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Newly established oil palm plantation in Central Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

81% of Indonesia’s oil palm plantations flouting regulations, audit finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Aug 2019

Indigenous communities, nat’l parks suffer as Malaysia razes its reserves

Kit Humphrey 23 Aug 2019

The Pan Borneo Highway brings wildlife threats to nat’l park doorstep

John Cannon 21 Aug 2019

Asian elephant footprints serve as safe spaces for frog nurseries

Nanticha Ocharoenchai 16 Aug 2019

Indonesia forest-clearing ban is made permanent, but labeled ‘propaganda’

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Aug 2019

Rainforest destruction accelerates in Honduras UNESCO site

Taran Volckhausen 13 Aug 2019

Haze from fires, Indonesia’s national ‘embarrassment,’ are back

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Aug 2019

Logging, mining companies lock eyes on a biodiverse island like no other

Gianluca Cerullo 31 Jul 2019

Study shows how to protect more species for less money in western Amazon

Liz Kimbrough 31 Jul 2019
Timber at the port of Antwerp. Photo: Philippe Verbelen/Greenpeace

Gabonese timber linked to illegal logging seized in Antwerp

Jim Tan 25 Jul 2019
Rainforest at Tampolo on the Masoala Peninsula, Madagascar. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

We are planting trees everywhere: Q&A with Madagascar’s environment minister

Malavika Vyawahare 17 Jul 2019

Experts deny alleged manipulation of Amazon satellite deforestation data

Karla Mendes 16 Jul 2019

Colombia registers first drop in deforestation since 2016 FARC peace deal

Taran Volckhausen 15 Jul 2019
Fishers on an artificial reef in Jiquilisco Bay. Image by Max Radwin for Mongabay.

Bringing back the fish: Q&A with a repentant blast fisherman

Maxwell Radwin 15 Jul 2019
Luis Gonzalez Benitez lost an arm while blast fishing and now splits his time between using nets and line fishing on the reef. Image by Max Radwin for Mongabay.

Salvadoran fishermen ditch blast fishing for artificial reefs

Maxwell Radwin 10 Jul 2019
Camera trap photo of a chimpanzee with mangoes.

Chimps in Sierra Leone adapt to human-impacted habitats, but threats remain

Ini Ekott 10 Jul 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

Two studies provide dueling looks at where trees should go

Gabriel Popkin 4 Jul 2019

Saving Guatemala’s vanishing macaws: Q&A with veterinarian Luis Fernando Guerra

Maxwell Radwin 27 Jun 2019
A mantis nymph found at a seedling nursery outside Gunung Palung National Park in Borneo, Indonesia. Image by Timothy Treuer.

Mongabay investigative series helps confirm global insect decline

Jeremy Hance 24 Jun 2019

Fire, cattle, cocaine: Deforestation spikes in Guatemalan national park

Maxwell Radwin 21 Jun 2019

At least one species has been lost on more than half of Earth’s land area

Mongabay.com 18 Jun 2019

Deforested areas bleed heat to nearby forests, drive local extinctions

Malavika Vyawahare 17 Jun 2019

Despite a decade of zero-deforestation vows, forest loss continues: Greenpeace

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jun 2019

How to save insects and ourselves

Jeremy Hance 13 Jun 2019
A tiny sampling of tropical beetle diversity displayed at the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. Image by H. Zell/CC 3.0.

The tropics in trouble and some hope

Jeremy Hance 10 Jun 2019
Peat forest clearing in Indonesian Borneo in June 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesian ban on clearing new swaths of forest to be made permanent

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jun 2019

Vanishing act in Europe and North America

Jeremy Hance 6 Jun 2019
A venomous snake in the DRC. Photo by Hugh Kinsella Cunningham.

Congo’s hidden crisis: Snakebites and envenomation

Hugh Kinsella Cunningham 5 Jun 2019

A global look at a deepening crisis

Jeremy Hance 3 Jun 2019

Land grabbing, cattle ranching ravage Colombian Amazon after FARC demobilization

Taran Volckhausen 30 May 2019

A forest beset by oil palms, logging, now contends with a coal-trucking road

Elviza Diana 28 May 2019

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