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Poor governance fuels ‘horrible dynamic’ of deforestation in DRC

Victoria Schneider 21 Dec 2020

2020’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Callie Steffen, Emma Critchley, Douglas McCauley 21 Dec 2020

Nazareth Cabrera fights for Colombia’s Indigenous Uitoto with the strength of her words

Carol Sánchez 17 Dec 2020

On plantations and in ‘protected’ areas, Sumatran elephants keep turning up dead

Mongabay Indonesia, Tempo 16 Dec 2020

Brazil scientists map forest regrowth keeping Amazon from collapse: Study

Shanna Hanbury 15 Dec 2020
Sumatran elephants. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

A forest in Sumatra disappears for farms and roads. So do its elephants

Mongabay Indonesia, Tempo 14 Dec 2020

Restaura Cerrado: Saving Brazil’s savanna by reseeding and restoring it

Sarah Sax 14 Dec 2020

Only 40% of world’s forests have high ecological integrity, a new index reveals

Liz Kimbrough 10 Dec 2020

Herd opportunity: Hundreds of elephants return to DRC’s Virunga

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Dec 2020

Palm oil, coca and gangs close in on Colombia’s Indigenous Nukak Makú

Tatiana Pardo Ibarra 10 Dec 2020
Park rangers on patrol in Garamba National Park in DRC earlier this month. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

Report: WWF knew about rights abuses by park rangers, but didn’t respond effectively

Ashoka Mukpo 8 Dec 2020

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Dec 2020

Planned road to bisect pristine, biodiverse Brazilian Amazon national park

Ana Ionova 3 Dec 2020

To save life on Earth, consult this new map

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 3 Dec 2020

Countries fall short of U.N. pledge to protect 10% of the ocean by 2020

Chris Arsenault 2 Dec 2020

Layers of regulations to protect European seas ‘not working,’ audit finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 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

Ecuador’s palm oil law a boon for producers, but not people and planet, groups say

Sol Borja 1 Dec 2020

Meet the 2020 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 30 Nov 2020

Big mammals are at risk in the world’s poorest countries, even within parks

Tess Joosse 27 Nov 2020

A Chilean archipelago rivaling the Galápagos fends off invasive species

Barinia Montoya 26 Nov 2020

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

Ana Ionova 25 Nov 2020

Indigenous leader who fought for communities and conservation mourned in Peru

Anna-Catherine Brigida 25 Nov 2020

A million hectares ablaze as forest fires sweep through Bolivia

Yvette Sierra Praeli 20 Nov 2020

New rule puts Indonesia’s protected forests up for grabs for agribusiness

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Nov 2020

The Amazon’s Yanomami utterly abandoned by Brazilian authorities: Report

Sue Branford 19 Nov 2020
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Lábrea, Amazonas state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

As 2020 Amazon fire season winds down, Brazil carbon emissions rise

Liz Kimbrough 16 Nov 2020
School of hammerhead sharks, northwest Galápagos. Photo by Greg Asner / DivePhoto.org

Could China become a partner in Galapagos marine conservation? Yolanda Kakabadse thinks so

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Nov 2020

Conserve freshwater or land biodiversity? Why not both, new study asks

Claire Asher 16 Nov 2020

Brazil sees record number of bids to mine illegally on Indigenous lands

Eduardo Goulart de Andrade, Hyury Potter, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 13 Nov 2020

Podcast: Lemur love and award-winning plant passion in Madagascar

Mike Gaworecki 11 Nov 2020

Road-paving project threatens a wildlife-rich reserve in Indonesia’s Papua

Asrida Elisabeth 11 Nov 2020

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