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Win for Malaysian forest after government backs down on development plan

Rachel Donald 14 Sep 2021

Environmental activist ‘well-hated’ by Myanmar junta is latest to be arrested

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 9 Sep 2021

Borneo’s bearded pigs and traditional hunters adapted to oil palms. Then came swine fever

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 8 Sep 2021

With Myanmar’s press muzzled, experts warn of surge in environmental crimes

Carolyn Cowan 27 Aug 2021

The women on the front lines of safeguarding the Amazon

Mike DiGirolamo 26 Aug 2021
An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo

Highway cutting through Heart of Borneo poised to be ‘very, very bad’

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 23 Aug 2021
Malayan tapir

Deforestation surge continues amid deepening uncertainty in Myanmar

Carolyn Cowan 23 Aug 2021
Sesan River, Cambodia

Cambodian dam a ‘disaster’ for local communities, rights group says

Carolyn Cowan 18 Aug 2021

The Kichwa woman fighting drug traffickers and loggers in the Peruvian Amazon

Gloria Alvitres 13 Aug 2021

EU sanctions no ‘silver bullet’ against Myanmar’s illegal timber trade, experts say

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 22 Jul 2021

Road construction imperils tree kangaroo recovery in PNG

John Cannon 19 Jul 2021

Global demand for manganese puts Kayapó Indigenous land under pressure

Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 14 Jul 2021

Armed with data and smartphones, Amazon communities boost fight against deforestation

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 12 Jul 2021
Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge needs a makeover. Is rainforest lumber still in style?

Ashoka Mukpo 8 Jul 2021
Sabah’s remaining elephants are hemmed in by oil palm plantations, and scientists worry that stretches of the Pan Borneo Highway could further fragment the population. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

NGOs call for alternative routes for Bornean road to avoid wildlife habitat

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 29 Jun 2021
Philippine tarsier

Researchers look to locals to fill knowledge gap on Philippine tarsier

Carolyn Cowan 21 Jun 2021

Malaysian council opens hearing into claims of timber certification flaws

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 17 Jun 2021
The "Stop the Chop Protest" in Miri, Sarawak against Malaysian forestry company Samling in October 2020. Photo credit: The Borneo Project

‘Listening to communities must go beyond ticking compliance boxes’, says Peter Kallang, a Kenyah leader

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Jun 2021

From Flores to Papua: Meet 10 of Indonesia’s mangrove guardians

Loren Bell 1 Jun 2021
Global Forest Watch tree cover loss 2001-2021 set on Planet imagery from Jun-Sep 2020.

Science refutes United Cacao’s claim it didn’t deforest Peruvian Amazon

John Cannon 25 May 2021
A member of the Indigenous Tikuna nation paddling a dugout canoe on a tributary of the Amazon in Colombia by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Protected areas now cover nearly 17% of Earth’s surface: U.N. report

John Cannon 20 May 2021
Sierra del Divisor. Photo credit: the Field Museum

We need more rewilding and connections to nature, says Enrique Ortiz

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Apr 2021

Peru to establish rainforest reserve for isolated Indigenous peoples

Yvette Sierra Praeli 16 Apr 2021
An Indigenous woman crossing a river. Image by Alicia MucúChoc/FAO.

Nearly half the Amazon’s intact forest on Indigenous-held lands: Report

John Cannon 25 Mar 2021
Banner image of an artisanal palm oil production in Yalifombo village. Image © Oskar Epelde courtesy of Oakland Institute.

Pension and endowment funds linked to conflict-plagued oil palm in DRC

John Cannon 22 Mar 2021

Pig nest-building promotes tree diversity in tropical forest: Study

John Cannon 15 Mar 2021

Traditional healers are preserving their knowledge, and with it, the biodiversity of Brazil’s savanna

Sarah Sax 12 Mar 2021
A Bornean orangutan. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

Forest patches amid agriculture are key to orangutan survival: Study

John Cannon 26 Feb 2021
Young girl in the Kayapó-Mẽbêngôkre village of Aukre in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo credit: Cristina Mittermeier

“Securing Indigenous guardianship of vital ecosystems”: Q&A with Nia Tero CEO Peter Seligmann

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Feb 2021
A lemur tree frog (Hylomantis lemur) in Costa Rica. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

U.N. report lays out blueprint to end ‘suicidal war on nature’

John Cannon 19 Feb 2021
A Panamanian golden toad. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Indigenous community wins recognition of its land rights in Panama

John Cannon 17 Feb 2021
Two babirusa fighting in Indonesia. Image by Meldy Tamenge, edited by Cart, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Southeast Asian wild pigs confront deadly African swine fever epidemic

John Cannon 12 Feb 2021

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