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Aimed at linking communities, Malaysian highway may damage forests

John Cannon 23 Aug 2019
Oil palm plantation in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia eyes palm oil export boost to China amid mounting U.S. trade war

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Aug 2019
Fire burning in an area of recent forest clearing in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Courtesy of Planet Labs Inc.

Satellite images from Planet reveal devastating Amazon fires in near real-time

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Aug 2019

The Pan Borneo Highway brings wildlife threats to nat’l park doorstep

John Cannon 21 Aug 2019
At the end of the 2018 fire season in the Amazon Forest, Greenpeace captured this image of forest burning in the Brazilian state of Para. CREDIT: © Daniel Beltrá / Greenpeace

Amazon rainforest fires leave São Paulo in the dark

Ignacio Amigo 21 Aug 2019

On Peru’s border, the Tikuna tribe takes on illegal coca growers

Alexa Vélez, Vanessa Romo 20 Aug 2019

Connecting an island: Traveling the Pan Borneo Highway

John Cannon 19 Aug 2019

Deforestation, climate crisis could crash Amazon tree diversity: study

Jenny Gonzales 18 Aug 2019

Norway freezes support for Amazon Fund; EU/Brazil trade deal at risk?

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 16 Aug 2019

Ekuri Initiative: Inside a Nigerian community’s battle to keep its forest

Linus Unah 15 Aug 2019
Margay (Leopardus wiedii)

Precision conservation: High tech to the rescue in the Peruvian Amazon

Lisa Palmer 15 Aug 2019

Indonesia forest-clearing ban is made permanent, but labeled ‘propaganda’

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Aug 2019

Rainforest destruction accelerates in Honduras UNESCO site

Taran Volckhausen 13 Aug 2019

Germany cuts $39.5 million in environmental funding to Brazil

Karla Mendes 13 Aug 2019

Bolsonaro administration approves 290 new pesticide products for use

Jenny Gonzales 12 Aug 2019

Gov’t takedown of illegal gold mining in Peru shows promise, but at a cost

Justin Catanoso 9 Aug 2019

Peru: Invaders claim their first victim at the Macuya Forest Investigation Center

Yvette Sierra Praeli 9 Aug 2019

Forests: A key piece of the land and climate puzzle (commentary)

Pablo Pacheco 8 Aug 2019

Forests and forest communities critical to climate change solutions

John Cannon 8 Aug 2019

Indonesian flooding disaster bears the hallmarks of agriculture and mining impacts

Ian Morse 7 Aug 2019
Baobab Alley outside Morondava. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay.

Photo essay: Madagascar’s disappearing dry forests (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Aug 2019
Google Earth satellite image showing a deforestation, legal forest reserves, and agriculture in Rondonia, Brazil.

Bolsonaro can bully on deforestation, but he can’t hide from satellites (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Aug 2019

‘The forest is our life’: Hope for change in Guyana’s forests (commentary)

Gaulbert Sutherland 6 Aug 2019

Haze from fires, Indonesia’s national ‘embarrassment,’ are back

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Aug 2019

New orchid species from Japan lives on dark forest floor, never blooms

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2019
Timber packaged for delivery. Photo courtesy ZSL.

Forestry companies warned over environmental policies

James Fair 5 Aug 2019

Amazon indigenous groups feel deserted by Brazil’s public health service

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 5 Aug 2019

Future of Amazon deforestation data in doubt as research head sacked

Karla Mendes 5 Aug 2019

As Amazon deforestation in Brazil rises, Bolsonaro administration attacks the messenger (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 3 Aug 2019

Red flags as Indonesia eyes relocating its capital city to Borneo

Basten Gokkon 2 Aug 2019

New film reveals at-risk ‘uncontacted’ Awá tribe in Brazilian Amazon

Karla Mendes 1 Aug 2019

Logging, mining companies lock eyes on a biodiverse island like no other

Gianluca Cerullo 31 Jul 2019

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