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‘Nothing was left’: Flash floods, landslides hit Indonesia’s Papua region

Asrida Elisabeth, Della Syahni, Lusia Arumingtyas 21 Mar 2019

Companies to miss 2020 zero-deforestation deadline, report says

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Mar 2019
Rainforest in Malaysian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Mongabay’s top 5 forests stories of 2019 (so far) for International Forests Day

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2019
A juvenile Brazilian tapir (Tapirus terrestris) in the Pantanal. Tapirs have been found to disperse seeds in disturbed Amazon forests. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tapirs could be key in helping degraded rainforests bounce back

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2019
Shade grown coffee in Nicaragua. Image courtesy ICRAF/World Agroforestry

‘The ultimate agricultural practice’: Q&A with organizers of World Agroforestry Congress 2019

Erik Hoffner 20 Mar 2019

Brazil’s key deforestation drivers: Pasture, cropland, land speculation

Alicia Prager 19 Mar 2019

Study identifies climate-resilient trees to help orangutan conservation

Taran Volckhausen 15 Mar 2019

New maps show where humans are pushing species closer to extinction

John Cannon 15 Mar 2019

European Parliament to vote on timber legality agreement with Vietnam

John Cannon 11 Mar 2019

Proximity to towns stretches giraffe home ranges

Mongabay.com 6 Mar 2019

Scott Wallace on the importance of protecting uncontacted indigenous groups in the Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 5 Mar 2019
Natural Burmese teak on a deck at the London Boat Show. Photo by Sophie Cohen/Mongabay.

Late timber kingpin who plundered Myanmar’s forests unmasked

Lauren Crothers 5 Mar 2019
A black howler monkey (Alouatta pigra), a resident of Cerro Amay photographed in Belize. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Guatemala: Proposed new park on indigenous land treads fine ethical line

Maxwell Radwin 4 Mar 2019

In Nigeria, hunters turn into guardians of the rarest gorilla on Earth

Linus Unah 4 Mar 2019

Architects bring bamboo revival to Indonesian village

Eko Rusdianto 4 Mar 2019

In the Congo Basin, a road cuts through once-untouched ape wilderness

Eugene N. Nforngwa 1 Mar 2019

New study finds young forests have a huge climate impact

Morgan Erickson-Davis 26 Feb 2019

Fears of a dire precedent as Brazil seeks results-based REDD+ payment

Sarah Sax 25 Feb 2019

Allegation of forged signature casts shadow over China-backed dam in Sumatra

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Feb 2019

Forest soils take longer to recover from fires and logging than previously thought

Mike Gaworecki 22 Feb 2019

Indonesian minister blasted over palm permit for graft-tainted concession

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Feb 2019

What the Congo Basin can learn from Filipino community forestry laws (commentary)

Tanja Venisnik 21 Feb 2019

Cambodia’s fragile Prey Lang forest remains under threat

Lauren Crothers 21 Feb 2019

Bolsonaro government takes aim at Vatican over Amazon meeting

Jan Rocha 20 Feb 2019

Indonesia to get first payment from Norway under $1b REDD+ scheme

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Feb 2019

Brazil sees growing wave of anti-indigenous threats, reserve invasions

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 19 Feb 2019

In the Solomon Islands, making amends in the name of conservation

John Cannon 19 Feb 2019

Giant pines a tourist draw, cash cow for Yogyakarta farmers

Nuswantoro 19 Feb 2019
Student government president Gaymon Edwards leads a meeting of his fellow students. Their current requests from the school administration include sprinklers for the kitchen garden, new locks for the classrooms, and full electricity in the dorms. Image by Carinya Sharples for Mongabay.

Guyana: The school where indigenous youth learn about their land

Carinya Sharples 15 Feb 2019

10 reasons U.S. must hold Peru to trade deal and protect Amazon (commentary)

David Hill 15 Feb 2019

Invaded Uru-eu-wau-wau indigenous reserve awaits relief by Brazil’s new government

Gustavo Faleiros 14 Feb 2019
Anti-wildlife-trafficking statues at Minh Dang Quang Buddhist Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, one of the pagodas included in the campaign. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Graphic anti-wildlife-trafficking campaign tackles Vietnam’s pangolin problem

Michael Tatarski 14 Feb 2019

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