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‘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
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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

What makes mapping and monitoring zero-deforestation commitments effective?

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Aug 2021

Half of burned forests across Latin America don’t survive, study finds

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 20 Aug 2021

Indonesian pulpwood firms told to protect peat are doing the opposite: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Aug 2021

Hotter and drier: Deforestation and wildfires take a toll on the Amazon

Ignacio Amigo 20 Jul 2021

Cleaning up Cambodia’s kitchens could curb deforestation, climate change

Marissa Carruthers 22 Jun 2021

Rush to turn ‘black diamonds’ into cash eats up Uganda’s forests, fruits

Alex Tumuhimbise 17 Jun 2021
Small-scale deforestation in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

In less than a generation, legal mining in Colombia deforested over 120,000 hectares

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 8 Jun 2021

‘We guard the forest’: Carbon markets without community recognition not viable

Dimitri Selibas 4 Jun 2021

Bolsonaro govt wanted to ‘run the cattle’ through environmental protections. It was a stampede

Suzana Camargo 29 Mar 2021

Papua deforestation highlights eastward shift of Indonesia forest clearing

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Mar 2021

Gold and diamonds fail to shine as drivers of Amazon development

Maurício Angelo 22 Feb 2021

Myanmar’s troubled forestry sector seeks global endorsement after coup

Mongabay.com 8 Feb 2021
Blackwater oxbow lake, rainforest, and a whitewater river in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

How the pandemic impacted rainforests in 2020: a year in review

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Dec 2020
Degraded forests are highly susceptible to fires set by ranchers and farmers. This August 2019 is burning into degraded forest from a recently cleared area. Image © Fábio Nascimento.

Lasers reveal steep decline in ecosystem function of degraded Amazon forests

Tess Joosse 16 Dec 2020

Trans-Purus: Brazil’s last intact Amazon forest at immediate risk (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside, Lucas Ferrante, Aurora M. Yanai, Marcos Antonio Isaac Júnior 24 Nov 2020

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