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Community tree nursery

How scientists and a community are bringing a Bornean river corridor back to life

Carolyn Cowan 22 Nov 2023
Bow Lake in Banff, Canada. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Vizzuality data set aims to give companies full view of supply chain impacts

Maxwell Radwin 21 Nov 2023

New platform offers toolkit for companies to prove their eco claims

Claudia Geib 16 Nov 2023
Prescribed burns conducted by government organizations don’t face the same high cost of fire insurance as private organizations do. Image courtesy of the Virginia Department of Forestry.

As U.S. insurers stop covering prescribed burns, states and communities step up

Ashli Blow 15 Nov 2023
The red serow is called bon chagol in Bnagladesh

Hunters & habitat loss are key threats to red serow populations in Bangladesh

Rafiqul Islam 9 Nov 2023
16 February, 2023 - Sal Sophea Peanich economic land concession, Stung Treng Province (Cambodia). A timber processing facility and depot within the Sal Sophea Peanich economic land concession (8,645 hectares) that was issued in August 2005 as a rubber plantation. Satellite imagery reveals that clearing of a forested section adjacent to the depot started around October 2021. Image by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Calls grow to repurpose land squandered in Cambodia’s concession policy

Gerald Flynn 8 Nov 2023
Sun bear

Conservationists look to defy gloomy outlook for Borneo’s sun bears

Carolyn Cowan 31 Oct 2023

Report alleges APP continues deforestation 10 years after pledge to stop

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Oct 2023
The Iriomote cat (Prionailurus bengalensis iriomotensi).

Meet Japan’s Iriomote and Tsushima cats: Ambassadors for island conservation

Annelise Giseburt 24 Oct 2023

Forest conservation ‘off-track’ to halt deforestation by 2030: New report

John Cannon 24 Oct 2023

Indonesia’s besieged Tesso Nilo National Park hit hard by yet more deforestation, satellites show

Morgan Erickson-Davis 19 Oct 2023
Mushrooms

Gone before we know them? Kew’s ‘State of the World’s Plants and Fungi’ report warns of extinctions

Liz Kimbrough 10 Oct 2023
Trees illegally cut down for firewood in the Zamay forest reserve by Nigerian refugees.

Cut down once again: Uncontrolled logging puts new Sahel reforestation projects at risk

Yannick Kenné, Sabré Na-Ideyam, Georges Messi 6 Oct 2023

Frogs in the pot: Two in five amphibian species at risk amid climate crisis

Liz Kimbrough 5 Oct 2023
Haze rising from an oil palm plantation and forest in Riau province.

‘Wasn’t us,’ fire-hit Indonesia claims as Malaysia chokes on poor air quality

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Oct 2023

Indonesian children locked out of school as El Niño haze chokes parts of Sumatra & Kalimantan

Mongabay Haze Beat 5 Oct 2023
An aerial view of a new road that leads from Think Biotech’s concession into the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary where illegal logging is taking place. Image by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Logging route cut into Cambodia’s Prey Lang from Think Biotech’s concession

Gerald Flynn, Andy Ball, Meng Kroypunlok 5 Oct 2023
A mother long-tailed macaque with her young

Habitat loss drove long-tailed macaques extinct in Bangladesh, experts say

Rafiqul Islam 29 Sep 2023
Representative image of smooth-coated otters.

First otter sighting in Nepal’s Chitwan park in two decades raises questions

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Sep 2023

Taking up the cause of red pandas: Q&A with actor and activist Dayahang Rai

Abhaya Raj Joshi 15 Sep 2023

The struggle to deter mining operations in a little-known biodiversity sanctuary in Brazil

Duda Menegassi for ((o))eco 11 Sep 2023
A female South American tapir (Tapirus terrestris).

Suriname’s tapirs: Conservation in the face of hunting and other threats

Priscilla Misiekaba-Kia 7 Sep 2023

Heart rate monitors to measure stress on maned wolves in Brazil’s Cerrado

Marielle van Uitert 30 Aug 2023
A Luzon tarictic hornbill.

Online trade in Philippine hornbills threatens birds and forests

Jhesset O. Enano 29 Aug 2023
Tachymenoides harrisonfordi

It had to be a snake: New species from Peru named after Harrison Ford

Liz Kimbrough 29 Aug 2023

Elephants invade as habitat loss soars in Nigerian forest reserve

Orji Sunday 21 Aug 2023
A sarus crane flies over an agricultural field.

Has the Buddha’s legacy in Nepal helped save sarus cranes?

Abhaya Raj Joshi 17 Aug 2023
A stream in a forest in Jambi.

In Sumatra’s Jambi, community forest managers fish to protect peatlands

Lili Rambe 2 Aug 2023
Gorillas in Cameroon.

Cameroon government again opens way for logging in Ebo Forest

Leocadia Bongben 1 Aug 2023
Bajo seafarer named Umar Pasandre has been quietly building a career as an influential environmental defender.

Sulawesi sea nomads who inspired Avatar movie chart new course saving forests

Sarjan Lahay 31 Jul 2023
The critically endangered dark sitana (Sitana fusca).

Nepal’s BP Highway threatens endemic, critically endangered lizard

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Jul 2023
The last pocket of forest in Botum Sakor National Park is threatened by new roads, some of which are demarcation boundaries for parcels of forested land that have been awarded to Cambodian senator and tycoon Ly Yong Phat's family. Photo by Gerald Flynn/Mongabay.

Cambodia awards swath of national park forest to tycoon Ly Yong Phat’s son

Gerald Flynn, Meng Kroypunlok 26 Jul 2023

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