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Indigenous midwives in Panama strive to preserve traditional medicine for maternal health

Short on funds and long on risk, Venezuelan conservation groups worry for future

In Cambodia, Indigenous villagers lose forest & land amid carbon offset project

What’s at stake for the environment in Venezuela’s upcoming election?

Can a carbon offset project really secure Indigenous rights in authoritarian Cambodia?

Thai plan to redraw boundaries of tiger reserve sparks concern and criticism

A Guatemalan reserve turns from civil war refuge to deforestation hotspot

Space mission that maps forests in 3D makes an early comeback

‘Extinct’ trees found in Tanzania spark hope for ecosystem recovery

Ugandan chimps are eating bat guano, raising concerns over human epidemics

Conservation pays and everyone’s benefitting from it (commentary)

Sumatra pulp & paper giants violate zero-deforestation pledge, activists allege

Panama’s ‘Caribbean Corridor’ highway threatens three protected areas, critics say

“Game over” for the Amazon forest and global climate if Trump wins? (commentary)

Indonesia’s oil palm smallholders get a boost in bid for sustainability

As logging booms in Suriname, forest communities race to win land rights

Climate surprises: Amazonia and the lessons of Brazil’s catastrophic flood in Rio Grande do Sul (commentary)

Protected areas benefit nature & people, study says — with caveats

Study says 40% of Amazon region is potentially conserved — more than officially recorded

Study: A third of Africa’s great apes at risk from mining of transition metals

‘Miracle’ in miniature as rare new plant defies deforestation in Ecuador

Hydropower dams further undermine REDD+ efforts in Cambodia

History repeats as logging linked to Cambodian hydropower dam in Cardamoms

Investigation confirms more abuses on Cameroon, Sierra Leone Socfin plantations

Mongabay at 25: A Reflection on the Journey and Future

Revealed: Illegal cattle boom in Arariboia territory in deadliest year for Indigenous Guajajara

How effective is the EU’s marquee policy to reduce the illegal timber trade?

Brazil’s BR-319 Highway: The latest maneuver to obtain approval for an environmental disaster (commentary)

Deforestation in Earth’s largest rainforest continues to plummet despite a rise in fires

In Peru’s Madre de Dios, deforestation from mining brings huge economic losses

Solutions to avoid loss of environmental, social and governance investment

Death of Umi sparks concern over electric threat to Sumatran elephants

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