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How a series of shady deals turned a chunk of Borneo into a sea of oil palm

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 27 Mar 2018

How Indonesia’s Seruyan district became an epicenter of fires and haze

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 26 Mar 2018

Brazil ignored U.N. letters warning of land defender threats, record killings

Jenny Gonzales 23 Mar 2018

Company outed for fires in Indonesian palm lease still clearing forests in timber concession, NGO finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Mar 2018

More than 40 percent of Madagascar’s freshwater life sliding toward extinction, IUCN finds

Mongabay.com 22 Mar 2018

How the son of a tailor rose to power in Indonesia’s palm oil heartland

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 22 Mar 2018

Brazilian lawmakers funded by donors guilty of environmental crimes: report

Anna Sophie Gross 21 Mar 2018

How one of Indonesia’s biggest companies cut a secret deal to plant oil palm in Borneo

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 20 Mar 2018

Ecuador: Sarayaku leader Patricia Gualinga defends territory despite threats

Isabel Riofrio 19 Mar 2018

Indonesia launches bid to restore national park that’s home to tigers, elephants

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Mar 2018

Oil palm plantations’ dearth of biodiversity rubs off on nearby forests, study shows

Mongabay.com 19 Mar 2018

Five years after zero-deforestation vow, little sign of progress from Indonesian pulp giant

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Mar 2018

Camera traps nab crop-raiding animals near farms in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 14 Mar 2018

Small hydropower a big global issue overlooked by science and policy

Claire Salisbury 13 Mar 2018

Debates heat up as Indonesian palm oil moratorium is about to be signed

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Mar 2018

Cerrado: appreciation grows for Brazil’s savannah, even as it vanishes

Alicia Prager, Flávia Milhorance 12 Mar 2018

NGOs seek suspension of forest-related funding to DRC in response to proposed end to logging moratorium

John Cannon 8 Mar 2018

Jaguar numbers rising at field sites, WCS says

Mongabay.com 7 Mar 2018

Analysis: the Brazilian Supreme Court’s New Forest Code ruling

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 7 Mar 2018
Photo courtesy of Semana Sostenible.

In Colombia, a national park’s expansion announced as deforestation progresses

Esteban Montaño, Semana Sostenible 6 Mar 2018

Amazon forest to savannah tipping point could be far closer than thought (commentary)

Tom Lovejoy, Carlos Nobre 5 Mar 2018

In eastern Indonesia, a forest tribe pushes back against miners and loggers

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Mar 2018

Brazil high court Forest Code ruling largely bad for environment, Amazon: NGOs

Sue Branford 1 Mar 2018

Pepsi cuts off Indonesian palm oil supplier over labor, sustainability concerns

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Mar 2018

‘S.O.S.’ carved out of former plantation shines a light on palm oil-driven deforestation

Mongabay.com 1 Mar 2018

Andes dams twice as numerous as thought are fragmenting the Amazon

Claire Asher 28 Feb 2018

Norsk Hydro accused of Amazon toxic spill, admits ‘clandestine pipeline’

Max Nathanson 27 Feb 2018

Belo Monte legacy: harm from Amazon dam didn’t end with construction (photo story)

Maximo Anderson, Aaron Vincent Elkaim 26 Feb 2018

Scientists aim to give engineers the tools for ecologically sensitive development

John Cannon 26 Feb 2018

Activists: Palm oil must not get wider access to EU under Indonesia trade talks

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Feb 2018

Drought-driven wildfires on rise in Amazon basin, upping CO2 release

Claire Asher 22 Feb 2018

Brazil’s fundamental pesticide law under attack

Jenny Gonzales 20 Feb 2018

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