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Brazil drastically reduces controls over suspicious Amazon timber exports

Thais Borges, Sue Branford 11 Mar 2020

US economy will take biggest hit if we continue with business as usual: report

Mongabay.com 10 Mar 2020

Oil and gas project threatens Brazil’s last great block of Amazon forest (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 9 Mar 2020

Raze here, save there: Do biodiversity offsets work for people or ecosystems?

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Feb 2020

On anniversary of nun’s murder Amazon land rights activists at high risk

Sam Cowie 27 Feb 2020

Amazon Tipping Point puts Brazil’s agribusiness, energy sector at risk: Top scientists

Shanna Hanbury 24 Feb 2020

Private firms will pay soy farmers not to deforest Brazil’s Cerrado

Sarah Sax 11 Feb 2020
Nyonié savannaah, Gabon. Image by Christian Vigna via Wikicommons (CC BY-NC-4.0)

Eco-tourism isn’t enough to develop a country: Q&A with Gabon’s environment minister, Lee White

Matthew Hattingh 10 Feb 2020

Vale has filed hundreds of requests to exploit indigenous lands in Amazon

Maurício Angelo 27 Jan 2020

A new dawn: The story of deforestation in the next decade must be different to the last (commentary)

Bastien Sachet 16 Jan 2020
Oil palm plantation in West Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Activists seek purge after Indonesia court rules forest plantations illegal

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jan 2020

Bolsonaro’s Brazil: 2020 could see revived Amazon mining assault — part two

Sue Branford, Thais Borges 31 Dec 2019

EU/Chinese soy consumption linked to species impacts in Brazilian Cerrado: study

Sarah Sax 24 Dec 2019

Central American countries pledge to protect Mesoamerica’s ‘5 Great Forests’

Mongabay.com 18 Dec 2019
Sunrise in East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tropical forests’ lost decade: the 2010s

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Dec 2019

Analysis: The Tanah Merah project is a bellwether for Jokowi’s permit review

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 11 Dec 2019

Revealed: Government officials say permits for mega-plantation in Papua were falsified

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 10 Dec 2019

‘Everything is dying’: Q&A with Brazilian indigenous leader Alessandra Munduruku

Camila Nobrega 27 Nov 2019

Makers of Oreos, KitKats among brands linked to Indonesia forest fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Nov 2019

RSPO questions effectiveness of Indonesian palm plantation moratorium

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Nov 2019

Controversial dam gets green light to flood a Philippine protected area

Leilani Chavez 30 Oct 2019

‘Bring it on,’ EU MP says of trade fight over palm biofuel phase-out

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Oct 2019

Indonesia bans food labeled ‘palm oil-free,’ in move welcomed by industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Aug 2019
Newly established oil palm plantation in Central Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

81% of Indonesia’s oil palm plantations flouting regulations, audit finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Aug 2019

Study shows how to protect more species for less money in western Amazon

Liz Kimbrough 31 Jul 2019
Timber at the port of Antwerp. Photo: Philippe Verbelen/Greenpeace

Gabonese timber linked to illegal logging seized in Antwerp

Jim Tan 25 Jul 2019

Experts deny alleged manipulation of Amazon satellite deforestation data

Karla Mendes 16 Jul 2019

Colombia registers first drop in deforestation since 2016 FARC peace deal

Taran Volckhausen 15 Jul 2019

Fire, cattle, cocaine: Deforestation spikes in Guatemalan national park

Maxwell Radwin 21 Jun 2019

Indonesia calls on palm oil industry, obscured by secrecy, to remain opaque

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 May 2019

Canopy-dwelling rainforest mammals most sensitive to human disturbance

Mongabay.com 15 May 2019

‘To save a forest you have to destroy a nicer one’: U.S. Marines target forest in Guam

Nina Finley 8 May 2019

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