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Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burning throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

Forest fires are getting worse, 20 years of data confirm

Liz Kimbrough 17 Aug 2022
Illegal sand and gold mining in West Kalimantan

Study tracks global forest decline and expansion over six decades

John Cannon 17 Aug 2022

Nearness to roads and palm oil mills a key factor in peatland clearing by smallholders

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Aug 2022

Mexico court drops injunctions, paving way for controversial Tren Maya railway

Maxwell Radwin 15 Aug 2022
Dipterocarp_tree

‘Protection too small, pressure too high’ for tree species globally, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 11 Aug 2022
Chhum Rotha and his fellow monks join the replanting efforts in Phnom Tamao.

Cambodian government cancels development of Phnom Tamao forest amid outcry

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 11 Aug 2022
A male Barbary macaque with a baby.

Hundreds of iconic Barbary macaques feared dead in Morocco forest fire

Anna Weekes 5 Aug 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

We’ve crossed the land use change planetary boundary, but solutions await

Liz Kimbrough 4 Aug 2022

Big banks fund the heavy machinery used for Amazon deforestation, report says

Maxwell Radwin 4 Aug 2022

No permit? No problem for palm oil company still clearing forest in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Aug 2022

Young Indigenous leaders demand greater say in climate solutions at global youth strike

Laurel Sutherland 29 Jul 2022

Brazilian miners ramp up their invasion of Yanomami land in Venezuela

Maxwell Radwin 29 Jul 2022
The Tiwi Nunka Forest in Ecuador. Photo courtesy of Nature and Culture International.

Indigenous Shuar community in Ecuador wins decades-long battle to protect land

Maxwell Radwin 28 Jul 2022

Palm oil producer mired in legal troubles still razing Sumatran forest

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Jul 2022

Industrial soy drives deforestation spike in Brazil, satellite images show

Maxwell Radwin 22 Jul 2022

Plantations threaten Indonesia’s orangutans, but they’re not oil palm

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jul 2022

$245-million initiative to create and maintain protected areas in Colombia

Maxwell Radwin 14 Jul 2022

Inside Sierra Leone’s Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary

Ashoka Mukpo 11 Jul 2022

Net-zero commitments must include more anti-deforestation policies, UN tells private sector

Maxwell Radwin 5 Jul 2022

World Bank approves $200 million IFC loan for industrial agriculture in Brazil’s Cerrado

Maxwell Radwin 1 Jul 2022

Mining company destroys Indigenous cemetery during expansion in Honduras

Maxwell Radwin 21 Jun 2022

Miners, drug traffickers and loggers: Is Costa Rica’s Corcovado National Park on the verge of collapse?

Maxwell Radwin 20 Jun 2022
Two men cutting down a tree.

Consumer countries mull best approach to end deforestation abroad

John Cannon 17 Jun 2022

Second Indonesian province moves to retake forests from palm oil companies

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Jun 2022
Clearing the site with dynamite to access the vein of coal in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

In Indonesian Borneo, a succession of extractive industries multiplies impacts, social fractures

Elizabeth Fitt 13 Jun 2022

For companies shopping for quality carbon credits, a new guide offers help

Maxwell Radwin 10 Jun 2022

In the DRC’s forests, a tug-of-war between oil and aid

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Jun 2022

Indonesian official charged, but not jailed, for trading in Sumatran tiger parts

Junaidi Hanafiah 7 Jun 2022

Satellite data brings new insights on what drives Amazon forest loss

Maxwell Radwin 30 May 2022

Investors force Home Depot to review wood-sourcing policy over logging concerns

Maxwell Radwin 23 May 2022
A common squirrel monkey in Colombian Amazon.

Drivers of Colombia’s peacetime deforestation weave a complex web

Gianluca Cerullo 20 May 2022
Guireja, an Ayoreo woman, sits outside her house that she was forced to abandon as a result of logging, Paraguay. Image by Survival.

Indigenous group defends uncontacted relatives from cattle onslaught in the Gran Chaco

Liz Kimbrough 3 May 2022

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