Soy in the Brazilian Amazon The success of governments and big corporations in eliminating environmental degradation from the products we consume will play a critical role in determining the fate…
Three new private conservation areas in the Amazon-Andes region of Peru will help buffer the country's national park system while offering new opportunities for local people to benefit from protecting…
Peat draining and large-scale clearance of natural forest by APP wood supplier PT. Ruas Utama Jaya. Eyes of the Forest said the clearing occurred inside APP's Senepis Tiger Sanctuary, but…
Tropical countries may face a risk of 'peak timber' as continued logging of rainforests exceeds the capacity of forests to regenerate timber stocks and substantially increases the risk of outright…
by 19 January 2012
Mengubur kepala dalam pasir merupakan salah satu pendekatan dalam berurusan dengan keluhan-keluhan lingkungan, tapi menilai dari sukses kampanye-kampanye Greenpeace baru-baru ini, mungkin ini bukan salah satu pendekatan yang sangat efektif…
REDD does not finance first-time logging of primary forests for plantations, but concerns remain, says Greenpeace Rainforest in Colombia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. A proposed mechanism to reduce greenhouse…
2011 was designated as "Year of the Forests" by the United Nations. While there was relatively little progress on intergovernmental forest protection programs during the year, a lot happened elsewhere.…
Red-eyed treefrog My reporting for mongabay.com took me to six continents in 2011 and I was fortunate to take photos on several of the trips. Overall I added more than…
Victories won by activists around the world tops our list of the big environmental stories of the year. In this photo: a young woman is placed in handcuffs and arrested…
Peat draining and large-scale clearance of natural forest by APP wood supplier PT. Ruas Utama Jaya inside APP's Senepis Tiger Sanctuary in June and October 2011. © Eyes on the…
A program proposed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and degradation made mixed progress during climate talks in Durban. Significant questions remain about financing and safeguards to protect against…
Deforestation and forest degradation are down moderately from August through October 2011 relative to the same period a year ago, reports a satellite-based assessment released today by Imazon, a Brazilian…
November 2011 was a big month for environmental news stories. Topping the list was the Obama Administration's decision to delay the controversial Keystone pipeline which would have carried tar sands…
Forest clearing in the Bukit Tigapuluh Forest Landscape in central Sumatra. Earlier this year Greenpeace launched a report targeting toy-makers for packaging fiber sourced from APP. The centerpiece of the…
This is an expanded version of an article that ran on Yale e360 on October 3, 2011: A Revolutionary Technology is Unlocking Secrets of the Forest. High above the Amazon…
Burying your head in the sand is one approach to dealing with environmental complaints, but judging from the successes of Greenpeace’s recent campaigns, it probably isn’t a very effective one…
Rainforest in the Panama Canal Zone. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. As demonstrated by growing enthusiasm for conserving forests and the rise of the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation…
Map of the Herakles/SGSO plantation in Cameroon. Courtesy of SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund Industrial palm oil production is coming to Africa, its ancestral home. And like other places where expansion…
Rainbow over the Andean foothills of the Peruvian Amazon. Photo taken August 11 by Rhett Butler While environmentalists have long lamented the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, in recent years…
As the price of gold rises, the ecological cost mounts Illegal gold mine established in 2009 in the department of Madre de Dios. This mine encroaches on Tambopata Reserve. All…
Beach on Nosy Mangabe, a tropical island paradise for wildlife enthusiasts. Photo by Rhett Butler. A question commonly asked of me is "What is the origin of the name mongabay?"…
by 29 June 2011
Berikut ini adalah versi asli satu editorial, berjudul Will Indonesia lose the next oil palm?, yang muncul hari ini di the Jakarta Post. Hutan hujan Indonesia di Kalimantan. Foto oleh…
Photo courtesy of community members at the Remembering Navjot Sodhi Facebook page. Over the weekend I received very sad and unexpected news: my friend Navjot Sodhi, a scientist whose mentorship…
This article is a longer version of story that appeared at Yale e360: In Brazil, Palm Oil Plantations Could Help Preserve Amazon. For years now, environmentalists have become accustomed to…
Above ground biomass map of Indonesia from Saatchi at al (2011). Pada bulan Mei 2011, Presiden Republik Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono menerbitkan Instruksi Presiden mengenai moratorium selama dua tahun, menunda…
Packaging used for Barbie, Legos, and other toys linked to destruction of Indonesia's rainforests Forest clearing in the Bukit Tigapuluh Forest Landscape in central Sumatra. Some of the world's largest…
Kayapo Chief Raoni weeps at a funeral in 2002. Raoni has been a fierce opponent of the Belo Monte dam, which will flood his tribe's lands along the Xingu River.…
Above ground biomass map of Indonesia from Saatchi at al (2011). In May, Indonesia President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono issued a presidential instruction laying out the specifications for a two-year moratorium…
by 27 May 2011
Artikel ini adalah versi asli editorial Tempo. Kalimantan Barat Pada akhir 1980 di pedalaman hutan Malaysia, peneliti menemukan sejenis tanaman yang hidup dirawa gambut yang mengandung serum anti HIV. Selang…
New Brazilian government data shows an area of Amazon rainforest 10 times the size of Manhattan was cleared in the past 2 months. New data from the Brazilian government seems…
