship

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Oct 2018

China legalizes use of tiger bone and rhino horn for traditional medicine

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2018
Maubere elders in the village of Suco Fatumea draft tara bandu regulations to protect local forests and water sources. Image by Egrilio Ferreira Vincente.

Timor-Leste: Maubere tribes revive customary law to protect the ocean

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 26 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, Mauricio Torres 24 Oct 2018
Ankarana sportive lemur (Lepilemur ankaranensis), an endangered species whose habitat is threatened by rosewood logging. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

CITES rejects another Madagascar plan to sell illegal rosewood stockpiles

Edward Carver 24 Oct 2018

Absent for decades, zebras reintroduced to park in southern Tanzania

Mongabay.com 24 Oct 2018

Two black rhinos found dead in Chad after move from South Africa

Mongabay.com 24 Oct 2018
African elephants in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

New research measures impacts of China’s elephant ivory trade ban

Mongabay.com 23 Oct 2018

Study warns of dire ecological, social fallout from Sumatran dam

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Oct 2018

Chinese demand wiping out forests in the Solomon Islands: New report

John Cannon 22 Oct 2018
A woodcarver makes a carving of a rhinoceros on the outskirts of Lunga Lunga, a town on the border between Kenya and Tanzania. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay

African wood industry: 10,000 micro-businesses need support for sustainable trade

Joseph Charpentier 22 Oct 2018

Indonesia’s Aceh sees harshest penalty yet for a wildlife crime

Junaidi Hanafiah 22 Oct 2018

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