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Green groups call for scrapping of $300m loan offer for Borneo road project

Basten Gokkon 20 Oct 2021
Malayan tiger

Fate of Malaysian forests stripped of protection points to conservation stakes

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 13 Oct 2021

To predict forest loss in protected areas, look at nearby unprotected forest

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 13 Oct 2021

Monitoring reveals Indonesia’s ‘legal timber’ scheme riddled with violations

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Sep 2021

When a tree falls in the forest, you can still hear the birdsong

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 22 Sep 2021
Banner image: A truck carries logs cut from the Amazon Rainforest in the state of Rondônia. Image courtesy of Vicente Sampaio/Imaflora.

Illegal logging reaches Amazon’s untouched core, ‘terrifying’ research shows

Juliana Ennes 15 Sep 2021

Study fails to find link between increased deforestation and COVID lockdowns

James Fair 14 Sep 2021

Environmental activist ‘well-hated’ by Myanmar junta is latest to be arrested

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 9 Sep 2021

Italian firms flout EU rules to trade in illegal Myanmar timber, report says

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 2 Sep 2021

North American paper industry merger sets off environmental alarms

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Sep 2021
An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo

Highway cutting through Heart of Borneo poised to be ‘very, very bad’

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 23 Aug 2021
Kahuzi Biega National Park

Advocates raise alarm over proposal to reopen DRC forests to loggers

Ashoka Mukpo 13 Aug 2021
Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

New index measuring rainforest vulnerability to sound alarm on tipping points

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 28 Jul 2021

EU sanctions no ‘silver bullet’ against Myanmar’s illegal timber trade, experts say

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 22 Jul 2021

Road construction imperils tree kangaroo recovery in PNG

John Cannon 19 Jul 2021

Armed with data and smartphones, Amazon communities boost fight against deforestation

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 12 Jul 2021

Brazil’s environment minister faces second probe linked to illegal timber

Shanna Hanbury 4 Jun 2021

Threat of legal action against Indigenous Borneans protesting timber company

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 1 Jun 2021

Illegal loggers use pandemic as cover to ramp up activity in Sulawesi

Wahyu Chandra 24 May 2021
Banner image of the Marauiá mountain range in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory, in the state of Amazonas. Image by Sebastião Salgado

‘Amazônia must live on’: Photographer Sebastião Salgado returns home with his new book

Peter Speetjens 20 May 2021

Brazil’s environment minister investigated for alleged illegal timber sales

Mongabay.com 19 May 2021

Karipuna people sue Brazil government for alleged complicity in land grabs

Shanna Hanbury 6 May 2021

Indonesian law enforcers call for financial approach to fight illegal logging

Lusia Arumingtyas 6 May 2021

Criticizing Brazil over Amazon conservation will likely backfire (commentary)

Andrea Garcia, Gustavo Macedo 3 May 2021

Myanmar’s troubled forestry sector seeks global endorsement after coup

Mongabay.com 8 Feb 2021

Legal failings leave illegal loggers unpunished and certified in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Feb 2021

Papua tribe moves to block clearing of its ancestral forest for palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Jan 2021

Brazilian woman threatened by Amazon loggers wins global human rights award

Thais Borges and Mauricio Torres 18 Dec 2020

Papua sawmill loses legal timber stamp over allegations of permit forgery

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Dec 2020

Planned road to bisect pristine, biodiverse Brazilian Amazon national park

Ana Ionova 3 Dec 2020

One year on: Insects still in peril as world struggles with global pandemic

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2020

Brazilian and international banks financing global deforestation: Reports

Sue Branford; Thais Borges; and Diego Rebouças 5 Nov 2020

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