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Norway vexed as Brazil sends mixed message on Amazon forest protection

Jenny Gonzales 27 Jun 2017

Warnings and protests mark Brazilian President Temer’s trip to Norway

Mike Gaworecki 22 Jun 2017

Unexamined synergies: dam building and mining go together in the Amazon

Zoe Sullivan 22 Jun 2017

Brazil evicts 80 rural peasant families, awards land thieves parcel

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 21 Jun 2017

Religious leaders: Rainforest protection a ‘moral imperative’

Mongabay.com 20 Jun 2017

International action a must to stop irreversible harm of Amazon dams, say experts

Claire Salisbury 19 Jun 2017

If Brazil okays Terra Legal changes, land grabbers win, Amazon loses, say environmentalists

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 16 Jun 2017

Brazil on verge of legitimizing Amazon land theft on a grand scale, warn NGOs

Mauricio Torres, Isabel Harari, Sue Branford 15 Jun 2017

Why losing big animals causes big problems in tropical forests

John Cannon 14 Jun 2017

30 years of protecting the mysterious Okapi

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jun 2017

Indigenous Guarani leader appeals to Europe to save people and forests

Lucy EJ Woods 7 Jun 2017

FSC to investigate Korean conglomerate’s palm oil operations in Indonesia

Mike Gaworecki 7 Jun 2017

Financing sustainable agriculture possible, if terms fit farmers’ needs

John Cannon 2 Jun 2017

Brazil assaults indigenous rights, environment, social movements

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 1 Jun 2017

Temer seeks to privatize Brazil’s deforestation remote sensing program

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 26 May 2017

Brazil agribusiness company accuses ally Temer in secret bribe taping

Jenny Gonzales 23 May 2017

New soy-driven forest destruction exposed in South America

John Cannon 22 May 2017
In Chocó there are many small shops that refine, sell and buy locally mined gold. Photo by Bram Ebus for Mongabay.

Colombia’s constitutional court grants rights to the Atrato River and orders the government to clean up its waters

Bram Ebus 22 May 2017

A stubborn dreamer who fought to save Amazon’s Waimiri-Atroari passes

Sue Branford 18 May 2017
Ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) in Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Anti-trafficking activist held without trial in Madagascar

Fabienne Rafidiharinirina 8 May 2017
Carnegie Airborne Observatory (CAO) forest scan in the Peruvian Amazon. The CAO uses advanced optical and chemical sensors in combination with Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technologies to map forest carbon, chemistry, and other features. Image courtesy of the Carnegie Airborne Observatory/Greg Asner.

Indigenous lands ‘critical’ to forest protection in Peru, biodiversity maps show

John Cannon 5 May 2017
A villager from Mahu cuts down a tree using a midsize chainsaw. A chainsaw can cut down a tree four times faster than an axe and handsaw. Photo by Ann Wang for Mongabay.

A fight to control chainsaws in Myanmar could turn the tide on illegal logging

Ann Wang, Genevieve Belmaker 4 May 2017

“We don’t believe in words anymore”: Indians stand against Temer govt.

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 3 May 2017

Over the bridge: The battle for the future of the Kinabatangan

John Cannon 3 May 2017

Delicate Solomon Island ecosystem in danger of heavy logging

Elliot Dawea, John Cannon 1 May 2017

Corruption drives dealings with logging companies in the Solomon Islands

Elliot Dawea, John Cannon 1 May 2017

Cross River superhighway changes course in Nigeria

John Cannon 28 Apr 2017

Amazon’s fate hangs on outcome of war between opposing worldviews

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 27 Apr 2017

Brazil moves to cut Amazon conservation units by 1.2 million hectares

Sue Branford 19 Apr 2017

Deforestation has become big business in the Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 18 Apr 2017

Indigenous groups, Amazon’s best land stewards, under federal attack

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 5 Apr 2017

Rotten beef and illegal deforestation: Brazil’s largest meatpacker rocked by scandals

Mike Gaworecki 5 Apr 2017

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