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Cattle at one of the 70,000 suppliers used by JBS, one of Brazil's largest beef producers. Photo courtesy of JBS

Pasture expansion driving deforestation in Brazilian protected area

Mike Gaworecki 4 Oct 2018

Cerrado towns terrorized to provide toilet paper for the world, say critics

Anna Sophie Gross 2 Oct 2018

‘Predatory agribusiness’ likely to gain more power in Brazil election: report

Ana Magalhães for Repórter Brasil 28 Sep 2018

Connect the dots: Cerrado soy drives inequality to provide EU with chicken

Anna Sophie Gross 19 Sep 2018

Brazilian elections and the environment: where top candidates stand

Jenny Gonzales 17 Sep 2018
Cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Brazilian legislators break law, attack Amazon, trade freely with world: report

Sue Branford 11 Sep 2018

Graft and government policy align to keep Indonesia burning coal

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Aug 2018

A Malaysian port city grapples with the fallout from Chinese funding

Keith Schneider 24 Aug 2018

Is Indonesia’s celebrated antigraft agency missing the corruption for the trees?

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 22 Aug 2018

Amid corruption scandal, Malaysia switches track on future of rail network

Keith Schneider 16 Aug 2018

Death foretold? A courageous Amazon peasant couple resists illegal loggers

Thais Borges and Mauricio Torres 10 Aug 2018
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.

Madagascar proposes paying illegal loggers to audit or buy their rosewood

Rowan Moore Gerety 8 Aug 2018

Meet the Bornean village chief dealing with the fallout from a corrupt plantation deal

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 1 Aug 2018

Shadow companies and the Indonesian land crisis

Mike Gaworecki 24 Jul 2018

EU demand siphons illicit timber from Ukraine, investigation finds

John Cannon 17 Jul 2018

Revealed: Paper giant’s ex-staff say it used their names for secret company in Borneo

Philip Jacobson 10 Jul 2018

Palm oil firms using ‘shadow companies’ to hide their links to deforestation: report

Daniel Pye 9 Jul 2018

Brazil’s political storm driving Amazon deforestation higher

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 9 Jul 2018

Cerrado: traditional communities win back land from agribusiness firm

Flávia Milhorance 5 Jul 2018

Abdon Nababan: ‘North Sumatran land mafia offered me $21m to win election — and then hand over control of government’

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 21 Jun 2018
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.

Madagascar: Yet another anti-trafficking activist convicted

Edward Carver 19 Jun 2018

Primate-rich countries are becoming less hospitable places for monkeys, apes and lemurs

John Cannon 15 Jun 2018

Mariyady, the priest investigating the corporate takeover of indigenous peoples’ forests in Borneo

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 11 Jun 2018

New technology leads to the arrest of eight people suspected of trafficking wildlife parts

Mongabay.com 7 Jun 2018

How corrupt elections fuel the sell-off of Indonesia’s natural resources

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 7 Jun 2018

Raid fails to stop gold mining, death threats on Amazon’s Tropas River

Rosamaria Loures, Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 31 May 2018

Dutch support soy transport mega-project, posing major risk to Amazon

Karlijn Kuijpers 29 May 2018

Illegal loggers ‘cook the books’ to harvest Amazon’s most valuable tree

Jenny Gonzales 24 May 2018

Brazil has the tools to end Amazon deforestation now: report

Giovanni Ortolani 18 May 2018

Attack of the turtles: ruralists assault environmental laws, Amazon

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 15 May 2018

Damming the Amazon unfettered after Brazilian purge (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 14 May 2018

New film shines light on cattle industry link to Amazon deforestation

Anna Sophie Gross 1 May 2018

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