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Norway divests from plantation companies linked to deforestation

Morgan Erickson-Davis 1 Mar 2019
The forest of Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Liberia’s community forestry becoming a front for deforestation: Report

Ashoka Mukpo 23 Jan 2019

An expanding frontier: Top 10 global palm oil stories of 2018

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Dec 2018
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

African wood industry: 10,000 micro-businesses need support for sustainable trade

Joseph Charpentier 22 Oct 2018

Is S&P Dow Jones greenwashing conflict palm oil? (commentary)

Gaurav Madan 16 Oct 2018
Fresh oil palm fruit bunches. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Palm oil giant’s claim it can’t control Liberian subsidiary a ‘red herring,’ NGO says

Daniel Pye 12 Sep 2018
A western chimpanzee in Liberia. Image by Cameron Zohoori via Flickr. (CC BY-NC 2.0)

New report spotlights financiers of palm oil giant clearing Liberia’s forests

Daniel Pye 17 Jul 2018

Online mapping tool tracks land-use changes down to the farm

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 12 Jul 2018

Liberian park protects Critically Endangered western chimpanzees

John Cannon 22 Sep 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

From conflict to communities: Forests in Liberia

John Cannon 10 Mar 2017

The year in tropical rainforests: 2016

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Dec 2016
The forest of Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Corrupt logging practices in Liberia could mar new era in community forestry

Ashoka Mukpo 29 Nov 2016

Proposed sale of timber from palm oil concession sparks alarm in Liberia

Jeremy Hance 21 Sep 2016
Sime Darby plantation in Cape Mount County. Photo courtesy JPN Liberia

Liberia land policy a ‘challenge to national development’

Mark M. Dahn 14 Sep 2016

In unprecedented move, Michelin adopts zero deforestation for rubber sourcing

Mongabay.com 13 Jun 2016

Indigenous and forest community leaders tour the EU to call for conflict-free palm oil

Mike Gaworecki 4 May 2016

International forest conservation finance is flowing to Africa

Mike Gaworecki 26 Apr 2016

Peace agreements often ignore natural resources, report finds

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Feb 2016

Norway extends forest conservation initiative

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Dec 2015

Can Liberia succeed in balancing palm oil with conservation?

Sara Jerving 29 Sep 2015

Palm oil company denies capitalizing on Ebola to advance Liberia operations

Greg Norman 23 Jul 2015

World’s critical habitats lost Connecticut-size area of forest in a decade

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 May 2015

Local land rights may be in danger from push for palm oil in Liberia

John Cannon 12 Mar 2015

Rainforest loss increased in the 2000s, concludes new analysis

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Feb 2015

Scientists sound the alarm on African palm oil investment

John Cannon 20 Feb 2015

Financial pledges for REDD+ slow to be disbursed, finds report

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2015

Did palm oil expansion play a role in the Ebola crisis?

Emmanuel K. Urey 14 Jan 2015

Developing land without approval of local people ‘a human rights issue of grave concern,’ says new report

Dr Liz Kimbrough 20 Nov 2014

Scientists use genes, feces to study disappearing monkeys

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Sep 2014

Norway to pay Liberia to stop deforestation

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Sep 2014

Invasion of the oil palm: western Africa’s native son returns, threatening great apes

John Cannon 28 Jul 2014

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