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Climate change spikes wildfire risk in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 25 Mar 2025

Indonesians suing pulpwood firms over haze face intimidation, seek human rights protection

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Mar 2025
A young orangutan grasps and hangs on to a woody liana.

As apes adapt to human disturbance, their new behaviors also put them at risk: Study

Charles Mpaka 24 Mar 2025
The first Indigenous man from the Mamoriá Grande area to contact non-Indigenous society received medical assistance at a Funai base in early February. Image courtesy of Funai and Sesai (Indigenous Health Secretariat).

Pressure bears down around uncontacted tribes at the edge of Brazil’s arc of deforestation

Fernanda Wenzel 21 Mar 2025

Uncontacted Ayoreo could face health risks as Gran Chaco shrinks, experts warn

Maxwell Radwin 21 Mar 2025

‘Sustainable’ palm oil firms continue illegal peatland clearing despite permit revocation

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Mar 2025
Wooded landscape in Kõrvemaa Nature Park, Estonia. Image courtesy of Ireen Trummer via Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0.

With Europe’s forests, we can’t manage what we can’t measure (commentary)

Sten B. Nilsson 20 Mar 2025
Giant quiver tree, Namaqualand, South Africa. Image by Leonie Joubert.

Bleak future for Karoo succulents as desert expands in South Africa

Leonie Joubert 20 Mar 2025
In a vibrant green forestscape, a man in a blue t-shirt and gumboots stretches his arms across the dark bole of an enormous, extravagantly buttressed tree.. Image courtesy Andrea Bianchi.

‘3,000 year-old’ trees in Tanzania are new species

Ryan Truscott 20 Mar 2025

Global outcry as petitioners demand no mining expansion in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Mar 2025
In October 2024, deforestation linked to the construction of the Middle Russei Chrum dam was already spilling over into the Southern Cardamom REDD+ project area. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

New dams call into question Cambodia’s commitment to REDD+ projects

Gerald Flynn 19 Mar 2025
Logging operation for timber Brazilian Amazon.

EUDR compliance costs to be minimal, report finds — but industry disagrees

John Cannon 18 Mar 2025
Haze rising from an oil palm plantation and forest in Riau province.

Political appointments in Indonesian climate program spark outcry over accountability

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Mar 2025
Aerial photograph of land being cleared for a nickel mine in North Morowali.

Indonesian watchdog demands prosecution for environmental crime ‘cartels’

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Mar 2025
tree timber Brazil

Forest management ambitions in Brazilian Amazon aim to make up for lost time

Jenny Gonzales 12 Mar 2025
Locals look at a herd of elephants passing close to their village in northeastern Bangladesh.

Asian elephants fall victim to poor development policies in Bangladesh

Abu Siddique 12 Mar 2025
A collared wolf from the Druid pack

How one woman’s wolf ‘moon shot’ changed Yellowstone forever: Interview with director Tom Winston

Jeremy Hance 11 Mar 2025
Coconut plantations on Gebe Island threatened by nickel mining.

Nickel miners dig up Indonesia’s Gebe Island despite Indigenous and legal opposition

Jaya Barends 11 Mar 2025
Across the Southern Cardamom REDD+ project in southwest Cambodia, communities have alleged abuse at the hands of the project developer. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Indigenous community calls out Cambodian REDD+ project as tensions simmer in the Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn 10 Mar 2025
Members of the Vohoko Est cooperative with tree seedlings in the nursery, Tewaka, Burkina Faso, where Tree Aid has begun a 12,000 hectare community-owned agroforestry project.

Collaboration, data and tracking move Africa’s Great Green Wall toward its goal

Spoorthy Raman 7 Mar 2025
Two Aboriginal women in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Image of Élie Nzuzi via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

DRC conflict so far ‘devastating’ to Indigenous lands & people: Interview with Samuel Ade Ndasi

Aimable Twahirwa 7 Mar 2025
New study assesses threat to wildlife from cacao expansion in Congo Basin.

The environmental toll of the M23 conflict in eastern DRC (Analysis)

Fergus O’Leary Simpson | Lara Collart | Joel Masselink 7 Mar 2025
REDD+ project, Madre de Dios, Peru. Photo by Yoly Gutierrez/CIFOR

What have we learned from 15 years of REDD+ policy research? (analysis)

Maria Brockhaus / Grace Wong / Moira Moeliono 7 Mar 2025

Forest biomass growth to soar through 2030, impacting tropical forests

Justin Catanoso 6 Mar 2025

Indonesian court blocks palm oil expansion, but leaves Indigenous land rights in limbo

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Mar 2025
A fisherman at the Laa River, North Morowali, cleans clams before selling them.

‘Without us, no scrutiny’: Indonesia’s independent media count cost of US funding cuts

Mongabay.com 6 Mar 2025
Logging operation in the Amazonian state of Rondônia.

Clash of worlds for the Amazon’s Cinta Larga: Interview with author Alex Cuadros

Sam Cowie 5 Mar 2025
COP16 President Susana Muhamad.

COP16 biodiversity summit in Rome OKs finance pathway; big obstacles loom

Justin Catanoso 5 Mar 2025

In a seasonally flooded Amazon forest, jaguars take to the trees

Tiago da Mota e Silva 4 Mar 2025
A flooded field in Lake Province, Chad, in October 2024. The Lutheran World Foundation (LWF) is working with farmers groups as part of their three year "Gender Transformative Climate Adaptation" project. Image courtesy of Marie Renaux/LWF

Lake Chad isn’t shrinking — but climate change is causing other problems

Ruth Kamnitzer 28 Feb 2025
Black flying foxes are found in the forests of the Kimberley region of northern Australia. Image by Andrew Mercer via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

In Australia’s little-known rainforests, tradition and science collaborate for good

Nick Rodway 28 Feb 2025
The Kazembe nursery group with Mulanje cedar seedlings in 2018. Community tree nurseries, set up with assistance from MMCT, BGCI and other partners, have been central in building support for Mulanje cedar restoration. The nurseries also demonstrate that it is possible to cultivate native trees, something many people previously did not think was possible. Image courtesy of Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI).

Reforesting Malawi’s ‘Island in the Sky’ to save its vanishing woodlands

Ruth Kamnitzer 28 Feb 2025

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