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Designing the ideal wildlife corridor for Malaysia’s orangutans

Becca Cudmore 18 Apr 2016

Tripa’s Trials: protecting key orangutan habitat through the courts

Laurel Neme 13 Apr 2016

West African countries come together to stop the illegal rosewood trade

Mike Gaworecki 12 Apr 2016

An agribusiness revolution is needed to save Africa’s last great apes

William H. Funk 12 Apr 2016

Palm oil’s new frontier: averting a Great Ape catastrophe in Cameroon

Claire Salisbury 1 Apr 2016

Major legal system breakdowns threaten great apes of Africa, Asia

William H. Funk 31 Mar 2016

Leuser’s Legacy: how rescued orangutans help assure species survival

Laurel Neme 30 Mar 2016
Mahi mahi. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

$90M to decouple food production from negative environmental impacts

Mongabay.com 27 Mar 2016

Oil palm company takes lead on sustainable agriculture in Gabon

John Cannon 15 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

Even minor forest disturbance can cause great ape population crashes

Rachel Nuwer 7 Mar 2016

China’s log imports fall sharply

Mongabay.com 3 Mar 2016

A mangrove forest in Cancun that was home to many crocodiles, boas, eagles, herons, frogs, squirrels and iguanas is destroyed

Pablo Hernández Mares 29 Feb 2016

Indonesia’s peat peninsula being drained into oblivion, study finds

Loren Bell 24 Feb 2016

Republic of Congo awards two million hectares of timber concessions

John Cannon 11 Feb 2016

Is intensification helping the cattle industry go Amazon deforestation-free?

Mike Gaworecki 14 Jan 2016

What’s ahead for rainforests in 2016? 10 things to watch

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2016
Chevron's Duri oil field in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

How does the global commodity collapse impact forest conservation?

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Dec 2015

Illegal gold miners in Madre de Dios, Peru, paralyze the region with protests

Ruxandra Guidi 4 Dec 2015
Picture courtesy of Greenpeace.

Photos confirm Indonesia being burned for palm oil

Mongabay Haze Beat 5 Nov 2015

Indonesia’s massive haze problem is Jokowi’s big opportunity

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Oct 2015

Plantation companies challenged by haze-causing fires in Indonesia

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Oct 2015

One year after New York Declaration on Forests, less progress on cattle and soy than on palm oil and timber

Mike Gaworecki 1 Oct 2015

Can technology help clean up the palm oil industry?

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Oct 2015

Big Palm Oil’s financiers

Pek Shibao 27 Jul 2015

Do we need to move ‘beyond certification’ to save forests?

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Jun 2015

Inside The Toxic Tour: Not for prime-time Ecuador (PHOTOS)

Bill Hinchberger 12 Jun 2015

PepsiCo, Walmart, investors call for stronger palm oil standard

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jun 2015

62M ha of Latin American forests cleared for agriculture since 2001

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 May 2015

Malaysian palm oil body encourages fiction over fact

David Dellatore Of The Sumatran Orangutan Society 17 May 2015

Wilmar, Musim Mas supplier caught clearing elephant habitat for palm oil in Aceh

Mongabay.com 12 May 2015

‘Deforestation fronts’ revealed

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Apr 2015

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