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Why intact forests are important

Morgan Erickson-Davis 26 Feb 2018

Scientists aim to give engineers the tools for ecologically sensitive development

John Cannon 26 Feb 2018

New app hopes to reduce wildlife deaths on India’s roads, railway lines

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Jan 2018

680000 acres of Amazon rainforest may be lost to Peru’s new roads

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 Jan 2018

Brazil 2018: Amazon under attack, resistance grows, courts to act, elections

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 9 Jan 2018

Top 20 forest stories of 2017

Mongabay 29 Dec 2017

Roads, dams and railways: Ten infrastructure stories from Southeast Asia in 2017

Mongabay.com 27 Dec 2017

Ferrogrão grain railway threatens Amazon indigenous groups, forest

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 4 Dec 2017

WATCH: Rare sighting of mother Sunda clouded leopard and cubs caught on film

Mike Gaworecki 29 Nov 2017

‘Much deeper than we expected’: Huge peatland offers up more surprises

John Vidal 9 Nov 2017

From carbon sink to source: Brazil puts Amazon, Paris goals at risk

Claire Salisbury 9 Nov 2017

Indonesia races against time to save new orangutan species

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Nov 2017

Mining activity causing nearly 10 percent of Amazon deforestation

Zoe Sullivan 2 Nov 2017

The Eighth Great Ape: New orangutan species discovered in Sumatra

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Nov 2017

Interoceanic Highway incites deforestation in Peru, threatens more to come

Bart Crezee 1 Nov 2017

Temer offers amnesty, erasing up to $2.1 billion in environmental crime fines

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 31 Oct 2017

Indonesia’s big development push in Papua: Q&A with program overseer Judith J. Dipodiputro

Basten Gokkon 27 Oct 2017

Brazilian police nab Amazon timber thieves who faked forest credits

Jenny Gonzales 27 Oct 2017

New study: Risky roads cause more than just environmental harm

John Cannon 24 Oct 2017

Road building threatens forests, water supplies in Kuala Lumpur area

Kate Mayberry 19 Oct 2017

Experts seek ways to mitigate environmental impacts of infrastructure boom in Asia Pacific

Basten Gokkon 9 Oct 2017

Uncontacted Amazon indigenous groups reportedly attacked by outsiders

Barbara Fraser 11 Sep 2017

‘Ecological disaster’: controversial bridge puts East Kalimantan’s green commitment to the test

Basten Gokkon 30 Aug 2017

Temer’s Amazon mining decrees derided by protestors, annulled by judge

Zoe Sullivan 30 Aug 2017

Bats and viruses: Beating back a bad reputation

John Cannon 29 Aug 2017

Temer pays back ruralists: opens Brazil, Amazon to mining, say critics

Zoe Sullivan 24 Aug 2017

Plastic Fantastic? Indonesia plans to turn waste into road tar

Luh De Suriyani 10 Aug 2017

Road projects threaten Sumatra’s last great rainforests

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Aug 2017
A truck brings supplies from Georgetown along the Linden-Lethem road. The cost of bringing in goods to the villages lying off the road, mining camps or Lethem itself makes them more expensive than in the capital. Photo by Carinya Sharples/Mongabay.

Guyana’s road to Brazil presents opportunity and challenge

Carinya Sharples 2 Aug 2017

Canopy bridges keep rainforest animals connected over gas pipeline

Claire Salisbury 2 Aug 2017

Brazil’s Temer threatens constitutional indigenous land rights

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 1 Aug 2017

Study links most Amazon deforestation to 128 slaughterhouses

Eduardo Pegurier 27 Jul 2017

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