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PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

Michael Shellenberger’s sloppy Forbes diatribe deceives on Amazon fires (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Aug 2019

Companies sourcing beef, leather from China exposed to Brazil deforestation risk, researchers say

Mongabay.com 27 Aug 2019

Giraffe trade to be monitored, strictly regulated

Mongabay.com 26 Aug 2019
CANDEIRAS DO JAMARI, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL: Aerial view of a large burned area in the city of Candeiras do Jamari in the state of Rondônia. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

DiCaprio joins $5M effort to combat Amazon fires

Mongabay.com 26 Aug 2019

The Pan Borneo Highway could divide threatened wildlife populations

John Cannon 26 Aug 2019

Bolsonaro expresses ‘love’ for Amazon as it burns, offers no policy shift

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 26 Aug 2019

‘Like spaghetti’: Worm-slurping, hopping rats discovered in the Philippines

Nanditha Chandraprakash 26 Aug 2019

Indonesia picks coal and oil heartland as site of new capital city

Basten Gokkon 26 Aug 2019

Sumatran elephant sanctuary under threat from bridge, port projects

Taufik Wijaya 26 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
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

Greenpeace releases dramatic photos of Amazon fires

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Aug 2019
CANDEIRAS DO JAMARI, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL: Aerial view of a large burned area in the city of Candeiras do Jamari in the state of Rondônia. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

How many fires are burning in the Amazon?

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Aug 2019

Amazon fires trigger protests worldwide

Jill Langlois, Elisângela Mendonça 24 Aug 2019

Snow leopard population overestimated in Nepal? DNA study suggests it may be

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Aug 2019

Hawaii braces for potential mass-coral bleaching event

Liz Kimbrough 23 Aug 2019

Indigenous communities, nat’l parks suffer as Malaysia razes its reserves

Kit Humphrey 23 Aug 2019

Peru aims to eliminate palm oil deforestation by 2021

Genevieve Belmaker 23 Aug 2019

Aimed at linking communities, Malaysian highway may damage forests

John Cannon 23 Aug 2019

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, August 23, 2019

Mongabay.com 23 Aug 2019

Bid to allow sale of ivory stockpiles rejected at wildlife trade summit

Mongabay.com 23 Aug 2019

Half a billion bees dead as Brazil approves hundreds more pesticides

Pedro Grigori - Agência Pública / Repórter Brasil 23 Aug 2019
Oil palm plantation in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia eyes palm oil export boost to China amid mounting U.S. trade war

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Aug 2019

In Sri Lanka, the sweet smell of agarwood draws calls for trade protection

Malaka Rodrigo 23 Aug 2019
Fire burning in an area of recent forest clearing in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Courtesy of Planet Labs Inc.

Satellite images from Planet reveal devastating Amazon fires in near real-time

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Aug 2019

Australia to ban domestic trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn

Mongabay.com 22 Aug 2019

In Cambodia, a rare acquittal in a climate of danger for green activists

Andrew Nachemson 22 Aug 2019

Discovery of a metallic-blue tarantula bolsters case for trade protection

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 22 Aug 2019

The Pan Borneo Highway brings wildlife threats to nat’l park doorstep

John Cannon 21 Aug 2019
At the end of the 2018 fire season in the Amazon Forest, Greenpeace captured this image of forest burning in the Brazilian state of Para. CREDIT: © Daniel Beltrá / Greenpeace

Amazon rainforest fires leave São Paulo in the dark

Ignacio Amigo 21 Aug 2019

Wild orchid trade in China is huge, overlooked and ‘devastating,’ study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Aug 2019

Japan builds coal plants abroad that wouldn’t be allowed at home: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2019

On Peru’s border, the Tikuna tribe takes on illegal coca growers

Alexa Vélez, Vanessa Romo 20 Aug 2019

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