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Settlers invading, deforesting Colombian national parks ‘at an unstoppable speed’

Antonio José Paz Cardona 19 May 2021

After gold miners shoot Yanomani people, Brazil cuts environmental regulation further

Mongabay.com 13 May 2021

In the Honduran Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, an illegal road for cattle and drugs

Ashoka Mukpo 13 May 2021

Relocating mangroves for Indonesian highway ‘not that easy,’ expert warns

L. Darmawan 4 May 2021

Déjà vu as palm oil industry brings deforestation, pollution to Amazon

Karla Mendes 12 Mar 2021

Papua deforestation highlights eastward shift of Indonesia forest clearing

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Mar 2021
Manaus as seen from satellite. © Microsoft Zoom.

Brazil’s BR-319: Politicians capitalize on the Manaus oxygen crisis to promote a disastrous highway (Commentary)

Philip Fearnside; Maryane Andrade; and Lucas Ferrante 7 Feb 2021

Planned coal-trucking road threatens a forest haven for Sumatran frogs

Elviza Diana, Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Jan 2021

Deforestation spurred by road project creeps closer to Sumatra wildlife haven

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 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

Brazilian woman threatened by Amazon loggers wins global human rights award

Thais Borges and Mauricio Torres 18 Dec 2020
Sumatran elephants. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

A forest in Sumatra disappears for farms and roads. So do its elephants

Mongabay Indonesia and Tempo 14 Dec 2020

Planned road to bisect pristine, biodiverse Brazilian Amazon national park

Ana Ionova 3 Dec 2020

Trans-Purus: Brazil’s last intact Amazon forest at immediate risk (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside; Lucas Ferrante; Aurora M. Yanai; and Marcos Antonio Isaac Júnior 24 Nov 2020
Construction on the Pan Borneo Highway in northern Sabah. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

Activists in Malaysia call on road planners to learn the lessons of history

John Cannon 13 Nov 2020

Road-paving project threatens a wildlife-rich reserve in Indonesia’s Papua

Asrida Elisabeth 11 Nov 2020

BR-319: The beginning of the end for Brazil’s Amazon forest (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 3 Nov 2020

Long entrenched Brazilian military mindset is key to Amazon policy: Expert

Peter Speetjens 26 Oct 2020

Planned road projects threaten Sumatran rhino habitat, experts say

Junaidi Hanafiah 26 Oct 2020

Deforestation threatens to wipe out a primate melting pot in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Oct 2020

Sumatran bridge project in elephant habitat may exacerbate degradation

Taufik Wijaya 7 Oct 2020

When roads cross wilderness areas, plant pathogens can hitch a ride

Ian Morse 2 Oct 2020

Paper giant APP’s Sumatran road project cuts through elephant habitat

Taufik Wijaya 21 Sep 2020
Boy with a 'dorado' catfish. Photo by Michael Goulding.

Why the health of the Amazon River matters to us all: An interview with Michael Goulding

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Sep 2020

Infrastructure plans imperil Latin America’s forests: Analysis

Mongabay.com 2 Sep 2020
a tree fern savanna in the Cromwell Mountains of Papua New Guinea courtesy of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Study revealing New Guinea’s plant life ‘first step’ toward protection

John Cannon 25 Aug 2020

Indonesian case highlights potential for long-term harms of corruption

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Aug 2020
Sumatran elephants. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesia approves coal road project through forest that hosts tigers, elephants

Elviza Diana 13 Jul 2020

Turtles and tortoises in trouble: More than half of all species face extinction

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jul 2020

Experts see environmental, social fallout in Indonesia’s infrastructure push

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jun 2020

‘I’ll never be ready for this port,’ locals say of Colombia’s proposed project

Kimberley Brown 8 Jun 2020

Bornean farmers and fishers brace as a new port opens in their midst

Aseanty Pahlevi 2 Jun 2020

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