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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

Nearly 1 million km2 of intact forests menaced by extractives, study finds

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Jul 2021

Gabon becomes first African country to get paid for protecting its forests

Jim Tan 20 Jul 2021

Overcoming community-conservation conflict: Q&A with Dominique Bikaba

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Jul 2021

New survey nearly doubles Grauer’s gorilla population, but threats remain

Ed Holt 22 Jun 2021

$10 million XPRIZE Rainforest contest announces 33 qualifying teams

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 22 Jun 2021

Deforestation spikes in Virunga National Park, DRC

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 Jun 2021

Banks increased deforestation-linked investments by $8B during Covid-19: report

Mongabay.com 15 Jun 2021

‘We guard the forest’: Carbon markets without community recognition not viable

Dimitri Selibas 4 Jun 2021
Africa's largest population of eastern chimpanzees live in Bili-Uéré. Image by gombe069 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Deforestation intensifies in northern DRC protected areas

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Jun 2021

Madagascar’s vanishing trees

Malavika Vyawahare 21 May 2021

Illegal clearing for agriculture is driving tropical deforestation: Report

Justin Catanoso 20 May 2021

‘Bad science’: Planting frenzy misses the grasslands for the trees

Shreya Dasgupta 12 May 2021
Men sitting under roofed shelter in the Gabonese village of Massaha. Image courtesy Graden Froese.

Logging company moves into intact Gabon forest as village fights to save it

Benjamin Evine-Binet 31 Mar 2021

New map shows where the 80% of species we don’t know about may be hiding

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 31 Mar 2021
Deforestation in Kapuas Hulu regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Global forest loss increased in 2020

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Mar 2021
Banner image of an artisanal palm oil production in Yalifombo village. Image © Oskar Epelde courtesy of Oakland Institute.

Pension and endowment funds linked to conflict-plagued oil palm in DRC

John Cannon 22 Mar 2021

The Hungry Mills: How palm oil mills drive deforestation (commentary)

Rob McWilliam 12 Mar 2021
Greater bamboo lemur (Prolemur simus). Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Slash-and-burn farming eats away at a Madagascar haven for endangered lemurs, frogs

Edward Carver 9 Mar 2021
Liberian tropical forest. Image via USAID

Review finds palm oil firm Golden Veroleum cleared carbon-rich Liberian forests

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Mar 2021

Reforested areas rival mature forests in securing water, study finds

Malavika Vyawahare 2 Mar 2021
Sunrise over the Amazon rainforest

We’re killing those tropical trees we’re counting on to absorb carbon dioxide

Fernanda Wenzel 24 Feb 2021

Madagascar: Young farmers adopt new methods to help lemurs, forests and themselves

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 19 Feb 2021

Teachers create lasting change for people and primates via clean cookstoves (commentary)

Corinne Kendall 10 Feb 2021

Newly described chameleon from Madagascar may be world’s smallest reptile

Malavika Vyawahare 3 Feb 2021
Village head Talibo Coté in a light blue kaftan in a forest near his hometown, Djendo. Image by Ricci Shryock for Mongabay

Fears for rosewood as Guinea-Bissau prepares to lift six-year logging ban

Ricci Shryock 21 Jan 2021
Rainforest in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

What are the tropical forest storylines to watch in 2021?

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jan 2021
Rainforest mantis in Suriname. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Rainforests: 11 things to watch in 2021

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jan 2021

Top environment stories from Madagascar in 2020

Mongabay.com 30 Dec 2020
Blackwater oxbow lake, rainforest, and a whitewater river in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

How the pandemic impacted rainforests in 2020: a year in review

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Dec 2020
A village near a community forest in River Cess County, Liberia, 2016. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Liberia gave villagers control over their forests. Then a mining company showed up

Ashoka Mukpo, James Giahyue 22 Dec 2020

A Madagascar forest long protected by its remoteness is now threatened by it

Edward Carver 21 Dec 2020

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