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World’s biggest deforestation project gets underway in Papua for sugarcane

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Sep 2024
Tiger in India. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

As in India, tigers in Nepal may seek refuge in sugarcane fields

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Aug 2024

Sugarcane megaproject poses latest threat to Papua’s forests, communities

Hans Nicholas Jong, Sarjan Lahay 19 Jun 2024
Christine Maïsali, a victim of a work accident on SOSUCAM's plantations, with her husband, Farwe Kossombele.

Labor abuse and work accidents on plantations of Cameroon’s largest sugar producer

Yannick Kenné 31 Jan 2024
Brazilian environment ministry's IBAMA carryinh out an operation to combat the illegal use of pesticides in western Bahia's Cerrado in 2018.

Study links pesticides to child cancer deaths in Brazilian Amazon & Cerrado

Shi En Kim 10 Nov 2023
The last pocket of forest in Botum Sakor National Park is threatened by new roads, some of which are demarcation boundaries for parcels of forested land that have been awarded to Cambodian senator and tycoon Ly Yong Phat's family. Photo by Gerald Flynn/Mongabay.

Cambodia awards swath of national park forest to tycoon Ly Yong Phat’s son

Gerald Flynn & Meng Kroypunlok 26 Jul 2023
Man spraying pesticides in woods. Image by Gilmer Diaz Estela via Pexels.

Poisoned by pesticides: Health crisis deepens in Brazil’s Indigenous communities

Aimee Gabay 16 Jan 2023

Casinos, condos and sugar cane: How a Cambodian national park is being sold down the river

James Fair 4 May 2021

Sugarcane threatens Amazon forest and world climate; Brazilian ethanol is not clean (commentary)

Lucas Ferrante and Philip M. Fearnside 18 Nov 2019

In surprise move, Brazil has removed restrictions on Amazon sugarcane production

Naira Hofmeister 13 Nov 2019

Dam in Ethiopia has wiped out indigenous livelihoods, report finds

John Cannon 11 Jun 2019

Video: Scientists surprised to discover tiny toadlets can glow

Morgan Erickson-Davis 29 Mar 2019

Another 700 hectares of Bolivian rainforest lost to sugarcane surge

Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Nov 2016

Exclusive: Rainforest rapidly cleared for sugarcane in Bolivia

Eduardo Franco Berton 12 Oct 2016

Advances from oil palm interests leave Sulawesi village unmoved

Christopel Paino 20 Oct 2015

Indonesia to revive controversial sugarcane plan in Aru?

Sapariah Saturi 23 Jun 2015

Brazilian farmers urge return of big cats to Cerrado to protect crops from rampaging peccaries

Brendan Borrell 7 Apr 2015

New Guinea rainforest being leveled for palm oil, revealing gaps in zero deforestation pacts

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Feb 2015

Indonesia to squander fuel savings on biofuel subsidies that may drive deforestation, say groups

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Feb 2015

Cargill commits to zero deforestation across entire global supply chain: all commodities

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Sep 2014

Brazil should convert pasture, not cerrado for biofuel crops

Mongabay.com 25 Jun 2014

Commodity eco-certification skyrockets, but standards slip

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 May 2014

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