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Politician’s son named a suspect over illegal land clearing in Leuser Ecosystem

Junaidi Hanafiah 26 Jan 2017

Want to be a responsible palm oil firm? Follow these reporting guidelines

Mongabay.com 25 Jan 2017

Guyana focuses deforestation prevention efforts on conservation and management

Gaulbert Sutherland 24 Jan 2017
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Green groups want paper giant to stop using drained peat in Indonesia

Mongabay Haze Beat 23 Jan 2017

Scientists ‘impressed and delighted’ by animals found in remnant forests

Benji Jones 20 Jan 2017

Indigenous traditional knowledge revival helps conserve great apes

Giovanni Ortolani 20 Jan 2017

Private capital investments in conservation have taken off since 2013

Mike Gaworecki 18 Jan 2017

HSBC financing tied to deforestation, rights violations for palm oil in Indonesia

John Cannon 18 Jan 2017

New species of poison frog discovered in Amazonian slopes of Andes in southeastern Peru

Mike Gaworecki 17 Jan 2017

Indonesian government challenges another green group over freedom of information request

Mongabay.com 17 Jan 2017

How local elites earn money from burning land in Indonesia

Alice Cuddy 16 Jan 2017

‘Last frontiers of wilderness’: Intact forest plummets globally

John Cannon 13 Jan 2017

NASA releases images of dramatic deforestation in Cambodia

Morgan Erickson-Davis 13 Jan 2017

New study analyzes biggest threats to Southeast Asian biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jan 2017

Fragmentation boosts carbon storage along temperate forest edges

John Cannon 9 Jan 2017

‘Racing against time’ to save the taguá and its vanishing Chaco home

John Cannon 5 Jan 2017

Smuggled to death: how loopholes and lax enforcement have sealed the fate of Siamese rosewood

Demelza Stokes 5 Jan 2017

Local NGOs: Ecosystem services, not orangutans, key to saving Leuser

Colleen Kimmett 4 Jan 2017

No let-up in Thailand’s relentless, violent Siamese rosewood poaching

Demelza Stokes 4 Jan 2017

Jokowi grants first-ever indigenous land rights to 9 communities

Mongabay.com 4 Jan 2017
A woodcarver makes a carving of a rhinoceros on the outskirts of Lunga Lunga, a town on the border between Kenya and Tanzania. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay

As forests in East Africa disappear, so does an industry of artisans

Nathan Siegel 3 Jan 2017
Renowned chef Alex Atala’s golden Amazonian ant over coconut meringue. Courtesy Netflix Chef’s Table and Chef Table Season 2. Photo by Zhana Leeson

Food from Brazil’s Amazon finds its way to metropolitan tables

Carolina Torres 2 Jan 2017

Sudden sale may doom carbon-rich rainforest in Borneo

John Cannon 2 Jan 2017

The year in tropical rainforests: 2016

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Dec 2016

Illegal logging shows little sign of slowing

Morgan Erickson-Davis 30 Dec 2016

Top climate stories to watch in 2017

Mike Gaworecki 29 Dec 2016

Consumer pressure to ditch deforestation begins to reach Indonesia’s oil palm plantation giants

Tara MacIsaac 27 Dec 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

As accusations fly, paper giant appears to stand by its replanting of burned peat in Sumatra

Mongabay Haze Beat 22 Dec 2016

Study maps 187 land conflicts as palm oil expands in Kalimantan

Rachel Diaz-Bastin 20 Dec 2016

93% of world’s roadless areas are less than half the size of Cincinnati

Morgan Erickson-Davis 19 Dec 2016

Palm oil giant defends its deforestation in Gabon, points to country’s ‘right to develop’

Mongabay.com 19 Dec 2016
Timber stack at the Iwokrama mill site. Photo by Carinya Sharples for Mongabay

FSC certification gives boost to rainforest community

Carinya Sharples 19 Dec 2016

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