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Study links US demand for Chinese furniture to deforestation in Africa

John Cannon 3 Aug 2018

95 percent of all lemur species face high risk of extinction, experts say

Mongabay.com 2 Aug 2018
The once threatened black caiman (Melanosuchus niger) is recovering and now listed as ‘conservation dependent’ on the IUCN Red List. Photo courtesy Jason Houston/Upper Amazon Conservancy.

In Peru, a new president is faced with old conservation challenges

Justin Catanoso 2 Aug 2018

Meet the Bornean village chief dealing with the fallout from a corrupt plantation deal

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 1 Aug 2018

The crisis in the European tropical timber sector in Central Africa (commentary)

Alain Karsenty 1 Aug 2018

A ‘perfect policy storm’ cuts puma numbers by almost half near Jackson, Wyoming

John Cannon 1 Aug 2018

Tracking the shift of tropical forests from carbon sink to source

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2018
Timber is only allowed to be exported via ports and must be processed before export in Myanmar. Photo by Ann Wang for Mongabay.

Rampant timber smuggling in Myanmar as forest service restructures

Genevieve Belmaker 30 Jul 2018

Indonesia forest assessment casts an optimistic light on a complex issue

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Jul 2018

Community groups in Cambodia say logging surged with approaching election

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2018

Latam Eco Review: Witchcraft and wildlife trafficking in Peru

Mongabay.com 27 Jul 2018

Number of murdered environmental activists rose once again in 2017

Mongabay.com 25 Jul 2018

Forest communities pay the price for conservation in Madagascar

John Cannon 25 Jul 2018

Indigenous stewardship is critical to success of protected areas (commentary)

Michael Painter, David Wilkie, James Watson 25 Jul 2018

Shadow companies and the Indonesian land crisis

Mike Gaworecki 24 Jul 2018

Temer’s deforestation policies put Paris goals at risk, scientists warn

Sue Branford 24 Jul 2018

Colombia pledges to produce deforestation-free chocolate

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2018

As planned excise flops, Indonesia ponders how to give up plastic bags

Basten Gokkon 23 Jul 2018

Peru: Marañón dry forests protected as a regional conservation area

Vanessa Romo 20 Jul 2018
A fishing cat near Colombo, Sri Lanka, surrounded by trash.

Conservation Effectiveness

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2018

DRC set to reclassify national parks for oil, open rainforest to logging

John Vidal 19 Jul 2018

India’s pre-election changes to green laws draw criticism

Mayank Aggarwal 19 Jul 2018

Cross-border camera trap research puts wild Amur leopard number at 84

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2018

RSPO walks back suspension of Nestlé

Mongabay.com 18 Jul 2018
A western chimpanzee in Liberia. Image by Cameron Zohoori via Flickr. (CC BY-NC 2.0)

New report spotlights financiers of palm oil giant clearing Liberia’s forests

Daniel Pye 17 Jul 2018

Indigenous peoples control one-quarter of world’s land surface, two-thirds of that land is ‘essentially natural’

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2018

EU demand siphons illicit timber from Ukraine, investigation finds

John Cannon 17 Jul 2018
Wood that was cut for charcoal production near Katha, northern Myanmar. Villages in this area used to cut teak and other valuable trees for export, but have since started producing charcoal. The charcoal being exported to China can be made from any tree, regardless of size or kind. This amount of trees could produce about 150 bags of charcoal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

‘Single-minded determination’: China’s global infrastructure spree rings alarm bells

Basten Gokkon 17 Jul 2018
John Aini at a Malagan ceremony. Image by JC Salyer.

Protecting PNG’s oceans: Q&A with marine activist John Aini

Basten Gokkon 16 Jul 2018

Soy giant Louis Dreyfus pledges deforestation-free supply chain

Anna Sophie Gross 16 Jul 2018

New research proposes solutions for reducing environmental costs of feeding Earth’s 7.6-billion human population

Mongabay.com 13 Jul 2018

Another Cecil? Secrecy surrounds June trophy lion hunt

Jeremy Hance 13 Jul 2018

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