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Rainforest in Vietnam. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Beyond deforestation: redesigning how we protect and value tropical forests (analysis)

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Nov 2025

FSC to vote on new traceability rules amid fraud allegations

Philip Jacobson 26 Oct 2025
In just a few months, Global Green have cleared vast swathes of forest in Prey Lang, opening the northern section of the wildlife sanctuary up to more potential deforestation. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024

Gerald Flynn 6 Oct 2025
Ghanaian Minister Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah (left) and the former EU Ambassador to Ghana Irchad Razaaly (right) at a Ghana-EU FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreement event in August 2025. Image courtesy of the Ghana Forestry Commission.

Ghana begins sustainable wood exports to EU under new license

Shanna Hanbury 30 Sep 2025
A palm oil plantation in Indonesia. Market leakage — sellers shifting EU-bound commodities to other less regulated markets — could undermine the effectiveness of the EUDR in some supply chains.

The EU proposes delaying anti-deforestation law, again

Bobby Bascomb 23 Sep 2025

Critics say FSC update risks weakening accountability for forest harm

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Sep 2025
A cocoa pod opened by hand. Exclusion of smallholder farmers from markets, a potential consequence of the EUDR, could result in loss of income leading to environmental harms but also exacerbate existing problems including child labor on cocoa farms. “These risks are known,” says Rainforest Alliance’s Fanny Gauttier. “That's something that we have highlighted many times.”

EUDR implementation comes laden with potential unintended consequences

Sean Mowbray 4 Sep 2025

Pulp and paper giant APP moves closer to regaining FSC stamp despite pending review

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Aug 2025

Fate of iconic, and endangered, Brazilwood pits musical tradition against conservation

Fernanda Wenzel 20 Aug 2025

How Indonesian companies dodge fines for forest & peatland fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Aug 2025
Flooded forest in the Amazon

Remedy frameworks can improve sustainable forestry certifications & right past wrongs (commentary)

Marc Jessel 11 Aug 2025
Isidrio Hernandez-Ruiz and his son are participants of the collaborative reforestation trial with Smithsonian and Traditional Leadership.

Indigenous leadership and science revive Panama’s degraded lands

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2025
The Indigenous Tompoun community celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day in 2024. Image courtesy of Tompoun Culture.

How Cambodia’s new environmental code undermines Indigenous peoples’ rights (commentary)

Rithy Bun 30 Jul 2025
Sifting coffee beans in Porciuncula, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

‘Insignificant risk’ EUDR proposal threatens fight against deforestation, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jul 2025

Hope and frustration as Indonesia pilots FSC’s logging remedy framework

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Jul 2025

Strengthening global forest certification and delivering remedy: Interview with FSC’s Subhra Bhattacharjee

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Jul 2025
Food served on areca leaf and other biodegradable tableware.

Bangladesh turns to nature for biodegradable plates to replace plastic ones

Mongabay.com 18 Jul 2025
Some Amazonian communities have reported harvests declining by up to 80% due to El Niño.

Iconic Brazil nut crop plunges after extreme drought, skyrocketing prices

Fernanda Wenzel, Karla Mendes 10 Jul 2025

Deforestation and fires persist in Indonesia’s pulpwood and biomass plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 May 2025
Banner image: Photos of human rights lawyer Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca, who disappeared last year in Mexico. Photo by Luis Rojas via Global Witness.

Environmental defenders targeted in 3 out of 4 human rights attacks: Report

Kristine Sabillo 23 May 2025
Banner image of an Iban woman in Sarawak, Malaysia, courtesy of Luciana Téllez-Chávez/Human Rights Watch.

Malaysian timber company accused of abuse & rights violations: Report

Kristine Sabillo 14 May 2025
Farmer in Mozambique. The price for Europe's packing paper boom

Mozambique’s farmers pay the price of Europe’s paper packaging demands

Mongabay.com 7 May 2025

Illegal wood from Colombia’s rainforests enters US and EU supply chains

Mie Hoejris Dahl 6 May 2025
Lotus plants grow in abundance in the wetlands of Bangladesh.

Bangladesh starts a sustainable luxury fashion journey with lotus ‘silk’

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 30 Apr 2025
A Borneo orangutan.

Corporate giants fall short on forest protection commitments, report

Liz Kimbrough 29 Apr 2025
Agarwood is a prized constituent in incense, perfumes, medicines and ornaments and remains in high demand across East Asia and the Middle East–North Africa region.

Global agarwood trade heavily dependent on wild, threatened trees: Study

Keith Anthony Fabro 23 Apr 2025

Agroforestry can reduce deforestation, but supportive policies matter, study finds

Carolyn Cowan 21 Apr 2025
Palm oil farmers in Central Kalimantan.

Indonesia raises concerns over EU deforestation law’s impact on smallholders

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Apr 2025
timber Brazil

Fake documents, real deforestation drive global trade in illegal Amazon timber

Fernanda Wenzel 16 Apr 2025
Farmer in Mozambique. The price for Europe's packing paper boom

The price of Europe’s paper packaging boom

Boaventura Monjane, Davide Mancini, Juan Maza 2 Apr 2025
In October 2024, deforestation linked to the construction of the Middle Russei Chrum dam was already spilling over into the Southern Cardamom REDD+ project area. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

New dams call into question Cambodia’s commitment to REDD+ projects

Gerald Flynn 19 Mar 2025
tree timber Brazil

Forest management ambitions in Brazilian Amazon aim to make up for lost time

Jenny Gonzales 12 Mar 2025

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