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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

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

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

In Indonesia’s relentless infrastructure push, taint of corruption weighs on environment

Kamarudin 30 Apr 2018

3,000 indigenous people gather in Brasilia to protest ruralist agenda

Sue Branford 30 Apr 2018

It’s time to confront the collusion between the palm oil industry and politicians that is driving Indonesia’s deforestation crisis (commentary)

Tom Johnson 18 Apr 2018

Ghosts in the machine: the land deals behind the downfall of Indonesia’s top judge

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 18 Apr 2018

How a family of local elites is still pitching to control a district in Borneo

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 11 Apr 2018

How loopholes in Indonesia’s corruption law let environmental crime persist

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 9 Apr 2018

How the farmers of Seruyan rose up a against a palm oil fiefdom

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 5 Apr 2018

NGOs denounce Tapajós basin intimidation, violence, Brazil inaction

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 4 Apr 2018
Waterfall in Laos. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Calls for change in handling abuse allegations at top conservation group

Genevieve Belmaker 2 Apr 2018

Cerrado: U.S. investment spurs land theft, deforestation in Brazil, say experts

Alicia Prager and Flávia Milhorance 28 Mar 2018

How a series of shady deals turned a chunk of Borneo into a sea of oil palm

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 27 Mar 2018

Indonesian graftbusters put a price tag on environmental crime

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Mar 2018

Cerrado: Agribusiness boomtown; profits for a few, hardships for many

Alicia Prager and Flávia Milhorance 26 Mar 2018

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