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Cattle ranching devours Nicaragua’s Bosawás Biosphere Reserve

Michelle Carrere 10 Mar 2017

Amazon Soy Moratorium: defeating deforestation or greenwash diversion?

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 8 Mar 2017

Where the forest grants went

Harriet Williams 6 Mar 2017

A Bornean village conserves a forest the government listed for cutting

Indra Nugraha 2 Mar 2017

Kalaodi, Tidore’s eco-village in Indonesia’s spice capital

M Rahmat Ulhaz 28 Feb 2017

The changing face of Amazon development: from land grab to eco-lodge

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 23 Feb 2017

Forced evictions along Jakarta waterway a liability for Ahok as governor’s race nears finish line

Edith Koesoemawiria 13 Feb 2017

Jokowi grants first-ever indigenous land rights to 9 communities

Mongabay.com 4 Jan 2017

How tropical deforestation and land-use change is driving emerging infectious diseases

Mike Gaworecki 20 Dec 2016

Indonesian court shuts down legal challenge to Aceh land-use plan

Mongabay.com 29 Nov 2016

Land-use change and management failures in China lead to significant amounts of carbon emissions: Study

Mike Gaworecki 23 Nov 2016

Pledging to reduce emissions while expanding its power grid, Indonesia walks a fine line

Melati Kaye 28 Oct 2016

Mother Nature and a hydropower onslaught aren’t the Mekong Delta’s only problems

David E. Brown 13 Oct 2016
Blue color form of Dendrobates auratus dart frog. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

10 conservation “fads”: how have they worked in Latin America?

Aldo Orellana López, Alan Forsberg 17 Jun 2016
La Danta pyramid in the Mayan city of Mirador, as seen from a distance. Photo by Ronyrocael/Wikimedia Commons.

Controversial park plans in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve

Sandra Cuffe 17 Jun 2016
Marta Álvarez inspects xate palm fronds harvested in the Uaxactún community forest concession. Photo by Sandra Cuffe.

Communities lead the way in rainforest conservation in Guatemala

Sandra Cuffe 9 Jun 2016

Indonesia’s Salim Group linked to ‘secret’ palm oil concessions in West Papua

Daniel Pye 3 Jun 2016

Successes and many challenges in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve

Sandra Cuffe 2 Jun 2016

Indonesia’s forestry ministry follows through on palm oil permit freeze

Mongabay.com 23 May 2016

World Bank lifts freeze on Cambodia loans amid protests

Daniel Pye 20 May 2016

New study finds insufficient degraded land for further strong oil palm expansion in Kalimantan

Azarja Harmanny 5 Apr 2016

Released: 1,000-page encyclopedia on land conflicts affecting indigenous tribes

Mongabay.com 17 Mar 2016
Peatlands cleared for a plantation in Riau Province in 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Team of 6: the leadership of Indonesia’s peatlands restoration agency is now in place

Sapariah Saturi 23 Feb 2016

Republic of Congo awards two million hectares of timber concessions

John Cannon 11 Feb 2016

In the rush to reforest, are the world’s old-growth grasslands losing out?

Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Feb 2016

Imperiled Amazon freshwater ecosystems urgently need basin-wide study, management

Claire Salisbury 1 Feb 2016

Deforestation increasing cases of ‘monkey malaria’ in humans, study says

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jan 2016

Will Uganda be able to fulfill its pledge to protect its forests?

Arnest Tumwesige 6 Jan 2016

A Dayak village campaigns for rights to its forests

Aseanty Pahlevi 8 Oct 2015

Nine months in, how has Jokowi fared on the environment?

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2015

Land redistribution in Zimbabwe threatens wildlife and human populations

Brittany Stewart 29 Apr 2015

EU votes to scale back on biofuels linked to deforestation

Jeremy Hance 28 Apr 2015

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