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Brazil 2018: Amazon under attack, resistance grows, courts to act, elections

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 9 Jan 2018

Brazil announces end to Amazon mega-dam building policy

Sue Branford 3 Jan 2018
A Kenyan ranger guards poached elephant tusks in preparation for the destruction of 105 tons of ivory and a ton of rhino horn in April. Photo by Mwangi Kirubi via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Ivory trade in China is now banned

Mongabay.com 2 Jan 2018

Brazil 2017: environmental and indigenous rollbacks, rising violence

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 27 Dec 2017

Indonesia seeks to slap money-laundering label on illegal fishing

Mongabay.com 20 Dec 2017

Mine tailings dam failures major cause of environmental disasters: report

Zoe Sullivan 19 Dec 2017

EU-LatAm trade deal good for agribusiness; bad for Amazon, climate – analysis

Sue Branford 18 Dec 2017

Latin America-Europe trade pact to include historic indigenous rights clause

Lucy EJ Woods 12 Dec 2017
Red ruffed lemur (Varecia rubra), a species that lives in northeastern Madagascar, where rosewood logging has been severe. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

CITES rejects Madagascar’s bid to sell rosewood and ebony stockpiles

Edward Carver 12 Dec 2017
Coquerel's sifaka (Propithecus coquereli), a species that lives in Bongolava. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Abandoned by their sponsors, Madagascar’s orphaned parks struggle on

Rowan Moore Gerety 8 Dec 2017

Militarization and mining a dangerous mix in Venezuelan Amazon

Bram Ebus 7 Dec 2017

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, 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, 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, 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

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