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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

Tiger on the highway

Mongabay.com 16 Dec 2020
Sumatran elephants. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

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

Mongabay Indonesia, 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

Indonesian levee project serves industry over community, study says

Basten Gokkon 22 May 2020

Amazon road projects could lead to Belize-size loss of forest, study shows

Maurício Angelo 14 May 2020

Large indigenous territories are necessary for culture and biodiversity in Brazil, study says

Liz Kimbrough 13 May 2020

Bolsonaro revives a plan to carve a road through one of Brazil’s last untouched areas

Fernanda Wenzel/oeco 11 May 2020

Forest clearing proceeds for dam in Sumatra despite locals’ land claims

Barita News Lumbanbatu 7 May 2020

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