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Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesian Supreme Court strikes down regulation on peat protection

Hans Nicholas Jong, Lusia Arumingtyas 2 Nov 2017
A forestry department ground inspection team checks the timber to be exported and monitors con-tainer loading at the site before sealing the container. Photo by Ann Wang for Mongabay.

Myanmar struggles to fight the crimes of illegal logging

Ann Wang 1 Nov 2017
A car of seized rosewood close to Yu Pu check point. The driver have heard rumors have an active check point so left the car at a nearby restaurant and disappeared before the officers arrived. Photo by Ann Wang for Mongabay.

Checkpoint China: The shadowy world of timber smuggling

Ann Wang 31 Oct 2017

As Grauer’s gorillas cling to survival, new population found

Sharon Guynup 26 Oct 2017

Estonia’s trees: Valued resource or squandered second chance?

Rachel Fritts 20 Oct 2017

The Philippines commits to science-anchored fishery policies

Mongabay.com 20 Oct 2017

Grasberg mine’s riches still a distant glitter for Papuan communities

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Oct 2017

Lawsuits test local governments’ ability to clean up Indonesia’s coal mining sector

Taufik Wijaya 27 Sep 2017

Ecologist wins Heinz environment prize for airborne mapping that informs policy

Mongabay.com 14 Sep 2017

Why we can’t lose hope: Dr. David Suzuki speaks out

Glenn Scherer 11 Sep 2017

Indonesia sues Thai energy giant PTT for $2B over 2009 oil spill

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 11 Jul 2017

African great ape bushmeat crisis intensifies; few solutions in sight

Sharon Guynup 7 Jul 2017

Is Brazil’s Forest Code failing to reduce deforestation?

John Cannon 6 Jul 2017

New York detective work saves rhinos in South Africa (commentary)

Axel Hunnicutt 2 Jun 2017

Who owns Indonesia’s deadly abandoned coal mines?

Tommy Apriando 25 May 2017

Coal miners owe the Indonesian government hundreds of millions of dollars

Mongabay.com 8 May 2017

Great apes in Asian circus-style shows on rise — so is trafficking

Millie Kerr 12 Apr 2017

Illegal bushmeat trade threatens human health and great apes

Claire Asher 6 Apr 2017

El Salvador becomes first country to ban metals mining

Sandra Cuffe 30 Mar 2017

Communities conserving local forest in El Salvador vote to ban mining

Sandra Cuffe 28 Mar 2017

“Endangered species to declare?” Europe’s understudied bushmeat trade

Sean Mowbray 20 Mar 2017

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

Ana Aranha, João Diaz, from 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

New bill aims to cut protection of 1M hectares of Brazilian rainforest

Benji Jones 10 Mar 2017

Proposed Trump policy threatens Critically Endangered Grauer’s gorilla

Sharon Guynup 21 Feb 2017

Public criticism forces U.S. congressman to back off public land disposal bill

Mongabay.com 9 Feb 2017

Trade in skulls, body parts severely threatens Cameroon’s great apes

Eugene N. Nforngwa 19 Jan 2017

Pileated gibbons poached as bushmeat to feed illegal rosewood loggers

Demelza Stokes 17 Jan 2017

Great apes and greater challenges: Trafficking in Cameroon

Sean Mowbray 12 Jan 2017

Nature’s right to exist gets a boost from key organizations

Mike Gaworecki 13 Oct 2016

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