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Timber in Pará state and other parts of the Brazilian Amazon can bypass regulatory permits, allowing illegal wood to be sold domestically and internationally. Federal environmental agencies play an essential role in preventing this from happening, experts say.

The political economy of the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 8 Jun 2023
A boreal owl, a single-brooded species.

Climate warming alters offspring production of birds, study shows

Neha Jain 8 Jun 2023
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell briefing the press on the opening day of the conference.

U.N. climate chief calls for end to fossil fuels as talks head to Dubai

John Cannon 8 Jun 2023
A boat merchant in the canals of Bangkok, Thailand.

For urban poor in Global South, nature-based solutions have always been a way to get by

Spoorthy Raman 8 Jun 2023
Clouds reflected in a lake in the Amazon Rainforest.

We must center gender and community rights for climate action (commentary)

Coraina de la Plaza, Valentina Figuera Martínez 8 Jun 2023
A spectacled bear.

Learning to live with — and love — bears and eagles in Colombia’s cloud forest

James Hall 8 Jun 2023

Illegal settlements, hunting and logging threaten a state reserve in Mexico

Thelma Gómez Durán 8 Jun 2023

Fishers confirm scientists’ warning: Brazil’s Belo Monte dam killed off the river

João Paulo Guimarães 8 Jun 2023

A mega-highway threatens South America’s vulnerable Gran Chaco

Sarah Brown 8 Jun 2023
Mountain range, Tibet. Photo courtesy of Wa Da.

China’s Qinghai-Tibet ecosystem legislation is a landmark, but for whom? (commentary)

Zhengyang Wang 7 Jun 2023
Tana is his field.

Africa’s land and forest restoration initiative gathers pace in Malawi

Charles Mpaka 7 Jun 2023
A green sea turtle.

A Southeast Asian marine biodiversity hotspot is also a wildlife trafficking hotbed

Keith Anthony Fabro 7 Jun 2023

Intense fires threaten water supply and habitats in Mexico’s Pico de Orizaba

Flavia Morales 7 Jun 2023

The geography of environmental degradation in the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 7 Jun 2023

Mechanized destruction of Brazil’s Amazon is rising, but not inevitable

Dimitri Selibas 7 Jun 2023

Award-winning community group in Sumatra cleans up lake

Jaka Hendra Baittri 6 Jun 2023

Experts, activists unite to blast Indonesia’s U-turn on sea sand exports

Basten Gokkon 6 Jun 2023
Park rangers

Warfare for wildlife: Q&A with Rosaleen Duffy

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Jun 2023
A giant anteater.

Can the EU’s deforestation law save Argentina’s Gran Chaco from soy?

Kimberley Brown 6 Jun 2023
Soy field and cerrado / chaco / Amazon transition forest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

U.S. conservation investment routed to eucalyptus expansion in Brazil’s Cerrado

Shanna Hanbury 6 Jun 2023
L’Allee des Baobabs, or the Avenue of Baobabs, a famous spot outside Morondava, the nearest town to Belo-Sur-Mer.

Extreme reforestation: Baobab planters confront fires, loggers, cattle and more

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 6 Jun 2023

Militarized conservation: Insecurity for some, security for others? (commentary)

Fergus O’Leary Simpson, Lorenzo Pellegrini 6 Jun 2023

Illegal fishing for fish meal widespread in Ecuador marine reserve

Yalilé Loaiza 6 Jun 2023
The creeks that loggers reportedly use to access the deeper sections of forest on Koh Kong Krao, Cambodia's largest island.

License to Log: Cambodian military facilitates logging on Koh Kong Krao and across the Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn 6 Jun 2023
Batin Irasan, the village’s ketua adat, or spiritual leader.

Sumatra Indigenous community displaced by Samsung palm oil unit await justice

Suryadi 6 Jun 2023
Chiang Mai lawsuit

Citizens demand sustainable solution to haze crisis in northern Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 6 Jun 2023
Brazilian President Lula met U.S. President Joe Biden in February.

Boosted with fresh donations, Amazon Fund reboots stalled projects

André Schröder 5 Jun 2023
Aerial view of Congo forest at Lokolama/Penzele around Mbandaka, Équateur province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Image courtesy of Daniel Beltrá / Greenpeace.

Tap African knowledge and culture for Congo Basin forest conservation (commentary)

Sylvie Djacbou Deugoue 5 Jun 2023
Trees by the side of streets in Brooklyn, U.S.

Soil carbon in urban parks important in fighting climate change, study shows

Priscilla Misiekaba-Kia 5 Jun 2023
An African elephant.

Global study of 71,000 animal species finds 48% are declining

Sharon Guynup 5 Jun 2023
Burned peat forest in Borneo.

Peatlands, Indonesia’s carbon trove, are mostly unprotected, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Jun 2023
A long-tailed macaque.

Sumatra’s young primate whisperer brings bullhorn to macaque conservation

Barita News Lumbanbatu 5 Jun 2023

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