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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

Plan to bring Mennonite farmers to Suriname sparks deforestation fears

Maxwell Radwin 9 Oct 2023
A dismembered tree in Chhaeb-Preah Roka Wildlife Sanctuary documented in April 2023. Image by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Communities track a path of destruction through a Cambodian wildlife sanctuary

Gerald Flynn | Andy Ball | Meng Kroypunlok 9 Oct 2023
Trees illegally cut down for firewood in the Zamay forest reserve by Nigerian refugees.

Cut down once again: Uncontrolled logging puts new Sahel reforestation projects at risk

Yannick Kenné | Sabré Na-Ideyam | Georges Messi 6 Oct 2023
A kipunji.

World owes it to Tanzania to keep Eastern Arc forests standing, study shows

Ryan Truscott 6 Oct 2023

Sustainable infrastructure in the Pan Amazon: In search of an oxymoron

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Oct 2023
Gumbaynggirr custodian Sandy Greenwood

What does land mean to Australia’s Indigenous groups fighting logging?

Tessa Fox 5 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

Indonesian children locked out of school as El Niño haze chokes parts of Sumatra & Kalimantan

Mongabay Haze Beat 5 Oct 2023
An aerial view of a new road that leads from Think Biotech’s concession into the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary where illegal logging is taking place. Image by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Logging route cut into Cambodia’s Prey Lang from Think Biotech’s concession

Gerald Flynn | Andy Ball | Meng Kroypunlok 5 Oct 2023
A grizzled tree kangaroo at the TCA base in Lumi.

Defending a forest for tree kangaroos and people: Q&A with Fidelis Nick

John Cannon 4 Oct 2023
Community members celebrating the withdrawal of the lawsuit against SAVE Rivers.

Small wins for Indigenous Malaysian activists in dispute with timber giant

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 4 Oct 2023

Investing in the Pan Amazon: How China’s investment operates

Timothy J. Killeen 4 Oct 2023

Amazon drought cuts river traffic, leaves communities without water and supplies

André Schröder 3 Oct 2023

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Oct 2023
An uncontacted Indigenous community in Acre, Brazil.

New online map tracks threats to uncontacted Indigenous peoples in Brazil’s Amazon

Sarah Brown 27 Sep 2023

Infrastructure in the Pan Amazon: Public-private partnerships

Timothy J. Killeen 27 Sep 2023

Infrastructure in the Pan Amazon – Finance: What is new and what is not

Timothy J. Killeen 26 Sep 2023
Ubre Tiblak taps a tree for resin.

Indigenous community fighting a mine in Palawan wins a milestone legal verdict

Keith Anthony Fabro 25 Sep 2023
Rainbow over the rainforest and oil palm plantations in the midst of a tropical downpour in Jambi on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

As fires threaten Indonesian forests, actions like agroforestry promotion are needed (commentary)

Andrean Rifaldo 25 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

How Canada’s growing presence in Latin America is hurting the environment

Maxwell Radwin 22 Sep 2023

Deforestation for palm oil continues in Indonesia’s ‘orangutan capital’

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Sep 2023

Brazil Supreme Court quashes time frame proposal in win for Indigenous rights

Sarah Brown 22 Sep 2023

Infrastructure in the Pan Amazon: Railroad development

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Sep 2023
Cattle in Pará state.

EU bill and new green policies spur progress on Brazil’s cattle tracking

André Schröder 21 Sep 2023

‘Lost’ Brazilian holly tree species found again after nearly 200 years

Liz Kimbrough 21 Sep 2023

Infrastructure in the Pan Amazon: Waterway options

Timothy J. Killeen 20 Sep 2023
Cattle grazing in the Amazon.

Meatpacking giant and Amazon deforester JBS bid for NYSE listing challenged

Shanna Hanbury 20 Sep 2023
Coffee growers in Vietnam

EU deforestation-free rule ‘highly challenging’ for SE Asia smallholders, experts say

Carolyn Cowan 20 Sep 2023
Plantation workers loading oil palm fruit off a truck in Sabah, Malaysia.

Group certification helps Malaysia’s Sabah aim for palm oil sustainability

Louise Hunt 19 Sep 2023

Kellogg’s latest to freeze Indonesian supplier over palm oil violations

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Sep 2023

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