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Visualizing the impacts of human disturbance on tropical forest biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 26 Jul 2017

Soy King Blairo Maggi wields power over Amazon’s fate, say critics

Jenny Gonzales 13 Jul 2017

DJ remixes the sounds of birds, lemurs, and more to inspire conservation

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jul 2017

Amazon infrastructure EIAs under-assess biodiversity; scientists offer solutions

Claire Salisbury 6 Jul 2017

New highway brings deforestation near two Colombian national parks

Taran Volckhausen 21 Jun 2017

Brazil evicts 80 rural peasant families, awards land thieves parcel

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 21 Jun 2017

Brazil on verge of legitimizing Amazon land theft on a grand scale, warn NGOs

Mauricio Torres, Isabel Harari, Sue Branford 15 Jun 2017
Confiscated guns, snares and chainsaws in Cambodia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Long plagued by illegal logging, Cambodia faces accusations of corruption

Lauren Crothers 12 Jun 2017
A sign directs logging trucks to timber depots set up along the Vietnamese border with Cambodia. Photo courtesy of EIA.

Vietnam pledges to investigate massive illegal logging violations as international pressure grows

Michael Tatarski 31 May 2017

Not out of the woods: Concerns remain with Nigerian superhighway

John Cannon 26 May 2017

On the road to ‘smart development’

John Cannon 25 May 2017
Maps and charts display information for teams to use as they plan the route of a new road. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Experts explore sustainable infrastructure amid major development needs

Michael Tatarski 23 May 2017

Rebel road expansion brings deforestation to remote Colombian Amazon

Taran Volckhausen 19 May 2017

A stubborn dreamer who fought to save Amazon’s Waimiri-Atroari passes

Sue Branford 18 May 2017

Bill Laurance on the “infrastructure tsunami” sweeping the planet

Mike Gaworecki 17 May 2017

Manmade noise pollution even more prevalent in US protected areas than researchers expected

Mike Gaworecki 16 May 2017
Not for republication. Image by Rod Harbinson/Rodharbinson.com

Indigenous groups, activists risk arrest to blockade logging in Malaysia

Rod Harbinson 8 May 2017

“We don’t believe in words anymore”: Indians stand against Temer govt.

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 3 May 2017

Over the bridge: The battle for the future of the Kinabatangan

John Cannon 3 May 2017

Cross River superhighway changes course in Nigeria

John Cannon 28 Apr 2017

Amazon’s fate hangs on outcome of war between opposing worldviews

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 27 Apr 2017

Canceled: Plans for a bridge in a critical wildlife area in Borneo have been scrapped

Mongabay.com 20 Apr 2017

Deforestation has become big business in the Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 18 Apr 2017

Amazon land speculators poised to gain control of vast public lands

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 27 Mar 2017

Among their many impacts, roads are driving rapid evolutionary adaptation in adjacent populations

Mike Gaworecki 15 Mar 2017

Successful forest protection in DRC hinges on community participation

John Cannon 12 Mar 2017

Aceh governor-elect: ‘I myself will cancel’ controversial geothermal project in Sumatran rainforest

Junaidi Hanafiah 11 Mar 2017

Where the forest grants went

Harriet Williams 6 Mar 2017

Scrapping Nigerian superhighway buffer isn’t enough, say conservation groups

John Cannon 22 Feb 2017

Protected areas found to be ‘significant’ sources of carbon emissions

Benji Jones 17 Feb 2017

Getting there: The rush to turn the Amazon into a soy transport corridor

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 15 Feb 2017

Thap Lan: Thailand’s unsung forest gem under threat, but still abrim with life

Demelza Stokes 31 Jan 2017

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