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Communities band together to protect El Salvador’s last mangroves

Martha Pskowski 23 May 2017

Brazil agribusiness company accuses ally Temer in secret bribe taping

Jenny Gonzales 23 May 2017

Big animals can survive reduced-impact logging — if done right

Jeremy Hance 22 May 2017

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

Lusia Arumingtyas 20 May 2017

A new secret runway found in Laguna del Tigre National Park in Guatemala

Sebastián Escalón 18 May 2017
Banner photo courtesy of EIA

Peru lost more than 1 million hectares of Amazon forest over a period of 15 years

Alexa Eunoé Vélez Zuazo 18 May 2017

Bill Laurance on the “infrastructure tsunami” sweeping the planet

Mike Gaworecki 17 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

Drylands greener with forests than previously thought

John Cannon 12 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
Ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) in Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Anti-trafficking activist held without trial in Madagascar

Fabienne Rafidiharinirina 8 May 2017
Not for republication. Image by Rod Harbinson/Rodharbinson.com

Indigenous groups, activists risk arrest to blockade logging in Malaysia

Rod Harbinson 8 May 2017

RSPO freezes palm oil company’s operations in Papua

Alice Cuddy 7 May 2017
A villager from Mahu cuts down a tree using a midsize chainsaw. A chainsaw can cut down a tree four times faster than an axe and handsaw. Photo by Ann Wang for Mongabay.

A fight to control chainsaws in Myanmar could turn the tide on illegal logging

Ann Wang, Genevieve Belmaker 4 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
Proboscis monkeys grooming.

An interactive map connects landowners and forest change in one of the world’s most biodiverse places

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 28 Apr 2017

Cross River superhighway changes course in Nigeria

John Cannon 28 Apr 2017

Amazon’s fate hangs on outcome of war between opposing worldviews

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 27 Apr 2017

Illegal trade threatens nearly half the world’s natural heritage sites: WWF

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Apr 2017
Diademed Sifaka (Propithecus diadema), a species threatened by the Madagascar rosewood trade. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Singapore convicts rosewood trader in historic CITES seizure

Edward Carver 26 Apr 2017

Mapping indigenous lands in Indonesia’s tallest mountains

Wahyu Mulyono 21 Apr 2017

Brazil moves to cut Amazon conservation units by 1.2 million hectares

Sue Branford 19 Apr 2017

Deforestation has become big business in the Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 18 Apr 2017

Rainforest conservation may be aimed at the wrong places, study finds

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 13 Apr 2017

Governments must do more to help companies end deforestation in commodities supply chains, companies say

Mike Gaworecki 11 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

Ebo forest great apes threatened by stalled Cameroon national park

Sean Mowbray 3 Apr 2017

Three new frog species found in disappearing Atlantic Forest

Benji Jones 30 Mar 2017

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