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EU ‘moving the goal posts’ with new timber requirement, Indonesia says

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Nov 2022
Timber in Pará state and other parts of the Brazilian Amazon can bypass regulatory permits, allowing illegal wood to be sold domestically and internationally. Federal environmental agencies play an essential role in preventing this from happening, experts say.

If the US aspires to climate leadership, it must break its addiction to the products driving forest destruction (commentary)

Sam Lawson 7 Nov 2022
The Gabonese and Congolese forests help to create the rainfall in the Sahel. Image by Axel Rouvin via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Tracking the moves of Asian forestry companies in Central Africa (analysis)

Alain Karsenty 21 Oct 2022
This photo of logged old-growth forest outside Olympia National Park, shows what can happen when mature forests aren’t given full protection.

New study identifies mature forests on U.S. federal lands ripe for protection

Justin Catanoso 4 Oct 2022

The Fixers: Top U.S. flooring retailers linked to Brazilian firm probed for corruption

Karla Mendes 29 Sep 2022
Macaws fly over the rainforests of Peru.

Illegal logging and trade in fine wood threaten Wampis communities in the Peruvian Amazon

Enrique Vera 9 Sep 2022
A group of Pataxó

With plantation takeover, Brazil’s Indigenous Pataxó move to reclaim their land

Sarah Sax 14 Jul 2022

End old-growth logging in carbon-rich ‘crown jewel’ of U.S. forests: Study

John Cannon 8 Jun 2022
A great hornbill in a Malaysian rainforest.

Outcry in Malaysia as failure to replant forests sparks ‘cover-up’ accusation

Rachel Donald 15 Apr 2022
A barge transports teak logs

Countries that sanctioned Myanmar’s junta are still buying their timber: Report

Carolyn Cowan 7 Apr 2022
Rosewood stacked for river transport in Madagascar, 2010.

Madagascar’s insistence on using seized rosewood rattles conservationists

Malavika Vyawahare 29 Mar 2022

Luxury wood market driving extinction of rare ipê trees, report warns

Maxwell Radwin 14 Mar 2022
Netty Joyce Mukanganise tends her tobacco-curing barn. Image by Tonderayi Mukeredzi for Mongabay.

Zimbabwe’s forests go up in smoke to feed its tobacco habit

Tonderayi Mukeredzi 3 Feb 2022

Vietnam’s timber legality program not making a dent in risky wood imports

Carolyn Cowan 2 Feb 2022

As Malaysian state resumes log exports, Indigenous advocates warn of fallout

Rachel Donald 19 Jan 2022

Despite sanctions, U.S. companies still importing Myanmar teak, report says

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 11 Jan 2022

Colombia’s new anti-deforestation law provokes concern for small-scale farmers

Christina Noriega 10 Jan 2022

Dual pressures of hunting, logging threaten wildlife in Myanmar, study shows

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 31 Dec 2021

How can illegal timber trade in the Greater Mekong be stopped?

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 30 Dec 2021
Illegally logged rosewood from Masoala and Marojejy in Antalaha, Madagascar, circa 2005.

Kenya court orders return of $13m in seized rosewood to suspected traffickers

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Dec 2021

Myanmar teak is tainted. Time to jettison it, some yacht-making insiders say

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Dec 2021

How does political instability in the Mekong affect deforestation?

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 23 Dec 2021

To end illegal deforestation, Brazil may legalize it entirely, experts warn

Meghie Rodrigues 20 Dec 2021

Where does the Greater Mekong’s illegal timber go?

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 16 Dec 2021

For Mekong officials fighting timber traffickers, a chance to level up

John Cannon 13 Dec 2021

Why has illegal logging increased in the Greater Mekong?

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 9 Dec 2021
Furniture CIFOR

Amid a furniture boom, timber certification is just a start, say experts

Carolyn Cowan 2 Dec 2021

Liberia loggers felling trees outside concession as government stands by

James Giahyue 23 Nov 2021

The Greater Mekong region: A hotspot of wildlife and crime

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 17 Nov 2021

Relying on green labels to address our thirst for the products of deforestation would be a disaster (commentary)

Sam Lawson 8 Nov 2021

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

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 9 Sep 2021

Italian firms flout EU rules to trade in illegal Myanmar timber, report says

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 2 Sep 2021

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