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Cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Brazilian legislators break law, attack Amazon, trade freely with world: report

Sue Branford 11 Sep 2018

Criminal mafias take over Colombian forests

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 7 Sep 2018

Indonesian government appeals ruling on tighter peat fire regulations

Basten Gokkon 30 Aug 2018

Fires and haze return to Indonesia as peat protection bid falls short

Aseanty Pahlevi, Hans Nicholas Jong, Zamzami 29 Aug 2018

Indonesia’s land swap program puts communities, companies in a bind

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Aug 2018

Brazil hits emissions target early, but rising deforestation risks reversal

John Cannon 23 Aug 2018
Rainforest in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Environmental issues to be a focus of Indonesian presidential debates: official

Basten Gokkon, Indra Nugraha 21 Aug 2018

Fight to protect the world’s most threatened great ape goes to court

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2018

Report finds APP and APRIL violating zero-deforestation policies with wood purchases from Djarum Group concessions in East Kalimantan

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2018

Fake logging permits undermine Amazonian conservation, say experts

Genevieve Belmaker 17 Aug 2018

Ruralists in Brazilian congress put nation’s protected areas at risk

Liz Kimbrough 14 Aug 2018

Trase.earth tracks commodities, links supply chains to deforestation risk

Claire Asher 13 Aug 2018

Death foretold? A courageous Amazon peasant couple resists illegal loggers

Thais Borges and Mauricio Torres 10 Aug 2018
Pardalis chameleon (Furcifer pardalis), a resident of the Masoala Peninsula in northeastern Madagascar, where illegal rosewood logging has taken a heavy toll on forests. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Madagascar proposes paying illegal loggers to audit or buy their rosewood

Rowan Moore Gerety 8 Aug 2018
Coatimundi in Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

More companies sign on to Cerrado Manifesto

Genevieve Belmaker 6 Aug 2018

Chinese / Western financing of roads, dams led to major Andes Amazon deforestation

Gus Greenstein 1 Aug 2018

Indonesia forest assessment casts an optimistic light on a complex issue

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Jul 2018

Community groups in Cambodia say logging surged with approaching election

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2018

Temer’s deforestation policies put Paris goals at risk, scientists warn

Sue Branford 24 Jul 2018

RSPO fails to deliver on environmental and social sustainability, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Jul 2018

How to use drones without stressing wildlife

Mike Gaworecki 10 Jul 2018

Brazil’s political storm driving Amazon deforestation higher

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 9 Jul 2018

Plant response to rising CO2 levels may alter rainfall patterns across tropics

Claire Asher 28 Jun 2018

PepsiCo to probe deforestation in palm oil supplier’s Leuser Ecosystem concession

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Jun 2018

Government regulation is the missing ingredient in efforts to end deforestation driven by agriculture (commentary)

Nicole Polsterer 26 Jun 2018

Could El Niño and climate change spell the end for tropical forests?

Claire Salisbury 25 Jun 2018

US/China trade war could boost Brazil soy export, Amazon deforestation

Zoe Sullivan 21 Jun 2018

Commercial values are a key driver of Zero Deforestation policies (commentary)

Róisín Mortimer 20 Jun 2018

Illegal mining creeps into southern Bahuaja-Sonene National Park

Vanessa Romo 20 Jun 2018

In a land hit by the resource curse, a new gold mine spooks officials

Basten Gokkon 17 Jun 2018

Illegal logging persists in Borneo orangutan habitat despite government ban

Basten Gokkon 7 Jun 2018

Time is running out for palm oil certification (commentary)

Nusa Urbancic 6 Jun 2018

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