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Rainforest, reef, and ocean on Maratua Island, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesia zoning plan hurts fishers, favors coal and oil, activists say

Basten Gokkon 4 Dec 2019

‘Everything is dying’: Q&A with Brazilian indigenous leader Alessandra Munduruku

Camila Nobrega 27 Nov 2019

Brazil investigates agribusiness bribes to judges for favorable land rulings

Maurício Angelo 27 Nov 2019

Watchdog denounces arrests of four anti-mining activists in Indonesia

Basten Gokkon 26 Nov 2019

Brazil sugarcane growth can meet biofuel need and not drive deforestation: study

Claire Asher 25 Nov 2019

Brazil works behind scene to greenlight Manaus-Boa Vista transmission line

Caio de Freitas Paes 20 Nov 2019

Sugarcane threatens Amazon forest and world climate; Brazilian ethanol is not clean (commentary)

Lucas Ferrante, Philip M. Fearnside 18 Nov 2019

Rapid expansion of protected areas around the world failing to reduce human pressures on land

Mongabay.com 14 Nov 2019

Brazil adds deforestation monitoring for all biomes, so long as money lasts

Jenny Gonzales 14 Nov 2019

Brazil’s ‘coconut breakers’ feel the squeeze of Cerrado development

Sarah Sax, Maurício Angelo 12 Nov 2019

New honeyeater species described from Indonesia’s Alor Island

Basten Gokkon 12 Nov 2019

FSC report on palm giant Korindo lists litany of violations, even with redactions

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Nov 2019

Enforce Brazilian laws to curb criminal Amazon deforestation: study

Karla Mendes, Elisângela Mendonça 4 Nov 2019

Indonesia protests: Land bill at center of unrest

Basten Gokkon, Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Nov 2019

Indigenous and riverine communities unite to fight Amazon invaders

Thais Borges, Sue Branford 29 Oct 2019

As Bolsonaro meets with Xi, China silent on Brazil environmental crisis

Shanna Hanbury 28 Oct 2019

As 2019 Amazon fires die down, Brazilian deforestation roars ahead

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 23 Oct 2019

Eight species, including Tapanuli orangutan, make first appearance on list of most endangered primates

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2019

Vatican calls landmark meeting to conserve Amazon, protect indigenous peoples

Justin Catanoso 4 Oct 2019

Brazilian beef industry plays outsized role in tropical carbon emissions: report

Zoe Sullivan 3 Oct 2019

Restoring Sumatra’s Leuser Ecosystem, one small farm at a time

Junaidi Hanafiah 30 Sep 2019

Prompted by Amazon fires, 230 investors warn firms linked to deforestation

Sue Branford 23 Sep 2019

Bolsonaro’s Brazil unlikely to achieve Paris Agreement goals: experts

Elisângela Mendonça 22 Sep 2019
Silhouette of man standing by oil palm tree on a plantation still belonging to local residents in Malen Chiefdom in Pujehun district of Sierra Leone, West Africa.

Industrial palm oil investors struggle to gain foothold in Africa

Ashoka Mukpo 20 Sep 2019

A Papuan village finds its forest caught in a web of corporate secrecy

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 16 Sep 2019

Facing a possible Climate Apocalypse: How should we live? (commentary)

Glenn Scherer 15 Sep 2019

Expand or Intensify? Balancing biodiversity and rising food needs: study

Liz Kimbrough 13 Sep 2019

On an island coveted by miners, villagers prepare to raise a ruckus

Ian Morse 13 Sep 2019

Private sector could play outsized role in Cerrado conservation: study

Sarah Sax 9 Sep 2019

State governors support Bolsonaro’s Amazon mining, agribusiness plans

Jenny Gonzales 9 Sep 2019

Amazon deforestation and development heighten Amazon fire risk: study

Sarah Sax 6 Sep 2019

New report reveals northern Ecuadorian region has lost 61 percent of forests

Antonio José Paz Cardona 4 Sep 2019

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