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Area the size of Puerto Rico burned in Indonesia’s fire crisis

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Oct 2019

Indonesian enforcement questioned as fires flare up on the same concessions

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Oct 2019

Fires still being set in blazing Bolivia (commentary)

Claire Wordley 1 Oct 2019

New app tracks down forest fires in Bolivia

John Cannon 30 Sep 2019

Top Madagascar beer maker supports investigation into its corn supply chain

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Sep 2019

Gran Chaco: South America’s second-largest forest at risk of collapsing

Rodolfo Chisleanschi 17 Sep 2019

‘We’ve been negligent,’ Indonesia’s president says as fire crisis deepens

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Sep 2019

Indonesian minister draws fire for denial of transboundary haze problem

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Sep 2019

Photos: Forest fires rage on Sumatra oil palm concessions

Elviza Diana 11 Sep 2019

Diplomatic row heats up as haze from Indonesian fires threatens Malaysia

Mongabay.com 9 Sep 2019

Disaster strikes in Bolivia as fires lay waste to unique forests

Carolina Méndez, Isabel Mercado 6 Sep 2019
Jasiri, an eastern black rhino captive bred in Dvur Kralove in the Czech Republic. Photo: Dvur Kralove

Europe-bred rhinos join South African cousins to repopulate Rwanda park

Jim Tan 14 Aug 2019

Indonesia forest-clearing ban is made permanent, but labeled ‘propaganda’

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Aug 2019
Baobab Alley outside Morondava. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay.

Photo essay: Madagascar’s disappearing dry forests (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Aug 2019

Haze from fires, Indonesia’s national ‘embarrassment,’ are back

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Aug 2019
Peat forest clearing in Indonesian Borneo in June 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesian ban on clearing new swaths of forest to be made permanent

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jun 2019
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Peat protection rule may be a double-edged sword for Indonesia’s forests

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Apr 2019

Palm oil, logging firms the usual suspects as Indonesia fires flare anew

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Apr 2019

Indonesia’s threat to exit Paris accord over palm oil seen as cynical ploy

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Apr 2019

No more fires in Indonesia? Blazes on Sumatran peatland say otherwise

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Mar 2019
Camera trap image showing a jaguar on a road at San Miguelito. Courtesy of Duston Larsen.

Can jaguar tourism save Bolivia’s fast dwindling forests?

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Mar 2019

Conservation groups press world leaders to protect 30% of the planet

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2019

Investigation reveals illegal cattle ranching in Paraguay’s vanishing Chaco

Aldo Benítez 22 Dec 2018

Peccary’s disappearance foreboding for other Mesoamerican wildlife

Mongabay 20 Dec 2018

Deforested, degraded land restoration a top priority for African leaders

Mongabay.com 19 Nov 2018

Radar helps Kenya map mangroves and other cloud-covered forests

Gatonye Gathura 15 Nov 2018

Satellite technology unites Kenyans against bush fires

David Njagi 9 Nov 2018

Kenyan charcoal businesses trying to nip invasive tree in the bud

Rosalia Omungo 30 Oct 2018

Bird-rich Indonesian island yields up new songbird species

Basten Gokkon 26 Oct 2018

Absent for decades, zebras reintroduced to park in southern Tanzania

Mongabay.com 24 Oct 2018

Why keep Africa’s dryland forests alive?

Sophie Mbugua 12 Sep 2018

Study finds widespread degradation, deforestation in African woodlands

John Cannon 27 Aug 2018

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