Forest destruction News

RSS
1003 stories

‘Crunch time for biodiversity’: Farming, hunting push thousands of species toward extinction

John Cannon 7 Jun 2017

‘Killed, forced, afraid’: Philippine palm oil legacy incites new fears

Brad Miller 9 May 2017
Ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) in Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Anti-trafficking activist held without trial in Madagascar

Fabienne Rafidiharinirina 8 May 2017
Not for republication. Image by Rod Harbinson/Rodharbinson.com

Indigenous groups, activists risk arrest to blockade logging in Malaysia

Rod Harbinson 8 May 2017

As forests disappear, human-elephant conflict escalates in Nepal

Lillie Howell 28 Apr 2017

‘We can save life on Earth’: study reveals how to stop mass extinction

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 Apr 2017

Three new frog species found in disappearing Atlantic Forest

Benji Jones 30 Mar 2017

Current regulations unable to control trade in products from slave labor, expert says

Ana Aranha, João Diaz, from Repórter Brasil 13 Mar 2017

Suppliers of Lowe’s in the US and Walmart in Brazil linked to slave labor in the Amazon

André Campos - Repórter Brasil 13 Mar 2017

Slave labor in the Amazon: Risking lives to cut down the rainforest

Tania Caliari and Ana Aranha - Repórter Brasil 13 Mar 2017

Investigation reveals slave labor conditions in Brazil’s timber industry

Thais Lazzeri - Repórter Brasil 13 Mar 2017

New bill aims to cut protection of 1M hectares of Brazilian rainforest

Benji Jones 10 Mar 2017

Science needed for more transparency in Paris climate projections

Mongabay.com 6 Mar 2017

Newly discovered Tanzanian frog already facing extinction

Benji Jones 2 Mar 2017

Birds wanted: Recovering forests need avian assist 

Mongabay.com 2 Feb 2017

‘Out of control’ wildfires damage protected areas in northern Peru

Benji Jones 17 Jan 2017
A woodcarver makes a carving of a rhinoceros on the outskirts of Lunga Lunga, a town on the border between Kenya and Tanzania. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay

As forests in East Africa disappear, so does an industry of artisans

Nathan Siegel 3 Jan 2017

Illegal logging shows little sign of slowing

Morgan Erickson-Davis 30 Dec 2016

Peru rainforest lost to illegal gold mining eclipses 10 Manhattans

Benji Jones 24 Nov 2016

Gold mining invades new areas of Peruvian Amazon

Benji Jones 11 Nov 2016
A cook fries potato chips using charcoal at the Salama Guest House on the Kenyan side of Namanga. Photo by Nathan Siegel

In a border town, a favorite African fuel has an uncertain future

Nathan Siegel 3 Nov 2016

Exclusive: Rainforest rapidly cleared for sugarcane in Bolivia

Eduardo Franco Berton 12 Oct 2016

Deforestation jumps into Peru reserve, 1,600 hectares of rainforest lost

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Sep 2016

Land grabbing and environmental destruction could now be prosecuted under international law

Mike Gaworecki 22 Sep 2016

Proposed sale of timber from palm oil concession sparks alarm in Liberia

Jeremy Hance 21 Sep 2016

Forests in Colombia fall victim to illegal coca plantations

María Lourdes Zimmermann 16 Sep 2016
Young boys labor outside a saw mill in the town of Njoro in Kenya’s Rift Valley. Photo by David Njagi

Youth, women, indigenous group pay the price of logging in Kenya

David Njagi 16 Sep 2016
Sime Darby plantation in Cape Mount County. Photo courtesy JPN Liberia

Liberia land policy a ‘challenge to national development’

Mark M. Dahn 14 Sep 2016
Flowers in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Photo by Jeremy Hance

Ecuador begins pumping oil from famed ITT-block in Yasuní

Jeremy Hance 13 Sep 2016

Logging roads have long-lasting impacts on forests

Morgan Erickson-Davis 29 Aug 2016

Timber from Peru 90 percent illegal, finds report issued by U.S. gov’t

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 Aug 2016

‘All they need is a head start’: reforesting India’s Western Ghats

Sibi Arasu 16 Aug 2016

you're currently offline