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Myanmar’s troubled forestry sector seeks global endorsement after coup

Mongabay.com 8 Feb 2021

Brazil timber imports ‘may have breached US flooring giant’s probation’

Jack Davies 8 Feb 2021

Report: Illegal Russian lumber flooded Europe despite timber laws

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2020

TIME’s list of 100 most influential people in 2020 includes Indigenous Waorani leader

Kimberley Brown 24 Sep 2020

Solomon Islands environmental defender faces life sentence for arson charge

Louise Hunt 18 Sep 2020
Chainsawing wood. Image by Mike Smith via Wikimedia Commons (CC 2.0).

Threatened species caught in crossfire of ongoing land conflict in Myanmar

Aimee Gabay 10 Sep 2020

Company investigated for timber trafficking gets stimulus from Peru government

Yvette Sierra Praeli 25 Aug 2020

In Philippines’ Palawan, top cop linked to assault on environmental officer

Keith Anthony Fabro 11 Jun 2020
Teak decking on a luxury yacht at the London Boat Show, January 2018. Photo by Sophie Cohen/Mongabay.

Investigation exposes European firms exploiting loophole to import Myanmar teak

Mongabay.com 28 May 2020

Indonesia drops panned plan to scrap legality license for wood exports

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 May 2020

Companies use COVID-19 to weaken standards, secure subsidies: Report

Mongabay.com 23 Apr 2020

Indonesia risks timber trade with EU after scrapping license rules

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Mar 2020

New evidence suggests Ivorian timber merits tougher EUTR due diligence (commentary)

Brad Mulley 24 Mar 2020
In 2015, the largest seizure of Peruvian timber was made in the Yacu Kallpa vessel. Photo courtesy of the Environmental Research Agency (EIA).

California lawmakers introduce legislation to fight tropical deforestation

Ashoka Mukpo 24 Feb 2020
Nyonié savannaah, Gabon. Image by Christian Vigna via Wikicommons (CC BY-NC-4.0)

Eco-tourism isn’t enough to develop a country: Q&A with Gabon’s environment minister, Lee White

Matthew Hatthingh 10 Feb 2020
Experts fear that international markets will close their doors to Peru due to illegal timber. Photo courtesy of the Environmental Research Agency (EIA).

U.S. lumber company found importing high-risk Peruvian timber

Michael Tatarski 23 Jan 2020

‘Tainted timber’ from Myanmar widely used in yachts seized in the Netherlands

Malavika Vyawahare 25 Dec 2019

Deforestation for potential rubber plantation raises concerns in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 19 Dec 2019

Research points to low forensic capacity to tackle timber fraud in U.S.

John Cannon 4 Nov 2019
Timber at the port of Antwerp. Photo: Philippe Verbelen/Greenpeace

Gabonese timber linked to illegal logging seized in Antwerp

Jim Tan 25 Jul 2019

New CITES head on next COP, reining in online wildlife trafficking, and more

Mike Gaworecki 25 Jun 2019

Land grabbing, cattle ranching ravage Colombian Amazon after FARC demobilization

Taran Volckhausen 30 May 2019

Solomon Islanders imprisoned for trying to stop the logging of their forests

Louise Hunt 17 May 2019

A new election brings little hope for Solomon Islands’ vanishing forests

Louise Hunt 17 May 2019
Ankarana sportive lemur (Lepilemur ankaranensis), an endangered species whose habitat is threatened by rosewood logging. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Singapore acquits trader in world’s biggest rosewood bust, worth $50m

Edward Carver 19 Apr 2019

U.S. companies implicated in illegal timber trade from West Africa

James Fair 18 Apr 2019
The landscape of Garamba National Park in DRC. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

EU customers warned over possible illegal timber from the Congo

Ashoka Mukpo 27 Mar 2019

European Parliament to vote on timber legality agreement with Vietnam

John Cannon 11 Mar 2019
Natural Burmese teak on a deck at the London Boat Show. Photo by Sophie Cohen/Mongabay.

Late timber kingpin who plundered Myanmar’s forests unmasked

Lauren Crothers 5 Mar 2019

Peru: Report reveals high rates of illegality in timber extraction

Yvette Sierra Praeli 14 Feb 2019
Indigenous women march in Puyo, Ecuador on March 8, 2018. Photo by Kimberley Brown/Mongabay.

To fight deforestation first tackle inequality, study says

Kimberley Brown 8 Feb 2019
Rainbow over the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Time to shift focus to existing environmental laws, says new UN report

Kimberley Brown 25 Jan 2019

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