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Brazil leads Amazon in forest loss this year, Indigenous and protected areas hold out

Liz Kimbrough 6 Oct 2021

Look beyond carbon credits to put a price on nature’s services, experts say

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 4 Oct 2021

For companies eyeing net-zero carbon emissions, ‘no clue how to get there’

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 4 Oct 2021
Rainforest in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Jane Goodall launches effort in support of planting 1 trillion trees by 2030

Mongabay.com 23 Sep 2021

When a tree falls in the forest, you can still hear the birdsong

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 22 Sep 2021

Fires in the Amazon have already impacted 90% of plant and animal species

Suzana Camargo 21 Sep 2021

Environmental activist ‘well-hated’ by Myanmar junta is latest to be arrested

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 9 Sep 2021

‘Join us for the Amazon,’ Indigenous leaders tell IUCN in push for protection

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Sep 2021

Borneo’s bearded pigs and traditional hunters adapted to oil palms. Then came swine fever

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 8 Sep 2021

New study offers latest proof that Brazilian Amazon is now a net CO2 source

Chris Arsenault 1 Sep 2021

Climate change threatens traditional extractive communities in the Amazon

Sibélia Zanon 30 Aug 2021

Grain production depends on ending deforestation, studies show

Maurício Angelo 30 Aug 2021
An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo

Highway cutting through Heart of Borneo poised to be ‘very, very bad’

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 23 Aug 2021

Shoe-leather science helps quadruple protected area in Peruvian Amazon

Yvette Sierra Praeli 10 Aug 2021

Ending Amazon deforestation a top priority on Colombian minister’s D.C. visit

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 2 Aug 2021
Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

New index measuring rainforest vulnerability to sound alarm on tipping points

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 28 Jul 2021

There’s still room to save Asia’s hoolock gibbons, study says, but only just

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 27 Jul 2021

Protected areas keep adjacent lands safe, but face losing their own protection

Liz Kimbrough 21 Jul 2021

Gabon becomes first African country to get paid for protecting its forests

Jim Tan 20 Jul 2021

Brazil government faces heat over plan that could underreport forest fires

Juliana Ennes 19 Jul 2021

Road construction imperils tree kangaroo recovery in PNG

John Cannon 19 Jul 2021

Bank risk policies failing to protect Amazon from oil-related threats: Report

Ashoka Mukpo 14 Jul 2021

Global demand for manganese puts Kayapó Indigenous land under pressure

Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 14 Jul 2021

Armed with data and smartphones, Amazon communities boost fight against deforestation

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 12 Jul 2021

Soy and cattle team up to drive deforestation in South America: Study

Liz Kimbrough 12 Jul 2021
Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge needs a makeover. Is rainforest lumber still in style?

Ashoka Mukpo 8 Jul 2021

‘I am Indigenous, not pardo’: Push for self-declaration in Brazil’s census

Karla Mendes 30 Jun 2021

In Rio de Janeiro, Indigenous people fight to undo centuries of erasure

Karla Mendes 30 Jun 2021

In Boa Vista, Indigenous Brazilians retake their identity through education

Nayra Wladimila 29 Jun 2021
Sabah’s remaining elephants are hemmed in by oil palm plantations, and scientists worry that stretches of the Pan Borneo Highway could further fragment the population. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

NGOs call for alternative routes for Bornean road to avoid wildlife habitat

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 29 Jun 2021

Exhibition showcases Claudia Andujar’s half-century fight for the Yanomami

Sue Branford 24 Jun 2021

Under assault at home, Indigenous leaders get a violent welcome in Brasília

Fernanda Wenzel 24 Jun 2021

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