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An elephant roams through a recently cleared eucalyptus plantation.

Report links paper giant RGE to Indonesia deforestation despite pledges

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Jul 2023

Sugarcane: The monoculture that transformed southern Quintana Roo

Adriana Varillas and Alejandro Castro 21 Jun 2023

Palm oil: The crop that cuts into southeastern Mexico’s jungles and mangroves

Aminetth Sánchez 20 Jun 2023

Venezuela’s environmental crisis is getting worse. Here are seven things to know.

Maxwell Radwin 13 Jun 2023
A black-shanked douc langur in a tree.

Can community payments with no strings attached benefit biodiversity?

John Cannon 13 Jun 2023

Illegal settlements, hunting and logging threaten a state reserve in Mexico

Thelma Gómez Durán 8 Jun 2023
The creeks that loggers reportedly use to access the deeper sections of forest on Koh Kong Krao, Cambodia's largest island.

License to Log: Cambodian military facilitates logging on Koh Kong Krao and across the Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn 6 Jun 2023
The endangered pig-nosed turtle, also known as the Fly River turtle, lives in northern Australian and southern New Guinea, including in the area Medco is operating in. Image by Jin Kemoole/Flickr.

Report: Forest-razing biomass plant in Indonesia got millions in green funds

Philip Jacobson 2 Jun 2023
Huge logs are delivered daily to the Koh Kong provincial prison in Cambodia

Forest behind bars: Logging network operating out of Cambodian prison in the Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn 26 May 2023

Forest conservation efforts in Peru are failing across the board, study says

Kimberley Brown 25 May 2023
Wood pellets for biomass energy. Image courtesy of Dogwood Alliance.

Financial downturn at Enviva could mean trouble for biomass energy

Justin Catanoso 25 May 2023
White-handed gibbon

U.S. traders flouting sanctions on buying Myanmar teak, report says

Carolyn Cowan 22 May 2023
Activists in Malaysia

Sarawak Indigenous NGO squeezed by defamation case, silenced from reporting alleged logging

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 16 May 2023

Trapping holds back speed of bird recovery in a Sumatran forest, study shows

Basten Gokkon 11 May 2023
Brightly-coloured seals and white stenciled writing on the ends of logs at Gabon's Nkok SEZ. Image courtesy GSEZ.

Corruption threatens timber traceability in Nkok, Gabon

Elodie Toto 10 May 2023

Logging permit threatens Quilombola bioeconomic ‘paradise’ in the Amazon

André Schröder 8 May 2023

Guatemala national park nearing ‘collapse’ amid land grabbing, deforestation

Maxwell Radwin 4 May 2023
Activists donned masks bearing the face of slain environmentalist Chut Wutty while demonstrating in Phnom Penh.

Cambodian activists commemorate 11th anniversary of Chut Wutty’s murder

Gerald Flynn 28 Apr 2023
Dominick DellaSala, chief scientist with Oregon-based NGO Wild Heritage walks on a trail.

The U.S. has cataloged its forests. Now comes the hard part: Protecting them

Justin Catanoso 27 Apr 2023

Operation Artemis: Colombia’s failed military operation to stop deforestation

David Tarazona, Julián Parra De Moya 27 Apr 2023
Oil palm harvest in Pará, Brazil.

Violence escalates in Amazonian communities’ land conflict with Brazil palm oil firm

Karla Mendes 26 Apr 2023
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Professional services abound for Amazon land grabbers seeking legitimacy

Fernanda Wenzel 25 Apr 2023

Community pine nut harvests help protect Brazil’s araucaria trees

Carolina Pinheiro 25 Apr 2023

Report warns of rising violence against environmental defenders in Mexico

Maxwell Radwin 21 Apr 2023
Former lowland rainforest replaced with cocnut in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Deforestation in Borneo threatens three endangered, endemic plant species

Basten Gokkon 21 Apr 2023

EU parliament passes historic law forcing companies to track deforestation

Maxwell Radwin 20 Apr 2023
Eurasian lynx mother and cub.

Could biodiversity be a key to better forest carbon storage in Europe?

Mark Hillsdon 13 Apr 2023
Captive mountain bongo. Image via Pixabay (CC 0)

Biogas project offers lifelines to Kenyan community, forest, and rare species

Shadrack Omuka 11 Apr 2023

Peru national park sees deforestation spike despite carbon credit program: report

Maxwell Radwin 6 Apr 2023
Logged trees for biomass in Bischofsheim, Germany.

EU woody biomass final policy continues threatening forests and climate: Critics

Justin Catanoso 3 Apr 2023

UN denounces new attacks on Indigenous people in Nicaragua’s largest reserve

Maxwell Radwin 21 Mar 2023
Malocas (traditional longhouses) of Indigenous communities in isolation on the Peru-Brazil border. Image by ORPIO.

Peru congress debates stripping isolated Indigenous people of land and protections

Yvette Sierra Praeli 16 Mar 2023

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