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Brazil drastically reduces controls over suspicious Amazon timber exports

Thais Borges, Sue Branford 11 Mar 2020

US economy will take biggest hit if we continue with business as usual: report

Mongabay.com 10 Mar 2020

Conservationists cautiously optimistic after Bolivian government changes hands

Yvette Sierra Praeli 9 Mar 2020

Some lions adapted to hunting in water, and that’s important for conservationists to understand (commentary)

Simon Dures 9 Mar 2020

Oil and gas project threatens Brazil’s last great block of Amazon forest (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 9 Mar 2020

Predators disproportionately impacted by human land use changes, study finds

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2020

Fallout: Threatened species in Australia continue to struggle after fires

Nick Rodway 28 Feb 2020

Unsung Species: One of Earth’s rarest land mammals clings to a hopeful future (commentary)

Joel Berger, Alejandro Vila, Cristobal Briceño 28 Feb 2020

Raze here, save there: Do biodiversity offsets work for people or ecosystems?

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Feb 2020

‘Out of control’: Unprecedented fires ravage Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands

Ana Ionova 27 Feb 2020

‘Intense’ human pressure is widespread among terrestrial vertebrates, study finds

Mongabay.com 27 Feb 2020

On anniversary of nun’s murder Amazon land rights activists at high risk

Sam Cowie 27 Feb 2020

Bolivia and Paraguay unite to protect critically endangered guanacos

Yvette Sierra Praeli 26 Feb 2020

Amazon Tipping Point puts Brazil’s agribusiness, energy sector at risk: Top scientists

Shanna Hanbury 24 Feb 2020

Study finds new population of rare deer — but in Brazil’s Arc of Deforestation

Aimee Gabay 19 Feb 2020

Burning and bullets: Forest fires push Bornean orangutans into harm’s way

Aseanty Pahlevi 18 Feb 2020

For Sri Lanka’s pangolins, forests are ideal — but rubber farms will do too

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 15 Feb 2020

Massacre in Nicaragua: Four indigenous community members killed for their land

Taran Volckhausen 14 Feb 2020

Private firms will pay soy farmers not to deforest Brazil’s Cerrado

Sarah Sax 11 Feb 2020
Nyonié savannaah, Gabon. Image by Christian Vigna via Wikicommons (CC BY-NC-4.0)

Eco-tourism isn’t enough to develop a country: Q&A with Gabon’s environment minister, Lee White

Matthew Hattingh 10 Feb 2020

Rare trees are disappearing as ‘wood pirates’ log Bolivian national parks

Eduardo Franco Berton 29 Jan 2020

Severe drought and other climate impacts are driving the platypus towards extinction

Mongabay.com 29 Jan 2020

Our growing footprint, wildlife extinctions, and the importance of contraception (commentary)

Sarah Baillie 28 Jan 2020

Vale has filed hundreds of requests to exploit indigenous lands in Amazon

Maurício Angelo 27 Jan 2020

A national park takes shape in Argentina as the forest disappears

Rodolfo Chisleanschi 17 Jan 2020

A new dawn: The story of deforestation in the next decade must be different to the last (commentary)

Bastien Sachet 16 Jan 2020

Colombia’s ‘Heart of the World’: Mining, megaprojects overrun indigenous land

Taran Volckhausen 15 Jan 2020

One six-week expedition discovered ten new songbird species and subspecies in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 13 Jan 2020
Oil palm plantation in West Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Activists seek purge after Indonesia court rules forest plantations illegal

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jan 2020

Communities in Ecuador fight back against palm oil

Alejandro Pérez 3 Jan 2020

Bolsonaro’s Brazil: 2020 could see revived Amazon mining assault — part two

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 31 Dec 2019

Illegal tin mining leaves trail of ruin in protected Brazilian rainforest

Ana Ionova 30 Dec 2019

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