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The Victoria crowned pigeon (Goura victoria) is the largest living pigeon species on the planet. Image by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Logging, road construction continue to fuel forest loss in Papua New Guinea

Spoorthy Raman 30 Nov 2023

Cargill widens its deforestation-free goals, but critics say it’s not enough

Maxwell Radwin 29 Nov 2023

Investigation shows ‘shadow companies’ linked to Indonesia palm oil giant First Resources

Mongabay.com 23 Nov 2023
Rubber latex collecting into a container in a rubber plantation in Thailand. Image by Eleanor W-T via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Growing rubber drives more deforestation than previously thought, study finds

Abhishyant Kidangoor 22 Nov 2023
Community tree nursery

How scientists and a community are bringing a Bornean river corridor back to life

Carolyn Cowan 22 Nov 2023
Brazilian environment ministry's IBAMA carryinh out an operation to combat the illegal use of pesticides in western Bahia's Cerrado in 2018.

Study links pesticides to child cancer deaths in Brazilian Amazon & Cerrado

Shi En Kim 10 Nov 2023

‘We just want to be left in peace’: In Brazil’s Amazon, soy ambitions loom over Indigenous land

Ana Ionova 9 Nov 2023
Rice farmers in Vietnam

Dam-building on Mekong poses risk to regional industries, report says

Carolyn Cowan 8 Nov 2023

Burn now, pay later: Fines trickle in from Indonesia’s crackdown on forest fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Nov 2023

As fire season worsens, Indonesian activists report four companies for burning

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Nov 2023
Sun bear

Conservationists look to defy gloomy outlook for Borneo’s sun bears

Carolyn Cowan 31 Oct 2023
Palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Indigenous Dayak ‘furious’ as RSPO dismisses land rights violation complaint

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Oct 2023

Amid socioeconomic slump, new sugar cane varieties offer hope in Sri Lanka

Manasee Weerathunga 25 Oct 2023
Oil palm fruit collection in a plantation.

Indonesia’s oil palm smallholders need both state and EU support (commentary)

Andre Barahamin 25 Oct 2023

Indigenous Suruí turn invaders’ crop into high-quality Amazonian coffee

Patricia Moll 24 Oct 2023
Efforts to extinguish the fire around Sungai Buluh Kecil, in the Tanjung Puting National Park area, mid-September 2023.

Young firefighter killed battling inferno in Borneo orangutan habitat

Budi Baskoro 24 Oct 2023
An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo

Deforestation surges in hotspot of critically endangered Bornean orangutans

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Oct 2023

Indonesia’s besieged Tesso Nilo National Park hit hard by yet more deforestation, satellites show

Morgan Erickson-Davis 19 Oct 2023
Regenerative agriculture methods, such as green cover crops, help Santiaga Sánchez’s farm better withstand persistent drought punctuated by sudden violent storms.

Battling desertification: Bringing soil back to life in semiarid Spain

Jaime Velázquez, Xaume Olleros 17 Oct 2023
Santiaga Sánchez seated atop a pile of compost she calls her “brown gold.”

Meet the farmers in southeastern Spain fighting desertification

Jaime Velázquez, Xaume Olleros 17 Oct 2023

Report: Half of plantations in Indonesia’s palm oil heartland are illegal

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Oct 2023

How climate change could jeopardize Brazilian coffee

Rachel Brabbins 11 Oct 2023

Calls for crackdown intensify as fire crisis heats up across Indonesia

Mongabay Haze Beat 11 Oct 2023

Indonesian police slammed after protester demanding rightful land is shot dead

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Oct 2023
The electric-blue tarantula, Chilobrachys natanicharum, found in Thailand. Image courtesy of Yuranan Nanthaisong

New electric-blue tarantula species is first found in Thailand mangroves

Liz Kimbrough 9 Oct 2023
Haze rising from an oil palm plantation and forest in Riau province.

‘Wasn’t us,’ fire-hit Indonesia claims as Malaysia chokes on poor air quality

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Oct 2023

Indonesia’s peatland restoration claims in question as fires flare up

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Oct 2023
Members of Synaparcam, an association of communities affected by Socapalm holding a banner reading "YES to the respect of community rights" in French. Image courtesy Thierry Didier Kuicheu

Bolloré blacklisted over alleged rights violations on plantations in Africa and Asia

Victoria Schneider 29 Sep 2023

Sumatran province hangs on for late rain as El Niño fires bring heat and sickness

Mongabay Haze Beat 28 Sep 2023
A farmer holds green vegetables in his farm.

Salinity hinders Bangladesh agriculture; groups respond with seeds & information

Abu Siddique 28 Sep 2023

Experts slam massive ‘discount’ in fines for Indonesian palm oil billionaire

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Sep 2023
Tractor and trailer with oil palm seedlings on a Wilmar plantation in Cross River state, Nigeria. Image by Rettet van Regenwald via Flickr (CC BY--NC-ND 2.0)

10 years after land grab, local Nigerian farmers continue fight against palm oil producer

Orji Sunday 22 Sep 2023

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