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Rainforest creek in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Hartree Partners to channel $2 billion toward new carbon credits

Liz Kimbrough 28 Jul 2021

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

Jim Tan 20 Jul 2021
Zacambu River in Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

US, UK join Norway and Germany in effort to protect Peru’s rainforests

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2021
Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

Governments, companies pledge $1 billion for tropical forests

Aurora Solá, Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Apr 2021

As COP26 looms and tropical deforestation soars, REDD+ debate roars on

Peter Yeung 15 Apr 2021

Government inaction prompts voluntary REDD+ carbon credit boom in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 6 Apr 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
Cyclists with firewood on the road from Kisangani to Masako village, Democratic Republic of Congo. Image by Ollivier Girard/CIFOR (CC BY-NC-ND-2.0)

Ambitious return to carbon markets to conserve Africa’s forests

Mongabay 28 Jan 2021
Rainforest mantis in Suriname. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Rainforests: 11 things to watch in 2021

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jan 2021
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

REDD+ carbon and deforestation cuts in Amazon overestimated: Study

Peter Yeung 2 Nov 2020

Forest degradation outpaces deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Study

Claire Asher 5 Oct 2020
Deforestation in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Experts question integrity of Indonesia’s claim of avoided deforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Sep 2020
Pardalis chameleon (Furcifer pardalis), a resident of the Masoala Peninsula in northeastern Madagascar, where illegal rosewood logging has taken a heavy toll on forests. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

In the battle to save forests, a make-or-break moment for REDD+

CJ Clouse 15 Jul 2020

The U.N.’s grand plan to save forests hasn’t worked, but some still believe it can

CJ Clouse 14 Jul 2020

Market-based solutions cannot solely fund community-level conservation (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 11 May 2020
Hadzabe walinzi wa jadi, or village game scouts patrol the forests of the Yaeda Valley. Their job is to patrol protected forests and report any deforestation, poaching or creation of settlements to local authorities. Their salary is paid by Carbon Tanzania from revenue made from carbon sales. Photo by Sophie Tremblay for Mongabay.

Tourism has crashed: Are carbon credits the future for funding conservation in Africa?

Mantoe Phakathi 29 Apr 2020
The Javari river forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Investing in Amazon Rainforest Conservation: A Foreigner’s Perspective (commentary)

Jonah Wittkamper 21 Apr 2020
Forest canopy in Volcano on the big island of Hawaii. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Rainforests in 2020: 10 things to watch

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2019
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

2019: The year rainforests burned

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2019
Sunrise in East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tropical forests’ lost decade: the 2010s

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Dec 2019

Guyana refutes findings that deforestation skyrocketed after REDD+ payments stopped

Gabriel Popkin 25 Nov 2019

Tree-planting programs turn to tech solutions to track effectiveness

Malavika Vyawahare 22 Nov 2019

Carbon emissions from loss of intact tropical forest a ‘ticking time bomb’

Malavika Vyawahare 31 Oct 2019

$65 million deal to protect Congo’s forests raises concerns

John Cannon 14 Oct 2019

Nature-based climate action no longer ‘the forgotten solution’

Mike Gaworecki 27 Sep 2019

Gabon could earn up to $150 million for forest conservation

Mongabay.com 27 Sep 2019

REDD+ more competitive than critics believe, study finds

John Cannon 12 Sep 2019

New roads in Papua New Guinea may cause ‘quantum leap’ in forest loss

John Cannon 24 Jul 2019
Planet satellite image showing a mosaic of deforestation and rainforest in São Judas Tadeu, Xapuri in the state of Acre, Brazil in August 2018. Courtesy of Planet.

Amazon REDD+ scheme side-steps land rights to reward small forest producers

Claire Asher 3 Jul 2019
Timber are only allowed to be exported via ports and must be processed before export in Myanmar. Photo by Ann Wang for Mongabay.

Can REDD+ bring more women into forest conservation?

Jennifer Rigby 18 Jun 2019

Is REDD ready for its closeup? Reports vary

Mongabay.com 12 Jun 2019

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