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The legal institutionalization of FSC certification in Gabon (commentary)

Alain Karsenty 31 Oct 2018

Citizen Ape: The fight for personhood for humans’ closest relatives

Giovanni Ortolani 24 Oct 2018

Chinese demand wiping out forests in the Solomon Islands: New report

John Cannon 22 Oct 2018

In a first, DRC communities gain legal rights to forests

Mongabay.com 18 Oct 2018

5 bird species lose protections, more at risk in new Indonesia decree

Basten Gokkon 17 Oct 2018

$25m in funding to help African gov’ts prosecute poachers, traffickers

Mongabay.com 15 Oct 2018

Second environmental expert sued over testimony against palm oil firm

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Oct 2018
A forestry department ground inspection team checks the timber to be exported and monitors con-tainer loading at the site before sealing the container. Photo by Ann Wang for Mongabay.

Activists blast Myanmar timber deal: ‘There is no transparency at all’

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2018

Activists say Indonesia dragging its heels on indigenous rights

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Sep 2018

Indonesian president signs 3-year freeze on new oil palm licenses

Mongabay.com 20 Sep 2018
Planet satellite image of the open pit copper-gold mine on Sumbawa.

Indonesian province calls time-out on mining

Ebed de Rosary 19 Sep 2018

California targets fossil fuel-free electricity by 2045

Mongabay.com 13 Sep 2018

Illegal wildlife trade on Facebook in Thailand open ‘for all to see’

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Sep 2018

Indonesia gives in to bird traders, rescinds protection for 3 species

Basten Gokkon 7 Sep 2018

A civic outcry in Malaysia forces a Chinese builder to live up to its eco-friendly tag

Keith Schneider 5 Sep 2018

Indonesian government appeals ruling on tighter peat fire regulations

Basten Gokkon 30 Aug 2018

As Bali reclamation project dies, activists seek conservation status

Luh De Suriyani 30 Aug 2018

Fires and haze return to Indonesia as peat protection bid falls short

Aseanty Pahlevi, Hans Nicholas Jong, Zamzami 29 Aug 2018

A Malaysian port city grapples with the fallout from Chinese funding

Keith Schneider 24 Aug 2018

Brazil hits emissions target early, but rising deforestation risks reversal

John Cannon 23 Aug 2018

Is Indonesia’s celebrated antigraft agency missing the corruption for the trees?

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 22 Aug 2018

Poachers caught on video killing mother bear and cubs at den in Alaska

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2018

Recovering conservationist: Q&A with orangutan ecologist June Mary Rubis

Basten Gokkon 15 Aug 2018

In protecting songbirds, Indonesia ruffles owners & breeders’ feathers

Basten Gokkon 13 Aug 2018

‘High risk’ that China’s timber from PNG is illegal: New report

John Cannon 9 Aug 2018

Indonesia demands cleanup after coal spill pollutes beach

Junaidi Hanafiah 6 Aug 2018

Indonesia adds hundreds of birds to protected species list

Basten Gokkon 3 Aug 2018

Study links US demand for Chinese furniture to deforestation in Africa

John Cannon 3 Aug 2018

Colombia bans the use of mercury in mining

Antonio José Paz Cardona 1 Aug 2018

The crisis in the European tropical timber sector in Central Africa (commentary)

Alain Karsenty 1 Aug 2018

2700 scientists issue call to action on border wall wildlife threat

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Jul 2018

Trump Admin unveils plan to weaken the US Endangered Species Act

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2018

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