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

Carolyn Cowan 2 Dec 2021

Report: Orangutans and their habitat in Indonesia need full protection now

Basten Gokkon 19 Nov 2021

The Greater Mekong region: A hotspot of wildlife and crime

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 17 Nov 2021
primary forest in Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, by John C. Cannon/Mongabay

Bornean communities locked into 2-million-hectare carbon deal they don’t know about

John Cannon 9 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

In Mexico City’s urban sprawl, an unexpected illegal logging network thrives

Maxwell Radwin 5 Nov 2021
A long-tongued nectar bat (Macroglossus minimus), a subspecies of which is found on New Britain Island. Image via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Deforestation notches up along logging roads on PNG’s New Britain Island

John Cannon 21 Oct 2021
The forests of the Torricelli Mountain Range. Image courtesy of the Tenkile Conservation Alliance.

Deforestation threatens tree kangaroo habitat in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 14 Oct 2021

The great Koh Kong land rush: Areas stripped of protection by Cambodian gov’t being bought up

Gerald Flynn 7 Oct 2021

Monitoring reveals Indonesia’s ‘legal timber’ scheme riddled with violations

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Sep 2021

11 Mongabay investigations in two years. Here’s what we found

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Sep 2021

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

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 9 Sep 2021

Drug trafficking threatens Indigenous Shipibo communities in Peru

Enrique Vera 3 Sep 2021

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

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 2 Sep 2021

North American paper industry merger sets off environmental alarms

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Sep 2021
Old growth trees in Olympic National Park. Image courtesy of Matt Shiffler Photography via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Old-growth forests of Pacific Northwest could be key to climate action

Justin Catanoso 1 Sep 2021

Drug trafficking and illegal logging threaten Indigenous communities in Peru

Gloria Alvitres 26 Aug 2021

Dam builder denies responsibility as logjam chokes river in Malaysian Borneo

Rachel Donald 26 Aug 2021
Malayan tapir

Deforestation surge continues amid deepening uncertainty in Myanmar

Carolyn Cowan 23 Aug 2021

Indigenous Amazonian communities bear the burden of Ecuador’s balsa boom

Diego Cazar Baquero 17 Aug 2021

EU sanctions no ‘silver bullet’ against Myanmar’s illegal timber trade, experts say

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 22 Jul 2021

Road construction imperils tree kangaroo recovery in PNG

John Cannon 19 Jul 2021
Clouded leopard. Image by Ltshears via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Carving up the Cardamoms: Conservationists fear massive land grab in Cambodia

Gerald Flynn & Andrew Ball & Phoung Vantha 1 Jul 2021

Deforestation of endangered wildlife habitat continues to surge in southern Myanmar

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Jun 2021
Cacao pod in Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Farmers in the Amazon could earn 9 times more and prevent ecosystem collapse

Jonah Wittkamper; Alexander Borges Rose; and Denis Minev 22 Jun 2021

Threat of legal action against Indigenous Borneans protesting timber company

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 1 Jun 2021
Global Forest Watch tree cover loss 2001-2021 set on Planet imagery from Jun-Sep 2020.

Science refutes United Cacao’s claim it didn’t deforest Peruvian Amazon

John Cannon 25 May 2021

Illegal loggers use pandemic as cover to ramp up activity in Sulawesi

Wahyu Chandra 24 May 2021

‘Drastic forest development’: Vietnam to plant 1 billion trees — but how?

Michael Tatarski 20 May 2021
Wood that was cut for charcoal production near Katha, northern Myanmar. Villages in this area used to cut teak and other valuable trees for export, but have since started producing charcoal. The charcoal being exported to China can be made from any tree, regardless of size or kind. This amount of trees could produce about 150 bags of charcoal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

Trafficking of banned Myanmar teak lands German company with $4m fine

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 10 May 2021

Casinos, condos and sugar cane: How a Cambodian national park is being sold down the river

James Fair 4 May 2021
Keo Seima forest. Image by user Pygathrix nigripes via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Deforestation ramps up in Cambodia’s Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary

Morgan Erickson-Davis 26 Apr 2021

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