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‘A crisis situation’: Extinctions loom as forests are erased in Mozambique

David Njagi 5 Dec 2019

Guyana refutes findings that deforestation skyrocketed after REDD+ payments stopped

Gabriel Popkin 25 Nov 2019

Researchers urge sustainability as palm oil tightens its grip on Latin America

Antonio José Paz Cardona 20 Nov 2019

Illegal logging persists in Cambodia’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary: Report

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Nov 2019

‘Timebomb’: Fires devastate tiger and elephant habitat in Sumatra

Michael Standaert 15 Nov 2019

Mexico plans huge increase in palm oil production in sensitive ecosystems

Rodrigo Soberanes 14 Nov 2019

Colombian town faces earthquakes, pollution, water shortage as industry expands

Álvaro Avendaño, Diana Velasco 8 Nov 2019

Saving the Gran Chaco: Conservationists demand protection before it’s too late

Rodolfo Chisleanschi 5 Nov 2019

Carbon emissions from loss of intact tropical forest a ‘ticking time bomb’

Malavika Vyawahare 31 Oct 2019

Indigenous communities ‘robbed’ as land grabbers lay waste to Brazilian rainforest

Ana Ionova 28 Oct 2019

10 takeaways from Indonesia’s grassroots #SaveAru success

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 28 Oct 2019

Bonobo conservation stymied by deforestation, human rights abuses

Taran Volckhausen 24 Oct 2019

Peru: Gold mine operating without license destroys primary forest in protected area

Yvette Sierra Praeli 17 Oct 2019

‘Witnessing extinction in the flames’ as the Amazon burns for agribusiness

Ana Ionova 10 Oct 2019

Saving Aru: The epic battle to save the islands that inspired the theory of evolution

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 9 Oct 2019

Gran Chaco: South America’s second-largest forest at risk of collapsing

Rodolfo Chisleanschi 17 Sep 2019

Indigenous communities, wildlife under threat as farms invade Nicaraguan reserve

Taran Volckhausen 17 Sep 2019

Mexican officials battle a tide of fire eating away at a protected reserve

Max Radwin 16 Sep 2019

A Papuan village finds its forest caught in a web of corporate secrecy

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 16 Sep 2019

Disaster strikes in Bolivia as fires lay waste to unique forests

Carolina Méndez, Isabel Mercado 6 Sep 2019

‘We have cut them all’: Ghana struggles to protect its last old-growth forests

Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda 28 Aug 2019

Indigenous communities, nat’l parks suffer as Malaysia razes its reserves

Chris Humphrey 23 Aug 2019

Rainforest destruction accelerates in Honduras UNESCO site

Taran Volckhausen 13 Aug 2019

Gov’t takedown of illegal gold mining in Peru shows promise, but at a cost

Justin Catanoso 9 Aug 2019

Logging, mining companies lock eyes on a biodiverse island like no other

Gianluca Cerullo 31 Jul 2019

Agriculture, mining, hunting push critically endangered gorillas to the brink

Rachel Fritts 16 Jul 2019

Colombia registers first drop in deforestation since 2016 FARC peace deal

Taran Volckhausen 15 Jul 2019

Saving Guatemala’s vanishing macaws: Q&A with veterinarian Luis Fernando Guerra

Max Radwin 27 Jun 2019

Logging road construction has surged in the Congo Basin since 2003

John Cannon 24 Jun 2019

Fire, cattle, cocaine: Deforestation spikes in Guatemalan national park

Max Radwin 21 Jun 2019

’Livestock revolution’ triggered decline in global pasture: Report

John Cannon 19 Jun 2019

Out on a limb: Unlikely collaboration boosts orangutans in Borneo

Nina Finley 12 Jun 2019

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