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Indonesian court blocks palm oil expansion, but leaves Indigenous land rights in limbo

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Mar 2025
Illegal deforestation in Pauini, Amazonas state, Brazil. Image courtesy of Brazilian Federal Police.

91% of Brazilian Amazon deforestation last year was illegal, report finds

Shanna Hanbury 4 Mar 2025
Equipped with drones and other technologies, young people from the Yanomami Indigenous Land actively monitor their territory, which has faced a serious humanitarian and environmental crisis due to illegal gold and cassiterite mining. Image courtesy of Evilene Paixão/HAY.

Yanomami youth turn to drones to watch their Amazon territory

Elizabeth Oliveira 28 Feb 2025

Colombia’s cattle traceability bill awaits approval as deforestation spikes

Maxwell Radwin 25 Feb 2025
A 2023 expedition along the Uatumã River documented biodiversity loss linked to the Balbina dam. In 2024, a survey of the undammed Jatapu River revealed a region teeming with life. Image courtesy of the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA).

Endemic fish wiped out in Brazilian Amazon hydroelectric dam area, study finds

Sarah Brown 25 Feb 2025

As the rainforest gets drier, Amazon Indigenous groups thirst for clean water

Kevin Damasio 18 Feb 2025
Banner image of coconut palm in Palmyra Atoll by USFWS/Andrew S. Wright via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Over half of Pacific atoll forests are coconut palm plantations — Study

Kristine Sabillo 12 Feb 2025

Mining dredges return to Amazon River’s main tributary, months after crackdown

Fernanda Wenzel 10 Feb 2025

The Pan Amazon as a hotspot of cultural diversity

Timothy J. Killeen 7 Feb 2025

Mongabay series on illegal timber and cattle wins honorable mention in Brazil journalism prize

Mongabay.com 7 Feb 2025
Banner image of crowned sifaka by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

EU legislators urge IMF to protect Madagascar forests against road projects

Kristine Sabillo 6 Feb 2025
A pair of orphaned orangutans in Sabah.

Indonesia targets 2.3m hectares of protected forests for food & biofuel crop production

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Feb 2025

Handcrafted woodwork helps save an Amazonian reserve, one tree at a time

Sibélia Zanon 5 Feb 2025

Amazon states lead rebellion on environmental enforcement

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Feb 2025
Banner image of Reynante Polenda tending to his forested farmland. Image by Keith Anthony Fabro/Mongabay.

Native trees, local wildlife thrive under Philippine tribes’ ‘rainforestation’

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2025

Camera traps capture first glimpse of genetically distinct chimps in southwestern Nigeria

Spoorthy Raman 31 Jan 2025

Yanomami sees success two years into Amazon miner evictions, but fears remain

Fernanda Wenzel 29 Jan 2025
Aerial view of an area in the Amazon deforested for cattle ranching -- the biggest driver of deforestation in the Amazon -- in Lábrea, Amazonas state on Sep 15, 2021. Photo © Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance)

EUDR divides Brazil’s environmental and agribusiness authorities

Karla Mendes 27 Jan 2025
Rodrigo Agostinho, head of IBAMA

‘We’re getting back on track’: Interview with IBAMA head Rodrigo Agostinho

Karla Mendes 24 Jan 2025

‘James Bond’ lizard among 35 new species described from Caribbean islands

Kristine Sabillo 22 Jan 2025
Cattle grazing in the Amazon.

Probe details the playbook of one of Amazon’s top land grabbers

Fernanda Wenzel 20 Jan 2025
Banner image of one of the released elongated tortoises, courtesy of CCA.

Bangladesh sees first ever rewilding of captive-bred elongated tortoises

Kristine Sabillo 17 Jan 2025

Mining in a forest conservation site clouds Republic of Congo’s carbon credit scheme

Elodie Toto 16 Jan 2025
Banner image of Cagayan de Oro flood control project construction, courtesy of Project LUPAD.

By razing trees for flood defenses, a Philippine city may have raised its risk

Mongabay.com 13 Jan 2025

After a searing Amazon fire season, experts warn of more in 2025

Fernanda Wenzel 8 Jan 2025

Amazon communities reap the smallest share of bioeconomy profits

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Jan 2025
Emergent rainforest tree in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler for Mongabay.

The Amazon in 2025: Challenges and hopes as the rainforest takes center stage

Alexandre de Santi 30 Dec 2024

Rainforest Outlook 2025: Storylines to watch as the year unfolds

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2024
Cocoa Agroforestry

‘Uncertainty’ amid EUDR delay poses challenges for cocoa companies, farmers

John Cannon 27 Dec 2024
YEAR IN RAINFORESTS BANNER

The year in tropical rainforests: 2024

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Dec 2024

Brazil’s shipping channel plans in Amazonian rivers will worsen climate change, experts warn

Tiffany Higgins 23 Dec 2024

The Time Of Water: An Alliance To Protect The Amazon Rainforest

Francesc Badia i Dalmases 23 Dec 2024

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