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Does forest certification really work?

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Sep 2017

US retailers halt sales of hardwood flooring linked to illegal logging in PNG

Mike Gaworecki 1 Aug 2017

Brazil’s Temer threatens constitutional indigenous land rights

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 1 Aug 2017

Leaked terms of huge EU-Japan trade deal spark environmental alarm

Morgan Erickson-Davis 29 Jun 2017

International illegal logging conference touches on myriad issues

Genevieve Belmaker 29 Jun 2017

Norway vexed as Brazil sends mixed message on Amazon forest protection

Jenny Gonzales 27 Jun 2017

Brazil on verge of legitimizing Amazon land theft on a grand scale, warn NGOs

Mauricio Torres and Isabel Harari, Sue Branford 15 Jun 2017
A sign directs logging trucks to timber depots set up along the Vietnamese border with Cambodia. Photo courtesy of EIA.

Vietnam pledges to investigate massive illegal logging violations as international pressure grows

Michael Tatarski 31 May 2017
Arevs in O'Tabok, Virachey National Park, Cambodia Feb 2017. Photo courtesy of EIA.

New report details enormous corruption, illegal logging along Vietnamese border with Cambodia

Michael Tatarski 8 May 2017
A villager from Mahu cuts down a tree using a midsize chainsaw. A chainsaw can cut down a tree four times faster than an axe and handsaw. Photo by Ann Wang for Mongabay.

A fight to control chainsaws in Myanmar could turn the tide on illegal logging

Ann Wang, Genevieve Belmaker 4 May 2017
Diademed Sifaka (Propithecus diadema), a species threatened by the Madagascar rosewood trade. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Singapore convicts rosewood trader in historic CITES seizure

Edward Carver 26 Apr 2017

Denmark prohibits companies from selling Myanmar teak on European Union markets

Mike Gaworecki 20 Mar 2017

Current regulations unable to control trade in products from slave labor, expert says

Ana Aranha and João Diaz - Repórter Brasil 13 Mar 2017

Suppliers of Lowe’s in the US and Walmart in Brazil linked to slave labor in the Amazon

André Campos - Repórter Brasil 13 Mar 2017

Slave labor in the Amazon: Risking lives to cut down the rainforest

Tania Caliari and Ana Aranha - Repórter Brasil 13 Mar 2017

Investigation reveals slave labor conditions in Brazil’s timber industry

Thais Lazzeri - Repórter Brasil 13 Mar 2017

Study finds more than 350k trees illegally felled in Madagascar’s protected areas in five-year span

Mike Gaworecki 23 Feb 2017
A chainsaw cuts through a tree. Photo by Mark Franckart/Pixabay

Chain saw injuries in Myanmar tied to illegal logging

Poppy McPherson 12 Feb 2017
Carved rosewood furniture. Photo by Jane Tan Kok/Pixabay

Vietnamese luxury wooden furniture makers feel pain of regulations and deforestation

Michael Tatarski 26 Jan 2017

Smuggled to death: how loopholes and lax enforcement have sealed the fate of Siamese rosewood

Demelza Stokes 5 Jan 2017

No let-up in Thailand’s relentless, violent Siamese rosewood poaching

Demelza Stokes 4 Jan 2017
The front page of Daily Eleven in Yangon, Myanmar the day after the murder of one of its reporters. Photo by Ann Wang for Mongabay

Attacks on journalists in Myanmar highlight complications, dangers for the media

Mongabay.com 15 Dec 2016

Interpol says corruption in global forestry sector worth $29 billion every year

Mike Gaworecki 9 Dec 2016
An Amazon rainforest tree in Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Peru pledges tougher stance against illegal timber

Joseph Charpentier 5 Dec 2016
Indawgyi Lake in Kachin State, Myanmar. Photo by Brent Crane

Illegal logging ‘ravaging’ Myanmar’s Indawgyi Lake Wildlife Reserve

Brent Crane 16 Nov 2016

Sweden sets legal precedent with prosecution of Myanmar teak trader

Mike Gaworecki 15 Nov 2016
A cook fries potato chips using charcoal at the Salama Guest House on the Kenyan side of Namanga. Photo by Nathan Siegel

In a border town, a favorite African fuel has an uncertain future

Nathan Siegel 3 Nov 2016
Wood workers at a shop in Mandalay, Myanmar. Many shops use illegally-sourced wood. Photo by David Doyle

Myanmar’s logging ban feeds shadow economy of illegal trade

David Doyle 1 Nov 2016
Piles of confiscated wood can be seen surrounding the Forestry department’s office at Bogale in Ayeyarwady Division. Photo by Ann Wang

In Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta, a rapidly disintegrating mangrove forest

Ann Wang 22 Oct 2016

Papua New Guinea activist receives prestigious award for protecting forests

Mike Gaworecki 18 Oct 2016
Villagers in Tanzania use mobile monitoring to keep an eye on the forests. Photo courtesy USAID Africa

Despite conservation efforts, Tanzania’s forests still under pressure

Sophie Tremblay, Willy Lowry 7 Oct 2016

Victory for forests: Rosewood gets enhanced protection at wildlife summit

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Oct 2016

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