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New Brazil bill puts cattle pasture over Pantanal wetland

Bangladesh struggles to protect the last of its last wild elephants

Organized crime drives violence and deforestation in the Amazon, study shows

Indonesia’s mangrove restoration bid holds huge promise, but obstacles abound

Palm oil producer mired in legal troubles still razing Sumatran forest

In Thailand’s deep south, a fight to stop quarrying in a global geopark

Home away from home: Researchers trial artificial nests for Lilian’s lovebirds

Repeated fires are silencing the Amazon, says new acoustic monitoring study

In Bangladesh, a community comes together to save a life-giving forest

2021 tropical forest loss figures put zero-deforestation goal by 2030 out of reach

Can a reforestation project stop land grabs? Villagers in the DRC give it a try

NGOs alert U.N. to furtive 2-million-hectare carbon deal in Malaysian Borneo

Palm oil and pulpwood the usual suspects as Papua deforestation persists

Malaysian officials dampen prospects for giant, secret carbon deal in Sabah

Amazon losing far more carbon from forest degradation than deforestation: Study

‘We should be pretty concerned’: Study shows only 15% of coastal regions still intact

California redwood forest returned to Indigenous guardianship, conservation

Coastal deforestation fuels more frequent storms in West Africa, study warns

Indigenous leader sues over Borneo natural capital deal

2019 fires in Indonesia were twice as bad as the government claimed, study shows

For Mekong officials fighting timber traffickers, a chance to level up

One in five hectares of oil palm in Indonesia is illegal, report shows

Bornean communities locked into 2-million-hectare carbon deal they don’t know about

Planned copper mine raises fears for biodiversity hotspot in Jordan

COP-26: Amazonia’s Indigenous peoples are vital to fighting global warming (commentary)

BR-319 highway hearings: An attack on Brazil’s interests and Amazonia’s future (commentary)

Deforestation notches up along logging roads on PNG’s New Britain Island

Math campus multiplies threats to Rio de Janeiro’s dwindling Atlantic Forest

Paper giants’ expansion plans raise fears of greater deforestation in Indonesia

Spike in deforestation detected in Papua concession linked to South Korea’s Moorim

North American paper industry merger sets off environmental alarms

Next to India’s capital, a village looks to the past for its forest’s future

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