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Huge logs are delivered daily to the Koh Kong provincial prison in Cambodia

Forest behind bars: Logging network operating out of Cambodian prison in the Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn 26 May 2023
Wood pellets for biomass energy. Image courtesy of Dogwood Alliance.

Financial downturn at Enviva could mean trouble for biomass energy

Justin Catanoso 25 May 2023
White-handed gibbon

U.S. traders flouting sanctions on buying Myanmar teak, report says

Carolyn Cowan 22 May 2023
Brightly-coloured seals and white stenciled writing on the ends of logs at Gabon's Nkok SEZ. Image courtesy GSEZ.

Corruption threatens timber traceability in Nkok, Gabon

Elodie Toto 10 May 2023

Forests & Finance: Agroforestry in Cameroon and reforestation in South Africa

Mongabay.com 3 May 2023
Eurasian lynx mother and cub.

Could biodiversity be a key to better forest carbon storage in Europe?

Mark Hillsdon 13 Apr 2023

Logged and loaded: Cambodian prison official suspected in massive legalized logging operation

Gerald Flynn 8 Mar 2023
Children relaxing in the clear water of a shallow river in Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of Congo. Image by Pieter Henket (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Deforestation threatens local populations in Republic of Congo’s Sangha

Lawon Olalekan 6 Mar 2023

Orangutan death in Sumatra points to human-wildlife conflict, illegal trade

Ayat S. Karokaro, Sri Wahyuni 6 Mar 2023

Forests & finance: A lawsuit, an import ban, and restoring Zambian forests

Mongabay.com 23 Feb 2023

Nepal’s community forest program misses the biodiversity for the trees

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Feb 2023
A man planting a tree.

Dollars and chainsaws: Can timber production help fund global reforestation?

Gianluca Cerullo 5 Jan 2023
Wood chips piled in mounds more than 6 meters (20 feet) high cover the lot of the Enviva wood pellet plant in Ahoskie, North Carolina. Enviva says that it uses wood waste to produce pellets. The whistleblower and Mongabay’s on site investigation at a North Carolina clear-cut site and at the Ahoskie plant provided evidence to the contrary. Image by Justin Catanoso for Mongabay.

The Netherlands to stop paying subsidies to ‘untruthful’ biomass firms

Justin Catanoso 23 Dec 2022
A deforestated site in Edenton, North Carolina.

Whistleblower: Enviva claim of ‘being good for the planet… all nonsense’

Justin Catanoso 5 Dec 2022
Sitio Paho, Pala’wan Indigenous leader Mami Lapasan, carrying a heavy load of almaciga resin.

A Philippine resin trade proves sustainable for forests, but not tappers

Keith Anthony Fabro 30 Nov 2022

Indonesia’s orangutans declining amid ‘lax’ and ‘laissez-faire’ law enforcement

Basten Gokkon 25 Nov 2022

With new EU rules ahead, Indonesia adds sustainability to its timber legality system

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Nov 2022

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

Report unveils ties between Indonesian conglomerate Sinar Mas and Canada’s Paper Excellence

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Nov 2022
Deramakot forest reserve is a FSC-certified logging concession in Sabah, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

With FSC rule change, deforesters once blocked from certification get a new shot

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Oct 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

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

Karla Mendes 29 Sep 2022
Torrance Coste stands on a stump

British Columbia delays promised protections as old growth keeps falling

Justin Catanoso 14 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
Mangrove forest on Nosy Lonjo, Antsiranana, Madagascar. Image by Kenguinaud via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The Western Indian Ocean lost 4% of its mangroves in 24 years, report finds

Mark Hillsdon 7 Sep 2022
A community member carries mangrove seedlings to be planted. Image by Orji Sunday for Mongabay.

Niger Delta mangroves in ‘grave danger’ from oil spills, poverty, invasive species

Orji Sunday 22 Aug 2022
Chhum Rotha and his fellow monks join the replanting efforts in Phnom Tamao.

Cambodian government cancels development of Phnom Tamao forest amid outcry

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 11 Aug 2022
A group of Pataxó

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

Sarah Sax 14 Jul 2022

Net-zero commitments must include more anti-deforestation policies, UN tells private sector

Maxwell Radwin 5 Jul 2022
A giant mahogany tree, like this one in Cashu, is a rich target for illegal timbering in the Amazon. Photo courtesy Jason Houston.

Mahogany, a pillar of the rainforest, needs support (commentary)

Sheam Satkuru 14 Jun 2022

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

John Cannon 8 Jun 2022

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