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Image by Dinesh Valke via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Freeing trees of their liana load can boost carbon sequestration in tropical forests

Mark Hillsdon 1 Feb 2024
Anoriental pied hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris)

Study: Singapore biodiversity loss is bad — but not as bad as previous estimate

Spoorthy Raman 22 Dec 2023
An aerial view over the Central Cardamoms National Park, one of several protected areas that constitute the Cardamom Mountains, an evergreen forest situated on the Thai-Cambodia border. In November 2023, the Cambodian government approved the construction of two new hydropower dams in the protected forest. Credit: Andy Ball/Mongabay.

New dams in Cambodia pit ‘green’ hydropower against REDD+ project

Gerald Flynn 20 Dec 2023

Smallholders and loggers push deeper into Sumatra’s largest park

Jeremy Hance 29 Nov 2023
Forest in British Columbia. Photo: Rhett A. Butler

Calls for FSC to drop Canada’s Paper Excellence over ties to deforester

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Nov 2023
Ogiek recovering belongings from a house demolished by Kenya Forest Service officers. Image courtesy OPDP.

Kenyan government again evicts Ogiek communities from Mau Forest

Caroline Chebet 8 Nov 2023

Deforestation continues in Kenya’s largest water capturing forest, satellites show

Liz Kimbrough 7 Nov 2023

Drug trafficking imperils national park and Indigenous reserves in the Peruvian Amazon

Enrique Vera 3 Nov 2023

Report alleges APP continues deforestation 10 years after pledge to stop

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Oct 2023

Sumatran Indigenous seafarers run aground by overfishing and mangrove loss

Suryadi, Tonggo Simangunsong 23 Oct 2023
An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo

Deforestation surges in hotspot of critically endangered Bornean orangutans

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Oct 2023
Kuikuro men playing flutes.

The Amazon’s archaeology of hope: Q&A with anthropologist Michael Heckenberger

Peter Speetjens 18 Oct 2023
Ubre Tiblak taps a tree for resin.

Indigenous community fighting a mine in Palawan wins a milestone legal verdict

Keith Anthony Fabro 25 Sep 2023
Long-tailed macaque. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Skepticism as Cambodia expands protected areas by more than a million hectares

Gerald Flynn 29 Aug 2023

Can land titles save Madagascar’s embattled biodiversity and people?

Malavika Vyawahare 14 Aug 2023
The last pocket of forest in Botum Sakor National Park is threatened by new roads, some of which are demarcation boundaries for parcels of forested land that have been awarded to Cambodian senator and tycoon Ly Yong Phat's family. Photo by Gerald Flynn/Mongabay.

Cambodia awards swath of national park forest to tycoon Ly Yong Phat’s son

Gerald Flynn, Meng Kroypunlok 26 Jul 2023
Trucks loaded with freshly cut logs transported for further processing, Gunung Lumut, East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Indonesia claims record-low deforestation, but accounting raises questions

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Jul 2023
A Cambodian man rides a minivan loaded with timber destined for a garment factory.

Forests in the furnace: Cambodia’s garment sector is fueled by illegal logging

Gerald Flynn, Andy Ball 11 Jul 2023

Poverty-fueled deforestation of Nigerian reserve slashes hope for rare chimps

Orji Sunday 10 Jul 2023
An elephant roams through a recently cleared eucalyptus plantation.

Report links paper giant RGE to Indonesia deforestation despite pledges

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Jul 2023

Avocados: The green gold that wipes western Mexico’s forests from the map

Agustín del Castillo 16 Jun 2023

Soy: The agro-industry that devastates the Maya jungle

Mayela Sánchez 15 Jun 2023

Planting deforestation: The forests that Mexico loses to agribusiness

Thelma Gómez Durán 14 Jun 2023

In Indonesia, companies defy government’s decision to revoke their permits

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jun 2023

Illegal settlements, hunting and logging threaten a state reserve in Mexico

Thelma Gómez Durán 8 Jun 2023
A view over Brazil’s Florestal Reserve Adolpho Ducke.

Protected areas store a year’s worth of CO₂ emissions, study reveals

Sean Mowbray 2 Jun 2023
Huge logs are delivered daily to the Koh Kong provincial prison in Cambodia

Forest behind bars: Logging network operating out of Cambodian prison in the Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn 26 May 2023

Indigenous communities in Argentina’s Chaco fear another heavy fire season in 2023

Yvette Sierra Praeli 23 May 2023
White-handed gibbon

U.S. traders flouting sanctions on buying Myanmar teak, report says

Carolyn Cowan 22 May 2023

Study shows 10 million acres of Colombian rainforest at risk without new policies

Astrid Arellano 22 May 2023
Brightly-coloured seals and white stenciled writing on the ends of logs at Gabon's Nkok SEZ. Image courtesy GSEZ.

Corruption threatens timber traceability in Nkok, Gabon

Elodie Toto 10 May 2023

High-carbon peat among 1,500 hectares cleared for Indonesia’s food estate

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Apr 2023

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