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Restaura Cerrado: Saving Brazil’s savanna by reseeding and restoring it

Sarah Sax 14 Dec 2020

Only 40% of world’s forests have high ecological integrity, a new index reveals

Liz Kimbrough 10 Dec 2020

Palm oil giant Wilmar unfazed as watchdogs cry foul over Papua deforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Dec 2020

As Amazon deforestation hits 12 year high, France rejects Brazilian soy

Jenny Gonzales 4 Dec 2020

Planned road to bisect pristine, biodiverse Brazilian Amazon national park

Ana Ionova 3 Dec 2020

Trans-Purus: Brazil’s last intact Amazon forest at immediate risk (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside, Lucas Ferrante, Aurora M. Yanai, Marcos Antonio Isaac Júnior 24 Nov 2020

New rule puts Indonesia’s protected forests up for grabs for agribusiness

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Nov 2020

Multiplying Amazon river ports open new Brazil-to-China commodities routes

Manuela Andreoni, Diàlogo Chino 19 Nov 2020

Brazil’s Bem Querer dam: An impending Amazon disaster (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 16 Nov 2020
A pile of wood that has been prepared to be burned in land controlled by Korindo in Papua. Photo courtesy of Mighty Earth

Palm oil giant Korindo accused again of illegally burning Papuan rainforest

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Nov 2020

BR-319: The beginning of the end for Brazil’s Amazon forest (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 3 Nov 2020

Brazil’s Amazon dam plans: Ominous warnings of future destruction (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 22 Oct 2020

Paper giant APRIL linked to Borneo forest clearing despite zero-deforestation vow

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Oct 2020

On a Philippine mountain, researchers describe a ‘fire flower’ orchid species

Keith Anthony Fabro 9 Oct 2020

Indonesia’s food estate program eyes new plantations in forest frontiers

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Oct 2020

Alcoa vs. the Amazon: How the ribeirinhos won their collective land rights

Thais Borges, Sue Branford 2 Oct 2020

Study finds a Mexico-sized swath of intact land lost to human pressure

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Sep 2020

Amazon meatpacking plants, a COVID-19 hotspot, may be ground zero for next pandemic

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini, Juliana Lopes from ((o))eco 11 Sep 2020

In bid to protect a Philippine pangolin stronghold, little talk of enforcement

Keith Anthony Fabro 9 Sep 2020
Deforestation in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Experts question integrity of Indonesia’s claim of avoided deforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Sep 2020

How do we avert global warming, extinctions and pandemics? New app has answers

Morgan Erickson-Davis 4 Sep 2020
Hots spots in areas with Prodes warnings indicating deforestation between 2017 and 2019. Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory in Lábrea, Amazonas state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Friday night follies: Brazil cuts deforestation funding, then restores it

Jenny Gonzales 1 Sep 2020

Key Amazon grain route blocked by Indigenous protest over funding, Grainrail

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 24 Aug 2020

Harvard’s half-billion land stake in Brazil marred by conflict and abuse

Maurício Angelo 19 Aug 2020

Indigenous best Amazon stewards, but only when property rights assured: Study

Sue Branford 17 Aug 2020

Favoring ayahuasca over hospitals, Indigenous Kokama see COVID-19 deaths drop in the Amazon

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro 17 Aug 2020

All talk, no walk: ‘Green’ financiers still support Amazon beef industry

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini, Juliana Lopes from ((o))eco 13 Aug 2020

Paper maze and lack of transparency cloak investment in companies involved in Amazon deforestation

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini, Juliana Lopes from ((o))eco 11 Aug 2020

New Indigenous storytelling platform brings community perspectives to the world

Liz Kimbrough 10 Aug 2020

Deforestation in the Amazon is drying up the rest of Brazil: Report

Sibélia Zanon 7 Aug 2020

Brazil dismantles environmental laws via huge surge in executive acts: Study

Jenny Gonzales 5 Aug 2020

‘Meaningless certification’: Study makes the case against ‘sustainable’ palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Aug 2020

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