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Banner image: A truck carries logs cut from the Amazon Rainforest in the state of Rondônia. Image courtesy of Vicente Sampaio/Imaflora.

Illegal logging reaches Amazon’s untouched core, ‘terrifying’ research shows

Juliana Ennes 15 Sep 2021

Should tree plantations count toward reforestation goals? It’s complicated

Gianluca Cerullo 10 Sep 2021
Sumatran tiger

Indonesia terminates agreement with Norway on $1b REDD+ scheme

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Sep 2021

Environmental activist ‘well-hated’ by Myanmar junta is latest to be arrested

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 9 Sep 2021

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Sep 2021

Italian firms flout EU rules to trade in illegal Myanmar timber, report says

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 2 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

Calls mount for Indonesian ban on new palm oil plantations to be extended

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Aug 2021

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Aug 2021

An Ecuadoran town that survived illegal miners now faces a licensed operator

Antonio José Paz Cardona 18 Aug 2021

In Brazil’s Acre, smoke from fires threatens health, could worsen COVID-19

Liz Kimbrough 18 Aug 2021

A bad fire year predicted in Brazil’s Acre state. What’s to be done?

Liz Kimbrough 17 Aug 2021
Kahuzi Biega National Park

Advocates raise alarm over proposal to reopen DRC forests to loggers

Ashoka Mukpo 13 Aug 2021

UNESCO calls for closure of road running through World Heritage park in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Aug 2021
Rainforest creek in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Hartree Partners to channel $2 billion toward new carbon credits

Liz Kimbrough 28 Jul 2021

Palm oil grower looks to make amends for past deforestation in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Jul 2021
A man taps into a frankincense tree to extract the yellowish resin out of it in the customary forest of the Pandumaan-Sipituhuta Indigenous community in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Image by Barita News Lumbanbatu/Mongabay Indonesia.

For an Indigenous group in Sumatra, a forest regained is being lost once more

Barita News Lumbanbatu 27 Jul 2021

EU sanctions no ‘silver bullet’ against Myanmar’s illegal timber trade, experts say

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 22 Jul 2021

Protected areas keep adjacent lands safe, but face losing their own protection

Liz Kimbrough 21 Jul 2021

FSC dumps palm oil giant Korindo amid rights, environmental issues in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Jul 2021

Bank risk policies failing to protect Amazon from oil-related threats: Report

Ashoka Mukpo 14 Jul 2021

Soy and cattle team up to drive deforestation in South America: Study

Liz Kimbrough 12 Jul 2021

Indonesia bets on biofuels over oil, but EVs could render both moot

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jul 2021

Tiger habitat threatened by Malaysian royals’ mining plans

Rachel Donald 7 Jul 2021

Deforestation soars 40% in Xingu River Basin in Brazilian Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 2 Jul 2021

In the Colombian Andes, a forest corridor staves off species extinction

Veronika Perkova 2 Jul 2021

Fire season intensifies in the Brazilian Amazon, feeding off deforestation

Liz Kimbrough 1 Jul 2021
Thailand deforestation

Forest loss in mountains of Southeast Asia accelerates at ‘shocking’ pace

Carolyn Cowan 28 Jun 2021

Deforestation of orangutan habitat feeds global palm oil demand, report shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jun 2021

Bigger is badder when it comes to climate impact of farms in the Amazon

Claire Asher 17 Jun 2021

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