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● Guided by the indigenous people of Ecuador’s Sucumbíos province, which has been hit by oil exploitation, Waorani people from Pastaza province joined a “Toxic Tour” to learn how contamination has affected other communities in the Amazon.

Ecuador: Tribe sees how oil industry affects forest on ‘Toxic Tour’

Daniela Aguilar 1 Jun 2018
A view up at the Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Taller, older trees fare better during Amazon droughts, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 1 Jun 2018

How Colombia became Latin America’s palm oil powerhouse

Taran Volckhausen 31 May 2018

Raid fails to stop gold mining, death threats on Amazon’s Tropas River

Rosamaria Loures, Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 31 May 2018
Banner image: A blue coua (Coua caerulea) in Ranomafana National Park, about 30 miles west of Vohilava. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Madagascar court upholds sentence for environmental activist

Edward Carver 31 May 2018

Norwegian government report sharply critical of funding for tropical forest conservation

Mike Gaworecki 31 May 2018

Bolivia’s Madidi National Park home to world’s largest array of land life, survey finds

Mongabay.com 30 May 2018

There may be hope for the extremely rare ‘sneezing monkey,’ report finds

Shreya Dasgupta 29 May 2018
Khanh Nguy Thi. Photo courtesy Goldman Environmental Prize.

Vietnam’s first Goldman Prize winner pushes for energy conservation

Michael Tatarski 29 May 2018

Geneticists: It’s time to mix the Sumatran rhino subspecies

Jeremy Hance 29 May 2018

Dutch support soy transport mega-project, posing major risk to Amazon

Karlijn Kuijpers 29 May 2018

Illegal loggers ‘cook the books’ to harvest Amazon’s most valuable tree

Jenny Gonzales 24 May 2018

Rangers face a ‘toxic mix’ of mental strain and lack of support

Jim Tan 24 May 2018

Hunters are wiping out hornbills in Ghana’s forests

John Cannon 23 May 2018

Trio of studies challenges Indian government claim of increasing forest cover

T. V. Padma 23 May 2018

Brazil has the tools to end Amazon deforestation now: report

Giovanni Ortolani 18 May 2018

Latam Eco review: Coca threatens world’s best organic coffees

Mongabay.com 18 May 2018

How an island of mice is changing what we know about evolution

Morgan Erickson-Davis 17 May 2018

Humans are leaving their mark on the world’s protected areas, study finds

John Cannon 17 May 2018

Brazilian Amazon oil palm deforestation under control, for now

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 17 May 2018

Greenpeace disowns paper giant over deforestation allegations

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 May 2018

‘Rainbow’ chameleon among three new species described from Madagascar

Shreya Dasgupta 16 May 2018
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

The destruction of nature in S. Sumatra has given rise to a criminal generation (commentary)

Taufik Wijaya 16 May 2018

Study links malaria to deforestation in the Amazon

Morgan Erickson-Davis 15 May 2018

Attack of the turtles: ruralists assault environmental laws, Amazon

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 15 May 2018
A Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) nursing. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Sifaka lemurs listed as “critically endangered” amid mysterious die-off

Edward Carver 15 May 2018

Typo derails landmark ruling against Indonesian palm oil firm guilty of burning peatland

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 May 2018

Higher incomes, not higher carbon dioxide levels, drive forest gains, study finds

Mongabay.com 15 May 2018

Damming the Amazon unfettered after Brazilian purge (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 14 May 2018

Indonesia enlists plantation companies to ensure haze-free Asian Games

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 May 2018

New species of shrew discovered on a single mountaintop in the Philippines

Mongabay.com 11 May 2018

Sumatran habitat for tigers, orangutans gets a partial reprieve from development

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 May 2018

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