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Ecology monks in Thailand seek to end environmental suffering

Kiley Price 13 Aug 2018

Study reveals China’s new forests aren’t really forests

Morgan Erickson-Davis 7 Jun 2018

Philippine palm oil plan ‘equals corruption and land-grabbing,’ critics say

Brad Miller 31 Aug 2017
Moises Padilla near his community's nature reserve. Photo by Johnny Magdaleno/Mongabay

Indigenous farmers fight eucalyptus damage to water source in Ecuador

Johnny Magdaleno 28 Aug 2017

Philippines’ indigenous Higaonon fight for return of ancestral land

Brad Miller 1 Jun 2017
A yellow-fronted woodpecker (Melanerpes flavifrons) in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Photo by Germano Woehl Junior for the Instituto Rã-bugio para Conservação da Biodiversidade.

In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, conservation efforts drown in a sea of eucalyptus

Ignacio Amigo 5 Apr 2017
Flooded sugar cane fields near Colombia's third largest city, Cali, in the department of Valle Del Cauca, during an intense rainy season. Photo by Neil Palmer (CIAT)

Colombia’s cane industry efficient but potentially damaging

Kimberley Brown 27 Mar 2017
A woman and donkey carry firewood and tree material from the Entoto forest. Photo by Ji-Elle via Wikimedia Commons.

Despite population growth and management challenges, hope for forests in Ethiopia

Elias Meseret 17 Mar 2017
Eucalyptus tree. Photo by Bidgee/Wikimedia Commons

Pressure over water in Brazil puts pulp industry in the spotlight

Ignacio Amigo 2 Mar 2017

The Republic of Congo: on the cusp of forest conservation

John Cannon 27 Feb 2017

Indonesia’s peat peninsula being drained into oblivion, study finds

Loren Bell 24 Feb 2016

Brazil poised to break global moratorium on GM Terminator seeds

Sue Branford 20 Oct 2015

Rich forest diversity found in new Yunnan, China preserve

Jonathan Galka 15 Jul 2015

‘Land sparing’ vs. ‘land sharing’: scientists weigh in on how to improve biodiversity on farms

Philip Rothrock 6 Jul 2015

Did palm oil expansion play a role in the Ebola crisis?

Emmanuel K. Urey 14 Jan 2015

Beef, palm oil, soy, and wood products from 8 countries responsible for 1/3 of forest destruction

Jeremy Hance 23 Oct 2014

Saving Asia’s other endangered cats (photos)

Jeremy Hance 21 Oct 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Playing games to understand what drives deforestation

Dr Liz Kimbrough 26 Jun 2014

Is Cameroon becoming the new Indonesia? Palm oil plantations accelerating deforestation

John Cannon 25 Jun 2014

Broken promises no more? Signs Sabah may finally uphold commitment on wildlife corridors

Jeremy Hance 23 Jun 2014

Greenpeace accuses controversial palm oil company and Cameroon government of illegal logging

Jeremy Hance 28 May 2014

Plantations used as cover for destruction of old-growth forests in Myanmar

Jeremy Hance 2 Dec 2013

Celebrities aim to raise $1.6 million to keep orangutan forests from the the chopping block in Borneo

Lewis Smith 2 Oct 2013

Bornean elephant meets palm oil: saving the world’s smallest pachyderm in a fractured landscape

Jeremy Hance 1 Oct 2013

Malaysia clearcutting forest reserves for timber and palm oil

Jeremy Hance 26 Sep 2013

Controversial oil palm company now accused of illegal logging in Cameroon rainforest

Jeremy Hance 18 Sep 2013

Endangered chimps and forest elephants found in rainforest to be logged for palm oil

Jeremy Hance 8 Aug 2013

Featured video: Sumatra’s last elephants versus palm oil

Jeremy Hance 5 Aug 2013

Featured video: Indonesian community uses mapping to fight palm oil takeover

Jeremy Hance 15 Jul 2013

Vocal-sac breeding frog possibly extinct

Jeremy Hance 2 Jul 2013

Southern U.S. logging soars to meet foreign biofuel demand

Tanya Dimitrova 6 Jun 2013

Ant communities more segregated in palm oil plantations than rainforest

Thomas Handley 21 Mar 2013

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