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Maroon 5’s James Valentine on why he’s working to stop illegal logging

Mike Gaworecki 3 Apr 2018

Indonesia’s dying timber concessions, invaded by oil palms, top deforestation table

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Apr 2018

Greenpeace International ends its Forest Stewardship Council membership

John Cannon 30 Mar 2018

Agroforestry bolsters biodiversity and villages in Sri Lanka

Chandni Navalkha 29 Mar 2018

Do environmental advocacy campaigns drive successful forest conservation?

Mike Gaworecki 29 Mar 2018

How a series of shady deals turned a chunk of Borneo into a sea of oil palm

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 27 Mar 2018

Borneo’s elephants prefer degraded forests, a new study finds

John Cannon 27 Mar 2018

How Indonesia’s Seruyan district became an epicenter of fires and haze

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 26 Mar 2018

The wind of change blowing through Ghana’s villages (commentary)

Mark Olden 23 Mar 2018
The vice president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE), Zoila Castillo confronts a policeman demanding that she be let into the government palace of Carondelet to personally deliver to the president the order they prepared on March 12, 2018. Photo by Jonatan Rosas.

Indigenous Amazonian women demand end to extraction

Kimberley Brown 22 Mar 2018

Company outed for fires in Indonesian palm lease still clearing forests in timber concession, NGO finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Mar 2018

More than 40 percent of Madagascar’s freshwater life sliding toward extinction, IUCN finds

Mongabay.com 22 Mar 2018

How the son of a tailor rose to power in Indonesia’s palm oil heartland

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 22 Mar 2018

How one of Indonesia’s biggest companies cut a secret deal to plant oil palm in Borneo

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 20 Mar 2018

Sarawak’s Penan now have detailed maps of their ancestral homeland

John Cannon 20 Mar 2018

Report finds projects in DRC ‘REDD+ laboratory’ fall short of development, conservation goals

John Cannon 16 Mar 2018

Five years after zero-deforestation vow, little sign of progress from Indonesian pulp giant

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Mar 2018

Activists eye bigger roles for local officials, businesses in Indonesia’s orangutan protection plan

Basten Gokkon 15 Mar 2018
Carol Van Strum, winter 2017. Photo courtesy of Peggy Brewster.

Carol Van Strum, crusader against Agent Orange, wins prestigious environmental award

Genevieve Belmaker 14 Mar 2018

Chocolate and agroforestry accelerate in El Salvador

Anna-Catherine Brigida 14 Mar 2018

Debates heat up as Indonesian palm oil moratorium is about to be signed

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Mar 2018

Sarawak makes 80% forest preservation commitment, but some have doubts

Morgan Erickson-Davis 12 Mar 2018

Oil palm, rubber could trigger ‘storm’ of deforestation in the Congo Basin

John Cannon 12 Mar 2018

How deforestation risks for investors can become opportunities for conservation (commentary)

Gabriel Thoumi, Peter Graham 9 Mar 2018

NGOs seek suspension of forest-related funding to DRC in response to proposed end to logging moratorium

John Cannon 8 Mar 2018
Illegal forest clearingfor oil palm in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Public access to Indonesian plantation data still mired in bureaucracy

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Mar 2018

Arkani, the Dayak known as Jenggot Naga — Dragon Beard

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 8 Mar 2018

Jaguar numbers rising at field sites, WCS says

Mongabay.com 7 Mar 2018

Europe’s beetle species plummet as trees disappear

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Mar 2018

How effective is environmental restoration?

Mike Gaworecki 6 Mar 2018

Budiardi, labeled a ‘provocateur’ and jailed in a dispute with a palm oil company

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 6 Mar 2018

Amazon forest to savannah tipping point could be far closer than thought (commentary)

Tom Lovejoy, Carlos Nobre 5 Mar 2018

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