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Industrial agriculture threatens a wetland oasis in Bolivia

Gustavo Jiménez Gonzáles 30 Dec 2020

Illegal deforestation rises in South America’s Indigenous territories, parks

Vanessa Romo 29 Dec 2020
The Amazon near Manaus, Brazil. Image by Neil Palmer/CIAT via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Soy moratorium averted New Jersey-size loss of Amazon rainforest: Study

John Cannon 23 Dec 2020
Deforestation on the United Cacao plantation in 2013. Photo by Leoncio Ramirez via Panoramio.

Peruvian court absolves cacao company of illegal Amazon deforestation after “lobbying effort”

Mongabay.com 18 Dec 2020

Brazilian woman threatened by Amazon loggers wins global human rights award

Thais Borges and Mauricio Torres 18 Dec 2020

Report: Illegal Russian lumber flooded Europe despite timber laws

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2020

Brazil scientists map forest regrowth keeping Amazon from collapse: Study

Shanna Hanbury 15 Dec 2020

Papua sawmill loses legal timber stamp over allegations of permit forgery

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Dec 2020

New snail subspecies with ‘upside down shell’ found in last green frontier east of Manila

Mongabay.com 1 Dec 2020

Madagascar moves to reopen domestic trade in non-precious timber

Rivonala Razafison 30 Nov 2020

Fueled by impunity, invasions surge in Brazil’s Indigenous lands

Ana Ionova 25 Nov 2020

Peru prosecutors probe Amazon deforestation linked to Mennonite communities

Yvette Sierra Praeli 6 Nov 2020
Firewood is being used on a large scale in Kafountine at the fish smoking factories. ©Jason Florio/United Purpose.

Chinese demand and domestic instability are wiping out Senegal’s last forests

Louise Hunt 5 Nov 2020

IPBES report details path to exit current ‘pandemic era’

John Cannon 30 Oct 2020
An uncontacted tribe in the Brazilian Amazon photographed in . © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI.

2020 fires endangering uncontacted Amazon Indigenous groups

Liz Kimbrough 28 Oct 2020

Deforestation threatens to wipe out a primate melting pot in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Oct 2020

Mining covers more than 20% of Indigenous territory in the Amazon

John Cannon 9 Oct 2020

The Amazon savanna? Rainforest teeters on the brink as climate heats up

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2020

Forest degradation outpaces deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Study

Claire Asher 5 Oct 2020

Solomon Islands environmental defender faces life sentence for arson charge

Louise Hunt 18 Sep 2020
Chainsawing wood. Image by Mike Smith via Wikimedia Commons (CC 2.0).

Threatened species caught in crossfire of ongoing land conflict in Myanmar

Aimee Gabay 10 Sep 2020

‘Tamper with nature, and everyone suffers’: Q&A with ecologist Enric Sala

John Cannon 4 Sep 2020
A rotating blade used for small-scale wood-processing. Photo by Chris Humphrey for Mongabay.

Under cover of COVID-19, loggers plunder Cambodian wildlife sanctuary

Kit Humphrey 31 Aug 2020
Hotspot directly in the forest, next to a freshly deforested area in Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso state. © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Bleak milestone: 500 major fires detected in Brazilian Amazon this year

Liz Kimbrough 26 Aug 2020
a tree fern savanna in the Cromwell Mountains of Papua New Guinea courtesy of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Study revealing New Guinea’s plant life ‘first step’ toward protection

John Cannon 25 Aug 2020

Company investigated for timber trafficking gets stimulus from Peru government

Yvette Sierra Praeli 25 Aug 2020

New road cutting into Manu Biosphere Reserve in Peruvian Amazon sparks debate, fears and a film

Mongabay.com 20 Aug 2020

Indigenous best Amazon stewards, but only when property rights assured: Study

Sue Branford 17 Aug 2020
Hotspot directly in the forest, next to a freshly deforested area, with Deter warning, in Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso state. © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

More than 260 major, mostly illegal Amazon fires detected since late May

Liz Kimbrough 13 Aug 2020

Illegal plant trade, tourism threaten new Philippine flowering herbs

Keith Anthony Fabro 13 Aug 2020

Understaffed and under threat: Paraguay’s park rangers pay the ultimate price

Aldo Benítez 5 Aug 2020

No choice: Why communities in Paraguay are cutting down forests to survive

Aldo Benítez 31 Jul 2020

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