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Roads divide opinions along with forests, study finds

John Cannon 8 Nov 2018

For Javan rhinos, the last holdout may also be a deadly disease hotspot

Katy Waters 8 Nov 2018

Congo Basin rainforest may be gone by 2100, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 7 Nov 2018

Cerrado farm community fights for life against dam and eucalyptus growers

Anna Sophie Gross 7 Nov 2018

In funding palm oil giants, banks may share in ‘sins of the companies’

Tessa Toumbourou 7 Nov 2018

Protection flip-flop leaves rare Indonesian shrikethrush in harm’s way

Petrus Riski, Rahmadi Rahmad, Themmy Doaly 7 Nov 2018

Deforestation-linked Brazilian beef still flowing into international markets: report

Claire Asher 6 Nov 2018

AI simplifies statewide study of leopards in south India

Vasudevan Sridharan 5 Nov 2018

Bear-human conflict risks pinpointed amid resurgent bear population

Mongabay.com 5 Nov 2018

Latam Eco Review: Killing jaguars for arthritis creams and wine

Mongabay.com 2 Nov 2018

Call to protect dwindling wilderness ‘before it disappears forever’

John Cannon 1 Nov 2018
Satellite image from Google Earth: Tanguro, Brazil -12.262600, -52.733553

Deforestation continues upward trend in the Brazilian Amazon

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2018
Clergymen at Tsegur Michael Church near Debretabor, Ethiopia. Photo by Maheder Haileselassie Tadese for Mongabay.

Land restoration makes progress in Ethiopia

Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 31 Oct 2018

Thousands of radiated tortoises seized from traffickers in Madagascar

John Cannon 31 Oct 2018
Large-bodied animals like this knobbed hornbill play an important role in forest ecosystems. Studies show that the loss of seed dispersers can have long-term effects on the carbon storage of forests. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Forest report points to opportunity for recovery

Jennifer Rigby 31 Oct 2018

Chainsaw Massacre: Protected areas in danger in Brazil’s state of Rondônia (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside and Paulo Vilela Cruz 31 Oct 2018

In the Peruvian Amazon, the prized shihuahuaco tree faces a grim future

Leslie Moreno Custodio, Ojo Público 31 Oct 2018

The legal institutionalization of FSC certification in Gabon (commentary)

Alain Karsenty 31 Oct 2018

With a feast of grubs, a tribe makes its case for forest stewardship

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Oct 2018

China legalizes use of tiger bone and rhino horn for traditional medicine

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2018

The Brazilian government’s land war against rebel slave descendants

Anna Sophie Gross 29 Oct 2018
Maubere elders in the village of Suco Fatumea draft tara bandu regulations to protect local forests and water sources. Image by Egrilio Ferreira Vincente.

Timor-Leste: Maubere tribes revive customary law to protect the ocean

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 26 Oct 2018

Peru seizes plane with 30kg of cocaine in Bahuaja-Sonene National Park

Vanessa Romo 25 Oct 2018

Violence spikes during Brazil elections, rural minorities fear worse

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 24 Oct 2018
Ankarana sportive lemur (Lepilemur ankaranensis), an endangered species whose habitat is threatened by rosewood logging. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

CITES rejects another Madagascar plan to sell illegal rosewood stockpiles

Edward Carver 24 Oct 2018

Absent for decades, zebras reintroduced to park in southern Tanzania

Mongabay.com 24 Oct 2018

Amazon and climate science threatened if Bolsonaro elected Brazil’s president (commentary)

17 Latin American scientists 23 Oct 2018

Study warns of dire ecological, social fallout from Sumatran dam

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Oct 2018

Chinese demand wiping out forests in the Solomon Islands: New report

John Cannon 22 Oct 2018

Grainrail: ‘2nd revolution in Brazilian agribusiness’ and Amazon threat

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 22 Oct 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

Environmental delegation blocked from entering Bolivian national park

Miriam Telma Jemio 22 Oct 2018

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