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Sumatra’s dwindling forests face extra pressure from a major highway project

Amazon’s giant South American river turtle holding its own, but risks abound

‘A crisis situation’: Extinctions loom as forests are erased in Mozambique

World is fast losing its cool: Polar regions in deep trouble, say scientists

‘Everything is dying’: Q&A with Brazilian indigenous leader Alessandra Munduruku

Guyana refutes findings that deforestation skyrocketed after REDD+ payments stopped

Researchers urge sustainability as palm oil tightens its grip on Latin America

Rabbit-sized, deer-like species of fanged ungulate rediscovered in Vietnam

Conserving wildlife is key to tropical forests’ carbon storage, study finds

‘Timebomb’: Fires devastate tiger and elephant habitat in Sumatra

Mexico plans huge increase in palm oil production in sensitive ecosystems

Colombian town faces earthquakes, pollution, water shortage as industry expands

Makers of Oreos, KitKats among brands linked to Indonesia forest fires

Saving the Gran Chaco: Conservationists demand protection before it’s too late

RSPO questions effectiveness of Indonesian palm plantation moratorium

Debate rages over intensive oil palm farming in Gabon

Enough is too much: The growing case for investors to drop Golden Agri-Resources (commentary)

Controversial dam gets green light to flood a Philippine protected area

A Sumatran forest community braces for battle against a planned coal mine

Indigenous communities ‘robbed’ as land grabbers lay waste to Brazilian rainforest

Bonobo conservation stymied by deforestation, human rights abuses

New flowerpecker species discovered in imperiled lowland forests of Borneo

Peru: Gold mine operating without license destroys primary forest in protected area

‘Bring it on,’ EU MP says of trade fight over palm biofuel phase-out

‘Witnessing extinction in the flames’ as the Amazon burns for agribusiness

Eight species, including Tapanuli orangutan, make first appearance on list of most endangered primates

Demand for charcoal threatens the forest of Madagascar’s last hunter-gatherers

Finally, Latin America is tackling wildlife trafficking (commentary)

The climate crisis and the pain of losing what we love (commentary)

Wilderness cuts the risk of extinction for species in half

Gran Chaco: South America’s second-largest forest at risk of collapsing

Indigenous communities, wildlife under threat as farms invade Nicaraguan reserve

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