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The land deal threatening a vital piece of Bolivia’s Chiquitano dry forest

Maxwell Radwin 20 Nov 2025

EU touts climate leadership while undermining antideforestation rules, critics say

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Nov 2025
Environmentalists say traffic from large vessels could affect the migration and reproduction of Amazonian turtles in the Monte Cristo tabuleiro, one of the largest turtle sanctuaries in Brazil. Image courtesy of Roberto Lacava/Ibama.

Amazon Indigenous groups fight soy waterway as Brazil fast-tracks dredging

André Schröder 19 Nov 2025
An Indigenous person gazes at the expanse of the Meratus mountains from the Hauk peak.

Indigenous Dayak resist new southern Borneo national park amid global protection deficit

Riyad Dafhi Rizki, Rendy Tisna 19 Nov 2025

Indonesia labeled ‘Fossil of the Day’ for echoing industry talking points at COP30

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Nov 2025
Tropical forest and river in Suriname. Image courtesy of Mark J. Plotkin.

Top ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin’s COP30 reflections on Amazon conservation (analysis)

Mark J. Plotkin 17 Nov 2025
Dodo bird icon.

A slowdown, not salvation: what new extinction data reveal about the state of life on Earth

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Nov 2025

New population of the world’s rarest great ape discovered

Juan Maza 15 Nov 2025

Rare parrots return to Atlantic Forest fragment after decades of silence

Liz Kimbrough 13 Nov 2025
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is in an arm wrestling match with environmental agents to unlock oil extraction on the Amazon North shore. Image by Ricardo Stuckert/PR.

Strategic ignorance, climate change and Amazonia (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 13 Nov 2025

What’s at stake for the environment in Chile’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 13 Nov 2025
Collage: A group of security guards preventing people from crossing a checkpoint and Fernanda Wenzel Mongabay reporter

On the frontline of the Amazon land war

Julia Lima, Fernanda Wenzel, Fernando Martinho 13 Nov 2025

Soy giants quietly prepare for EU deforestation law; impacts still uncertain

Marina Martinez 12 Nov 2025
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In the Amazon, political systems fail to prioritize the environment

Timothy J. Killeen 12 Nov 2025

Cautious win for Indigenous groups in Malaysia as palm oil firm pauses forest clearing

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 11 Nov 2025
The Javari river forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

How a ‘green gold rush’ in the Amazon led to dubious carbon deals on Indigenous lands

Gloria Pallares 11 Nov 2025
Thomas J.K.L. Koroma II, paramount chief of Sitta Chiefdom, signs the revenue-sharing carbon agreement. Image courtesy of Namati.

Sierra Leone communities sign carbon agreement based on carbon justice principles

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Nov 2025

The price of gold: In Venezuela, mining threatens Indigenous Pemón

Catherine Ellis 11 Nov 2025
An Indigenous man takes part in a demonstration in defense of the Amazon during the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, in Beléem, Brazil, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. Image by AP Photo/Eraldo Peres.

Brazil hosts COP30 with high ambitions — and scaling environmental ambiguities

Carla Ruas 10 Nov 2025
Rainforest, reef, and ocean on Maratua Island, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Three tracks to rescue 1.5°C: fossil exit, forest protection, and nature’s carbon (commentary)

Ilona Szabó de Carvalho 8 Nov 2025
Logging operation in Sweden. Image courtesy of Marcus Westberg.

Why Sweden’s forest policy matters to the world (commentary)

Emil Siekkinen 7 Nov 2025

Cautious optimism greets new global forest fund at COP30

David Akana 7 Nov 2025
Asian golden cat caught on camera in Nepal.

Asian golden cat range expands, but declines continue amid rising threats

Sean Mowbray 7 Nov 2025

Study finds deforestation fuels West Africa’s water crisis

David Akana 7 Nov 2025
TFFF roundtable in Belém, Brazil on Nov. 6. Image courtesy of Fernando Donasci/MMA.

COP30 tropical forest fund may drive debt and deforestation, groups warn

Shanna Hanbury 7 Nov 2025

New pledge, old problems as Indonesia’s latest Indigenous forest promise draws skepticism

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Nov 2025

UNESCO biosphere listing raises hope, questions for Malaysia’s Kinabatangan floodplain

Keith Anthony Fabro 6 Nov 2025

In Honduras, local communities miss out on benefits of large-scale renewables

Mie Hoejris Dahl 6 Nov 2025
Watcharakon Jatoenpun, AKA Sprite, showed reporters the expansive maize farms he works on in Mae Cham district, where seasonal air pollution is tied to agricultural burning. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Karen community fighting corn and coal for clean air in northern Thailand

Gerald Flynn 6 Nov 2025

Interpol announces a new global fight against illegal deforestation

Associated Press 5 Nov 2025
Cacao. Image courtesy of Instituto Arapyaú

Brazil can protect its forests while growing its economy, says Arapyaú’s Renata Piazzon

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Nov 2025
Waorani leader Nemonte Nenquimo stands next to an oil spill near Shushufindi

These banks fund oil & gas in the Amazon amid climate crisis: Report

Constance Malleret 4 Nov 2025

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