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A juvenile bonobo (Pan paniscus) gazes at an uncertain future.

DRC hit by record deforestation in 2024, satellite data show

Ruth Kamnitzer 26 Nov 2025

‘Let’s understand the value of the forest’ says Liberia’s Silas Siakor

Ashoka Mukpo 1 Sep 2025
A woman walks through a forest in Liberia. Image by Open Government Partnership via Flickr (CC BY-2.0).

Liberia has a new plan to protect its rainforests. Can it work?

Ashoka Mukpo 1 Sep 2025
In Java, communities help reconnect fragmented forests to help save the endangered Javan gibbon

Indonesian farmers plant hope for isolated Javan gibbons

Mongabay.com 1 Aug 2025

Uncovering forest loss in gorilla park six months after M23 offensive in the DRC

Elodie Toto, Latoya Abulu 31 Jul 2025

Artificial nests help a rare Brazilian parrot bounce back

Mongabay.com 16 Jun 2025
A grizzled tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus inustus)

PNG’s Torricelli Mountains teem with life — and the risk of extinction

John Cannon 31 Mar 2025
New study assesses threat to wildlife from cacao expansion in Congo Basin.

The environmental toll of the M23 conflict in eastern DRC (Analysis)

Fergus O’Leary Simpson, Joel Masselink, Lara Collart 7 Mar 2025

Forest biomass growth to soar through 2030, impacting tropical forests

Justin Catanoso 6 Mar 2025
Timber truck

Timber trade watchdog urges Poland to halt imports of Myanmar ‘blood timber’

Carolyn Cowan 20 Feb 2025
The Hadong power plant in South Korea co-fires coal with woody biomass, allowing it to claim it is reducing emissions under the UN loophole.

South Korea slashes forest biomass energy subsidies in major policy reform

Annelise Giseburt 20 Dec 2024

Indonesian forests put at risk by South Korean and Japanese biomass subsidies

Annelise Giseburt 12 Dec 2024
Banner image of Koru superyacht by Conmat13 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Maker of Jeff Bezos’s yacht fined for using Myanmar ‘blood timber’

Kristine Sabillo 6 Dec 2024
Banner image of Myanmar teak courtesy of EIA.

Yacht maker Sunseeker fined in landmark Myanmar ‘blood timber’ case

Kristine Sabillo 4 Dec 2024
Fresh forest clearance inside Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary signals the beginning of an infrastructure project that will bisect the forest. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

New transmission lines cut a Cambodian rainforest sanctuary in half

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 27 Nov 2024
Banner image of deforestation in Malaysia, by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

WWF gives banks a tool to see if they’re financing environmental crime

Kristine Sabillo 14 Nov 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

Illegal logging footprint in the Amazon expanded by a fifth, report finds

Shanna Hanbury 21 Oct 2024

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

Hans Nicholas Jong, Philip Jacobson 21 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

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

Maxwell Radwin 13 Sep 2024
An Indigenous group in a boat in the Ucayali River.

Report links killings to environmental crimes in Peru’s Amazon

Aimee Gabay 12 Sep 2024
Isolated Indigenous Mashco Piro men and boys on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon. Image courtesy of Survival International.

Peruvian logger loses FSC label after latest clash with isolated Mashco Piro

Dan Collyns 4 Sep 2024
Prince Bissiemou measures a tree in a logged forest in Gabon. Image by Megan Sullivan.

Logging done sustainably doesn’t have to harm ecosystem services, study finds

Leocadia Bongben 22 Aug 2024

Peru’s isolated Mashco Piro tribe attacks loggers in their ancestral territory

Bobby Bascomb 15 Aug 2024
Dozens of isolated Indigenous Mashco Piro men and boys on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon. Image courtesy of Survival International.

After isolated tribes’ rare appearance in Peruvian Amazon, big questions remain for their future

Dan Collyns 29 Jul 2024
Significant deforestation was linked to the Lower Russei Chrum dam, which has been operational in Koh Kong province since 2015. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Hydropower dams further undermine REDD+ efforts in Cambodia

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 28 Jun 2024
The sprawling Stung Meteuk hydropower dam being developed in the Cardamom Mountains appears to be illegally logging within Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

History repeats as logging linked to Cambodian hydropower dam in Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 27 Jun 2024

Verra suspends carbon credit projects following police raid in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 11 Jun 2024

Brazil police raid Amazon carbon credit projects exposed by Mongabay

Fernanda Wenzel 7 Jun 2024

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