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Gold mining in Venezuela: a “perfect storm” of illegality, deforestation and mafias

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 11 Mar 2016

Will mining company drive mass extinction of Madagascar’s wildlife?

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Mar 2016

Want to end illegal fishing? Make all ships trackable, say researchers

Mongabay.com 11 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #2: Newly created conservation unit could push long-time residents from their lands

Sue Branford 11 Mar 2016

Drop in timber smuggling gives ‘breathing space’ to Myanmar’s forests

Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Mar 2016
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Mato Grosso leading the fight against climate change and deforestation (commentary)

Daniel Nepstad 10 Mar 2016

Australia announces a new spider species called ‘Brian’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Mar 2016

DNA evidence just helped convict illegal loggers in the US Pacific Northwest

Mike Gaworecki 10 Mar 2016

A plane survey of Central America’s last remaining forests

Ruxandra Guidi 10 Mar 2016

Indigenous rights win big against mining in Suriname

Ruxandra Guidi 10 Mar 2016

Perverse outcomes: Can conservation aid spur deforestation?

Loren Bell 9 Mar 2016
Deforestation in Sumatra, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

World’s largest sovereign wealth fund just dropped 11 companies over deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 9 Mar 2016

Forest restoration: from Stone Age to drone age

Giovanni Ortolani 9 Mar 2016

Giant development bank’s social and environmental safeguards called into question by critics

Sue Branford 9 Mar 2016

Rogue cop-turned-logger recaptured in Papua after latest prison break

Mongabay.com 9 Mar 2016

Hunt for rare fragrance is pushing one of world’s most expensive trees towards extinction: Al Jazeera documentary

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Mar 2016

New snake species highlights how little we know about biodiversity in under-explored regions of India

Mike Gaworecki 8 Mar 2016

An indigenous community takes hostages in an effort to draw attention to oil spill in Peru’s Amazon

Ruxandra Guidi 8 Mar 2016

Gorillas in threatened Cameroon forest caught on film for first time

Mike Gaworecki 7 Mar 2016

Convicted Indonesian police officer and illegal logger on the run once again

Mike Gaworecki 7 Mar 2016

Even minor forest disturbance can cause great ape population crashes

Rachel Nuwer 7 Mar 2016

Humans torched Madagascar’s forests 1,000 years ago, driving mass extinction

Mongabay.com 7 Mar 2016

Greenpeace rates consumer goods giants’ no-deforestation progress

Mongabay.com 7 Mar 2016

Laos could be the ‘most important’ home for the elusive Owston’s civet

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Mar 2016

The week in environmental news – March 04, 2016

Brittany Stewart 5 Mar 2016

Scientists discover ‘friendly cartoon ghost’ octopod in deep ocean off Hawaii

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2016

$1m for devising best way to map Indonesia’s peatlands

Sapariah Saturi 5 Mar 2016

Bringing field surveys into the modern, mobile world

Katie Taylor 4 Mar 2016

DRC announces intent to reopen its rainforests to logging companies

Morgan Erickson-Davis 4 Mar 2016

Study doubles the number of endangered Sumatran orangutans believed to exist

Loren Bell 4 Mar 2016

A month since the oil spill, Wampis indigenous peoples criticize PetroPeru’s negligence

Ruxandra Guidi 4 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #1: Altamira, a city transformed by the Belo Monte dam

Sue Branford 4 Mar 2016

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