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Nearly 1 million km2 of intact forests menaced by extractives, study finds

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Jul 2021

As soy frenzy grips Brazil, deforestation closes in on Indigenous lands

Ana Ionova 21 Jul 2021
Clouded leopard. Image by Ltshears via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Carving up the Cardamoms: Conservationists fear massive land grab in Cambodia

Gerald Flynn, Andy Ball, Phoung Vantha 1 Jul 2021

Forest advocates press EU leader to rethink views on biomass and energy

Justin Catanoso 15 Jun 2021

Casinos, condos and sugar cane: How a Cambodian national park is being sold down the river

James Fair 4 May 2021

Drugs and agriculture cause deforestation to skyrocket at Honduran UNESCO site

Karen Paredes, Leonardo Guevara, Lesly Frazier 30 Apr 2021
Keo Seima forest. Image by user Pygathrix nigripes via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Deforestation ramps up in Cambodia’s Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary

Morgan Erickson-Davis 26 Apr 2021

Leaders make bold climate pledges, but is it ‘all just smoke and mirrors?’: Critics

Justin Catanoso 23 Apr 2021

With British Columbia’s last old-growth at risk, government falters: Critics

Justin Catanoso 20 Apr 2021

Cattle-driven clearing continues in Brazil’s Triunfo do Xingu protected area

Liz Kimbrough 16 Apr 2021
Deforestation in Kapuas Hulu regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Global forest loss increased in 2020

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Mar 2021

Dutch to limit forest biomass subsidies, possibly signaling EU sea change

Justin Catanoso 9 Mar 2021
Greater bamboo lemur (Prolemur simus). Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Slash-and-burn farming eats away at a Madagascar haven for endangered lemurs, frogs

Edward Carver 9 Mar 2021
Drone image of alleged clearing for luxury residential estates in Bokor National Park. Image courtesy of Mother Nature Cambodia.

‘A disgrace’: Luxury housing plans threaten Cambodia’s Bokor National Park

Kit Humphrey 25 Feb 2021

Will new US EPA head continue his opposition to burning forests for energy?

Justin Catanoso 4 Feb 2021
A fire in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler.

The Amazon lost an area of primary forest larger than Israel in 2020, new analysis finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Jan 2021
Satellite imagery shows fires spreading across Pantanal Matogrossense National Park in early November 2020.

‘Devastating’ fires engulf Brazilian Pantanal wetlands – again

Ana Ionova 23 Dec 2020

A Madagascar forest long protected by its remoteness is now threatened by it

Edward Carver 21 Dec 2020
A drone image reveals trees cut from the Cardamom Mountains being processed in a yard. Photo courtesy of Marcus Hardtke.

Alleged gov’t-linked land grabs threaten Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains

Kit Humphrey 1 Dec 2020

Fueled by impunity, invasions surge in Brazil’s Indigenous lands

Ana Ionova 25 Nov 2020

For Amazon’s harpy eagle, nesting trees are also coveted for timber

Richard Kemeny 13 Oct 2020

Land grab, logging, mining threaten biodiversity haven of Woodlark Island

Gianluca Cerullo 1 Oct 2020

Solomon Islands environmental defender faces life sentence for arson charge

Louise Hunt 18 Sep 2020
A rotating blade used for small-scale wood-processing. Photo by Chris Humphrey for Mongabay.

Under cover of COVID-19, loggers plunder Cambodian wildlife sanctuary

Kit Humphrey 31 Aug 2020

Are forests the new coal? Global alarm sounds as biomass burning surges

Justin Catanoso 31 Aug 2020

Understaffed and under threat: Paraguay’s park rangers pay the ultimate price

Aldo Benítez 5 Aug 2020

In California, forest fires spark a babel of birdsong, study shows

Jennifer Ann Thomas, Veja 4 Aug 2020

No choice: Why communities in Paraguay are cutting down forests to survive

Aldo Benítez 31 Jul 2020

Marijuana farms expand in Paraguay reserve despite gov’t crackdowns

Aldo Benítez 27 Jul 2020

Protected areas in Paraguay hit hard by illegal marijuana farming

Aldo Benítez 22 Jul 2020

‘On the edge’: Endangered forest cleared for marijuana in Paraguay

Aldo Benítez 9 Jul 2020

‘They took it over by force’: Corruption and palm oil in Sierra Leone

Victoria Schneider 30 Jun 2020

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