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Beatrice Rukanyana looks out over a sugar plantation near Bugoma Forest. Photo: Thomas Lewton

Uganda’s eco-feminists are taking on mining and plantation industries

Thomas Lewton 23 Oct 2019

Area the size of Puerto Rico burned in Indonesia’s fire crisis

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Oct 2019

A ‘sly’ species of leaf-tailed gecko uncovered from Madagascar

Malavika Vyawahare 23 Oct 2019

Combining negotiation, legal backing and orchids to create ecotourism reserve

Sarah Foster 22 Oct 2019
Deforestation for palm oil and mining in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Activists call for stronger environmental laws in Widodo’s second term

Basten Gokkon 21 Oct 2019

Peru: Gold mine operating without license destroys primary forest in protected area

Yvette Sierra Praeli 17 Oct 2019

Reforesting a village in Indonesia, one batch of gourmet beans at a time

Donny Iqbal 17 Oct 2019

Biodiversity ‘not just an environmental issue’: Q&A with IPBES ex-chair Robert Watson

Mongabay.com 17 Oct 2019

Venezuelan crisis: Government censors environmental and scientific data

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 16 Oct 2019

‘Bring it on,’ EU MP says of trade fight over palm biofuel phase-out

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Oct 2019

$65 million deal to protect Congo’s forests raises concerns

John Cannon 14 Oct 2019

British armed forces supplied by Brazilian meat firm linked to Amazon deforestation, corruption: Report

Mongabay.com 14 Oct 2019
CNES / Airbus image on Google Earth showing rainforest and deforestation at 9°28'8.18"S, 58°16'44.67"W.

Deforestation continues to rise in the Brazilian Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Oct 2019

Madagascar calls for assistance as fires imperil its protected areas

Malavika Vyawahare 11 Oct 2019

‘Witnessing extinction in the flames’ as the Amazon burns for agribusiness

Ana Ionova 10 Oct 2019

Toxic river: Mining, mercury and murder continue to plague Colombia’s Atrato

Frederick Gillingham, Melisa Valenzuela 10 Oct 2019

Seven elephants found dead as Sri Lanka’s human-wildlife conflict escalates

Dennis Mombauer 10 Oct 2019

Saving Aru: The epic battle to save the islands that inspired the theory of evolution

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 9 Oct 2019

$750,000 prize seeks solutions to challenges from small-scale mining

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Oct 2019

CITES appeals to countries to watch out for trafficked Malagasy rosewood

Malavika Vyawahare 7 Oct 2019
Gold and sand mining near Mandor, West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The unrecognized cost of Indonesia’s fires (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Oct 2019

Vatican calls landmark meeting to conserve Amazon, protect indigenous peoples

Justin Catanoso 4 Oct 2019

Demand for charcoal threatens the forest of Madagascar’s last hunter-gatherers

Sam Friedberg 3 Oct 2019

Brazil land reform head fired amid push to legalize cleared Amazon land

Shanna Hanbury 3 Oct 2019

Study tracks first incursion of poachers into ‘pristine’ African forest

John Cannon 3 Oct 2019

Brazilian beef industry plays outsized role in tropical carbon emissions: report

Zoe Sullivan 3 Oct 2019

Indonesian enforcement questioned as fires flare up on the same concessions

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Oct 2019

Report links major brands to illegal oil palm plantation in orangutan haven

Basten Gokkon 2 Oct 2019

Traveling the Pan Borneo Highway with Mongabay’s John Cannon

Mike Gaworecki 1 Oct 2019

Brazilian state complicit in violence against forest defenders, report says

Naira Hofmeister 1 Oct 2019

Indonesia defers legislation seen as harming the environment — for now

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Oct 2019

The climate crisis and the pain of losing what we love (commentary)

Glenn Scherer 30 Sep 2019

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