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YEAR IN RAINFORESTS BANNER

The year in tropical rainforests: 2024

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Dec 2024

‘Time is water’: A cross-border Indigenous alliance works to save the Amazon

Francesc Badia i Dalmases 23 Dec 2024

What’s the TFFF? A forest finance tool ‘like no other’ shows potential

Mike DiGirolamo 16 Dec 2024

‘Trump is a disease’, says Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa

Daniel Camargos, from Repórter Brasil 2 Dec 2024

Canopy bridges serve a lifeline for Sumatra’s tree-dwelling primates

Basten Gokkon 31 Oct 2024
Red river hogs (Potamochoerus porcus) scavenging at a poached elephant's carcass, Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park. Image by otomops, via Wikicommons (CC BY 4.0)

Congo looks to monetize its high-integrity forests

Rosie Pioth 9 Oct 2024
Luís Adriano Nascimento, chemist and vice-coordinator of the Laboratório de Óleos da Amazônia (Amazon Oils Laboratory, LOA), stands at a lab bench with a wide collection of Amazonian fruits and seeds used to make oils, biofuels and bioplastics.

Raw materials become high-value bioeconomy goods at an Amazon science park

Sarah Brown 6 Aug 2024
Hymenaea courbaril

Time for a copal comeback? The natural resin could boost Amazon’s economy

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Jul 2024

‘Extinct’ trees found in Tanzania spark hope for ecosystem recovery

Ryan Truscott 16 Jul 2024

New study reaffirms Indigenous lands key to mitigating climate change in Brazil

Sarah Sax 25 Jun 2024
River in the Amazon rainforest. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Deforestation in Earth’s largest rainforest continues to plummet despite a rise in fires

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Jun 2024
A rainbow lorikeet

Indigenous people and NGO grow a wildlife corridor in the world’s oldest rainforest

Claire Turrell 30 May 2024
Recent deforestation for oil palm in the Amazon rainforest

Governments are ramping up actions to fight environmental crime across the Amazon, but is it working? (commentary)

Robert Muggah 27 May 2024

Interview with the award-winning directors of ‘We Are Guardians’

Romi Castagnino 17 May 2024
An uncontacted Indigenous tribe in the Brazilian state of Acre.

Cross-border Indigenous efforts in Peru & Brazil aim to protect isolated groups

Aimee Gabay 18 Apr 2024
AI generated image of a satellite over South America

New technologies to map environmental crime in the Amazon Basin (commentary)

Robert Muggah, Peter Smith 12 Apr 2024
Artistic rendering of a forest shaped like a brain. AI-generated.

To reverse deforestation and protect biodiversity, build a bioeconomy in the Amazon (commentary)

Robert Muggah 23 Feb 2024
A Geoffroy's spider monkey

Tech to recover rainforest: Interview with Osa Conservation’s Carolina Pinto & Paulina Rodriguez

Abhishyant Kidangoor 21 Feb 2024

Mongabay’s top 10 podcast episodes of 2023

Mike DiGirolamo 26 Dec 2023

Indonesia remembers Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, rare policymaker who stood for nature

Junaidi Hanafiah, Richaldo Hariandja 22 Dec 2023
At least 228 freshwater dolphins have died in lakes connected to rivers, possibly killed by excess heat.

Detailed NASA analysis finds Earth and Amazon in deep climate trouble

Jenny Gonzales 21 Dec 2023

Science panel presents COP28 with blueprint for saving the Amazon

Dimitri Selibas 13 Dec 2023
Mist rising from the Amazon rainforest at dawn. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Amazon deforestation declines but fossil fuels remain contentious, COP28 shows

Sarah Brown 7 Dec 2023
Portrait of Quinto Inuma. Image courtesy of Quinto Inuma.

Safety of Peru’s land defenders in question after killing of Indigenous leader in the Amazon

Geraldine Santos, Gloria Alvitres 7 Dec 2023

Least-studied areas of Brazilian Amazon at high risk from climate change

Maurício Brum, Lucas Berti 6 Dec 2023
Indigenous conservationist Juan Julio Durand is a local leader and one of the founding members of Junglekeepers, his vision set in motion the protection of 50,000 acres of the Amazon Rainforest. Photo by Mohsin Kazmi.

How creative & emotive communication conserved 55,000 acres of Peru’s Amazon

Mike DiGirolamo 5 Dec 2023
Planet satellite images of the drought-affected Rio Negro in October 2023. Photo courtesy of Planet Labs.

What Brazil should have said at COP28 but didn’t (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 4 Dec 2023
Rainbow over rainforest and plantations in Jambi on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Photo credit Rhett A. Butler

Brazil proposes $250 billion “Tropical Forests Forever” fund for rainforests

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2023
Borneo forest

Forest restoration to boost biomass doesn’t have to sacrifice tree diversity

Carolyn Cowan 28 Nov 2023
A REDD+-supported nursery at Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary in Cambodia. Image by John Cannon/Mongabay.

Carbon credit certifier Verra updates accounting method amid growing criticism

John Cannon 28 Nov 2023
Reserva Narupa in Ecuador. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Mongabay CEO discusses slowdown in Amazon loss and other positive news

Mike DiGirolamo 21 Nov 2023
Reserva Narupa in Ecuador. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Jurisdictional REDD+ ready to fund forest-positive, socially-inclusive development in the Amazon and beyond (commentary)

Daniel Nepstad 20 Nov 2023

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