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

Mongabay.com 1 Dec 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

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

‘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

Chris 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

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

Double blow to Colombian Amazon and Indigenous groups from armed militants, COVID-19

Dimitri Selibas 31 Jul 2020

Marijuana farms expand in Paraguay reserve despite gov’t crackdowns

Aldo Benítez 27 Jul 2020
Cattle at one of the 70,000 suppliers used by JBS, one of Brazil's largest beef producers. Photo courtesy of JBS

Investigation links meat giant JBS to Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 27 Jul 2020

Protected areas in Paraguay hit hard by illegal marijuana farming

Aldo Benítez 22 Jul 2020

The U.N.’s grand plan to save forests hasn’t worked, but some still believe it can

CJ Clouse 14 Jul 2020
Sumatran elephants. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesia approves coal road project through forest that hosts tigers, elephants

Elviza Diana 13 Jul 2020

‘On the edge’: Endangered forest cleared for marijuana in Paraguay

Aldo Benítez 9 Jul 2020
Pardalis chameleon (Furcifer pardalis), a resident of the Masoala Peninsula in northeastern Madagascar, where illegal rosewood logging has taken a heavy toll on forests. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

COVID-19 lockdown precipitates deforestation across Asia and South America

James Fair 3 Jul 2020

EU and partner countries must protect gains in legal timber trade during COVID-19 (commentary)

Paolo Omar Cerutti 2 Jul 2020

Ikea using illegally sourced wood from Ukraine, campaigners say

Ashoka Mukpo 29 Jun 2020

‘Saving sun bears’: Q&A with book author Sarah Pye

John Cannon 29 Jun 2020

Court forces Ecuador government to protect Indigenous Waorani during COVID-19

Kimberley Brown 26 Jun 2020

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