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Photos: Where once were mangroves, Javan villages struggle to beat back the sea

Elisabetta Zavoli, Jacopo Pasotti 3 Jul 2017

The women who live alongside rhinos in India

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 30 Jun 2017

Mangrove loss threatens migratory shorebird route in North Sumatra

Ayat S. Karokaro 15 Jun 2017

‘Give us back our land’: paper giants struggle to resolve conflicts with communities in Sumatra

Alice Cuddy 9 Jun 2017

FSC to investigate Korean conglomerate’s palm oil operations in Indonesia

Mike Gaworecki 7 Jun 2017

Pressure builds on palm oil firm Goodhope after RSPO sanction

Alice Cuddy 31 May 2017

Not out of the woods: Concerns remain with Nigerian superhighway

John Cannon 26 May 2017

On the road to ‘smart development’

John Cannon 25 May 2017

Indonesian governor asks president to let timber firms drain peat in his province

Lusia Arumingtyas 20 May 2017
A cable car in the Atlantic. Photo by Max Pixel.

Environment secretary of São Paulo faces controversies over management plans of protected areas

Ignacio Amigo 15 May 2017

Palm oil firm pledges to stop deforesting after RSPO freezes its operations in Papua

Mongabay.com 11 May 2017
Processed palm oil in Liberia. Photo by Antoshananarivo via Wikimedia Commons.

In Liberia, a battered palm oil industry adjusts to new rules

Ashoka Mukpo 10 May 2017

RSPO freezes palm oil company’s operations in Papua

Alice Cuddy 7 May 2017

Over the bridge: The battle for the future of the Kinabatangan

John Cannon 3 May 2017

A return to mixed roots in a Sumatran forest

Dedek Hendry 2 May 2017

Delicate Solomon Island ecosystem in danger of heavy logging

Elliot Dawea, John Cannon 1 May 2017

Corruption drives dealings with logging companies in the Solomon Islands

Elliot Dawea, John Cannon 1 May 2017

Cross River superhighway changes course in Nigeria

John Cannon 28 Apr 2017

Mapping indigenous lands in Indonesia’s tallest mountains

Wahyu Mulyono 21 Apr 2017
A yellow-fronted woodpecker (Melanerpes flavifrons) in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Photo by Germano Woehl Junior for the Instituto Rã-bugio para Conservação da Biodiversidade.

In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, conservation efforts drown in a sea of eucalyptus

Ignacio Amigo 5 Apr 2017

A Sumatran king’s 1,400-year-old vision for sustainable landscape planning

Taufik Wijaya 27 Mar 2017
Flooded sugar cane fields near Colombia's third largest city, Cali, in the department of Valle Del Cauca, during an intense rainy season. Photo by Neil Palmer (CIAT)

Colombia’s cane industry efficient but potentially damaging

Kimberley Brown 27 Mar 2017

Jokowi reiterates commitment to indigenous rights

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2017

Aggressive forest protection needed to meet US climate goals

Mike Gaworecki 21 Mar 2017
Ewing Lopongo, conservationist with the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN), in charge of the Monkoto sector of the Salonga National Park, in Monkoto, Tshuapa, DRC, October 2016. Photo by Leonora Baumann for Mongabay.

The people of DRC’s forests

Etienne Maury 21 Mar 2017

Denmark prohibits companies from selling Myanmar teak on European Union markets

Mike Gaworecki 20 Mar 2017

Indonesia’s indigenous peoples will have to keep waiting for a promised task force on their rights

Mongabay.com 18 Mar 2017

Clothing giant VF Corporation adopts sustainable forestry policy

Mike Gaworecki 16 Mar 2017

Jokowi cancels appearance at rare indigenous peoples congress

Mongabay.com 16 Mar 2017
The rainforests of Guyana. Photo by Loriski via Wikimedia Commons

Delays continue over signing of Guyana-EU trade agreement to combat illegal logging

Alex Abdelwahab 15 Mar 2017

Warming climate coaxes carbon from down deep in temperate soils

John Cannon 14 Mar 2017

Big data timber exchange partners with FSC in Brazil

Mongabay.com 13 Mar 2017

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