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Eucalyptus for Brazil’s steelmaking dries out communities in Minas Gerais

Daniel Camargos, Emmanuelle Picaud, Simone Fant 29 Apr 2025
Flowering tree in the Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Refocusing conservation funding on trust & community leadership after USAID freeze (commentary)

Leona M. Bhuyan 28 Apr 2025
Forest in Panama that Amigos del Bosque aims to conserve via biodiversity credits, carbon offsets, or other payments for ecosystem services. Image courtesy of Amigos del Bosque.

Paying to prevent deforestation is positive & not ‘nothing’ (commentary)

Jessica Ausinheiler 24 Apr 2025
One of approximately 200 kipunji monkeys in the Udzungwa Mountains. Image courtesy Anthony Jarrett.

New strategy launched to protect Tanzanian biodiversity hotspot

Ryan Truscott 2 Apr 2025
In October 2024, deforestation linked to the construction of the Middle Russei Chrum dam was already spilling over into the Southern Cardamom REDD+ project area. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

New dams call into question Cambodia’s commitment to REDD+ projects

Gerald Flynn 19 Mar 2025
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Forest management ambitions in Brazilian Amazon aim to make up for lost time

Jenny Gonzales 12 Mar 2025
Across the Southern Cardamom REDD+ project in southwest Cambodia, communities have alleged abuse at the hands of the project developer. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Indigenous community calls out Cambodian REDD+ project as tensions simmer in the Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn 10 Mar 2025
Emberá community leader Omaira Casama discusses the project with the McGill University team.

Agroforestry stores less carbon than reforestation, but has many other benefits, study finds

Jeremy Hance 4 Mar 2025
A researcher notes biomass measurements in a mangrove forest in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Image by Kate Evans/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Mangrove deforestation for commodities limits conservation funding in SE Asia

Carolyn Cowan 25 Feb 2025
Melquiades, a Brazil nut producer in the Amazon rainforest. Image by Yoly Gutierrez/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Forest communities craft recommendations for better ART TREES carbon credit standard

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 13 Feb 2025

Mineral exploitation overshadows green diplomacy in Congo’s Sangha region

Elodie Toto 30 Jan 2025

Brazil’s ‘innovative’ reforestation agenda discussed in Davos (commentary)

Guilherme Leal / Paulo Hartung / Roberto Waack 21 Jan 2025

Mining in a forest conservation site clouds Republic of Congo’s carbon credit scheme

Elodie Toto 16 Jan 2025

Southeast Asia in review: 2024

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 30 Dec 2024
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The year in tropical rainforests: 2024

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Dec 2024

Experts question benefits of Colombian forestation project led by top oil trader

Carla Ruas 23 Dec 2024

The state of carbon markets in 2024

John Cannon 23 Dec 2024
Timber illegally extracted from the Amazon by Ricardo Stoppe's group was sold to the USA and Europe.

Illegal timber from Amazon carbon credit projects reached Europe, U.S.

Fernanda Wenzel 16 Dec 2024

Loggers and carbon projects forge odd partnerships in the Brazilian Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Dec 2024
Blackwater oxbow lake in the Peruvian Amazon.

Prosecutors urge suspension of Amazon carbon projects, citing Mongabay investigation

Fernanda Wenzel 22 Nov 2024
A female mountain gorilla carrying her baby on her back.

Biodiversity credit approaches multiply as concerns cloud confidence

John Cannon 19 Nov 2024

Activists fear supercharged ‘business as usual’ under Indonesia’s new president

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Nov 2024

African Development Bank chief calls for ‘green-rich’ continent to also be ‘cash-rich’

David Akana 14 Nov 2024
Andean Cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruvianus). Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Why biodiversity credits cannot work (commentary)

Byron Swift 14 Oct 2024

‘World’s largest’ carbon credit deal in the Amazon faces bumpy road ahead

Carla Ruas 9 Oct 2024
In July 2024, forest activists uncovered a timber depot and sawmills at the site of the Stung Meteuk hydropower project. Image supplied by Tat Oudom.

Cambodian environment minister bans logging at tycoon’s Cardamoms hydropower project

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 30 Sep 2024
A Ministry of Environment ranger on patrol in the Cardamom Mountains. Image by Andyb3947 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Cambodian carbon credit project hit by rights abuse claims is reinstated

Gerald Flynn 11 Sep 2024

Indigenous communities sidelined for Suriname’s new carbon credit program, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 26 Aug 2024
Fire in an area newly deforested in Brazil.

Forest degradation releases 5 times more Amazon carbon than deforestation: Study

Justin Catanoso 9 Aug 2024

In Cambodia, Indigenous villagers lose forest & land amid carbon offset project

Jack Brook 24 Jul 2024

‘Extinct’ trees found in Tanzania spark hope for ecosystem recovery

Ryan Truscott 16 Jul 2024
Significant deforestation was linked to the Lower Russei Chrum dam, which has been operational in Koh Kong province since 2015. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Hydropower dams further undermine REDD+ efforts in Cambodia

Gerald Flynn & Vutha Srey 28 Jun 2024

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