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Can REDD+ deliver for Philippines’ Iraya Mangyan?

Keith Anthony Fabro 26 Aug 2026

US proposes rescinding Roadless Rule protections for national forests

Bobby Bascomb 25 Aug 2026

Why carbon markets alone won’t save Southeast Asia’s concessions forests

Mongabay.com 19 Aug 2026
Mariano Cenamo. Photo by Renato Stockler / Folha Press

Mariano Cenamo, advocate for a sustainable Amazon bioeconomy, has died, aged 46

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Aug 2026
Pokigron and Atjoni villages beside the Suriname River. Image courtesy of Wikimedia.

Suriname moves to evict Mennonites and illegal Amazon settlers

Maxwell Radwin 7 Aug 2026
Oriental pied hornbill

Carbon markets alone won’t keep Southeast Asia’s forests standing, study says

Carolyn Cowan 4 Aug 2026
Oak trees in a temperate forest in the higher altitudes of the Sierra Gorda, where more than 30 species of oak trees can be found. Photo by Roberto Pedraza Ruiz.

How carbon markets can succeed & also serve Global South communities (commentary)

Pati Ruiz Corzo 27 Jul 2026
The Congo Basin is home to critically endangered African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis).

Can selective logging help the Congo Basin store more carbon?

Claudia Geib 2 Jul 2026
Two images captured by LiDAR at different times and overlaid: one of young tree seedlings (pink), the other of the trees (blue) after two years of growth.

Laser scanning forests may boost carbon estimates, but credibility questions linger

Shradha Triveni 26 Jun 2026
A yellow-bellied wattle-eye (Platysteira concreta), a bird of the rainforest understorey, sits on its nest in the Tai National Park. Image courtesy of Michele Menegon.

‘Rare animals, photography and Instagram’ could help an Ivorian rainforest

Ryan Truscott 23 Jun 2026
The remnants of Upper Guinean Tropical Rainforest within Sierra Leone are home to a multitude of species, many of them threatened, such as the white-necked rockfowl (Picathartes gymnocephalus). Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

A ‘symphony’ of wildlife suggests carbon financing is working in Sierra Leone

Claudia Geib 27 May 2026

Agriculture drives most tropical peatland loss in Indonesia, Peru and DRC: Study

Bobby Bascomb 12 May 2026
Misty morning in Borneo. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

10 forces that could reshape the future of the world’s forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Apr 2026

Chile’s ancient conifers host underground web of life that sustains forests: Study

Sofia Moutinho 9 Apr 2026
A dinghy used to sample the lake. Image courtesy of Travis W. Drake.

‘Ancient’ carbon venting from lakes in the Congo Basin peatlands: Study

John Cannon 31 Mar 2026
A gemsbok (Oryx gazella), also known as the South African oryx, in a mixed herd of herbivores at Tswalu. Image by John Cannon/Mongabay.

A South African reserve shows how carbon can catalyze rewilding conservation

John Cannon 27 Mar 2026
Gelada baboons (Theropithecus gelada) in Ethiopia’s Semien Mountains. Image by Alastair Rae via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Climate or biodiversity? Global study maps out forestation’s dilemma

John Cannon 6 Mar 2026
A sacred forest protected by Indigenous Magar community in Siluwa Village of Palpa District in Nepal. Image by Sonam Lama Hyolmo/Mongabay.

Nepal signs major carbon deal but community access remains challenging

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 26 Feb 2026

The cost of compliance with the EUDR will limit its impact on reducing deforestation (commentary)

Bjørn Rask Thomsen, Daniel Nepstad 23 Feb 2026
A root nodule on a legume tree

‘Blew us away’: Researchers find nitrogen boost spurs faster tropical forest growth

Ruth Kamnitzer 30 Jan 2026
Farmers on a 1.6-hectare (4-acre) plot of oranges, avocado, maize and vegetables in Kenya.

Earth Rover Program seeks to track the world’s soil health

John Cannon 21 Jan 2026
Study co-lead author Luke Jeffrey climbs a tree in a melaleuca wetland forest to measure microbial community gas fluxes.

Hidden heroes: Australian tree bark microbes consume greenhouse & toxic gases

Ruth Kamnitzer 16 Jan 2026
Community members plant red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) propagules in Hanging Site as part of a restoration effort.

Huge ‘blue carbon’ offsetting project takes root in the mangroves of Sierra Leone

Edward Carver, Mohamed Fofanah 23 Dec 2025

The rise of CC35 and the business behind its climate deals

Gloria Pallares 22 Dec 2025
Forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) inhabit the dense rainforests of Central Africa.

Top-down projects, exotic trees, weak tenure: Congo Basin restoration misses the mark

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 12 Dec 2025
Forestry in Indonesia

SE Asia forest carbon projects sidelining social, biodiversity benefits, study finds

Carolyn Cowan 1 Dec 2025

How community custody empowered Ecuador’s crab catchers and revived its mangroves

Alexis Serrano Carmona 26 Nov 2025
Cleared forest in the foreground, rainforest in the background in East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Saving forests won’t be enough if fossil fuels beneath them are still extracted, experts warn

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Nov 2025

Indonesia labeled ‘Fossil of the Day’ for echoing industry talking points at COP30

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Nov 2025
A coal-fired power plant at night in the nickel industrial area in Halmahera.

As Indonesia turns COP30 into carbon market showcase, critics warn of ‘hot air’

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Nov 2025
The Javari river forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

How a ‘green gold rush’ in the Amazon led to dubious carbon deals on Indigenous lands

Gloria Pallares 11 Nov 2025
Rainforest, reef, and ocean on Maratua Island, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Three tracks to rescue 1.5°C: fossil exit, forest protection, and nature’s carbon (commentary)

Ilona Szabó de Carvalho 8 Nov 2025

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