Forests News

RSS
13216 stories
Forest clearing for nickel mining on Wawonii Island.

Critics see payback in Indonesia’s plan to grant mining permits to religious groups

Irfan Maulana 21 May 2024

A forest restoration project brings birdsong back to Angola’s highest mountain

Ryan Truscott 20 May 2024

Organized crime puts unprecedented pressure on Guatemala’s largest rainforest

Maxwell Radwin 20 May 2024
Forest clearing for soy in Parecis in the state of Rondonia

New satellite data documents deforestation across ecosystems worldwide

Abhishyant Kidangoor 20 May 2024

Photos confirm narcotraffickers operating in Peru’s Kakataibo Indigenous Reserve

Yvette Sierra Praeli 17 May 2024

Interview with the award-winning directors of ‘We Are Guardians’

Romi Castagnino 17 May 2024

Bird populations are mysteriously declining at an Amazon park in Ecuador & beyond

Bernardo Araujo 16 May 2024
Catherine Toro

Tackling climate change in one of Colombia’s largest wetlands

César Giraldo 15 May 2024

NZ funding helps Indigenous farmers in Indonesia protect forests, boost incomes

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 May 2024
oriental pied hornbill

New database unveils the role of Asian hornbills as forest seed dispersers

Carolyn Cowan 15 May 2024

Extractive industries look at degraded land to avoid further deforestation in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 15 May 2024
a western chimpanzee in a tree

Setback for Guinea mine that threatens World Heritage chimp reserve

Ashoka Mukpo 15 May 2024
A Dayak Pitap woman.

On a Borneo mountainside, Indigenous Dayak women hold fire and defend forest

Riyad Dafhi Rizki 15 May 2024

Environmental defenders paid the price during Panama’s historic mining protests – report

Maxwell Radwin 14 May 2024
The red siskin.

Shade-grown coffee benefits birds, forests & people in Venezuela

James Hall 14 May 2024

Hold my ointment: Wild orangutan observed healing wound with medicinal plant

Basten Gokkon 14 May 2024

Mexico Indigenous community makes strides to land rights, but obstacles remain

Astrid Arellano 14 May 2024

Amid ravaging wildfires in Venezuela, experts cite institutional collapse

Tony Frangie Mawad 14 May 2024
Industrial oil palm development outside Balikpapan

Latest palm oil deforester in Indonesia may also be operating illegally

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 May 2024
Rainbow over the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Despite drought, Amazon deforestation alerts hit five-year low

Mongabay.com 10 May 2024

Research shows the Caatinga is Brazil’s most efficient carbon capture biome

Adriana Amâncio, Rafael Dantas 10 May 2024
A worker at a rubber plantation at PT Alam Lestari Nusantara. Image by Rubber tapping workers at PL ALN.

Desperation sets in for Indigenous Sumatrans who lost their forests to plantations

Teguh Suprayitno 9 May 2024
A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) hangs from the trees. Fewer than 100,000 orangutans remain on Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesian company defies order, still clearing peatlands in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 May 2024
Indigenous farmer in Cambodia

Rights groups call for greater public input in ASEAN environmental rights framework

Carolyn Cowan 8 May 2024

Secrets from the rainforest’s past uncovered in Amazonian backyards

Carolina Pinheiro 8 May 2024

The Narwhal makes waves in Canada for environmental journalism

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 7 May 2024

Indigenous leader’s killer is convicted in Brazil, but tensions over land remain

Sarah Brown 7 May 2024
Cattle in a deforested patch of Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Indonesian palm oil, Brazilian beef top contributors to U.S. deforestation exposure

Liz Kimbrough 7 May 2024

New ban threatens traditional fishers in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state

João Paulo Guimarães 6 May 2024

UK’s Drax targets California forests for two major wood pellet plants

Justin Catanoso 6 May 2024

State management and regulation of extractive industries in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 2 May 2024
Squared-off blocks of timber, stacked on a flatbed truck fitted with a mechanic loader arm at the Klay Checkpoint, Bomi, Liberia. Image courtesy James Harding Giahyue/The Daylight.

New illegal logging threatens Liberia’s forests amid vague ban

James Giahyue 2 May 2024

you're currently offline