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Indonesian Supreme Court orders Jokowi administration to hand over palm oil permit data

Mongabay.com 10 Mar 2017
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Greenpeace to take Indonesian forestry ministry to Supreme Court over environmental data

Mongabay.com 9 Mar 2017

Study finds more than 350k trees illegally felled in Madagascar’s protected areas in five-year span

Mike Gaworecki 23 Feb 2017

Environmental lawyer killed in the Philippines

Isabel Esterman 21 Feb 2017

Proposed Trump policy threatens Critically Endangered Grauer’s gorilla

Sharon Guynup 21 Feb 2017

Public criticism forces U.S. congressman to back off public land disposal bill

Mongabay.com 9 Feb 2017

Fish magnet boom creates headaches in Indonesia’s war on overfishing

Mike Cronin 9 Feb 2017

Trade in skulls, body parts severely threatens Cameroon’s great apes

Eugene N. Nforngwa 19 Jan 2017

Pileated gibbons poached as bushmeat to feed illegal rosewood loggers

Demelza Stokes 17 Jan 2017

Great apes and greater challenges: Trafficking in Cameroon

Sean Mowbray 12 Jan 2017

Jokowi grants first-ever indigenous land rights to 9 communities

Mongabay.com 4 Jan 2017
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)

China to ban its elephant ivory trade within a year

Mongabay.com 30 Dec 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

As accusations fly, paper giant appears to stand by its replanting of burned peat in Sumatra

Mongabay Haze Beat 22 Dec 2016
The front page of Daily Eleven in Yangon, Myanmar the day after the murder of one of its reporters. Photo by Ann Wang for Mongabay

Attacks on journalists in Myanmar highlight complications, dangers for the media

Mongabay.com 15 Dec 2016

Companies need to do more to avoid deforestation, study finds

John Cannon 10 Dec 2016

Interpol says corruption in global forestry sector worth $29 billion every year

Mike Gaworecki 9 Dec 2016
An Amazon rainforest tree in Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Peru pledges tougher stance against illegal timber

Joseph Charpentier 5 Dec 2016

Indonesian court shuts down legal challenge to Aceh land-use plan

Mongabay.com 29 Nov 2016
Rainforest cleared for an oil palm plantation in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia ships first containers of timber under EU legality scheme

Lusia Arumingtyas 17 Nov 2016

Global trade 101: How NAFTA’s Chapter 11 overrides environmental laws

Jennifer Huizen 8 Nov 2016

Rio Doce: The murder of an already dead river (commentary)

Dr. Fabiano de Melo 4 Nov 2016

Is it time for a moratorium on commercial fishing of Pacific bluefin tuna?

Mike Gaworecki 26 Oct 2016

Violence against indigenous people high, as land conflicts heat up

Carolina Torres 18 Oct 2016

Environmental official murdered in Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford 17 Oct 2016

Two species of beetles go extinct in the US, one gets protection

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Oct 2016

Nature’s right to exist gets a boost from key organizations

Mike Gaworecki 13 Oct 2016

For the first time, bees get added to US endangered species list

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Oct 2016

Brazil pledges to cut carbon, but government policies say otherwise

Jenny Gonzales 6 Oct 2016

Slave-linked fishing firm thought to have resumed operations in Indonesia

M Ambari 29 Sep 2016

The Nicaraguan frontier: a treasure trove under siege

Karen Masters, Hector Castaneda, Adam Stein 26 Sep 2016

Calls for CITES to address the corruption fueling the illegal wildlife trade

Mike Gaworecki 23 Sep 2016

Land grabbing and environmental destruction could now be prosecuted under international law

Mike Gaworecki 22 Sep 2016

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