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Aerial view of Javari river in the Brazilian Amazon. Image by Rhett A. Butler

In Brazil, COVID-19 outbreak paves way for invasion of indigenous lands

Sam Cowie 10 Apr 2020

Indonesia risks timber trade with EU after scrapping license rules

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Mar 2020

Indonesia ends timber legality rule, stoking fears of illegal logging boom

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Mar 2020

Brazil drastically reduces controls over suspicious Amazon timber exports

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 11 Mar 2020

Coronavirus outbreak hits Vietnam’s timber sector

Michael Tatarski 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

Brazil’s Bolsonaro creates Amazon Council and Environmental Police force

Jan Rocha 24 Jan 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

Enforce Brazilian laws to curb criminal Amazon deforestation: study

Karla Mendes and Elisângela Mendonça 4 Nov 2019

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

John Cannon 4 Nov 2019

CITES appeals to countries to watch out for trafficked Malagasy rosewood

Malavika Vyawahare 7 Oct 2019

Madagascar no longer insisting on selling its seized rosewood, for now

Malavika Vyawahare 30 Aug 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

Amazon infrastructure puts 68% of indigenous lands / protected areas at risk: report

Jenny Gonzales 28 Jun 2019

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

Mike Gaworecki 25 Jun 2019

Brazil’s Roraima state at mercy of 2019 wildfires as federal funds dry up

Caio de Freitas Paes 25 Jun 2019

Former Brazilian enviro ministers blast Bolsonaro environmental assaults

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 23 May 2019

Dismantling of Brazilian environmental protections gains pace

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 8 May 2019

China, EU, US trading with Brazilian firms fined for Amazon deforestation: report

Karla Mendes 6 May 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

Bolsonaro government takes aim at Vatican over Amazon meeting

Jan Rocha 20 Feb 2019

Brazil sees growing wave of anti-indigenous threats, reserve invasions

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 19 Feb 2019

10 reasons U.S. must hold Peru to trade deal and protect Amazon (commentary)

David Hill 15 Feb 2019

Brazil’s indigenous agency acts to protect isolated Kawahiva people

Sue Branford 3 Jan 2019

Bolsonaro hands over indigenous land demarcation to agriculture ministry

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 2 Jan 2019
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018

Brazil: Bolsonaro supporter works to imprison Dorothy Stang’s successor

Daniel Camargos, Roberto Cataldo 28 Dec 2018
In 2015, the largest seizure of Peruvian timber was made in the Yacu Kallpa vessel. Photo courtesy of the Environmental Research Agency (EIA).

Investors told to wise up over cost of environmental crime

James Fair 20 Dec 2018

Amazon indigenous groups and truckers ally to oppose Brazil’s Grainrail

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 6 Dec 2018

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