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Illegal timber trade destroying Myanmar’s forests uncovered in new report

Mike Gaworecki 18 Sep 2015

Local stewardship: conservation’s ‘vast blind spot’

Mike Gaworecki 17 Sep 2015

Reduced deforestation in Brazil saves thousands of lives

Mike Gaworecki 16 Sep 2015

The jig is up: copycat woodpecker unmasked by genetics

Morgan Erickson-Davis 16 Sep 2015
Rainforest in Sabah, Malaysia. Malaysia has reported a steep increase in forest cover to FAO, a result of changing how it classifies forest cover.

Indonesia’s new emissions target actually a step back: Greenpeace

16 Sep 2015

Norway pays Brazil $1B to fulfill pledge for curbing deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Sep 2015

Scientists capture first ever footage of rare, threatened bird in Peru’s Cerros del Sira

Mike Gaworecki 15 Sep 2015

‘Measured in human lives’: report finds EU and logging companies complicit in funding war

John Cannon 15 Sep 2015

From conflict to partnership, a Kalimantan community and logging company manage the forest together

Indra Nugraha 15 Sep 2015

Children are dying from respiratory ailments as haze blankets Sumatra

Made Ali 14 Sep 2015

Rogue oil palm company must pay $26m, rules Indonesia’s Supreme Court

Chik Rini, Indra Nugraha 14 Sep 2015

Big reserve expansion gives tigers a boost in Nepal

Morgan Erickson-Davis 11 Sep 2015

Agrarian settlements causing massive deforestation in Brazil: ‘Much more damage may be done’

Mike Gaworecki 10 Sep 2015

Powered by the land: The Sumatran village that conserves forest for electricity

Ayat S. Karokaro 10 Sep 2015

Oil palm firm in hot water after Jokowi drops in on forest fires

Taufik Wijaya 10 Sep 2015
Illegal logging in Madagascar's Masoala Peninsula, a protected area where rosewood is commonly targeted

5 African countries agree to combat illegal timber trade

Mongabay.com 10 Sep 2015

Cacao plantation ramping up forest clearing in Peru

John Cannon 9 Sep 2015

Investment in small-scale farmers ‘could have big payoff’ in the fight against climate change, poverty

John Cannon 9 Sep 2015

Indonesian villagers transform ailing forests into oasis of fruit

Sapariah Saturi 8 Sep 2015
Rainforest in Sabah, Malaysia. Malaysia has reported a steep increase in forest cover to FAO, a result of changing how it classifies forest cover.

U.N. data suggests slowdown in forest loss

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Sep 2015

Indonesian officials resist movement to end deforestation for palm oil

Indra Nugraha, Sapariah Saturi 7 Sep 2015

Indonesia’s mercury policy a good start, but kinks remain

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 5 Sep 2015

Researchers find many, many moths in Bolivian national park (Photos)

Morgan Erickson-Davis 4 Sep 2015

Peru’s Conundrum: a Pope’s environmental message divides his people

Justin Catanoso 4 Sep 2015

Endangered fishing cat thought extinct in Cambodia, caught on camera

Glenn Scherer 3 Sep 2015
Red howler monkey, Colombia. Photo by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

Climate change causing big shifts in tropical forests

Apoorva Joshi 3 Sep 2015

Indonesia pledges to cut emissions 29 percent by 2030

Mongabay.com 3 Sep 2015
Pittsfield State Forest in Massachusetts. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

How many trees are cut down every year?

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2015

Man starts record-breaking walk to protect one of the world’s rarest primates

Greg Norman 2 Sep 2015

Global forest loss reached 46 million acres in 2014

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2015
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Brazil’s deforestation alert system reports surge in Amazon forest clearing

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Sep 2015

Will Indonesia’s new palm oil subsidy undermine no-deforestation push?

Sapariah Saturi 1 Sep 2015

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