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Unwrapping deforestation: Your chocolate Easter bunny may harm the environment

Elisângela Mendonça 3 Apr 2026
Nickel mining on Manuran Island. Image courtesy of Auriga Nusantara.

Indonesia’s deforestation surges 66% in 2025, reversing years of decline

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Apr 2026

Brazilian banks to verify satellite deforestation data for rural credit

Associated Press 2 Apr 2026
Agroforestry in Ethiopia. Image by Trees ForTheFuture via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Who gives up land for the world’s climate fixes?

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Apr 2026
Integrated Women’s Development Organization at work in Sidama, Ethiopia. Image courtesy of Ruhama Getahun.

Ethiopian women plant trees, restoring lands & livelihoods

Charles Mpaka 1 Apr 2026

Marina Silva steps down as Brazil’s environment minister to run for Congress

Associated Press 1 Apr 2026

Working together, Indigenous peoples & researchers describe new Amazonian palm

Sofia Moutinho 1 Apr 2026

Peru-Brazil Bioceanic Railway brings too much risk to the Amazon, experts warn

Yvette Sierra Praeli 31 Mar 2026
Residents use canoes to navigate the floodwaters in Banjar Regency.

Indonesia reviews firms in river basins after latest floods affect 7% of Bornean province

Riyad Dafhi Rizki 31 Mar 2026
Portrait of Jacqueline Flores. Image by Heinz Plengue Pardo. Design by Emilie Languedoc.

As traditional forest governance erodes in Peru, ‘ghost permits’ fill the vacuum

Michele Calamaio 30 Mar 2026

Grasslands and wetlands are being lost to agriculture four times faster than forests

Shanna Hanbury 30 Mar 2026
Dump trucks maneuver at Indonesia Weda Bay Industrial Park in North Maluku province, June 2024.

US-Indonesia trade deal slammed as ‘extractive colonialism’ over mining, fossil fuels

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Mar 2026

Study finds deforestation accounts for major Amazon rainfall decline

Logan Rance 26 Mar 2026
Military police and Indigenous protestors at the Belo Monte Dam construction site in 2013. Image by Ruy Sposati /Agência Raízes.

Why the Amazon can’t be saved by courts alone (commentary)

Paulo Ilich Bacca, Luisa Fernanda Bacca 26 Mar 2026

Palm oil clearing advances in Bornean orangutan habitat despite red flags

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Mar 2026
Juma Xipaia, an Indigenous chief from the Brazilian Amazon. Image © Malaika Pictures.

Behind the scenes of the Amazon’s gold rush: Director Richard Ladkani on the making of ‘Yanuni’

Aimee Gabay 25 Mar 2026
Students are planting indigenous and other fruit tree species on school grounds. Image courtesy of Namulindwa Brendah.

Five more community-led African groups join global landscape restoration network

Charles Mpaka 25 Mar 2026
Dry canals in the Xingu River basin prevent boat traffic and make it difficult for local families to get around. Image courtesy of MATI/ISA.

Contested Amazon dam called to review water flow as river ecosystem fails

André Schröder 19 Mar 2026

In Brazil, regenerative farming advances, but deforestation still pressures ecosystems

Mie Hoejris Dahl 17 Mar 2026
The endangered Hildegarde’s tomb bat (Taphozous hildegardeae) in flight near its roost in the caves of Mount Suswa, Kenya, during a conservation monitoring survey. Image courtesy of Bat Conservation International.

At dusk in Kenya’s caves, scientists study the hidden lives of bats

Sharon Muzaki 17 Mar 2026
A healthy private agar plantation in Sujanagar, Moulvibazar.

Planters stranded amid degraded forests as Bangladesh agarwood scheme falters

Ashraful Haque 17 Mar 2026
Massaha forest. Image by ZB.

How a community defended its ancestral forest from logging

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Mar 2026
The city of Porto Alegre is flooded after heavy rain in Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil is both the world’s environmental treasure and its most exposed victim (commentary)

Robert Muggah, Igor Oliveira 16 Mar 2026
Duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) in Scottsdale, Tasmania, Australia. Photo by Charles J. Sharp of Sharp Photography (sharpphotography.co.uk)

Are government subsidies undermining conservation efforts in Australia?

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Mar 2026
Examining coffee plants in the fields of a CoopeTarrazú grower.

Costa Rica’s head start may mask tougher EUDR road ahead

Claudia Geib 13 Mar 2026
Wood pellets for biomass energy. Image courtesy of Dogwood Alliance.

Forest advocates accuse EU energy firm of Dutch biomass certification fraud

Justin Catanoso 13 Mar 2026
Lions. Image courtesy of Kasaine Sankan-Mara Predator Conservation Program.

Study finds livestock pushing lions away from shared rangeland in Kenya

Charles Mpaka 12 Mar 2026

‘We do not have time’: Interview with MEP Delara Burkhardt on the EUDR’s second delay

Ashoka Mukpo 11 Mar 2026
What used to be a dirt road through the heart of the Ngezi Forest Nature Reserve has recently been widened to facilitate development. Image courtesy of Viola Clausnitzer.

Works on planned luxury resort on Pemba island go ahead despite concerns

Victoria Schneider 10 Mar 2026
IKEA allocates 16,000 hectares of forests for research to further improve responsible forest management. Together with European Forest Institute and Preferred by Nature, IKEA will start a research project that will explore, test and scale improved forestry practices, strengthening climate resilience and minimizing negative impacts on biodiversity.

From forest to flatpack, IKEA faces timber traceability test under EUDR

Annelise Giseburt 10 Mar 2026

Ecuador’s new ecological corridor connects Andes and Amazon ecosystems

Maxwell Radwin 9 Mar 2026
Ibama (Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources) conducting an operation to combat illegal gold mining in Indigenous territory in the state of Pará, Brazil.

Mining rush for critical minerals threatens Amazon land reform settlements

Sam Cowie, Cícero Pedrosa Neto, Isabel Harari 9 Mar 2026

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