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Indonesia’s plantation program on collision course with wildlife, Indigenous groups

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jan 2021
Gentoo penguins watching an iceberg. Image credit: Mongabay

We’re approaching critical climate tipping points: Q&A with Tim Lenton

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Jan 2021

How to transform systems: Q&A with WRI’s Andrew Steer

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Jan 2021

Indonesia renews peat restoration bid to include mangroves, but hurdles abound

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Jan 2021
Rainforest mantis in Suriname. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Rainforests: 11 things to watch in 2021

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jan 2021
Malaysian rainforest at sunset. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Companies must account for quality, not just quantity, when it comes to forests (commentary)

Julie Nash and Jamison Ervin 31 Dec 2020

Mongabay’s environmental investigations in 2020

Mongabay.com 31 Dec 2020

Industrial agriculture threatens a wetland oasis in Bolivia

Gustavo Jiménez Gonzáles 30 Dec 2020

Colombia’s sustainable forestry drive boosts biodiversity and business

Dimitri Selibas 30 Dec 2020
Coral reef in at Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Photo by Beth Watson / Ocean Image Bank.

Top positive environmental stories from 2020

Liz Kimbrough 30 Dec 2020

Geography on the plate: The culinary rediscovery of Colombia’s biodiversity

Aurora Solá 29 Dec 2020

Illegal deforestation rises in South America’s Indigenous territories, parks

Vanessa Romo 29 Dec 2020

Indonesia’s five most consequential environmental stories of 2020

Loren Bell 29 Dec 2020
Blackwater oxbow lake, rainforest, and a whitewater river in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

How the pandemic impacted rainforests in 2020: a year in review

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Dec 2020

Weak policy oversight could be pushing Brazilian forests closer to a tipping point

Meghie Rodrigues 28 Dec 2020

Top 15 species discoveries from 2020 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 28 Dec 2020
Forest cleared for palm oil production in Indonesia. Rhett C. Butler for Mongabay.

Top Indonesian palm oil developments in 2020

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Dec 2020
Red passion vine flower in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Colombia’s forests lurch between deforestation and the hope for a sustainable future

Dimitri Selibas 24 Dec 2020
Satellite imagery shows fires spreading across Pantanal Matogrossense National Park in early November 2020.

‘Devastating’ fires engulf Brazilian Pantanal wetlands – again

Ana Ionova 23 Dec 2020

Traditional and Indigenous peoples ‘denounce’ planned Amazon railway

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 23 Dec 2020
Mendouga Rita plants Gnetum in the village of Minwoho. Lekié, Center Region, Cameroon. Photo by Ollivier Girard/CIFOR

Human rights-based conservation is key to protecting biodiversity: Study

Liz Kimbrough 23 Dec 2020
The Amazon near Manaus, Brazil. Image by Neil Palmer/CIAT via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Soy moratorium averted New Jersey-size loss of Amazon rainforest: Study

John Cannon 23 Dec 2020

Songbird trade in Indonesia threatens wild Sunda laughingthrush

Basten Gokkon 22 Dec 2020

Ribeirinhos win right to waterside Amazon homeland lost to Belo Monte dam

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 22 Dec 2020
Rainforest tree with magenta flowers

Critical temperature threshold spells shorter lives for tropical trees

Liz Kimbrough 22 Dec 2020
A village near a community forest in River Cess County, Liberia, 2016. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Liberia gave villagers control over their forests. Then a mining company showed up

Ashoka Mukpo, James Giahyue 22 Dec 2020

A Madagascar forest long protected by its remoteness is now threatened by it

Edward Carver 21 Dec 2020

Historical analysis: The Amazon’s mineral wealth — curse or blessing?

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 21 Dec 2020

Poor governance fuels ‘horrible dynamic’ of deforestation in DRC

Victoria Schneider 21 Dec 2020

Indonesia’s biofuel bid threatens more deforestation for oil palm plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Dec 2020
Deforestation on the United Cacao plantation in 2013. Photo by Leoncio Ramirez via Panoramio.

Peruvian court absolves cacao company of illegal Amazon deforestation after “lobbying effort”

Mongabay.com 18 Dec 2020

Brazilian woman threatened by Amazon loggers wins global human rights award

Thais Borges and Mauricio Torres 18 Dec 2020

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