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Report: Illegal Russian lumber flooded Europe despite timber laws

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2020

Papua sawmill loses legal timber stamp over allegations of permit forgery

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Dec 2020

Madagascar moves to reopen domestic trade in non-precious timber

Rivonala Razafison 30 Nov 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

Company investigated for timber trafficking gets stimulus from Peru government

Yvette Sierra Praeli 25 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

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

Sounding the alarm about illegal logging? There’s an app for that

Liz Kimbrough 17 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

Ikea using illegally sourced wood from Ukraine, campaigners say

Ashoka Mukpo 29 Jun 2020

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

Kimberley Brown 26 Jun 2020

38 endangered Brazilian tree species legally traded, poorly tracked: Study

Jenny Gonzales 18 Jun 2020

Amazon deforestation gig economy booms despite COVID-19 (Photo Essay)

Fábio Nascimento (photos) and Gustavo Faleiros (text) 3 Jun 2020
Teak decking on a luxury yacht at the London Boat Show, January 2018. Photo by Sophie Cohen/Mongabay.

Investigation exposes European firms exploiting loophole to import Myanmar teak

Mongabay.com 28 May 2020

Indonesia drops panned plan to scrap legality license for wood exports

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 May 2020

‘They never intended to conserve it’: Outcry as loggers gut Cambodian reserve

Andrew Nachemson 13 May 2020

Brazil sacks officials who curbed deforestation on Amazon indigenous lands

Jenny Gonzales 5 May 2020

Indonesia risks timber trade with EU after scrapping license rules

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Mar 2020

Ending illegal deforestation is good for our health (commentary)

Kerstin Canby 27 Mar 2020

Indonesia ends timber legality rule, stoking fears of illegal logging boom

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Mar 2020

Goldman Prize-winning Cambodian activist arrested, released in Cambodia

Lauren Crothers 24 Mar 2020

Brazil drastically reduces controls over suspicious Amazon timber exports

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 11 Mar 2020
In 2015, the largest seizure of Peruvian timber was made in the Yacu Kallpa vessel. Photo courtesy of the Environmental Research Agency (EIA).

California lawmakers introduce legislation to fight tropical deforestation

Ashoka Mukpo 24 Feb 2020
Nyonié savannaah, Gabon. Image by Christian Vigna via Wikicommons (CC BY-NC-4.0)

Eco-tourism isn’t enough to develop a country: Q&A with Gabon’s environment minister, Lee White

Matthew Hatthingh 10 Feb 2020

Brazil’s Bolsonaro creates Amazon Council and Environmental Police force

Jan Rocha 24 Jan 2020
Experts fear that international markets will close their doors to Peru due to illegal timber. Photo courtesy of the Environmental Research Agency (EIA).

U.S. lumber company found importing high-risk Peruvian timber

Michael Tatarski 23 Jan 2020

‘Tainted timber’ from Myanmar widely used in yachts seized in the Netherlands

Malavika Vyawahare 25 Dec 2019

Enforce Brazilian laws to curb criminal Amazon deforestation: study

Karla Mendes and Elisângela Mendonça 4 Nov 2019

Research points to low forensic capacity to tackle timber fraud in U.S.

John Cannon 4 Nov 2019

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