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The Hungry Mills: How palm oil mills drive deforestation (commentary)

Rob McWilliam 12 Mar 2021

When a tree falls in the forest, it’s the birds that don’t make a sound, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Mar 2021

Conservation actions see Iberian lynx claw back from brink of extinction

Johan Augustin 12 Mar 2021
Greater bamboo lemur (Prolemur simus). Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Slash-and-burn farming eats away at a Madagascar haven for endangered lemurs, frogs

Edward Carver 9 Mar 2021

A million hectares of Papuan forest licensed for clearing, report shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Mar 2021

The singing apes of Sumatra need rescuing, too (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 3 Mar 2021

Papua deforestation highlights eastward shift of Indonesia forest clearing

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Mar 2021
A Bornean orangutan. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

Forest patches amid agriculture are key to orangutan survival: Study

John Cannon 26 Feb 2021
Drone image of alleged clearing for luxury residential estates in Bokor National Park. Image courtesy of Mother Nature Cambodia.

‘A disgrace’: Luxury housing plans threaten Cambodia’s Bokor National Park

Kit Humphrey 25 Feb 2021

As Amazon forest-to-savanna tipping point looms, solutions remain elusive

Shanna Hanbury 23 Feb 2021

Gold and diamonds fail to shine as drivers of Amazon development

Maurício Angelo 22 Feb 2021

Study highlights ‘terrible’ signs of species decline from wildlife trade

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Feb 2021

European public roundly rejects Brazil trade deal unless Amazon protected

Jenny Gonzales 16 Feb 2021

Cat corridors between protected areas is key to survival of Cerrado’s jaguars

Romi Castagnino 16 Feb 2021
black-tailed godwits (Limosa limosa) in a fight for their territory in Mangalajodi Wetlands (Chilika - Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention), Odisha, India. By Arijit Mondal via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Researchers urge better protection as wetlands continue to vanish

Morgan Erickson-Davis 13 Feb 2021

Nearly one-third of all oak species threatened with extinction, report says

Liz Kimbrough 12 Feb 2021
Two babirusa fighting in Indonesia. Image by Meldy Tamenge, edited by Cart, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Southeast Asian wild pigs confront deadly African swine fever epidemic

John Cannon 12 Feb 2021

As the Amazon unravels into savanna, its wildlife will also suffer

Luís Patriani 10 Feb 2021

As nature declines, so does human quality of life, study finds

Ashoka Mukpo 9 Feb 2021

Myanmar’s troubled forestry sector seeks global endorsement after coup

Mongabay.com 8 Feb 2021

Cambodian environmental activists reportedly arrested

Mongabay 5 Feb 2021
Thylacines, male and female in the National Zoo Washington D.C.

Study suggests the Tasmanian tiger survived into the 21st century

James Fair 4 Feb 2021

‘Race against time’: Saving the snakes and lizards of Brazil’s Cerrado

Sharon Guynup 2 Feb 2021

Brazil guts agencies, ‘sabotaging environmental protection’ in Amazon: Report

Sue Branford, Thais Borges 1 Feb 2021
A fire in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler.

The Amazon lost an area of primary forest larger than Israel in 2020, new analysis finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Jan 2021

Lasers find forest gaps to aid tree mortality studies in Brazilian Amazon

Liz Kimbrough 26 Jan 2021

Smallholder agriculture cuts into key Sumatran tiger habitat

Rachel Fritts 26 Jan 2021
shiny green beetle

Death by 1,000 cuts: Are major insect losses imperiling life on Earth?

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jan 2021
rice field by Rhett Butler/Mongabay.

6% of Earth’s protected land is used to grow crops, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Jan 2021

Papua tribe moves to block clearing of its ancestral forest for palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Jan 2021

Pet trade relies on ‘disposable’ wild chameleons from Madagascar

Chris Scarffe 20 Jan 2021
Photo by the members of the community of Santa Martha.

Indigenous Cacataibo of Peru threatened by land grabbing and drug trade

Enrique Vera 15 Jan 2021

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