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Study projects 30% more forest cover if wood biomass is managed right; critics call it a disaster

Lauren Crothers 15 Apr 2020

As COVID-19 spreads, commodity markets rumble

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Apr 2020

Indonesia risks timber trade with EU after scrapping license rules

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Mar 2020

Indonesia ends timber legality rule, stoking fears of illegal logging boom

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Mar 2020

New evidence suggests Ivorian timber merits tougher EUTR due diligence (commentary)

Brad Mulley 24 Mar 2020

Oil exploration at odds with peatland protection in the Congo Basin

John Cannon 23 Mar 2020
Part of anti-trafficking campaign in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Vietnam considers wildlife trade ban in response to coronavirus pandemic

Michael Tatarski 18 Mar 2020

Indonesian police charge indigenous men in dispute over nutmeg plantation

Nurdin Tubaka 12 Mar 2020

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

Mongabay.com 10 Mar 2020

Indonesian indigenous land defenders jailed in fight with pulpwood giant

Ayat S. Karokaro 9 Mar 2020

Versace, Amazon, Samsonite among companies listed as deforestation ‘laggards’

Liz Kimbrough 5 Mar 2020

Companies leave communities to grapple with mining’s persistent legacy

John Cannon 28 Feb 2020
In 2015, the largest seizure of Peruvian timber was made in the Yacu Kallpa vessel. Photo courtesy of the Environmental Research Agency (EIA).

California lawmakers introduce legislation to fight tropical deforestation

Ashoka Mukpo 24 Feb 2020

Coronavirus outbreak hits Vietnam’s timber sector

Michael Tatarski 24 Feb 2020
Chickens. Image by Capri23auto via Pixabay.

Investors drop demands after Tyson Foods commits to no deforestation

Liz Kimbrough 20 Feb 2020

Brazilian meat giant JBS expands its reach in China

Mongabay.com 20 Feb 2020

Mining could topple community-managed forests in Mexico: New film

Mongabay.com 17 Feb 2020

Indonesia targets pulpwood, palm oil firms in civil suits over 2019 fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Feb 2020
Deforestation in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Early deforestation numbers for 2019 reveal trends in the Amazon

John Cannon 12 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
Waura man in Brazil. Photo by Sue Wren.

Indigenous, protected lands in Amazon emit far less carbon than areas outside

John Cannon 28 Jan 2020

Indigenous lands hold 36% or more of remaining intact forest landscapes

John Cannon 16 Jan 2020

Report identifies tycoons controlling site of new Indonesian capital

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jan 2020

‘Tainted timber’ from Myanmar widely used in yachts seized in the Netherlands

Malavika Vyawahare 25 Dec 2019

Deforestation for potential rubber plantation raises concerns in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 19 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

FSC complaint filed against pulpwood firms tied to Indonesia’s richest man

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Dec 2019

Our fires weren’t as bad as in the Amazon, Indonesian officials claim

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Dec 2019

Illegal hunting a greater threat to wildlife than forest degradation

Nanditha Chandraprakash 9 Dec 2019

Paper and fast fashion fan the flames burning Indonesia’s peat: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Dec 2019

Illegal logging persists in Cambodia’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary: Report

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Nov 2019
Inspecting a confiscated truck belonging to illegal loggers. Image courtesy Peace Parks Foundation.

Mozambique’s newly empowered rangers, courts catch up with poachers, loggers

Fred Kockott 19 Nov 2019

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