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‘We do not have time’: Interview with MEP Delara Burkhardt on the EUDR’s second delay

Ashoka Mukpo 11 Mar 2026
Highway BR-163 stretches between the Tapajos National Forest, left, and a soy field in Belterra, Para state, Brazil. Highway BR-163, built during the military dictatorship in the 1970s, connects areas of strong support for former President Jair Bolsonaro, who lost October's election. Image by AP Photo/Leo Correa.

Banks must step in before the Amazon Soy Moratorium collapses (commentary)

Ginger Cassady 18 Feb 2026
Foothills of the Atewa forest range, one of several ecologically sensitive areas where mining permits have been issued. Image by Ahtziri Gonzalez/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Ghana repeals legislation that opened forest reserves to mining

Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda 8 Jan 2026

Grassroots forest protection succeeds where planting drives fail in Nepal

Mukesh Pokhrel 23 Dec 2025
Cattle grazing in the Amazon.

In Brazil, a new label gives more visibility to deforestation-free beef

Constance Malleret 18 Dec 2025

Across Latin America populist regimes challenge nature conservation goals

Timothy J. Killeen 8 Dec 2025

Central America’s forests are crucial for migrating birds: Study

Bobby Bascomb 26 Nov 2025

Biodiversity loss due to land use change could be highly underestimated: Study

Mark Hillsdon 14 Oct 2025

IUCN downgrades guiña threat status, prompting conservation warning

Sean Mowbray 10 Oct 2025

Rare earth rush endangers rural communities and conservation areas in Brazil

Maurício Angelo, Lúcio Lambranho, Fábio Bispo, from The Mining Observatory 15 Sep 2025

More deforestation leads to a drier dry season, Amazon study finds

Logan Rance 15 Sep 2025

Indonesia flooding traced to corporate canals that drain peatlands: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Sep 2025
Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Brazil in 2024 and signed deals with President Lula on transition minerals.

Brazil’s market-based forest fund gets new endorsers ahead of COP30 debut

Lucas Berti 10 Sep 2025
A cocoa pod opened by hand. Exclusion of smallholder farmers from markets, a potential consequence of the EUDR, could result in loss of income leading to environmental harms but also exacerbate existing problems including child labor on cocoa farms. “These risks are known,” says Rainforest Alliance’s Fanny Gauttier. “That's something that we have highlighted many times.”

EUDR implementation comes laden with potential unintended consequences

Sean Mowbray 4 Sep 2025
Magar people stage protest against the Tanahun Hydropower project. Image by Sanjog Laapaa Magar, INWOLAG.

Development banks under fire for backing disputed Nepal hydropower project

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 22 Aug 2025
Drax is the largest consumer of wood pellets for energy in the UK.

Sustainable biomass certification scheme is flawed, degrades forests, report finds

Annelise Giseburt 21 Aug 2025
Peatlands destruction in Riau.

Who is clearing Indonesia’s forests — and why?

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Aug 2025
Why is star anise disappearing from northeastern India?

Efforts to revive India’s disappearing endangered star anise

Mongabay.com 4 Aug 2025
Mangroves in Raja Ampat.

Reversing damage to the world’s mangrove forests

Kristine Sabillo 25 Jul 2025

Pushback grows against nickel mining in Indonesian marine paradise of Raja Ampat

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jun 2025
Amazon people in the BR-163 area, such as Mariana, face challenges from the economic model imposed by agribusiness, logging and gold mining. Image by Fernando Martinho.

Lack of funds, cattle ranchers challenge Brazil’s sustainable farmers

Mongabay.com 13 May 2025
Located in the Amapá state, the second-largest red angelim ever found is 85.4 meters (280 feet) tall and has a circumference of 9.8 meters (32 feet). Image courtesy of João de Matos Filho / Prodemac.

Gold rush moves closer to Amazon’s second-tallest tree

Mongabay.com 1 May 2025
A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) hangs from the trees. Fewer than 100,000 orangutans remain on Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Orangutan habitat under siege as palm oil company clears forest in Borneo

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Apr 2025
Banner image of farmer Khem Raj Nepal from Sarlahi, Nepal, looking at his farm. Image by Mukesh Pokhrel.

Nepal farmers regret planting government-hyped eucalyptus

Mongabay.com 9 Apr 2025
The Pesalat Reforestation Project in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Humanity’s long standing bet on the persistence of forest carbon storage capacity urgently needs to be reassessed, says study lead author Michael Windisch

Betting on future forest carbon storage endangers Paris Agreement targets

Sean Mowbray 3 Apr 2025
Pine cone of a white pine (Pinus strobus).

Beyond reforestation, let’s try ‘proforestation’

Sruthi Gurudev 26 Mar 2025
A koala is pictured in The Great Koala National Park, NSW. Koala populations are being pushed towards extinction due to habitat loss and fragmentation, inappropriate fire regimes, climate change impacts, disease and feral dogs and cats. Many of the populations in New South Wales and Queensland are now in decline. Image courtesy of Paul Hilton / Earth Tree Images

An Australian state promised to turn native forest into a national koala park. It’s still being logged

Mike DiGirolamo 26 Feb 2025
Masked Tree Frog (Smilisca phaeota) in the Ecuadorian Choco.

An Ecuadorian hotspot shows how forests can claw back from destruction

Ruth Kamnitzer 24 Feb 2025
A woman carrying a solar panel in Yangambi, DRC. Image by Axel Fassio/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Indigenous people cut down trees as solar energy remains inaccessible and costly in DRC

Belinda Mongolare, Didier Makal 18 Feb 2025

Surge in legal land clearing pushes up Indonesia deforestation rate in 2024

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Feb 2025
An orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Indonesian company defies order, plants acacia in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jan 2025
Syafi'i catching shellfish in the waters of the Malacca Strait.

As Sumatra loses mangroves to oil palms, local fishers also suffer

Ayat S. Karokaro 25 Nov 2024

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