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UNESCO declares largest biosphere reserve in North America

Morgan Erickson-Davis 21 Mar 2016
Rainforest in Costa Rica. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

New Rainforest Alliance head: technology could improve commodity certification

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Mar 2016

Ecuadorean government aims to stop one road from going into Amazon

Ruxandra Guidi 21 Mar 2016

Alaska’s first new butterfly species in decades could be rare hybrid

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Mar 2016

10 facts about forests for International Forest Day

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Mar 2016

The week in environmental news – March 18, 2016

Brittany Stewart 18 Mar 2016

Guatemala’s REDD+ program draws a range of opinions and results

Carlos Chávez 18 Mar 2016

Killing of Guatemalan activist in the Maya Biosphere Reserve raises alarm

Sandra Cuffe 18 Mar 2016

‘Exploitation crisis’: Civil war fueling ‘sharp rise’ in poaching and trafficking of South Sudan’s wildlife

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Mar 2016

U.S. plan to develop offshore aquaculture stirs dissent

Alexandra Ossola 17 Mar 2016

Illegal deforestation for ‘sustainable’ chocolate continues in Peru

Morgan Erickson-Davis 17 Mar 2016
Not for republication. Image by Rod Harbinson/Rodharbinson.com

Indigenous forest activist released from prison amid Cambodian crackdown

Rod Harbinson 17 Mar 2016

BNDES funded Belo Monte dam — a mega-project with mega-problems

Sue Branford 17 Mar 2016

Released: 1,000-page encyclopedia on land conflicts affecting indigenous tribes

Mongabay.com 17 Mar 2016

Global carbon dioxide emissions stay flat for second year in a row

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Mar 2016

New life for Indonesia’s long-delayed indigenous rights bill?

Cory Rogers 17 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #3: Iriri River offers up examples of sustainable and unsustainable business

Sue Branford 16 Mar 2016

Expedition finds butterfly bonanza in Bolivian national park (PHOTOS)

Morgan Erickson-Davis 16 Mar 2016

Toddler’s murder in Brazil unveils widespread violence against country’s indigenous

Carolina Torres 16 Mar 2016

Obama administration will not allow oil drilling off Atlantic coast

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Mar 2016

Scientists blame Smokey Bear for making U.S. forests less resilient

Morgan Erickson-Davis 15 Mar 2016
High security fence at the Marange diamond fields. Security is tight but poverty in nearby communities drives many to attempt to break in and pan for diamonds illegally. Those caught risk beatings and torture by government and mine security forces. Photo by Andrew Mambondiyani.

Abuse, displacement, pollution: the legacy of Zimbabwe’s Marange diamonds

Andrew Mambondiyani 15 Mar 2016

New law banning mining in Colombia’s moorlands could draw its first lawsuit

Ruxandra Guidi 15 Mar 2016

Hope for monkey on brink of extinction: new population found in Vietnam

Claire Salisbury 15 Mar 2016

Oil palm company takes lead on sustainable agriculture in Gabon

John Cannon 15 Mar 2016

Unhealthy environment kills 12.6 million people every year: WHO study

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Mar 2016

Emergency declared as fires reappear in Sumatra

Mongabay Haze Beat 15 Mar 2016

Conservation and birth control: a controversial mix?

Roz Evans 14 Mar 2016

Demands grow for a thorough investigation of Berta Cáceres’ assassination in Honduras

Ruxandra Guidi 14 Mar 2016

Two forest countries, two very different conservation finance outlooks

Mike Gaworecki 14 Mar 2016

BNDES has long history of loans to gigantic construction companies

Sue Branford 14 Mar 2016

These little-known, colorful birds are latest victims of Indonesia’s caged-bird trade

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Mar 2016

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