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Piles of confiscated wood can be seen surrounding the Forestry department’s office at Bogale in Ayeyarwady Division. Photo by Ann Wang

In Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta, a rapidly disintegrating mangrove forest

Ann Wang 22 Oct 2016

Violence against indigenous people high, as land conflicts heat up

Carolina Torres 18 Oct 2016

Mongabay Newscast episode 3: Crucial conservation votes at CITES CoP17 and the future of socio-ecological research

Mike Gaworecki 18 Oct 2016

More than 20 labor law violations by Indofood alleged in Indonesia

Alice Cuddy 14 Oct 2016

Exclusive: Rainforest rapidly cleared for sugarcane in Bolivia

Eduardo Franco Berton 12 Oct 2016

Airbus to marshal its satellites against deforestation

Philip Jacobson 12 Oct 2016

Scoring palm oil buyers on their sustainability commitments

Mike Gaworecki 10 Oct 2016
Coffea Arabica plant. Photo by Forest and Kim Star/Wikimedia Commons

Ethiopia’s vulnerable tropical forests are key to securing future of wild coffee

Fiona Hesselden at the University of Huddersfield 10 Oct 2016

Fires ravaged forests in Indonesian palm oil giant Astra’s land in 2015

Mongabay.com 7 Oct 2016
Villagers in Tanzania use mobile monitoring to keep an eye on the forests. Photo courtesy USAID Africa

Despite conservation efforts, Tanzania’s forests still under pressure

Sophie Tremblay, Willy Lowry 7 Oct 2016

Indonesia’s oil palm plantations are rife with spitting cobras

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 6 Oct 2016

139 scientists shoot down ‘misleading’ reports from Malaysia peat congress

Loren Bell 4 Oct 2016

Strongest drought in 25 years hits Bolivia

Miriam Telma Jemio 3 Oct 2016
Bags of Peruvian coffee beans. Photo by Terra Nera via Wikimedia Commons

Innovative tax credit takes aim at deforestation in Peru

Joseph Charpentier 28 Sep 2016

Amazon radio network unites regional opposition to Tapajós basin dams

Zoe Sullivan 26 Sep 2016

Proposed sale of timber from palm oil concession sparks alarm in Liberia

Jeremy Hance 21 Sep 2016

SE Asian governments dismiss finding that 2015 haze killed 100,300

Mongabay Haze Beat 20 Sep 2016

Here’s how much forest we’ll have to destroy to feed our growing junk food addiction

Mike Gaworecki 19 Sep 2016
Sime Darby plantation in Cape Mount County. Photo courtesy JPN Liberia

Liberia land policy a ‘challenge to national development’

Mark M. Dahn 14 Sep 2016

Pulp and paper supplier denies draining peat on island near Singapore

Mongabay Haze Beat 13 Sep 2016

‘A major concern’: plantation-driven deforestation ramps up in Borneo

Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Sep 2016

The good, the bad, and the ugly in palm oil (commentary)

Erik Meijaard, Douglas Sheil 9 Sep 2016

These banks are pumping billions into Southeast Asia’s deforestation

Alice Cuddy 8 Sep 2016

The alarming number of fires in the Brazilian Amazon

Natália Girão Rodrigues de Mello 8 Sep 2016

Indonesian government to investigate Korean palm oil giant over burning in Papua

Mongabay.com 7 Sep 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Indonesian military plans anti-haze operation in Sumatra

Mongabay Haze Beat 2 Sep 2016

Korean palm oil firm burned large tracts of forestland in Indonesia, NGOs allege

Alice Cuddy 1 Sep 2016

Cables reveal US gov’t role in Herakles Farms land grab in Cameroon

Mike Gaworecki 30 Aug 2016

Planned Tapajós industrial waterway a potential environmental disaster

Sue Branford 26 Aug 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesian parliament to investigate fire-linked firms in Riau

Mongabay Haze Beat 20 Aug 2016
Drainage canal dug through peat swamp in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Indonesia’s peat restoration chief calls for protection of all peat domes

Lusia Arumingtyas, Sapariah Saturi 18 Aug 2016

Here’s where tropical forests have been destroyed for palm oil over the past 25 years

Mike Gaworecki 18 Aug 2016

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