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In rare move, Brazil’s Temer ups conserved lands by 282,000 hectares

Jenny Gonzales 9 Jun 2017

‘Give us back our land’: paper giants struggle to resolve conflicts with communities in Sumatra

Alice Cuddy 9 Jun 2017

Indigenous Guarani leader appeals to Europe to save people and forests

Lucy EJ Woods 7 Jun 2017

‘Crunch time for biodiversity’: Farming, hunting push thousands of species toward extinction

John Cannon 7 Jun 2017

FSC to investigate Korean conglomerate’s palm oil operations in Indonesia

Mike Gaworecki 7 Jun 2017
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia’s plantation lobby challenges environmental law

Basten Gokkon, Lusia Arumingtyas 7 Jun 2017

Demand for elephant skin driving up poaching in Myanmar (warning: graphic images)

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Jun 2017
A cow in Colombia's Valle de Cocora National Park. Photo by Tim Snell via Flickr.

One cow per hectare: deforestation in Colombia after FARC’s exit

Esteban Montaño 6 Jun 2017

One of Malaysia’s last rhinos euthanized to ‘end her suffering’

Isabel Esterman 5 Jun 2017

Conservation group African Parks to look after West African wildlife

Mongabay.com 5 Jun 2017
Ilha Bela, the largest sea island in Brazil, and the Atlantic Forest covers 85 percent of its area. Photo by Santiago Marrodan Ciordia.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest increased almost 60 percent in the last year

Ignacio Amigo 5 Jun 2017

Financing sustainable agriculture possible, if terms fit farmers’ needs

John Cannon 2 Jun 2017

Why not both? Rainforest diversity stems from two seemingly irreconcilable processes

Jacqueline Hernandez 2 Jun 2017

Philippines’ indigenous Higaonon fight for return of ancestral land

Brad Miller 1 Jun 2017

New carbon map will help protect the DRC’s rainforests

Mike Gaworecki 1 Jun 2017

Brazil assaults indigenous rights, environment, social movements

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 1 Jun 2017

Extremely rare cobra lily rediscovered in India

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Jun 2017

Frances Seymour on why rich nations need to start paying up to protect the world’s tropical forests

Mike Gaworecki 31 May 2017
A sign directs logging trucks to timber depots set up along the Vietnamese border with Cambodia. Photo courtesy of EIA.

Vietnam pledges to investigate massive illegal logging violations as international pressure grows

Michael Tatarski 31 May 2017

Pressure builds on palm oil firm Goodhope after RSPO sanction

Alice Cuddy 31 May 2017

Governor halts work on coal railway being built without permits in Indonesian Borneo

Indra Nugraha, Lusia Arumingtyas, R. Sahala, Sapariah Saturi 30 May 2017

The resistance of Peruvian coffee

Jack Lo Lau 30 May 2017
Caboco on a Sunday fishing trip. Photo by Maximo Anderson for Mongabay.

Amid life and death risks, Brazil’s land defenders stand firm

Maximo Anderson 29 May 2017

‘Who wants to go for holiday to see large clear-cuts?’: Slovakia turns against its national parks

Matthew P. Reed 29 May 2017

Thylacine survey: Are we going to rediscover the ‘moonlight tiger’?

Jeremy Hance 26 May 2017
Indigenous Awajún women in Shampuyacu, Peru. Conservation International has worked with these women to designate a forest of their own where they can cultivate traditional plants. Photo by Freddy Guillen.

Why gender matters in conservation

Roz Evans 26 May 2017

Temer seeks to privatize Brazil’s deforestation remote sensing program

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 26 May 2017

Not out of the woods: Concerns remain with Nigerian superhighway

John Cannon 26 May 2017

Slight bumps in protected areas could be a boon for biodiversity

John Cannon 26 May 2017

On the road to ‘smart development’

John Cannon 25 May 2017

Communities band together to protect El Salvador’s last mangroves

Martha Pskowski 23 May 2017

Brazil agribusiness company accuses ally Temer in secret bribe taping

Jenny Gonzales 23 May 2017

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