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Gender-based violence shakes communities in the wake of forest loss

John Cannon 14 May 2020
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.

China’s revised forest law could boost efforts to fight illegal logging

Ashoka Mukpo 19 Mar 2020

Saving the forests of the Congo Basin: Q&A with author Meindert Brouwer

Mongabay.com 23 Jan 2019

Solomon Islands province bans logging in bid to protect environment

Mongabay.com 21 Jan 2019

Stop importing illegal timber, PNG activists tell China at APEC Summit

John Cannon 22 Nov 2018

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

John Cannon 22 Oct 2018

Study links US demand for Chinese furniture to deforestation in Africa

John Cannon 3 Aug 2018

DRC breaches logging moratorium for Chinese-owned companies

Mongabay.com 23 Feb 2018

Pandas losing ground to hungry livestock in Chinese nature reserve

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2017
The Kunuku Mountains as seen from Lethem, Guyana. Photo by Kevin Gabbert via Wikimedia Commons

Guyana’s government still dealing with fallout over controversial logging company

Alex Abdelwahab 13 Nov 2016

The Myanmar snub-nosed monkey: discovered and immediately endangered

Sean Mowbray 4 Oct 2016
Truck carrying logs across the river border Zizhi Yunnan in 2012. Photo courtesy Environmental Investigation Agency

Myanmar’s forests face myriad problems as logging ban continues

Jennifer Rigby 29 Sep 2016

Loggers destroying giant panda habitat, says Greenpeace

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Nov 2015

Activist arrested while illegal loggers chop away at Madagascar’s forests

Rowan Moore Gerety 15 Sep 2015

Corruption still plundering forests in Laos for furniture

Jeremy Hance 26 Sep 2012

Tropical ecologist: Australia must follow U.S. and EU in banning illegally logged wood

Jeremy Hance 9 Feb 2012

Camera traps snap first ever photo of Myanmar snub-nosed monkey

Jeremy Hance 10 Jan 2012

World’s most endangered primate still losing habitat

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2011

5 million hectares of Papua New Guinea forests handed to foreign corporations

Jeremy Hance 23 Mar 2011

What happened to China?: the nation’s environmental woes and its future

Jeremy Hance 1 Apr 2010

Illegal logging trade from Myanmar to China slows, but doesn’t stop

Jeremy Hance 28 Oct 2009

China’s paper recycling industry can help shield forests from destruction

Mongabay.com 15 Jul 2007

China calls for sustainable logging by Chinese firms overseas

Mongabay.com 11 Jul 2007

Home improvement giant bans illegal wood products

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2007

Chinese demand drives global deforestation

Reuters 10 Jun 2007

China tropical log imports jump at Jiangsu port

Mongabay.com 16 May 2007

China fuels illegal logging in Burma

Global Witness 31 Oct 2005

Timber hungry China moves into Africa

Tina Butler 20 Apr 2005

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