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A toucan in a tropical rainforest.

Tropical deforestation increases even as a few hotspots see respite, new data shows

Abhishyant Kidangoor 11 Dec 2023

Indigenous groups rebuke court OK for palm oil company to raze Papua forests

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Dec 2023
The Late Cheng Mining Development site in the Kampong Thom province section of Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary has encroached further into the protected forest as Chinese miners churn up the earth in search of gold. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Chinese gold miners ‘illegally’ tearing up Cambodian wildlife sanctuary

Gerald Flynn & Vutha Srey 7 Dec 2023

Prolonged drought brings unprecedented changes to Amazonian communities in Pará

Sarah Brown 6 Dec 2023

Least-studied areas of Brazilian Amazon at high risk from climate change

Maurício Brum and Lucas Berti 6 Dec 2023

Brazil cattle traceability program to limit deforestation in Pará state

Maxwell Radwin 4 Dec 2023

Red flags but no repercussions for ‘certified’ Malaysian logger Samling: Report

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 1 Dec 2023

Sieged by mining and megaprojects, the Munduruku push for land rights in the Amazon

Sam Cowie 1 Dec 2023

Guatemala braces for unprecedented year of deforestation in Maya reserve

Maxwell Radwin 30 Nov 2023

Cargill widens its deforestation-free goals, but critics say it’s not enough

Maxwell Radwin 29 Nov 2023

New algorithm looks at how Amazon vegetation will behave after climate change

Vitor Alexandre Araujo Prado dos Anjos 29 Nov 2023

Panama copper mine to close after Supreme Court rules concession unconstitutional

Maxwell Radwin 28 Nov 2023

In Brazil’s Amazon, a clandestine road threatens a pristine reserve

Ana Ionova 24 Nov 2023
Kosnipata Valley in Peru. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Can impermanent carbon credits really offset forever emissions?

John Cannon 22 Nov 2023
The search for the Kanoê brothers produced impressive footage

The coveted legacy of the ‘Man of the Hole’ and his cultivated Amazon forest

Fabio Zuker 22 Nov 2023
Rubber latex collecting into a container in a rubber plantation in Thailand. Image by Eleanor W-T via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Growing rubber drives more deforestation than previously thought, study finds

Abhishyant Kidangoor 22 Nov 2023
Bow Lake in Banff, Canada. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Vizzuality data set aims to give companies full view of supply chain impacts

Maxwell Radwin 21 Nov 2023
Indigenous forest guardians Laércio Guajajara and Paulo Paulino Guajajara.

End of impunity for Indigenous killings in sight for Brazil’s Guajajara

Karla Mendes 20 Nov 2023
Aerial view of an area in the Amazon deforested for cattle ranching in Lábrea, Amazonas state on Sep 15, 2021. Photo © Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance)

French banks accused of money laundering linked to Amazon deforestation

Dimitri Selibas 16 Nov 2023
Deforestation in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

As Colombia’s coca economy crashes, new opportunities — and threats — arise

Mie Hoejris Dahl 15 Nov 2023
Rainforest and an oil palm plantation in Sumatra. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Forests hold massive carbon storage potential — if we cut emissions

Liz Kimbrough 14 Nov 2023

How the U.S. financial system props up illegal logging and mining

Maxwell Radwin 14 Nov 2023
A volunteer firefighter from the Power of Mama group.

In Borneo, the ‘Power of Mama’ fight Indonesia’s wildfires with all-woman crew

Mongabay Haze Beat 10 Nov 2023

Amazon deforestation has a regional, not just local impact: study

Maxwell Radwin 10 Nov 2023

Lifted sanctions on gold, oil could slow conservation efforts in Venezuela

Maxwell Radwin 8 Nov 2023

Indonesian activist Gita Syahrani wins $3m award for work on sustainable growth

Lusia Arumingtyas 3 Nov 2023

Amazon drought: Much damage still to come (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside, Rosimeire Araújo Silva 1 Nov 2023
Cattle raising in recently destroyed forestland in the municipality Aripuanã, in Mato Grosso state.

Amazon recovery offers hope of big rewards but poses equally big challenges

Carla Ruas 31 Oct 2023

Report alleges APP continues deforestation 10 years after pledge to stop

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Oct 2023

People and nature suffer as historic drought fuels calamitous Amazon fires

André Schröder 24 Oct 2023

Lula partially blocks anti-Indigenous land rights bill, but trouble isn’t over

Sarah Brown 24 Oct 2023

Brazil strikes intruders of Amazon’s most deforested Indigenous land

Sarah Brown 11 Oct 2023

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