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Photos: Where once were mangroves, Javan villages struggle to beat back the sea

Elisabetta Zavoli, Jacopo Pasotti 3 Jul 2017

Rainforest Alliance, UTZ announce merger to create single sustainability standard and certification program

Mike Gaworecki 7 Jun 2017

FSC to investigate Korean conglomerate’s palm oil operations in Indonesia

Mike Gaworecki 7 Jun 2017

Pressure builds on palm oil firm Goodhope after RSPO sanction

Alice Cuddy 31 May 2017

Wilmar appeals RSPO ruling that it grabbed indigenous lands in Sumatra

Rachel Diaz-Bastin 17 May 2017

Palm oil firm pledges to stop deforesting after RSPO freezes its operations in Papua

Mongabay.com 11 May 2017

RSPO freezes palm oil company’s operations in Papua

Alice Cuddy 7 May 2017

RSPO accused of letting palm oil firm proceed with dodgy audits in Papua

Alice Cuddy 14 Apr 2017
Two Chaco Chachalacas in Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Photo by Dario Sanches via Wikimedia Commons.

Jurisdictional certification approach aims to strengthen protections against deforestation

Tara MacIsaac 4 Apr 2017

Big data timber exchange partners with FSC in Brazil

Mongabay.com 13 Mar 2017

From conflict to communities: Forests in Liberia

John Cannon 10 Mar 2017

Survival of nearly 10,000 orangutans in Borneo oil palm estates at stake

Erik Meijaard, Marc Ancrenaz 27 Feb 2017

The Republic of Congo: on the cusp of forest conservation

John Cannon 27 Feb 2017

Wilmar grabbed indigenous lands in Sumatra, RSPO finds

Rachel Diaz-Bastin 16 Feb 2017

Greenpeace slams paper giant over loophole in fire-prevention policy

Alice Cuddy 10 Feb 2017

An in-depth look at Mongabay’s collaboration with The Intercept Brasil

Mike Gaworecki 7 Feb 2017

Will there really be enough sustainable palm oil for the whole market?

Tara MacIsaac 7 Feb 2017
Rainforest timber on a barge in Gabon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

Logging in certified concessions drove intact forest landscape loss in Congo Basin

Mike Gaworecki 30 Jan 2017

HSBC financing tied to deforestation, rights violations for palm oil in Indonesia

John Cannon 18 Jan 2017

‘Last frontiers of wilderness’: Intact forest plummets globally

John Cannon 13 Jan 2017

The year in tropical rainforests: 2016

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Dec 2016
Timber stack at the Iwokrama mill site. Photo by Carinya Sharples for Mongabay

FSC certification gives boost to rainforest community

Carinya Sharples 19 Dec 2016
Logging concession in Kwakwani, Guyana. Photo by Akola Thompson for Mongabay

UK greenheart restriction could put pressure on Guyana’s logging economy

Akola Thompson 15 Dec 2016

FSC puts timber processor on probation after ‘scathing’ investigation

Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Dec 2016

Australian retailers accused of misusing the RSPO’s label on their palm oil products

Alice Cuddy 5 Dec 2016
Rainforest cleared for an oil palm plantation in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia ships first containers of timber under EU legality scheme

Lusia Arumingtyas 17 Nov 2016

Complaint against a palm oil company in Papua held in limbo by RSPO

Alice Cuddy 2 Nov 2016

RSPO loses key backer in Australia: ‘We just can’t trust them anymore’

Mongabay.com 28 Oct 2016

More than 20 labor law violations by Indofood alleged in Indonesia

Alice Cuddy 14 Oct 2016

Scoring palm oil buyers on their sustainability commitments

Mike Gaworecki 10 Oct 2016

Voluntary certification standards have far to go, say experts

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 20 Sep 2016

IPOP’s demise undercuts palm oil industry progress [commentary]

Dave McLaughlin 8 Aug 2016

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