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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
Turtles in the conservation project in Guyana. Photo courtesy Ereika DeAndrade.

A community in Guyana relies on indigenous knowledge in conservation

Akola Thompson 24 Jan 2019

Guyana signs on to forest management agreement with the EU

Carinya Sharples 16 Jan 2019

Guyana deforestation rate hits 7-year low, officials say

Carinya Sharples 19 Oct 2018
Conducting field research. Photo by US Bureau of Land Management.

Safe spaces: Tackling sexual harassment in science

Carinya Sharples 5 Feb 2018
A herd of capybara, the world’s largest living rodents, go for a swim in Colombia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Mammal diversity may increase carbon storage in rainforests

Jennifer Leman 5 Dec 2017

Brilliant blue tarantula among potentially new species discovered in Guyana

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Nov 2017

Booming legal Amazon wildlife trade documented in new report

Claire Salisbury 6 Oct 2017
A truck brings supplies from Georgetown along the Linden-Lethem road. The cost of bringing in goods to the villages lying off the road, mining camps or Lethem itself makes them more expensive than in the capital. Photo by Carinya Sharples/Mongabay.

Guyana’s road to Brazil presents opportunity and challenge

Carinya Sharples 2 Aug 2017
House construction alongside the seawall in Felicity, Guyana. Photo by Carinya Sharples for Mongabay.

Going under: mangrove restoration in low-lying Guyana a vital need, say experts

Carinya Sharples 13 Jul 2017

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

Jeremy Hance 22 May 2017
The rainforests of Guyana. Photo by Loriski via Wikimedia Commons

Delays continue over signing of Guyana-EU trade agreement to combat illegal logging

Alex Abdelwahab 15 Mar 2017

Guyana focuses deforestation prevention efforts on conservation and management

Gaulbert Sutherland 24 Jan 2017

The year in tropical rainforests: 2016

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 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
Logging concession in Kwakwani, Guyana. Photo by Akola Thompson for Mongabay

UK greenheart restriction could put pressure on Guyana’s logging economy

Akola Thompson 15 Dec 2016
The Kunuku Mountains as seen from Lethem, Guyana. Photo by Kevin Gabbert via Wikimedia Commons

Guyana’s government still dealing with fallout over controversial logging company

Alex Abdelwahab 13 Nov 2016
Auyna Tepui in Parque Nacional Canaima, part of the Guiana Shield. Photo by Christoph Kühnhanss via Wikimedia Commons.

The Guiana Shield, the ‘greenhouse of the world’

Akola Thompson 19 Oct 2016

Some Indigenous groups wary of REDD+ following Paris Climate Agreement

Mitch Paquette 12 Feb 2016

Norway extends forest conservation initiative

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Dec 2015
Map of historic deforestation in the Amazon rainforest since 1970

Deforestation declines in the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Oct 2015

What’s the current deforestation rate in the Amazon rainforest?

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 May 2015

Rainforest loss increased in the 2000s, concludes new analysis

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Feb 2015

Study finds local technicians effective at forest monitoring

Sandhya Sekar 20 Feb 2015

Assessing carbon stock value of forests is tricky business, study finds

Sandhya Sekar 19 Feb 2015

Rainforests: 10 things to watch in 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jan 2015

Chinese logging company takes over Guyana’s forests

John Cannon 26 Nov 2014

Gold mining expanding rapidly along Guiana Shield, threatening forests, water, wildlife

Dr Liz Kimbrough 22 Oct 2014

An impossible balancing act? Forests benefit from isolation, but at cost to local communities

Anna Ikarashi 7 Oct 2014

How do we save the world’s vanishing old-growth forests?

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2014

Norway puts $1.6B into rainforest conservation

Mongabay.com 19 Aug 2014

Tropical nations make progress in slowing deforestation

Mongabay.com 10 Jun 2014

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