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Dani man in Indonesian papua. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Does community-based forest management work in the tropics?

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Nov 2017
A forestry department ground inspection team checks the timber to be exported and monitors con-tainer loading at the site before sealing the container. Photo by Ann Wang for Mongabay.

Myanmar struggles to fight the crimes of illegal logging

Ann Wang 1 Nov 2017
A car of seized rosewood close to Yu Pu check point. The driver have heard rumors have an active check point so left the car at a nearby restaurant and disappeared before the officers arrived. Photo by Ann Wang for Mongabay.

Checkpoint China: The shadowy world of timber smuggling

Ann Wang 31 Oct 2017
A​ ​temple​ ​at​ ​night​ ​in​ ​the​ ​town​ ​of​ ​Bhamo,​ ​a​n area​ ​greatly​ ​influenced​ ​by​ ​its​ ​proximity​ ​to​ ​the Chinese​ ​border. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

The wily ways of a Myanmar-China border town

Emmanuel Freudenthal 30 Oct 2017
A boat travels in a tributary to the Irrawaddy River near Katha, northern Myanmar. Along this tributary, charcoal is produced by villages and sold to traders that eventually bring it to China, where it is used in factories that make silicon metal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

The charcoal hunters

Emmanuel Freudenthal, Nathan Siegel 27 Oct 2017

Brazilian police nab Amazon timber thieves who faked forest credits

Jenny Gonzales 27 Oct 2017

Leading US plywood firm linked to alleged destruction, rights violations in Malaysia

John Cannon 19 Oct 2017

Brazil: a world champion in political and environmental devastation (commentary)

Giem Guimaraes 29 Sep 2017

Does forest certification really work?

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Sep 2017

US retailers halt sales of hardwood flooring linked to illegal logging in PNG

Mike Gaworecki 1 Aug 2017

Brazil’s Temer threatens constitutional indigenous land rights

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 1 Aug 2017

Leaked terms of huge EU-Japan trade deal spark environmental alarm

Morgan Erickson-Davis 29 Jun 2017

International illegal logging conference touches on myriad issues

Genevieve Belmaker 29 Jun 2017

Norway vexed as Brazil sends mixed message on Amazon forest protection

Jenny Gonzales 27 Jun 2017

Brazil on verge of legitimizing Amazon land theft on a grand scale, warn NGOs

Mauricio Torres, Isabel Harari, Sue Branford 15 Jun 2017
A sign directs logging trucks to timber depots set up along the Vietnamese border with Cambodia. Photo courtesy of EIA.

Vietnam pledges to investigate massive illegal logging violations as international pressure grows

Michael Tatarski 31 May 2017

Bill Laurance on the “infrastructure tsunami” sweeping the planet

Mike Gaworecki 17 May 2017
Arevs in O'Tabok, Virachey National Park, Cambodia Feb 2017. Photo courtesy of EIA.

New report details enormous corruption, illegal logging along Vietnamese border with Cambodia

Michael Tatarski 8 May 2017
A villager from Mahu cuts down a tree using a midsize chainsaw. A chainsaw can cut down a tree four times faster than an axe and handsaw. Photo by Ann Wang for Mongabay.

A fight to control chainsaws in Myanmar could turn the tide on illegal logging

Ann Wang, Genevieve Belmaker 4 May 2017
Diademed Sifaka (Propithecus diadema), a species threatened by the Madagascar rosewood trade. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Singapore convicts rosewood trader in historic CITES seizure

Edward Carver 26 Apr 2017

Paul Simon on his new tour in support of E.O. Wilson’s Half-Earth initiative

Mike Gaworecki 21 Mar 2017

Denmark prohibits companies from selling Myanmar teak on European Union markets

Mike Gaworecki 20 Mar 2017

Current regulations unable to control trade in products from slave labor, expert says

Ana Aranha, João Diaz, from Repórter Brasil 13 Mar 2017

Suppliers of Lowe’s in the US and Walmart in Brazil linked to slave labor in the Amazon

André Campos - Repórter Brasil 13 Mar 2017

Slave labor in the Amazon: Risking lives to cut down the rainforest

Tania Caliari, Ana Aranha, from Repórter Brasil 13 Mar 2017

Investigation reveals slave labor conditions in Brazil’s timber industry

Thais Lazzeri, from Repórter Brasil 13 Mar 2017

Study finds more than 350k trees illegally felled in Madagascar’s protected areas in five-year span

Mike Gaworecki 23 Feb 2017
A chainsaw cuts through a tree. Photo by Mark Franckart/Pixabay

Chain saw injuries in Myanmar tied to illegal logging

Poppy McPherson 12 Feb 2017
Carved rosewood furniture. Photo by Jane Tan Kok/Pixabay

Vietnamese luxury wooden furniture makers feel pain of regulations and deforestation

Michael Tatarski 26 Jan 2017

Smuggled to death: how loopholes and lax enforcement have sealed the fate of Siamese rosewood

Demelza Stokes 5 Jan 2017

No let-up in Thailand’s relentless, violent Siamese rosewood poaching

Demelza Stokes 4 Jan 2017
The front page of Daily Eleven in Yangon, Myanmar the day after the murder of one of its reporters. Photo by Ann Wang for Mongabay

Attacks on journalists in Myanmar highlight complications, dangers for the media

Mongabay.com 15 Dec 2016

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