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Rainforest conservation may be aimed at the wrong places, study finds

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 13 Apr 2017

Guatemala issues red alert as national parks burn

Sandra Cuffe 12 Apr 2017

Three new frog species found in disappearing Atlantic Forest

Benji Jones 30 Mar 2017

Al Gore and Bangladesh PM spar over coal plants in the Sundarbans

Jeremy Hance 30 Mar 2017

Almost 1M hectares ‘missing’ from land holdings of major palm oil companies

Benji Jones 29 Mar 2017

As Thailand ramps up its palm oil sector, peat forests feel the pressure

Demelza Stokes 24 Mar 2017

New cave catfish threatened by deforestation, mining, pollution

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Mar 2017

In defining plantations as forest, FAO attracts criticism

Benji Jones 21 Mar 2017

Communities in Mexico step up to protect a disappearing forest

Jonathan Levinson 16 Mar 2017

Americans live increasingly far from forests — which is a problem for wildlife

Mike Gaworecki 14 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

Deforestation vs. Degradation: How we underestimate tropical forest greenhouse gas emissions

Neha Jain 2 Mar 2017

Forests provide a nutritional boon to some communities, research shows

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2017

Protected areas found to be ‘significant’ sources of carbon emissions

Benji Jones 17 Feb 2017
A close relative of Geckolepis maculata, Gecklolepis megalepis, a new species of fish-scale gecko, was described earlier this year. Photo courtesy of Frank Glaw

Newly discovered gecko loses scales in ‘really bizarre’ behavior

Benji Jones 16 Feb 2017

Expedition sets out to explore isolated, mysterious forest in DRC

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Feb 2017
Rainforest timber on a barge in Gabon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

Logging in certified concessions drove intact forest landscape loss in Congo Basin

Mike Gaworecki 30 Jan 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

93% of world’s roadless areas are less than half the size of Cincinnati

Morgan Erickson-Davis 19 Dec 2016

Community rights: A key to conservation in Central America

Sandra Cuffe 9 Dec 2016

Chimps help farmers ‘plant’ cacao in Guinea

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Dec 2016

‘We need more knowledge and more control’: Palm oil expands in Ecuador

Daniela Aguilar 30 Nov 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

Another 700 hectares of Bolivian rainforest lost to sugarcane surge

Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Nov 2016

Restoring degraded land could mean big financial gains for Latin America

Morgan Erickson-Davis 4 Nov 2016

Nations come together to save Kenya’s disappearing coastal forests

Sophie Mbugua 3 Nov 2016

Small oil palm plantations are having big impacts on Peru rainforest

Benji Jones 28 Oct 2016

Efforts to stop deforestation in DRC may be misplaced, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 27 Oct 2016
Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Signs of regrowth offer hope for Peruvian rainforest cleared for gold

Benji Jones 5 Oct 2016

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