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River in the Kosnipata valley, Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Why is a landscape approach needed for funding the global environmental agenda? (commentary)

Aida Greenbury, Robert Nasi 26 Nov 2024
Andean Cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruvianus). Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Why biodiversity credits cannot work (commentary)

Byron Swift 14 Oct 2024
Rainfall over the Amazon river. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

The Amazon is ablaze again. What it means for us (commentary)

Mark J. Plotkin 30 Sep 2024
Greenpeace Brazil conducted an aerial survey in southern Amazonas and northern Rondônia to monitor deforestation and fires in July 2024. Photo © Marizilda Cruppe / Greenpeace.

Brazil’s race to approve the end of the Amazon: The BR-319 highway needs a new environmental impact assessment (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 28 Sep 2024
NASA satellite image of BR-230 highway.

Brazil’s BR-319 highway disaster: Yet another maneuver (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 20 Sep 2024
Cacao production in the Amazon (source FAPESP)

Scaling up the Amazon’s many bioeconomies requires investment in nature, prosperity, and inclusion (commentary)

Katherine Aguirre, Peter Smith, Robert Muggah 8 Aug 2024
Costa Rica rainforest

Conservation pays and everyone’s benefitting from it (commentary)

Diego Vincenzi 15 Jul 2024
Header image: Generated image suggestive of a bleak and burned-out patch of Amazon rainforest

“Game over” for the Amazon forest and global climate if Trump wins? (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 11 Jul 2024

Climate surprises: Amazonia and the lessons of Brazil’s catastrophic flood in Rio Grande do Sul (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside, Rosimeire Araújo Silva 4 Jul 2024
A section of BR-316 in 2013.

Brazil’s BR-319 Highway: The latest maneuver to obtain approval for an environmental disaster (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 17 Jun 2024
Recent deforestation for oil palm in the Amazon rainforest

Governments are ramping up actions to fight environmental crime across the Amazon, but is it working? (commentary)

Robert Muggah 27 May 2024
AI generated image of a satellite over South America

New technologies to map environmental crime in the Amazon Basin (commentary)

Robert Muggah and Peter Smith 12 Apr 2024
Flying a drone in New Guinea. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Mongabay Data Studio: Revealing nature’s hidden stories through data (commentary)

Rhett A. Butler 8 Mar 2024
Generated image showing a road through a deforested landscape.

Brazil’s BR-319 highway: The danger reaches a critical moment (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 17 Feb 2024

Brazil’s 2024-2027 “Transversal Environmental Agenda”: The elephants in the room (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 4 Feb 2024
Fire and deforestation in the Amacro region (the states of Amazonas, Acre and Rondônia) in the Brazilian Amazon in late August 2022. Photo © Nilmar Lage / Greenpeace

Amazonia in flames: Unlearned lessons from the 2023 Manaus smoke crisis (commentary)

Lucas Ferrante, Philip M. Fearnside 17 Jan 2024
Oil palm plantation and native tropical rainforest on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler

A decade of stopping deforestation: How the palm oil industry did the seemingly impossible (commentary)

Glenn Hurowitz 27 Dec 2023

Race to destroy the Amazon forest: Brazil’s National Congress set to force construction of Highway BR-319 (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 20 Dec 2023
Rendering of an oil derrick in the rainforest. AI-generated.

Brazil’s “End-of-the-World” auction for oil and gas drilling (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 16 Dec 2023
Planet satellite images of the drought-affected Rio Negro in October 2023. Photo courtesy of Planet Labs.

What Brazil should have said at COP28 but didn’t (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 4 Dec 2023
Pangolin pup. Courtesy of the Pangolin Conservation Fund.

Biden can tip the (pangolin) scales on China’s illegal wildlife trade (commentary)

Araluen “Azza” Schunmann 3 Dec 2023
Reserva Narupa in Ecuador. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Jurisdictional REDD+ ready to fund forest-positive, socially-inclusive development in the Amazon and beyond (commentary)

Daniel Nepstad 20 Nov 2023
Timber extraction in Sumatra. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Journalism’s role in the Nature Crime Alliance (commentary)

Rhett A. Butler 23 Aug 2023
The Amazon rainforest in Peru. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Why should funding Amazon forest sustainability be the world’s top priority? (commentary)

Jonah Wittkamper, Mariana Senna, Ricardo Politi 20 Jul 2023
Rainforest in Ecuador. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Despite landmark law, Europe faces tough test to end role in global forest loss (commentary)

Sam Lawson 15 May 2023
Sunset over the Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Mobilizing Amazon societies to reduce forest carbon emissions and unlock the carbon market (commentary)

Dan Nepstad, Monica de los Rios, Ronaldo Seroa da Motta 13 Mar 2023
A farmer embracing agroecological approaches in Haiti. Photo credit: Ben Depp

Agroecology is a poverty solution in Haiti (commentary)

Cantave Jean-Baptiste, Steve Brescia 6 Mar 2023
A biodiverse island in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Biodiversity credits: An opportunity to create a new financing framework (commentary)

Mariana Sarmiento, Simon Morgan 20 Feb 2023
Dusk in the Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

Biden-Lula meeting: The time is right for U.S. and Brazil to work together for Amazonia (commentary)

Jeffrey Hoelle and Valério Gomes 10 Feb 2023

Emmanuel Macron’s “Biodiversity Credits”: What are we talking about? (commentary)

Alain Karsenty 16 Dec 2022
Rainbow over Jambi, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

Drive for restoration and remedy behind some NGOs’ cautious support for FSC changes (commentary)

Grant Rosoman 21 Oct 2022
Andean bear captured in a camera trap a the Qeros-Wachiperi Conservation Concession, part of study to determine the bear’s habitat preferences. The bears altitudinal range goes from 200 to 4000 meters above sea level. Photo: Conservación Amazónica ACCA.

How bears “make” a forest (commentary)

Enrique Ortiz 30 Sep 2022

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