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Indonesia shows elevated fire hotspot activity in 2026 as super El Niño threat looms

Hans Nicholas Jong, Irfan Maulana 29 Jul 2026
A truck carrying soybeans surrounded by smoke from fires in a deforested area on the BR-163 highway in Pará state. Image courtesy of Alberto César Araújo/Amazônia Real.

End of Brazil’s Soy Moratorium risks millions of hectares of Amazon rainforest: Study

Shanna Hanbury 28 Jul 2026
Oak trees in a temperate forest in the higher altitudes of the Sierra Gorda, where more than 30 species of oak trees can be found. Photo by Roberto Pedraza Ruiz.

How carbon markets can succeed & also serve Global South communities (commentary)

Pati Ruiz Corzo 27 Jul 2026
Khuiusi Khisetje. Photo by Christian Braga / ISA

Khuiusi Khisêtjê helped his people recover their land and future in the Xingu

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Jul 2026

Vietnam’s coffee boom fueled by decades of deforestation, report finds

Naina Rao 22 Jul 2026
Banner image: Researcher Nelson Jaén analyzes growth rings from a mahogany tree (Swietenia spp.). Image courtesy of Peter Groenendijk.

Amazon tree rings reveal more intense drought and rainfall in the rainforest

Mongabay.com 21 Jul 2026

From rivers to mangroves, microplastics are contaminating the Amazon

Tiago da Mota e Silva 20 Jul 2026

Can harpy eagles attack humans? Amazon case rekindles scientific debate

Tiago Mota e Silva 17 Jul 2026
Packaging cocoa beans in Grand Gedeh, Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

The vanishing forests on Liberia’s cocoa frontier

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Jul 2026
Amazon rainforest burned in Acre, Brazil, to make way for cattle pastures. Image courtesy of Victor Moriyama/Climate Visuals.

Amazon deforestation falls to 10-year low in first half of 2026

Shanna Hanbury 16 Jul 2026
An adult cheetah spotted at a monitoring site in Limpopo Province. In the background is a still closed trap cage, which was placed there during the census to capture cheetahs for collaring. Image courtesy of the Ashia Cheetah Conservation.

South Africa’s free-roaming cheetahs in steep decline, first national census finds

Victoria Schneider 15 Jul 2026
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Warming world could push Southeast Asia forests toward thermal limits, new study

Carolyn Cowan 15 Jul 2026
Drone capturing a raptor in flight over the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

How Brazil’s federal fiscal policy hinders Amazon Rainforest conservation (commentary)

João Gabriel de Araujo Oliveira 15 Jul 2026
A Malaysian field assistant cutting lianas with a machete at the Sabah Biodiversity Experiment. Killing lianas by cutting boosts tree growth and lowers tree mortality, the study found. Image courtesy of Gianluca Cerullo.

Cutting back vines lets recovering forests grow faster, Borneo study shows

Ruth Kamnitzer 13 Jul 2026
Plant species used in the experiment with dark earth, including paricá and pink ipê.

Dark earth: Ancient Amazonian soil can boost forest restoration, study finds

Evanildo da Silveira 8 Jul 2026
Indigenous peoples sing and dance as they participate in an opening ceremony as part of the People's Summit offsite from the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 12, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. Image by AP Photo/Fernando Llano.

A fraction of promised climate money reaches Amazon communities: Interview with Latimpacto’s leaders

Beverley Choo 8 Jul 2026

Dusky langurs start using new canopy bridge in Malaysia’s Penang Island

Naina Rao 6 Jul 2026
The Congo Basin is home to critically endangered African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis).

Can selective logging help the Congo Basin store more carbon?

Claudia Geib 2 Jul 2026
San Mala and the community members document the stumps of freshly cut trees throughout the protected forest in northern Cambodia. Image by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Illegal timber imports from Cambodia, Laos skirt Vietnam safeguards, report reveals

Carolyn Cowan 2 Jul 2026

Targeted conservation in Brazil could help protect the Amazon’s flying rivers

Constance Malleret 2 Jul 2026

New analysis breaks down 2025 Amazon deforestation, with good news and bad news

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jun 2026
Firefighters from the Chico Mendes Institute work to contain a forest fire and prevent it from reaching Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park, in Brazil’s northern Goiás state in 2025. Image by AP Photo / Eraldo Peres.

Fire surge in 2025 threatened isolated peoples in Brazil

Aimee Gabay 24 Jun 2026

Global pressure on ayahuasca threatens Amazonian plants and knowledge systems

Carlos Minuano 23 Jun 2026

Old fire hoses become lifelines for Malaysia’s endangered langurs

Mongabay.com 23 Jun 2026

Pulp and paper giant APRIL’s supplier choices put FSC remedy process to the test

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Jun 2026
Golden-backed squirrel monkey (Saimiri ustus) pictured in Amazonas state, Brazil. Image courtesy of Leonardo Mercon via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0).

World Rainforest Day: Deforestation must be nearly halved to meet 2030 target

Mongabay.com 22 Jun 2026
Rain over the Amazon. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

South America’s farms depend, in part, on a healthy Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jun 2026
The Tomachipán-Cumare road is an illegal trail used by dissidents as a strategic corridor. It has become an epicenter of violence. Image by Juan Carlos Contreras.

Death and exile: A war plagues Indigenous Jiw and Nukak in the Colombian Amazon

Pilar Puentes 19 Jun 2026
Drone view of Chiquitano forest recently deforested on the edge of the Bolivian Amazon for soy production. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Suriname will not be saved by soybeans (commentary)

Mark J. Plotkin 19 Jun 2026
The white-necked picathartes (Picathartes gymnocephalus) near its nesting colony in the south of Taï National Park.

In search of the ‘rare and beautiful’ in an Ivorian rainforest

Ryan Truscott 18 Jun 2026

Pulp and paper giant APRIL adds major deforesters as suppliers after revising sustainability policy

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Jun 2026

Illegal miners adapt their strategies in Yanomami Amazon territory

Rubens Valente 17 Jun 2026

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