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In the shadow of a metropolis, a community revives Java’s lost forests

Petrus Riski 16 Oct 2015

The village where a curse protects the forest

Indra Nugraha 15 Oct 2015

Illegal logging decimating birds in Ghana: ‘These numbers are shocking’

Jeremy Hance 14 Oct 2015

Plantation companies challenged by haze-causing fires in Indonesia

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Oct 2015

After the tsunami, a forest restored along a river in Aceh

Chik Rini 13 Oct 2015

Aceh citizens threaten lawsuit over spatial plan

Mongabay.com 12 Oct 2015

After years of struggle and bloodshed, Peruvian community wins back its land

Apoorva Joshi 9 Oct 2015

Lumber Liquidators pays $13.2M to end illegal logging probe

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2015

Alarm bells over Indonesia’s plan to reduce green timber certification

Sapariah Saturi 7 Oct 2015

Road creeps into Peru’s Sierra del Divisor as it awaits national park designation

John Cannon 2 Oct 2015

‘Catastrophic failure’: World’s indigenous communities lack rights to 75% of their land

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Oct 2015

‘Maybe that’s why there’s so many fires’: Was a peat swamp illegitimately stripped of protected status in Indonesia?

Jay Fajar, Sapariah Saturi 2 Oct 2015

Norway pledges $47M/yr to help Congo countries save forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Sep 2015

Can Liberia succeed in balancing palm oil with conservation?

Sara Jerving 29 Sep 2015
Armand Marozafy dismantling a poacher's trap within Masoala National Park in Madagascar in 2004. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Nature guide freed in Madagascar 5 months after arrest for exposing rosewood trade

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Sep 2015

Illegal timber trade destroying Myanmar’s forests uncovered in new report

Mike Gaworecki 18 Sep 2015

‘Measured in human lives’: report finds EU and logging companies complicit in funding war

John Cannon 15 Sep 2015

From conflict to partnership, a Kalimantan community and logging company manage the forest together

Indra Nugraha 15 Sep 2015

Big reserve expansion gives tigers a boost in Nepal

Morgan Erickson-Davis 11 Sep 2015
Illegal logging in Madagascar's Masoala Peninsula, a protected area where rosewood is commonly targeted

5 African countries agree to combat illegal timber trade

Mongabay.com 10 Sep 2015
Rainforest in Sabah, Malaysia. Malaysia has reported a steep increase in forest cover to FAO, a result of changing how it classifies forest cover.

U.N. data suggests slowdown in forest loss

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Sep 2015

Man starts record-breaking walk to protect one of the world’s rarest primates

Greg Norman 2 Sep 2015

Global forest loss reached 46 million acres in 2014

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2015

Sarawak pledges to protect its last remaining orangutans

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Sep 2015

INTERPOL rejects Malaysia’s request to place journalist on Red Notice list

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Aug 2015
Lowland rainforest in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Rainforests doomed unless world adopts ‘development without destruction’, warn scientists

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Aug 2015

Industrial concessions causing massive deforestation in Cambodia

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Aug 2015

Arrest warrant issued for journalist for reporting on corruption in Malaysia

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Aug 2015

Will REDD+ help save Indonesia’s forest, or create ‘carbon cowboys’ instead?

Simon Pollock 20 Aug 2015

Major expedition uncovers new species in Bolivia

Morgan Erickson-Davis 20 Aug 2015

Scientists discover new primate in the embattled heart of the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 17 Aug 2015
Natural forest and acacia plantation in Riau. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

APP to clear plantations to restore peatlands

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2015

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