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Honduran environmental defenders hit hard by human rights crisis, report says

Governments are ramping up actions to fight environmental crime across the Amazon, but is it working? (commentary)

Beyond deforestation, oil palm estates pose flood and water contamination risks

A forest restoration project brings birdsong back to Angola’s highest mountain

Organized crime puts unprecedented pressure on Guatemala’s largest rainforest

Hold my ointment: Wild orangutan observed healing wound with medicinal plant

Latest palm oil deforester in Indonesia may also be operating illegally

Indonesian company defies order, still clearing peatlands in orangutan habitat

A web of front people conceals environmental offenders in the Amazon

Indonesian capital project finally gets guidelines to avoid harm to biodiversity

Brazil’s cattle industry could suffer major losses without climate policies, report says

Tropical forest loss puts 2030 zero-deforestation target further out of reach

Deforestation from soy shows no sign of stopping in Cerrado, report says

Chocó land deal shows flaws in Ecuador’s forestry incentive program

Palm oil deforestation persists in Indonesia’s Leuser amid new mills, plantations

Ten years since anti-deforestation pledge, corporate world still not doing enough

Major meatpacker JBS misled the public about sustainability efforts, NY lawsuit claims

Major meatpackers are unlawfully deforesting Brazil’s Cerrado, report says

Scientists now know how the Brumadinho dam disaster happened, and the lessons to learn

Road project promising access to Indigenous Waorani is ushering in deforestation

Brazil’s BR-319 highway: The danger reaches a critical moment (commentary)

Palm oil deforestation makes comeback in Indonesia after decade-long slump

Grassroots efforts and an Emmy-winning film help Indigenous fight in Brazil

Ecuador-China free trade agreement poses serious environmental risks, critics say

Sanctioned timber baron wins new mining concessions in Cambodia’s Prey Lang

Outcry over deforestation as Suriname’s agriculture plans come to light

Thousands of tree species at risk of extinction in Atlantic Forest: study

Promise of full demarcation for isolated Amazon tribe rings hollow for some

Reversing progress, Indonesia pulp & paper drives up deforestation rates again

The year in rainforests: 2023

For forests, COP28 was better than expected, but worse than needed

Shrinking civil space and persistent logging: 2023 in review in Southeast Asia

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