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Fresh forest clearance inside Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary signals the beginning of an infrastructure project that will bisect the forest. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

New transmission lines cut a Cambodian rainforest sanctuary in half

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 27 Nov 2024
A worker handling plywood sheets at Nature Flooring's factory in the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Cambodian logging syndicate tied to major U.S. wood flooring supply chains

Gerald Flynn 21 Oct 2024
In the heart of the Cardamom Mountains, new hydropower dams threaten both protected forest and REDD+ projects. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Protected areas bear the brunt as forest loss continues across Cambodia

Gerald Flynn 17 Apr 2024
Satellite image of wildfires in Quebec, Canada, in June, 2023.

Tropical forest loss puts 2030 zero-deforestation target further out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Apr 2024
Three pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus).

New concession in Botum Sakor National Park handed to Cambodia’s Royal Group

Gerald Flynn 22 Aug 2023
Royal Group's SEZ under construction in Botum Sakor National Park as of May 2023

Cambodian conglomerate sparks conflict in Botum Sakor National Park

Gerald Flynn & Meng Kroypunlok 20 Jul 2023
An aerial view of the 2.25 hectare timber depot at Goldfame Star Enterprises' garment factory in Kandal province, Cambodia. Credit: Andy Ball/Mongabay.

Forests in the furnace: Can fashion brands tackle illegal logging in their Cambodian supply chains?

Gerald Flynn & Andy Ball 12 Jul 2023
Aerial view of an area in the Amazon deforested for cattle ranching -- the biggest driver of deforestation in the Amazon -- in Lábrea, Amazonas state on Sep 15, 2021. Photo © Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance)

New data show 10% increase in primary tropical forest loss in 2022

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Jun 2023
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

2021 tropical forest loss figures put zero-deforestation goal by 2030 out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Apr 2022
A long-tongued nectar bat (Macroglossus minimus), a subspecies of which is found on New Britain Island. Image via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Deforestation notches up along logging roads on PNG’s New Britain Island

John Cannon 21 Oct 2021

Study fails to find link between increased deforestation and COVID lockdowns

James Fair 14 Sep 2021
Haze rising from an oil palm plantation and forest in Riau. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler.

We can now see through clouds to detect deforestation in near real-time

Rhett A. Butler 3 Mar 2021
Trucks loaded with sugar cane on one of the dirt roads around Bugoma Forest. Photo: Thomas Lewton for Mongabay.

Uganda environment authority greenlights clearing of Bugoma Forest

Thomas Lewton 5 Nov 2020
Beatrice Rukanyana looks out over a sugar plantation near Bugoma Forest. Photo: Thomas Lewton

Uganda’s eco-feminists are taking on mining and plantation industries

Thomas Lewton 23 Oct 2019
Bulldozers parked in a muddy clearing near near Okuni, Cross River State, Nigeria

In Nigeria, a highway threatens community and conservation interests

Linus Unah 9 Jul 2019
A blue pansy (Junonia orithya), a species occasionally available through Kipepeo Butterfly Project. Image by yakovlev.alexey via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Butterfly business: Insect farmers help conserve East African forests

Janet Njung’e 8 Feb 2019

Stop importing illegal timber, PNG activists tell China at APEC Summit

John Cannon 22 Nov 2018

Palm oil supplier to PepsiCo, Mars, and Hershey resumes deforesting in Indonesia

Loren Bell 15 Nov 2018

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

John Cannon 22 Oct 2018

Leading US plywood firm linked to alleged destruction, rights violations in Malaysia

John Cannon 19 Oct 2017

First ‘intrusions’ into unbroken forests drive pulses of biodiversity loss

John Cannon 28 Jul 2017

Charcoal and cattle ranching tearing apart the Gran Chaco

John Cannon 19 Jul 2017

Big mammals flourish as Cerrado park’s savanna comes back

John Cannon 14 Jul 2017

Logging in Malaysia’s Ulu Muda forest threatens wildlife and water supplies

Kate Mayberry 26 Jun 2017

Financing sustainable agriculture possible, if terms fit farmers’ needs

John Cannon 2 Jun 2017

Howler monkeys booming in Belize sanctuary 25 years after translocation

John Cannon 10 May 2017
Carnegie Airborne Observatory (CAO) forest scan in the Peruvian Amazon. The CAO uses advanced optical and chemical sensors in combination with Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technologies to map forest carbon, chemistry, and other features. Image courtesy of the Carnegie Airborne Observatory/Greg Asner.

Indigenous lands ‘critical’ to forest protection in Peru, biodiversity maps show

John Cannon 5 May 2017

Delicate Solomon Island ecosystem in danger of heavy logging

Elliot Dawea & John C. Cannon 1 May 2017

Corruption drives dealings with logging companies in the Solomon Islands

Elliot Dawea, John Cannon 1 May 2017

Cross River superhighway changes course in Nigeria

John Cannon 28 Apr 2017

Birds wanted: Recovering forests need avian assist 

Mongabay.com 2 Feb 2017

The Philippines declares more than 100,000 acres as critical habitat

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Feb 2017

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