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Deforestation in Kapuas Hulu regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Global forest loss increased in 2020

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Mar 2021

Unrelated adoptions by bonobos may point to altruistic traits, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Mar 2021
Banner image of an artisanal palm oil production in Yalifombo village. Image © Oskar Epelde courtesy of Oakland Institute.

Pension and endowment funds linked to conflict-plagued oil palm in DRC

John Cannon 22 Mar 2021
Sunrise over the Amazon rainforest

We’re killing those tropical trees we’re counting on to absorb carbon dioxide

Fernanda Wenzel 24 Feb 2021
Rainforest in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

What are the tropical forest storylines to watch in 2021?

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jan 2021
Rainforest mantis in Suriname. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Rainforests: 11 things to watch in 2021

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jan 2021
Blackwater oxbow lake, rainforest, and a whitewater river in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

How the pandemic impacted rainforests in 2020: a year in review

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Dec 2020
A canoe on the Maroni river, which forms the border between French Guiana and Suriname. Photo © Didier Gentilhomme.

France’s tropical forest conservation efforts: an interview with AFD’s Gilles Kleitz

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Dec 2020

Herd opportunity: Hundreds of elephants return to DRC’s Virunga

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Dec 2020
Park rangers on patrol in Garamba National Park in DRC earlier this month. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

Report: WWF knew about rights abuses by park rangers, but didn’t respond effectively

Ashoka Mukpo 8 Dec 2020
A Grauer's Gorilla in Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in late 2016. There are fewer than 4,000 of the gorilla subspecies left. Photo by Thomas Nicolon

As energy needs drive demand for minerals, forests face greater threats

Victoria Schneider 11 Nov 2020
The ROV SuBastain with careful guidance by its pilots uses the manipulator arm to collect a geological sample at 500m on Flinders Reef. Photo credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute

Philanthropist Wendy Schmidt: ‘Solutions are always local’

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Oct 2020
Elephant, Lopé National Park, Gabon. Image by Nathalie Bertrams for Mongabay.

With a drastic decline in tropical fruit, Gabon’s rainforest mega-gardeners go hungry

Ingrid Gercama, Nathalie Bertrams 29 Oct 2020

The Amazon savanna? Rainforest teeters on the brink as climate heats up

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2020

Less than half of world’s humid tropical forests have high ecological integrity: Study

Claire Asher 22 Sep 2020

Great ape ‘forest gardeners of Africa’ benefit from conservation victory

Mike Gaworecki 16 Sep 2020
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Idigenous Land, in Labrea, Amazonas state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: Christian Braga / Greenpeace

$154b in capital has gone to 300 forest-risk companies since the Paris Agreement

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Sep 2020

Probe begins into alleged deforestation by Olam, ‘world’s largest farmer’

James Fair 7 Aug 2020
Flowering rainforest tree in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

World Rainforest Day: The world’s great rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jun 2020
Deforestation in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

How much rainforest is being destroyed?

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Jun 2020

For forest communities without a legal footing, new guideline is a starting template

Mongabay.com 10 Jun 2020

Loss, resilience and community amid an outbreak: Q&A with gorilla researcher Magdalena Bermejo

Heather Richardson 4 Jun 2020
A calf attempts to sneak its trunk into a mineral pit that mom is drinking from. Protest calls are often heard from calves during these behavioral contexts, as mom sometimes pushes them away and they in turn express their displeasure with a little yell. Photo © Ana Verahrami, Elephant Listening Project.

Listening to elephants to protect Central Africa’s tropical forests

Mike Gaworecki 27 May 2020
ICCN ranger with a gorilla in Virunga National Park, DRC. Image courtesy Nelis Wolmarans.

Twelve rangers killed in latest Virunga Park incident

Fred Kockott 25 Apr 2020

Images from a dropped phone reveal the ugly truth behind bonobo trafficking

Mireya Mayor 23 Apr 2020
Mountain gorilla in neighboring Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Photo for Mongabay.com by Rhett A. Butler.

For great apes at risk of infection, COVID-19 is also an economic threat

Heather Richardson 13 Apr 2020

National parks in Africa shutter over COVID-19 threat to great apes

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Mar 2020
Oil palm fruit. Image by Dave Barce via Wikicommons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Palm oil giant Olam under scrutiny again over Gabon plantations

James Fair 25 Mar 2020

Oil exploration at odds with peatland protection in the Congo Basin

John Cannon 23 Mar 2020

Past and future tropical dams devastating to fish the world over: Study

Asher Elbein 21 Feb 2020

Subsistence farming topples forests near commercial operations in Congo

John Cannon 23 Jan 2020
A forest elephant in Gabon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Liberia expands a key elephant park again, this time with help of locals

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Jan 2020

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