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Ferrogrão grain railway threatens Amazon indigenous groups, forest

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 4 Dec 2017

Fundão dam criminal case moves ahead against 21 mining executives

Zoe Sullivan 29 Nov 2017

Indonesia to kick off 10-year plan to save critically endangered helmeted hornbill

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Nov 2017

eBay is outselling the darknet in the illegal wildlife trade, fret researchers

Jack Elliot Marley 22 Nov 2017
Men and women spend hours sowing rice seedlings and ploughing the land. Photo by Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor for Mongabay.

To feed a growing population, farms chew away at Madagascar’s forests

Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor 17 Nov 2017
A baby silky sifaka lemur (Propithecus candidus) in Marojejy National Park. Photo by Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor for Mongabay.

Lemur on the menu: most-endangered primates still served in Madagascar

Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor 15 Nov 2017
Franco Rajaonarison, a guide, shows a rosewood stump in Marojejy National Park. Photo by Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor for Mongabay.

Madagascar petitions CITES to sell millions in stolen rosewood

Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor 13 Nov 2017

From carbon sink to source: Brazil puts Amazon, Paris goals at risk

Claire Salisbury 9 Nov 2017
A fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox), a species that lives in Marojejy National Park, which was ground zero for Madagascar’s rosewood logging crisis in 2009. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Logjam: Inside Madagascar’s illegal-rosewood stockpiles

Rowan Moore Gerety 8 Nov 2017

Indigenous lands at risk, as Amazon sellout by Brazil’s Temer continues (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 6 Nov 2017

Indonesian NGOs lawyer up against environmental crimes

Ayat S. Karokaro 6 Nov 2017
A white spotted reed frog (Heterixalus alboguttatus) in Ranomafana National Park, about 30 miles west of Vohilava. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Madagascar environmental activist convicted, sentenced — and paroled

Edward Carver 2 Nov 2017

Temer offers amnesty, erasing up to $2.1 billion in environmental crime fines

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 31 Oct 2017

Trump budget undercuts U.S. commitment to global wildlife conservation

William H. Funk 30 Oct 2017

Brazilian police nab Amazon timber thieves who faked forest credits

Jenny Gonzales 27 Oct 2017

As Grauer’s gorillas cling to survival, new population found

Sharon Guynup 26 Oct 2017

Temer guts Brazil’s slavery law, to the applause of elite ruralists

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 23 Oct 2017

Another Madagascar environmental activist imprisoned

Edward Carver 20 Oct 2017

Munduruku standoff against Amazon dam builders potentially explosive

Sue Branford with Fernanda Moreira and Maurício Torres 17 Oct 2017

The Palm Oil Fiefdom

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 10 Oct 2017
chameleon, a species that lives in Ranomafana National Park. Photo by

Conservation in a weak state: Madagascar struggles with enforcement

Rowan Moore Gerety 10 Oct 2017

Indonesia for Sale: in-depth series on corruption, palm oil and rainforests launches

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 10 Oct 2017

Booming legal Amazon wildlife trade documented in new report

Claire Salisbury 6 Oct 2017

Antigraft agency charges district chief over permits to mine nickel in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2017

‘Queen of Coal’ named corruption suspect in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Oct 2017

Amazon community on Tapajós River invaded by wildcat miners

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres, with additional reporting by Ailen Vega 2 Oct 2017

Brazil: a world champion in political and environmental devastation (commentary)

Giem Guimaraes 29 Sep 2017

Temer walks back plan to open Denmark-sized area of Amazon to mining

Jenny Gonzales 27 Sep 2017

Amazon dam operator defies order to shut down, police action looms

Zoe Sullivan 26 Sep 2017

Two Indonesian soldiers found to be smuggling dozens of porcupines

Vinolia 25 Sep 2017

Belo Monte dam installation license suspended, housing inadequacy cited

Zoe Sullivan 19 Sep 2017

Palm oil giant FGV will ‘endeavor to rehabilitate’ peatlands it trashed in Borneo

Basten Gokkon 13 Sep 2017

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