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Cattle ranch in Mato Grosso

New Brazil bill puts cattle pasture over Pantanal wetland

Sarah Brown 9 Aug 2022
An Asian elephant in a forest in Bangladesh

Bangladesh struggles to protect the last of its last wild elephants

Rafiqul Islam 9 Aug 2022
Timber is sorted for transport in Uruará in the state of Pará.

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

Sarah Brown 1 Aug 2022

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

Warief Djajanto Basorie 26 Jul 2022

Palm oil producer mired in legal troubles still razing Sumatran forest

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Jul 2022
Ibrahim with the underground water source

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

Kannikar Petchkaew 6 Jul 2022
Lilian’s lovebirds perching on a branch.

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

Charles Mpaka 27 Jun 2022
A blue-grey tanager

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

Liz Kimbrough 26 May 2022
A woman tends to her vegetable garden

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

Abu Siddique 19 May 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Apr 2022

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

Didier Makal 17 Mar 2022

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

John Cannon 17 Mar 2022

Palm oil and pulpwood the usual suspects as Papua deforestation persists

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Mar 2022

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

John Cannon 10 Feb 2022

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

Graycen Wheeler 9 Feb 2022

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Feb 2022
Redwood forest in Muir Woods, Marin County, California. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

California redwood forest returned to Indigenous guardianship, conservation

Laurel Sutherland 28 Jan 2022
Colombia

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

Mongabay.com 11 Jan 2022

Indigenous leader sues over Borneo natural capital deal

John Cannon 17 Dec 2021

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Dec 2021

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

John Cannon 13 Dec 2021

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Nov 2021
primary forest in Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, by John C. Cannon/Mongabay

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

John Cannon 9 Nov 2021

Planned copper mine raises fears for biodiversity hotspot in Jordan

Marta Vidal 9 Nov 2021

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

Philip M. Fearnside 2 Nov 2021

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

Philip M. Fearnside 26 Oct 2021
A long-tongued nectar bat (Macroglossus minimus), a subspecies of which is found on New Britain Island. Image via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

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

John Cannon 21 Oct 2021

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

Sarah Brown 15 Oct 2021

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Oct 2021

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Sep 2021

North American paper industry merger sets off environmental alarms

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Sep 2021

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

Manon Verchot, Sanshey Biswas 30 Aug 2021

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