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Crisis in Venezuela: Caparo Experimental Station invaded by 200 farmers

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 7 May 2018

Palm oil supplier to food giants clears forest, peatland in Indonesia, Greenpeace says

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2018

More gorillas and chimpanzees living in Central Africa’s forests than thought

John Cannon 27 Apr 2018

Papuan chef Charles Toto serves up sustainability and environmental protection in a platter

Luh De Suriyani 24 Apr 2018

Island logging must go beyond current ‘best practices’ to avoid erosion: New study

Mongabay.com 23 Apr 2018
Founder of Camino Verde, Robin Van Loon, holding a leaf from a Moena tree. Photo courtesy Shahrzade Ehya.

Tambopata: Where forest conservation and opportunity meet

Heather D'angelo 19 Apr 2018

India’s new forest policy draft draws criticism for emphasis on industrial timber

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 12 Apr 2018

Indonesia land swap, meant to protect peatlands, risks wider deforestation, NGOs say

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Apr 2018

Indonesian conservation bill is weak on wildlife crime, critics say

Basten Gokkon 6 Apr 2018
Waterfall in Laos. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Calls for change in handling abuse allegations at top conservation group

Genevieve Belmaker 2 Apr 2018

More than 40 percent of Madagascar’s freshwater life sliding toward extinction, IUCN finds

Mongabay.com 22 Mar 2018

Sarawak’s Penan now have detailed maps of their ancestral homeland

John Cannon 20 Mar 2018

Oil palm plantations’ dearth of biodiversity rubs off on nearby forests, study shows

Mongabay.com 19 Mar 2018

Report finds projects in DRC ‘REDD+ laboratory’ fall short of development, conservation goals

John Cannon 16 Mar 2018

Five years after zero-deforestation vow, little sign of progress from Indonesian pulp giant

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Mar 2018

Activists eye bigger roles for local officials, businesses in Indonesia’s orangutan protection plan

Basten Gokkon 15 Mar 2018

Bornean bearded pigs seen adapting to oil palm habitats, study finds

Basten Gokkon 6 Mar 2018

In eastern Indonesia, a forest tribe pushes back against miners and loggers

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Mar 2018

Brazil high court Forest Code ruling largely bad for environment, Amazon: NGOs

Sue Branford 1 Mar 2018

Pepsi cuts off Indonesian palm oil supplier over labor, sustainability concerns

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Mar 2018

‘S.O.S.’ carved out of former plantation shines a light on palm oil-driven deforestation

Mongabay.com 1 Mar 2018

‘It’s our home’: Pygmies fight for recognition as forest protectors in new film

John Cannon 20 Feb 2018

Scientists from Indonesia, Germany and the Netherlands win Indonesian Peat Prize

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Feb 2018

Tree-dwelling animals can ‘climb’ away from climate change, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Feb 2018

Legal recognition in the works for communities occupying Indonesia’s conservation areas

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Jan 2018

Natural World Heritage Sites in trouble, especially in the Tropics

Claire Asher 11 Jan 2018

Indonesia in 2017: A fighting chance for peat protection, but an infrastructure beatdown for indigenous communities

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Jan 2018

New ‘ghost’ scorpion among several species recorded for the first time in Malaysian rainforest

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Jan 2018

U.S. court ruling complicates Trump’s elephant and lion policy

Jeremy Hance 2 Jan 2018

In a Papuan district, tribes push to revive a legacy of sustainability

Christopel Paino 2 Jan 2018

Roads, dams and railways: Ten infrastructure stories from Southeast Asia in 2017

Mongabay.com 27 Dec 2017

So long, UNESCO! What does U.S. withdrawal mean for the environment?

Giovanni Ortolani 26 Dec 2017

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