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For Africa’s great apes, even ‘best-case’ climate change will decimate habitat

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jul 2021

Armed with data and smartphones, Amazon communities boost fight against deforestation

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 12 Jul 2021

The science of forest biomass: Conflicting studies map the controversy

Justin Catanoso 12 Jul 2021

‘Red-carded’ Australian miner signals intention to play on in Greenland

Jenny Denton 12 Jul 2021

Soy and cattle team up to drive deforestation in South America: Study

Liz Kimbrough 12 Jul 2021

Indonesia bets on biofuels over oil, but EVs could render both moot

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jul 2021

Colombia brings landmark rulings of importance closer to Indigenous communities

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 9 Jul 2021
Planet image of Altamira (-5.79, -53.69) in the State of Pará, Brazil taken on August 8, 2020. Courtesy of Planet.

Amazon deforestation rises modestly in June

Mongabay.com 9 Jul 2021

Environmental defenders in Ecuador aren’t safe, new report shows

Kimberley Brown 9 Jul 2021
Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge needs a makeover. Is rainforest lumber still in style?

Ashoka Mukpo 8 Jul 2021
Coastal net pens for salmon aquaculture in Norway. Image by Brataffe via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

For Norway salmon farms giving up deforestation-linked soy, Cargill proves a roadblock

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 7 Jul 2021

Tiger habitat threatened by Malaysian royals’ mining plans

Rachel Donald 7 Jul 2021

In the Brazilian Amazon, a road project drives the threat of deforestation

Jennifer Ann Thomas 5 Jul 2021

Deforestation soars 40% in Xingu River Basin in Brazilian Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 2 Jul 2021
Oil palm fruit. Image by Dave Barce via Wikicommons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Blind spot in palm policy raises deforestation risk in Malaysia, report says

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 2 Jul 2021

In the Colombian Andes, a forest corridor staves off species extinction

Veronika Perkova 2 Jul 2021
Clouded leopard. Image by Ltshears via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Carving up the Cardamoms: Conservationists fear massive land grab in Cambodia

Gerald Flynn, Andy Ball, Phoung Vantha 1 Jul 2021

Mining exposes Indigenous women in Latin America to high mercury levels

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 1 Jul 2021

Fire season intensifies in the Brazilian Amazon, feeding off deforestation

Liz Kimbrough 1 Jul 2021
Blackwater lake, rainforest, and the whitewater Zacambu River in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

The conservation gains we’ve made are still fragile, says Aileen Lee of the Moore Foundation

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jul 2021

Monks and wildlife come under pressure from Malaysian cement company

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 30 Jun 2021

Beef industry causes deforestation in Colombia’s Chiribiquete National Park

Tatiana Pardo Ibarra 29 Jun 2021
Sabah’s remaining elephants are hemmed in by oil palm plantations, and scientists worry that stretches of the Pan Borneo Highway could further fragment the population. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

NGOs call for alternative routes for Bornean road to avoid wildlife habitat

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 29 Jun 2021
Thailand deforestation

Forest loss in mountains of Southeast Asia accelerates at ‘shocking’ pace

Carolyn Cowan 28 Jun 2021

Deforestation of endangered wildlife habitat continues to surge in southern Myanmar

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Jun 2021

In Colombia, end of war meant start of runaway deforestation, study finds

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 25 Jun 2021

Timber troubles fell Ricardo Salles, Brazil’s environment minister

Juliana Ennes 24 Jun 2021

Deforestation of orangutan habitat feeds global palm oil demand, report shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jun 2021

Exhibition showcases Claudia Andujar’s half-century fight for the Yanomami

Sue Branford 24 Jun 2021

Under assault at home, Indigenous leaders get a violent welcome in Brasília

Fernanda Wenzel 24 Jun 2021

Amazon dams: No clean water, fish dying, then the pandemic came

Tiffany Higgins 23 Jun 2021

Cleaning up Cambodia’s kitchens could curb deforestation, climate change

Marissa Carruthers 22 Jun 2021

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