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Monitoring reveals Indonesia’s ‘legal timber’ scheme riddled with violations

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Sep 2021
red panda

Myanmar’s snowcapped north is a haven for large mammals, new study finds

Carolyn Cowan 13 Sep 2021
Atoll

The first complete map of the world’s shallow tropical coral reefs is here

Carolyn Cowan 8 Sep 2021

What makes mapping and monitoring zero-deforestation commitments effective?

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Aug 2021
Fire in a recently deforested area in Aripuanã, Mato Grosso on Jul 30, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga/Greenpeace

Independent monitoring suggests sharp jump in Amazon rainforest destruction

Rhett A. Butler 27 Aug 2021
Fireflies illuminate the forest. Image by Roberto Marchegiani via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Loss of mangroves dims the light on firefly populations in Malaysia

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 15 Aug 2021
Bornean gibbon

In the Borneo canopy, life thrives in surprising ways, camera-trap study shows

Carolyn Cowan 4 Aug 2021

More than 250 major fires detected in the Amazon this year, despite Brazil’s ban

Liz Kimbrough 3 Aug 2021
Grey-cheeked mangabey

Arboreal camera traps add ‘tons of value’ to forest canopy research

Carolyn Cowan 30 Jul 2021
Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

New index measuring rainforest vulnerability to sound alarm on tipping points

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 28 Jul 2021
Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco). Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Betting big on bioacoustics: Q&A with philanthropist Lisa Yang

Rhett A. Butler 22 Jul 2021

Armed with data and smartphones, Amazon communities boost fight against deforestation

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 12 Jul 2021
Coastal net pens for salmon aquaculture in Norway. Image by Brataffe via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

For Norway salmon farms giving up deforestation-linked soy, Cargill proves a roadblock

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 7 Jul 2021

Fire season intensifies in the Brazilian Amazon, feeding off deforestation

Liz Kimbrough 1 Jul 2021
Blackwater lake, rainforest, and the whitewater Zacambu River in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

The conservation gains we’ve made are still fragile, says Aileen Lee of the Moore Foundation

Rhett A. Butler 1 Jul 2021

Deforestation of orangutan habitat feeds global palm oil demand, report shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jun 2021

$10 million XPRIZE Rainforest contest announces 33 qualifying teams

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 22 Jun 2021
Jaguars still roam the Chaco, but they require large tracts of contiguous forest to survive and reproduce. As forest is destroyed, fewer of these intact landscapes exist. Photo by Eduardo Merille via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

New areas of primary forest cleared in Brazil’s ‘lawless’ Lábrea

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jun 2021
Live hotspots in areas with Prodes 2019 and Deter warnings, in Colniza, Mato Grosso state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

The Brazilian Amazon is burning, again

Liz Kimbrough 3 Jun 2021

Satellites keep watch over global reef health in a world first

Mongabay.com 20 May 2021

An owl not seen in over a century makes a brief return — then vanishes again

Romi Castagnino 13 May 2021

Bolsonaro abandons enhanced Amazon commitment same day he makes it

Sue Branford 27 Apr 2021

Palm oil firm Digoel Agri said to clear Papuan forest without Indigenous consent

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Mar 2021

Cat corridors between protected areas is key to survival of Cerrado’s jaguars

Romi Castagnino 16 Feb 2021
An atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), at the Atlanterhavsparken aquarium in Ålesund, Norway. Photo by Hans-Petter Fjeld via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA).

European farmed salmon sector to use only deforestation-free Brazilian soy

Genevieve Belmaker 29 Jan 2021
Deforestation for soy in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Monitoring tropical deforestation is now free and easy

Liz Kimbrough 12 Jan 2021
The Amazon near Manaus, Brazil. Image by Neil Palmer/CIAT via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Soy moratorium averted New Jersey-size loss of Amazon rainforest: Study

John Cannon 23 Dec 2020

Palm oil giant Wilmar unfazed as watchdogs cry foul over Papua deforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Dec 2020

Deadly anniversary: Rio Doce, Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, 5 years on

Ana Ionova 17 Nov 2020

Brazilian and international banks financing global deforestation: Reports

Sue Branford; Thais Borges; and Diego Rebouças 5 Nov 2020

At-risk Cerrado mammals need fully-protected parks to survive: Researchers

Sharon Guynup 20 Oct 2020

Forest degradation outpaces deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Study

Claire Asher 5 Oct 2020

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