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Bolsonaro government reveals plan to develop the ‘Unproductive Amazon’

Jan Rocha 28 Jan 2019

Of concrete and corruption: Resistance kills Andes Amazon dams

Saul Elbein 24 Jan 2019
rhino and car

Rhinos or roads? Nepal deals with a tricky balancing act

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Jan 2019

Saving the forests of the Congo Basin: Q&A with author Meindert Brouwer

Mongabay.com 23 Jan 2019

Solomon Islands province bans logging in bid to protect environment

Mongabay.com 21 Jan 2019

As Brazilian agribusiness booms, family farms feed the nation

Anna Sophie Gross 17 Jan 2019

Brazilian hunger for meat fattened on soy is deforesting the Cerrado: report

Giovanni Ortolani 16 Jan 2019

Bolsonaro acts; Brazil’s socio-environmental groups resist

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 14 Jan 2019

Brazil’s indigenous agency acts to protect isolated Kawahiva people

Sue Branford 3 Jan 2019

Bolsonaro hands over indigenous land demarcation to agriculture ministry

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 2 Jan 2019

Once bitten, Indonesia’s indigenous alliance won’t endorse 2019 candidates

Basten Gokkon 2 Jan 2019
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018

Brazil: Bolsonaro supporter works to imprison Dorothy Stang’s successor

Daniel Camargos, Roberto Cataldo 28 Dec 2018

Adapt to a changing Amazon now, or pay far higher price later, experts say

Claire Asher 25 Dec 2018

Ten years on, Amazon Fund receives applause, criticism, faces new tests

Fabíola Ortiz 21 Dec 2018

Amazon soy boom poses urgent existential threat to landless movement

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 20 Dec 2018

Indonesia attack shines a light on controversial road project

Loren Bell 20 Dec 2018

Amazon forests not changing fast enough to keep up with climate change: study

Claire Asher 19 Dec 2018

Bolsonaro shapes administration: Amazon, indigenous and landless at risk

Sue Branford, Thais Borges, Mauricio Torres 18 Dec 2018

Purus-Madeira: Amazon parks and extraordinary biodiversity at risk now

Gustavo Faleiros, Images by Marcio Isensee e Sá 17 Dec 2018

‘Amazon Besieged’: Q&A with Mongabay contributor Sue Branford about new book

Mike Gaworecki 14 Dec 2018

Belo Monte dam Xingu River Management Plan violates human rights: finding

Max Nathanson 10 Dec 2018

Amazon indigenous groups and truckers ally to oppose Brazil’s Grainrail

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 6 Dec 2018

Santo Antônio mega-dam on Brazil’s Madeira River disrupts local lives

Sonya Cunningham 3 Dec 2018

COP24: World’s nations gather to grapple with looming climate disaster

Justin Catanoso 3 Dec 2018

Mega-dam costs outweigh benefits, global building spree should end: experts

Claire Asher 29 Nov 2018

It’s time to strengthen the macroecology–conservation practice interface (commentary)

Giovanni Rapacciuolo 29 Nov 2018

The secret deal to destroy paradise

Malaysiakini, Mongabay, Tempo, The Gecko Project 28 Nov 2018

US could cut emissions more than one-fifth through ‘natural climate solutions’ like reforestation

Mongabay.com 21 Nov 2018

Tax havens and Brazilian Amazon deforestation linked: study

Giovanni Ortolani 21 Nov 2018

New dam set to spoil Sumatran wonderland (commentary)

Gregory McCann, Haray Sampurna Munthe 20 Nov 2018

Purus-Madeira: the Amazon arc of deforestation marches north

Gustavo Faleiros, Marcio Isensee e Sá 20 Nov 2018

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