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Orangutans seen in the Leuser Ecosystem, the last place on earth where tigers, orangutans, elephants and rhinos still coexsist.

Singkil peat swamp: The embattled orangutan capital of the world

Mongabay 8 Sep 2026
Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ssp. verus) in the Guinea forest. Image by ©Juan Maza.

Guinea’s Iron Frontier

7 Sep 2026
A representative image of heavy sand mining site off the coast of Mozambique. Image courtesy of Estacio Valoi.

A ‘leading’ Chinese miner of Mozambique’s heavy sands linked to environmental destruction

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Aug 2026
Round concrete sign painted with a stylised moon and sea in blues and white, towers over cars at a roundabout in Calabar, Cross River State. it reads "Destination Cross River State: the nation's paradise"

Nigeria can build the new coastal highway and also protect natural areas (commentary)

Mahmoud Ibrahim Mahmoud 26 Aug 2026

US proposes rescinding Roadless Rule protections for national forests

Bobby Bascomb 25 Aug 2026

Indonesia’s wildfire season surges as haze spreads into Malaysia

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 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

Palm oil expansion reignites decade-old Indigenous land conflict in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong, Niken D. Sitoningrum 31 Jul 2026

Report: Indonesian authorities weaponize laws to silence environmental and Indigenous defenders

Naina Rao 30 Jul 2026
A tannery in Cáceres, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Image © Ricardo Funari/Lineair/Greenpeace.

European Commission excludes leather from landmark deforestation law

Shanna Hanbury 16 Jul 2026
San Mala and the community members document the stumps of freshly cut trees throughout the protected forest in northern Cambodia. Image by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Illegal timber imports from Cambodia, Laos skirt Vietnam safeguards, report reveals

Carolyn Cowan 2 Jul 2026

New analysis breaks down 2025 Amazon deforestation, with good news and bad news

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jun 2026

Pulp and paper giant APRIL’s supplier choices put FSC remedy process to the test

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Jun 2026
River near Penalosa in Colombia's Choco region. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

What’s at stake for the environment in Colombia’s upcoming election?

Aimee Gabay 19 Jun 2026

Climate-fueled landslides killed an estimated 58 Tapanuli orangutans, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Jun 2026

Taiwan’s tallest tree found with help of citizen science

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jun 2026
The Yavarí-Tapiche Territorial Corridor from above on the Peruvian side, near the Peru-Brazil border.

In Peru and Brazil, extractivism threatens Indigenous people in isolation: Report

Aimee Gabay 5 Jun 2026
Camera trap image of an adult male and a baby gorilla in Ebo Forest.

Report alleges élite ties behind logging permits in Cameroon’s Ebo Forest

Ashoka Mukpo 29 May 2026

For Honduran coffee growers, EUDR compliance means changing old habits

Sandra Weiss 29 May 2026
Forest cleared for oil palm plantations in Sabah, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Loopholes undermine palm oil industry’s antideforestation pledges

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 May 2026

Peru’s Quellaveco mine tied to water scarcity, contamination, investigation finds

Maxwell Radwin 26 May 2026

Tiremakers ready to roll with EUDR, but repeated delays frustrate industry

Ruth Kamnitzer 19 May 2026

New Jaguar Rivers Initiative aims to reconnect South America’s fragmented ecosystems

Maxwell Radwin 12 May 2026

Fossil fuel transition summit seeks progress beyond stalled COP talks

Aimee Gabay 11 May 2026

EU deforestation law risks leaving Honduran coffee farmers behind

Sandra Weiss 11 May 2026

Paraguay expanded a reserve in the Gran Chaco. Why is deforestation still rising there?

Maxwell Radwin 8 May 2026
Indonesian rainforest. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Forests, fires and fragile gains: Interview with WRI’s Elizabeth Goldman

David Akana 8 May 2026

In Mozambique, four isolated mountains yield four new chameleon species

Naina Rao 8 May 2026
Male cock-of-the-rock birds in Peru's Kosñipata valley. Image credit: Rhett A. Butler

Climate change could erase most South American cloud forests, study warns

Liz Kimbrough 7 May 2026

In Guatemala, new AI technology will be ‘listening’ for illegal deforestation

Maxwell Radwin 30 Apr 2026

Tropical forest loss falls in 2025, but world still off track on deforestation goals

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Apr 2026

AI tool tracks spread of illegal gold mining in Amazon protected areas

Constance Malleret 24 Apr 2026

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