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Reforestation project in Borneo using native species. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Singapore launches new carbon marketplace for nature conservancy projects

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 16 Jun 2021

‘We guard the forest’: Carbon markets without community recognition not viable

Dimitri Selibas 4 Jun 2021

The key to averting environmental catastrophe is right beneath our feet

Claire Asher 1 Jun 2021

Click here to plant a tree: Q&A with Ecosia’s Pieter van Midwood

Liz Kimbrough 18 May 2021

Behind the buzz of ESG investing, a focus on tech giants and no regulation

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Apr 2021
Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

Governments, companies pledge $1 billion for tropical forests

Aurora Solá, Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Apr 2021
Image of a female lion with wildebeest kill in Tanzania. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Total’s East African oil pipeline to go ahead despite stiff opposition

Malavika Vyawahare 19 Apr 2021

As COP26 looms and tropical deforestation soars, REDD+ debate roars on

Peter Yeung 15 Apr 2021

Government inaction prompts voluntary REDD+ carbon credit boom in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 6 Apr 2021
Cyclists with firewood on the road from Kisangani to Masako village, Democratic Republic of Congo. Image by Ollivier Girard/CIFOR (CC BY-NC-ND-2.0)

Ambitious return to carbon markets to conserve Africa’s forests

Mongabay 28 Jan 2021

‘There is no vaccine for climate change,’ U.N. environment chief says

Mongabay.com 14 Jan 2021
Peyto Lake, Alberta, Canada. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

How to turn climate ambitions into reality: Q&A with Nigel Topping

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Jan 2021
Rainforest mantis in Suriname. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Rainforests: 11 things to watch in 2021

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jan 2021

Norway bumps rate to protect rainforests amid anticipated U.S. climate return

Vincent Ricci 4 Dec 2020

Reforestation projects should include tree diversity targets, too (commentary)

Andrew Whitworth 2 Dec 2020
Redwood forest in California. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

‘Nature is next’: Q&A with Finance for Biodiversity’s Simon Zadek

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Nov 2020

Without planting more trees in the tropics, we can’t fix the climate (commentary)

Edward Mitchard 18 Nov 2020

REDD+ carbon and deforestation cuts in Amazon overestimated: Study

Peter Yeung 2 Nov 2020
Deforestation in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Experts question integrity of Indonesia’s claim of avoided deforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Sep 2020
Pardalis chameleon (Furcifer pardalis), a resident of the Masoala Peninsula in northeastern Madagascar, where illegal rosewood logging has taken a heavy toll on forests. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

In the battle to save forests, a make-or-break moment for REDD+

CJ Clouse 15 Jul 2020

The U.N.’s grand plan to save forests hasn’t worked, but some still believe it can

CJ Clouse 14 Jul 2020

Economists put a price tag on living whales in Brazil: $82 billion

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 May 2020
Hadzabe walinzi wa jadi, or village game scouts patrol the forests of the Yaeda Valley. Their job is to patrol protected forests and report any deforestation, poaching or creation of settlements to local authorities. Their salary is paid by Carbon Tanzania from revenue made from carbon sales. Photo by Sophie Tremblay for Mongabay.

Tourism has crashed: Are carbon credits the future for funding conservation in Africa?

Mantoe Phakathi 29 Apr 2020
The Javari river forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Investing in Amazon Rainforest Conservation: A Foreigner’s Perspective (commentary)

Jonah Wittkamper 21 Apr 2020

Oil exploration at odds with peatland protection in the Congo Basin

John Cannon 23 Mar 2020
A butterfly in the forests of Vietnam. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Vietnam’s new conservation plan prioritizes trees and people. Emissions? Not so much

CJ Clouse 13 Mar 2020

Leaders on the cutting edge of conservation recognized on International Women’s Day

Genevieve Belmaker 6 Mar 2020

Climate fix? ‘Fertilizing’ oceans with iron unlikely to sequester more carbon

Monica Evans 4 Mar 2020

Economists, conservationists, political leaders urge adoption of carbon tax to halt tropical deforestation

Mongabay.com 13 Feb 2020

Success of Microsoft’s ‘moonshot’ climate pledge hinges on forest conservation

Justin Catanoso 3 Feb 2020
Forest canopy in Volcano on the big island of Hawaii. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Rainforests in 2020: 10 things to watch

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2019
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

2019: The year rainforests burned

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2019

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