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An oil palm farmer in Benin extracting palm oil.

Smallholders offer mixed reactions to calls for delay in EU deforestation law

Aimee Gabay 1 Nov 2024
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JBS broke its own rules while buying cattle from deforested areas in Pantanal

Naira Hofmeister and Fernanda Wenzel 31 Oct 2024
Banner image of logging truck near Think Biotech’s concession in 2020. Image by Ma Chettra.

Illegally logged wood from Cambodia likely ending up in U.S. homes

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2024
Tarsiers in the rainforests of northern Sulawesi.

Indonesia biomass zone for Japan and S. Korea energy razes rainforest in Sulawesi

Sarjan Lahay 28 Oct 2024
A Sunda pangolin. Pangolins are heavily poached and exploited, and are among the most trafficked of animals. Image by Piekfrosch via WIkimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0).

Cambodia’s once-massive national park continues to lose its forest

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Oct 2024
Banner image of Joan Carling, courtesy of Right Livelihood.

‘Treat us as partners, central actors’: Interview with Indigenous activist Joan Carling

Kristine Sabillo 22 Oct 2024

225 NGOs call on EU to reject delay to deforestation law

Mongabay.com 22 Oct 2024
Banner image of Holy Plantation on the border of Prey Land Wildlife Sanctuary. Image by Gerald Flynn/Mongabay.

Cambodian company strips protected areas of timber for export

Mongabay.com 22 Oct 2024

Deforestation plunges but environmental threats remain as Colombia hosts COP16

Lucas Berti 21 Oct 2024
A worker handling plywood sheets at Nature Flooring's factory in the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Cambodian logging syndicate tied to major U.S. wood flooring supply chains

Gerald Flynn 21 Oct 2024

Revealed: Biomass firm poised to clear Bornean rainforest for dubious ‘green’ energy

Hans Nicholas Jong, Philip Jacobson 21 Oct 2024

Extreme drought wrecks rivers and daily life in Amazon’s most burnt Indigenous land

João Paulo Guimarães 18 Oct 2024

Amazon voters elect environmental offenders and climate denialists in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 17 Oct 2024

Ghana to repeal pro-mining legislation amid protests, but activists demand more

Malavika Vyawahare and Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda 16 Oct 2024
In June 2024, stacks of timber were seen piled outside Angkor Plywood's facility in Kandal province. Much of it is believed to be sourced from Cambodia's protected areas. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Angkor Plywood, the ‘timber cartel’ shipping Cambodian forests internationally

Gerald Flynn 14 Oct 2024
Deforestation for oil palm plantation in Sarawak.

NGOs push EU to label Sarawak as ‘high risk’ source of timber, palm oil

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 9 Oct 2024

‘World’s largest’ carbon credit deal in the Amazon faces bumpy road ahead

Carla Ruas 9 Oct 2024
Mature cacao fruit. Seeds from the pod are fermented, roasted and ground to make cocoa powder. Image courtesy of TMA.

The world’s chocolate cravings speed up deforestation in the Congo Basin: Study

Marlowe Starling 9 Oct 2024
Clusters of ancient drawings known as geoglyphs have been seen in the state of Acre. Image courtesy of Diego Gurgel/Secom.

New conservation model calls for protecting Amazon for its archaeological riches

Peter Speetjens 4 Oct 2024

EU considers postponing anti-deforestation law as pressure from agribusiness mounts

Maxwell Radwin 3 Oct 2024
Drought-stricken river in the Capoto-Jarina Indigenous Territory in the Upper Xingu region of Mato Grosso on September 12th, 2024. Photo © Marizilda Cruppe / Greenpeace

Brazil dredges Amazon rivers to ease drought isolation, raising environmental concerns

Amanda Magnani 1 Oct 2024
In July 2024, forest activists uncovered a timber depot and sawmills at the site of the Stung Meteuk hydropower project. Image supplied by Tat Oudom.

Cambodian environment minister bans logging at tycoon’s Cardamoms hydropower project

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 30 Sep 2024

‘We need white men on our side to save the Amazon from destruction,’ 92-year-old Indigenous Chief Raoni says

Carla Ruas 26 Sep 2024
A young girl in a pale pink dress, a bobble hat and smile, pushing a wheelbarrow with two large yellow water containers across a field at Kapsambu village, Mt Elgon, Kenya. Image courtesy Infonile.

New approach to land management in Africa aims to climate-proof ecosystems

Mactilda Mbenywe 23 Sep 2024

Rare frog rediscovered in Ecuador’s Andes after 100 years

Shanna Hanbury 20 Sep 2024

Brazil judge fines slaughterhouses for Amazon deforestation

Shanna Hanbury 18 Sep 2024
A group of young people in the forest in Kenema district, Sierra Leone. Image courtesy Sierra Leone Environment Matters.

Sierra Leone group helps farmers adapt to changing climate, protect forest

Emma Black 18 Sep 2024

Report exposes meatpackers’ role in recent chemical deforestation in Brazil

Sarah Brown 17 Sep 2024

How the Brazilian military sabotaged protection of Indigenous people in the Amazon

André Schröder 16 Sep 2024
Commodities such as corn, cattle and soy are major drivers of deforestation yet receive heavy financing from banks. Image © Marizilda Cruppe/Greenpeace.

Investors urge banks to cut commodity-driven deforestation

Shanna Hanbury 16 Sep 2024

Honduras taps armed forces to eliminate deforestation by 2029. Will it work?

Maxwell Radwin 13 Sep 2024

Extreme drought pushes Amazon’s main rivers to lowest-ever levels

Fernanda Wenzel 11 Sep 2024

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