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Full steam ahead for Tren Maya project as lawsuits hit judicial hurdles

Maxwell Radwin 28 Jan 2022
NASA Landsat satellite image showing the Amazonian region where the activity occurred, according to IBAMA.

Chemical defoliants sprayed on Amazon rainforest to facilitate deforestation in Brazil

Jenny Gonzales 19 Jan 2022

As Malaysian state resumes log exports, Indigenous advocates warn of fallout

Rachel Donald 19 Jan 2022
Rainforest in Sumatra. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

As Indonesia retakes land from developers, conservation is an afterthought

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jan 2022

Cattle boom in Brazil’s Acre spells doom for Amazon rainforest, activists warn

Sarah Brown 7 Jan 2022

Community control of forests hasn’t slowed deforestation, Indonesia study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Jan 2022

Groups welcome decline in deforestation in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Jan 2022

Mongabay’s 10 hardest-hitting investigations of 2021

Maxwell Radwin 29 Dec 2021
Fire line moves through a degraded forest area in an undesignated public forest area in Porto Velho, Rondônia on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2021
Composite image. Left: Amazon rainforest - photo credit: Rhett A. Butler. Right: Burning forest in the Brazilian Amazon - image credit: Greenpeace

The year in rainforests 2021

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2021

The Congo Basin’s 10 most consequential stories from 2021

John Cannon 27 Dec 2021

Indonesia’s three most consequential forestry stories of 2021

Philip Jacobson 24 Dec 2021

As the Amazon burns, its Indigenous inhabitants choke on the haze

Valéria Santana and Juliana Ennes 23 Dec 2021

To end illegal deforestation, Brazil may legalize it entirely, experts warn

Meghie Rodrigues 20 Dec 2021

Death threats and friction with military force Guatemalan rangers to flee

Maxwell Radwin 20 Dec 2021

Indigenous leader sues over Borneo natural capital deal

John Cannon 17 Dec 2021

Oil highway bears down on uncontacted Indigenous groups in Ecuador’s Yasuní

Kimberley Brown 15 Dec 2021

Exports of threatened species’ timber boomed under Bolsonaro, probe finds

Ciro Barros from Agência Pública 14 Dec 2021

French deforestation database pressures Brazilian soy traders to clean up supply chain

Maxwell Radwin 14 Dec 2021
Global Forest Watch tree cover loss 2001-2021 set on Planet imagery from Jun-Sep 2020.

Mongabay reporter sued in what appears to be a pattern of legal intimidation by Peruvian cacao company

Mongabay.com 10 Dec 2021

Betty Rubio, the tech-savvy Kichwa leader defending threatened territory

Cristina Fernández Aguilar 10 Dec 2021

U.K. conglomerate Jardines ‘caught red-handed’ clearing orangutan habitat in Sumatra

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Dec 2021

El Salvador women’s group takes a stand for river system targeted by development

Maxwell Radwin 6 Dec 2021

‘They will die’: Fears for the last Piripkura as Amazon invasion ramps up

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Dec 2021

Amazon mining threatens dozens of uncontacted Indigenous groups, study shows

Shanna Hanbury 1 Dec 2021

Indigenous community saves Colombia’s poison dart frog from coca and logging

Maxwell Radwin 30 Nov 2021

Meet Magali, the conservation warrior rescuing Peru’s rainforest animals: Video

Liz Kimbrough 26 Nov 2021

In Brazil, an agribusiness haven’s green pivot leaves many skeptical

Fernanda Wenzel 25 Nov 2021

Venezuelans hit by cooking gas shortages look to forests for firewood

Maxwell Radwin 24 Nov 2021
Emanuel Balisa Akangi, hunting in the forest, Yangambi, DRC.near Yangambi, Tshopo Province, DRC. Image by Axel Fassio/CIFOR via Flickr. (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

DRC environment minister panned for allegedly facilitating illegal concessions

Mongabay 19 Nov 2021
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Lábrea, Amazonas state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Amazon deforestation unexpectedly surges 22% to highest level since 2006

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Nov 2021

In Sumatra, a snare trap costs a baby elephant her trunk, then her life

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Nov 2021

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