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Hidden camera footage exposes bribery for palm oil in Papua New Guinea

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2021

The great Koh Kong land rush: Areas stripped of protection by Cambodian gov’t being bought up

Gerald Flynn 7 Oct 2021
Soy-forest boundary. Photo credit: Mighty Earth

Timmermans vs. Bolsonaro: Will the EU get deforestation off our dinner plates? (commentary)

Nico Muzi 7 Oct 2021

Women on storm-hit Philippine island lead Indigenous effort to restore mangroves

Keith Anthony Fabro 7 Oct 2021

Brazil leads Amazon in forest loss this year, Indigenous and protected areas hold out

Liz Kimbrough 6 Oct 2021

Southern patas monkeys face extinction in a decade without intervention

Ed Holt 6 Oct 2021
Baby western lowland gorilla, Cameroon. Image by Alan Duncan Hamilton via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

‘Acts of poaching and other crimes’: Cameroon plans a new road in Lobéké National Park

Mongabay 5 Oct 2021

Indonesia investigates alleged abuse of Sumatran tigers at city zoo

Ayat S. Karokaro 5 Oct 2021

A bridge of trees reunites gibbons separated by a railway line in India

Anuraag Baruah 5 Oct 2021

On islands that inspired theory of evolution, deforestation cuts uneven path

Carolyn Cowan 5 Oct 2021

For companies eyeing net-zero carbon emissions, ‘no clue how to get there’

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 4 Oct 2021
Fallen giant: a member of the survey team inspects the remains of a felled African zebrawood in Ebo Forest  Image courtesy Eric Nana.

Illegal logging threatens rare Cameroonian hardwood with extinction

Ryan Truscott 4 Oct 2021

Monitoring reveals Indonesia’s ‘legal timber’ scheme riddled with violations

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Sep 2021
or orangutan by Dupan Pandu via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

New study identifies regions of greatest conservation potential for species, water quality, carbon

Liz Kimbrough 28 Sep 2021

Build around the forest, not through it, study says of Sumatra trucking road

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Sep 2021
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).

New permits for Brazilian beef exports to US could increase deforestation risk: Report

Maxwell Radwin 27 Sep 2021

New Zealand developer denies key role in giant palm oil project in Indonesia

Bonnie Sumner, Melanie Reid 27 Sep 2021

In Colombia, legal mining proves a win-win for environment, traditional communities

Dimitri Selibas 25 Sep 2021

Links to coal mining add to Indonesian palm oil sector’s risk for buyers

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Sep 2021

Fires bear down on Brazil park that’s home to jaguars, maned wolves

Sarah Sax 23 Sep 2021
Rainforest in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Jane Goodall launches effort in support of planting 1 trillion trees by 2030

Mongabay.com 23 Sep 2021

Remnant forests struggle to survive amid oil palm plantations, study shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Sep 2021

When a tree falls in the forest, you can still hear the birdsong

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 22 Sep 2021
Aerial view of an area in the Amazon deforested for the expansion of livestock, in Porto Velho, Rondônia state. Overflights organized by the Amazon in Flames Alliance -- Amazon Watch, Greenpeace Brazil and the Brazilian Climate Observatory -- between September 13th and 17th documented land use change and fire around the cities of Porto Velho, Rondônia, and Lábrea, Amazonas. Photo © Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance)

Countering Bolsonaro’s UN speech, Greenpeace releases Amazon deforestation photos

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Sep 2021

Fires in the Amazon have already impacted 90% of plant and animal species

Suzana Camargo 21 Sep 2021
View of clouds above Shenandoan National Park in the Eastern United States. Photo by Mark Collins vis Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Cloudy and cool: climate prospects from mid-latitude tree planting, study

Liz Kimbrough 21 Sep 2021

11 Mongabay investigations in two years. Here’s what we found

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Sep 2021

The Pantanal is burning again. Will it be another devastating year?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Sep 2021
Banner image: A truck carries logs cut from the Amazon Rainforest in the state of Rondônia. Image courtesy of Vicente Sampaio/Imaflora.

Illegal logging reaches Amazon’s untouched core, ‘terrifying’ research shows

Juliana Ennes 15 Sep 2021

Study fails to find link between increased deforestation and COVID lockdowns

James Fair 14 Sep 2021

Oil palms alone can be damaging; with other crops, the benefits abound

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Sep 2021

Lockdowns didn’t stop 2020 being deadliest year yet for earth defenders

Ashoka Mukpo 13 Sep 2021

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