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Banner image of Koru superyacht by Conmat13 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Maker of Jeff Bezos’s yacht fined for using Myanmar ‘blood timber’

Kristine Sabillo 6 Dec 2024
Banner image of Myanmar teak courtesy of EIA.

Yacht maker Sunseeker fined in landmark Myanmar ‘blood timber’ case

Kristine Sabillo 4 Dec 2024
Mangroves in Raja Ampat.

How are mangrove restoration projects doing? Interview with Tom Worthington

Abhishyant Kidangoor 3 Dec 2024

Logging persists in Cameroon’s wildlife-rich Ebo Forest despite warnings

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 25 Nov 2024
Capuccin monkeys in a low-land tropical rainforest in Costa Rica.

Huge deforested areas in the tropics could regenerate naturally, study finds

John Cannon 22 Nov 2024
A female mountain gorilla carrying her baby on her back.

Biodiversity credit approaches multiply as concerns cloud confidence

John Cannon 19 Nov 2024
Banner image of deforestation in Malaysia, by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

WWF gives banks a tool to see if they’re financing environmental crime

Kristine Sabillo 14 Nov 2024

Satellite data detect appearance of new roads in primary forests in Borneo

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Nov 2024
Banner image of a coral reef in Indonesia by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

New ‘Cali Fund’ plans to make companies pay for benefiting from nature

Kristine Sabillo 12 Nov 2024
Banner image of a curlew sandpiper, courtesy of Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok/BirdLife International.

Shorebird populations drop globally, some by a third: Report

Kristine Sabillo 11 Nov 2024
Banner image of dholes recorded via camera trap in CCML in 2024, courtesy of Conservation International.

Camera trap survey in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains finds 108 species

Kristine Sabillo 7 Nov 2024
Boreal Forest Fire in Canada by Markus Mauthe/Greenpeace

Forest fires outside tropics drove 60% CO2 surge since 2001: Study

Kristine Sabillo 6 Nov 2024
Banner image of bats in a Malaysian limestone cave. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Mountain highland bats lack data, face climate threats: Study

Kristine Sabillo 6 Nov 2024

Export of unprocessed logs threatens DRC’s tropical forests: Report

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Nov 2024
Banner image of Indonesian rainforest by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Mining drove 1.4m hectares of forest loss in last 2 decades: Report

Kristine Sabillo 5 Nov 2024
Banner image of logging truck near Think Biotech’s concession in 2020. Image by Ma Chettra.

Illegally logged wood from Cambodia likely ending up in U.S. homes

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2024

Canopy bridges serve a lifeline for Sumatra’s tree-dwelling primates

Basten Gokkon 31 Oct 2024
Drax is the largest consumer of wood pellets for energy in the UK.

Action against forest biomass subsidies gains momentum at COP16

Justin Catanoso 29 Oct 2024
Banner image of Turkana women from Kenya by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Women-led groups remain ‘severely underfunded’ for climate action: Report

Kristine Sabillo 29 Oct 2024
Banner image of a drone. Image by Potushaft via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Bird-watching with drones? Might want to watch your distance, study says

Kristine Sabillo 28 Oct 2024
Banner image of Joan Carling, courtesy of Right Livelihood.

‘Treat us as partners, central actors’: Interview with Indigenous activist Joan Carling

Kristine Sabillo 22 Oct 2024

225 NGOs call on EU to reject delay to deforestation law

Mongabay.com 22 Oct 2024
Banner image of Holy Plantation on the border of Prey Land Wildlife Sanctuary. Image by Gerald Flynn/Mongabay.

Cambodian company strips protected areas of timber for export

Mongabay.com 22 Oct 2024

Revealed: Biomass firm poised to clear Bornean rainforest for dubious ‘green’ energy

Hans Nicholas Jong, Philip Jacobson 21 Oct 2024
Banner image of Talang Parit community members. Image courtesy of AsM Law.

RSPO rules Samsung palm oil subsidiary violated Indigenous rights in Sumatra

Kristine Sabillo 17 Oct 2024

Meta to buy 3.9 million carbon credits from controversial tree plantations

Shanna Hanbury 25 Sep 2024

Just 0.7% of land hosts one-third of unique, endangered species, study

Bobby Bascomb 18 Sep 2024
Commodities such as corn, cattle and soy are major drivers of deforestation yet receive heavy financing from banks. Image © Marizilda Cruppe/Greenpeace.

Investors urge banks to cut commodity-driven deforestation

Shanna Hanbury 16 Sep 2024
Benjakitti Forest Park

Bangkok turns to urban forests to beat worsening floods

Claire Turrell 10 Sep 2024

Logging has a ‘lasting legacy’ on Gabonese forest soundscapes

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Sep 2024

More alarms over Indonesia rhino poaching after latest trafficking bust

Donny Iqbal, Nopri Ismi 5 Sep 2024
Eurasian lynx, courtesy of Parc Zoologique de Paris.

Sweden’s ‘nature friendly’ reputation is being shot to pieces (commentary)

Misha Istratov 4 Sep 2024

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