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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
Rainforest timber on a barge in Gabon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

Logging in certified concessions drove intact forest landscape loss in Congo Basin

Mike Gaworecki 30 Jan 2017

New species of poison frog discovered in Amazonian slopes of Andes in southeastern Peru

Mike Gaworecki 17 Jan 2017

‘Last frontiers of wilderness’: Intact forest plummets globally

John Cannon 13 Jan 2017

An ‘infrastructure tsunami’ for Asia: Q&A with researcher William Laurance

Isabel Esterman 6 Jan 2017

93% of world’s roadless areas are less than half the size of Cincinnati

Morgan Erickson-Davis 19 Dec 2016

The media megaphone: does it help curb bad infrastructure projects?

Daniel Pye, Alice Cuddy 7 Dec 2016

Tigers face ‘unprecedented’ threat from transport projects: WWF

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Nov 2016

Tracking down logging roads in the Congo Basin

John Cannon 20 Nov 2016

Morocco plants millions of trees along roads to fight climate change

Justin Catanoso 17 Nov 2016

Mongabay Newscast episode 5: UN Climate talks and the impending Trump presidency, conserving salamanders in Mexico, and more

Mike Gaworecki 15 Nov 2016

Nigerian superhighway project draws international attention over threats to local communities and wildlife

Mike Gaworecki 2 Nov 2016

North Sumatra’s governor wants to build a road through Mt. Leuser National Park

Ayat S. Karokaro 31 Oct 2016

‘We are revolutionaries’: Villagers fight to protect Myanmar’s forests

Katie Arnold 23 Sep 2016

Logging roads have long-lasting impacts on forests

Morgan Erickson-Davis 29 Aug 2016

Yosemite as a case study in protected area downsizing and habitat fragmentation

Mike Gaworecki 26 Aug 2016

Nixed Bolivian highway offers environmental lessons to big Brazil bank

Ana Rosa de Lima, Alexandra Ellerbeck 24 Aug 2016

World Bank lifts freeze on Cambodia loans amid protests

Daniel Pye 20 May 2016

Building roads for agricultural expansion in Brazil is aiding the spread of insects that harm crops

Mike Gaworecki 29 Apr 2016

Half of Sumatra’s forests within reach of the average bird trapper

Mongabay.com 18 Apr 2016

Massive wildfire rips through Congo rainforest – is logging to blame?

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Mar 2016

Despite population revision, Sumatran orangutans still ‘on the road to extinction’

Mongabay.com 11 Mar 2016

Nigerian government urged to halt “land grab” in Ekuri community forest

Mike Gaworecki 11 Mar 2016

Want to keep tabs on that new logging road in Peru? Well, now you can

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Mar 2016

A railroad that crosses the Amazon could be an infeasible, expensive dream for Peru

Barbara Fraser 4 Feb 2016

Malaysia plans road expansion through dwindling elephant, orangutan habitat

John Cannon 14 Jan 2016
A Bornean tarsier. Photo by Russ Mittermeier.

Potential crisis in Sabah’s amazing Kinabatangan rainforest

Russell A. Mittermeier 13 Jan 2016

New research sheds light on how to help birds in the vanishing Atlantic Forest

Apoorva Joshi 18 Dec 2015

Roads to ruin: Africa’s massive infrastructure expansions could have major consequences

John Cannon 25 Nov 2015

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