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Indigenous groups unveil plan to protect 80% of the Amazon in Peru and Ecuador

Latoya Abulu, Laurel Sutherland 3 Dec 2021

$1.5 billion Congo Basin pledge a good start but not enough, experts say

Jim Tan 3 Dec 2021
Furniture CIFOR

Amid a furniture boom, timber certification is just a start, say experts

Carolyn Cowan 2 Dec 2021

The ‘idea’: Uncovering the peatlands of the Congo Basin

John Cannon 2 Dec 2021

Indigenous community saves Colombia’s poison dart frog from coca and logging

Maxwell Radwin 30 Nov 2021
Emanuel Balisa Akangi, hunting in the forest, Yangambi, DRC.near Yangambi, Tshopo Province, DRC. Image by Axel Fassio/CIFOR via Flickr. (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

DRC environment minister panned for allegedly facilitating illegal concessions

Mongabay 19 Nov 2021

Court convenes historic hearing in Indigenous territory on land consent issue

Kimberley Brown 17 Nov 2021

The last spotted ground thrush on Malawi’s lonely mountain

Liz Kimbrough 15 Nov 2021
Indigenous family in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

New global partnership aims to remove barriers to Indigenous climate finance

Laurel Sutherland 9 Nov 2021
primary forest in Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, by John C. Cannon/Mongabay

Bornean communities locked into 2-million-hectare carbon deal they don’t know about

John Cannon 9 Nov 2021

UNESCO reiterates road project’s dangers to Papua park as Indonesia doubles down

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Nov 2021

Indonesia’s leader touts green goals at COP26, but overlooks green stewards at home

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Nov 2021

Indonesia’s flip-flop on zero-deforestation pledge portends greater forest loss

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Nov 2021

Ecuador’s consultation process for Indigenous lands comes under the microscope

Kimberley Brown 4 Nov 2021
China-funded road-construction project in the Congo Basin. Credit: William Laurance.

Infrastructure projects in Congo Basin need greater oversight, report says

Jim Tan 4 Nov 2021

Hundreds of NGOs sign open letter calling to halt “illegal activities” in DRC’s protected areas

Soraya Kishtwari 30 Oct 2021

Indigenous Papuans won their forest back from a palm oil firm, but still lack land title

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Oct 2021

Deforestation from cattle ranching also hurts rivers in Nicaragua, study says

Maxwell Radwin 22 Oct 2021
A long-tongued nectar bat (Macroglossus minimus), a subspecies of which is found on New Britain Island. Image via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Deforestation notches up along logging roads on PNG’s New Britain Island

John Cannon 21 Oct 2021

Green groups call for scrapping of $300m loan offer for Borneo road project

Basten Gokkon 20 Oct 2021

Malaysia’s Indigenous Penan block roads to stop logging in Borneo

Rachel Donald 14 Oct 2021
Malayan tiger

Fate of Malaysian forests stripped of protection points to conservation stakes

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 13 Oct 2021

To predict forest loss in protected areas, look at nearby unprotected forest

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 13 Oct 2021

Advocates call for a new human rights-based approach to conservation

Ashoka Mukpo 12 Oct 2021

‘Pristine wilderness’ without human presence is a flawed construct, study says

Latoya Abulu 12 Oct 2021
Baby western lowland gorilla, Cameroon. Image by Alan Duncan Hamilton via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

‘Acts of poaching and other crimes’: Cameroon plans a new road in Lobéké National Park

Mongabay 5 Oct 2021

Look beyond carbon credits to put a price on nature’s services, experts say

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 4 Oct 2021

For companies eyeing net-zero carbon emissions, ‘no clue how to get there’

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 4 Oct 2021

Build around the forest, not through it, study says of Sumatra trucking road

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Sep 2021

In Colombia, legal mining proves a win-win for environment, traditional communities

Dimitri Selibas 25 Sep 2021

When a tree falls in the forest, you can still hear the birdsong

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 22 Sep 2021

Fires in the Amazon have already impacted 90% of plant and animal species

Suzana Camargo 21 Sep 2021

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