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Clouded leopard

Borneo and Sumatra megaprojects are carving up clouded leopard forests

Carolyn Cowan 29 Apr 2024

DRC’s 1 billion trees program makes progress, but hurdles remain

Sylvain-Gauthier Kabemba 26 Apr 2024
Silvia Vetancourt holds out a coin purse she is crocheting from cabuya fiber on the path to Plaza Gutierrez, Ecuador. Photo by Liz Kimbrough.

Women weave a culture of resistance and agroecology in Ecuador’s Intag Valley

Liz Kimbrough 25 Apr 2024
oil spill Peru

Latest Peruvian oil spill cuts Indigenous communities from life-giving river

Sarah Brown 25 Apr 2024
Agribusiness Rush in the MATOPIBA Region.

EU law to reduce deforestation is on a knife’s edge, will leaders act? (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 25 Apr 2024

IKEA blamed for Romanian forest destruction

Alex Shaw 25 Apr 2024

Outdated infrastructure and oil spills: the cases of Colombia, Peru and Ecuador

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Apr 2024
Three forestry workers standing in front of logs that have been skidded out to a logging road in River Cess County, Liberia in 2013. Image by Flore de Preneuf/PROFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Liberia puts a wartime logger in charge of its forests

Ashoka Mukpo 25 Apr 2024
Nasidi holds up a water lettuce plant, which is often found in the Lenggang River.

Indigenous community fights to save its lands on Indonesia’s historic tin island

Moh. Tamimi 25 Apr 2024
A harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja)

Deforestation haunts top Peruvian reserve and its Indigenous communities

Aimee Gabay 24 Apr 2024

All aboard Tren Maya: Here’s what we found riding Mexico’s controversial railway

Maxwell Radwin 24 Apr 2024

Amid record-high fires across the Amazon, Brazil loses primary forests

Sarah Brown 23 Apr 2024

Activists file last-gasp suit as Indonesia fails again to pass Indigenous bill

Richaldo Hariandja 23 Apr 2024

How environmental crimes are covered up in the Amazon?

Mongabay.com 22 Apr 2024
A cattle ranch in a deforeated area.

A web of front people conceals environmental offenders in the Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 22 Apr 2024
A monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus).

Mexico’s avocado industry harms monarch butterflies, will U.S. officials act? (commentary)

Stephanie Feldstein 22 Apr 2024
Male Javan rhino calf named Luther with his mother in 2020.

New calf, same threats: Javan rhinos continue to reproduce despite perils

Jeremy Hance 19 Apr 2024

Brazil boosts protection of Amazon mangroves with new reserves in Pará state

Sarah Brown 19 Apr 2024
Two male proboscis monkeys in Malaysian Borneo.

Indonesian capital project finally gets guidelines to avoid harm to biodiversity

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Apr 2024
Deforestation in the Amazon in 2022. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

Deforestation alerts in the Brazilian Amazon fall to a 5-year low

Mongabay.com 18 Apr 2024

Snack giant PepsiCo sourced palm oil from razed Indigenous land – investigation

Andrew Wasley, Aramís Castro, Elisângela Mendonça 18 Apr 2024
The Cerrado in Correntina, Bahia. Image courtesy of Thomas Bauer / Earthsight.

Report links H&M and Zara to major environmental damage in biodiverse Cerrado

Dimitri Selibas 17 Apr 2024
This land once belonged to the Guarani-Kaiowá Indigenous people, who depended on the dense forest to hunt and fish.

International hesitancy to adopt environmental regulations threatens Indigenous rights

Aimee Gabay 17 Apr 2024

The environmental mismanagement of enduring oil industry impacts in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 17 Apr 2024
Bendri lost his house due to flash floods accompanied by wood and large stones in Batu Balah Village.

Sumatra villages count cost of deadly river tsunami swelled by illegal logging

Jaka Hendra Baittri, Vinolia Ahmad 17 Apr 2024
In the heart of the Cardamom Mountains, new hydropower dams threaten both protected forest and REDD+ projects. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Protected areas bear the brunt as forest loss continues across Cambodia

Gerald Flynn 17 Apr 2024
Sargassum in Villa Clara province, Cuba.

Caribbean startups are turning excess seaweed into an agroecology solution

Marlowe Starling 16 Apr 2024
Mercury being used to agglomerate gold.

Brazil’s illegal gold trade takes a hammering, but persists underground

Fernanda Wenzel 16 Apr 2024

Climate change could drive mammal extinction in Brazil’s Caatinga, study warns

Evanildo da Silveira 15 Apr 2024
Cattle ranch next to a recently deforested area in Candeias do Jamari, Rondônia, Brazil. Photo courtesy of Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance).

Traceability is no silver bullet for reducing deforestation (commentary)

Erasmus zu Ermgassen 12 Apr 2024
Bonobos in the DRC’s Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve. Image courtesy of Maud Mouginot.

Bonobos, the ‘hippy apes’, may not be as peaceful as once thought

Ryan Truscott 12 Apr 2024
AI generated image of a satellite over South America

New technologies to map environmental crime in the Amazon Basin (commentary)

Robert Muggah, Peter Smith 12 Apr 2024

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