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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

Indonesian pulpwood firms told to protect peat are doing the opposite: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Aug 2021

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

Diego Cazar Baquero 17 Aug 2021
Kahuzi Biega National Park

Advocates raise alarm over proposal to reopen DRC forests to loggers

Ashoka Mukpo 13 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
Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge needs a makeover. Is rainforest lumber still in style?

Ashoka Mukpo 8 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, Andy 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, Denis Minev 22 Jun 2021

Cleaning up Cambodia’s kitchens could curb deforestation, climate change

Marissa Carruthers 22 Jun 2021

Rush to turn ‘black diamonds’ into cash eats up Uganda’s forests, fruits

Alex Tumuhimbise 17 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

Some guitar makers in pursuit of sustainable manufacturing

Stephan Boissonneault 20 Apr 2021
Deforestation in Indonesian Borneo in 2019. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

JPMorgan Chase expanding deforestation policies under shareholder pressure

Liz Kimbrough 13 Apr 2021

Australia’s pivot to plantations may be too late for nearly extinct parrots

Nick Rodway 5 Apr 2021
Men sitting under roofed shelter in the Gabonese village of Massaha. Image courtesy Graden Froese.

Logging company moves into intact Gabon forest as village fights to save it

Benjamin Evine-Binet 31 Mar 2021

Deforestation surge threatens endangered species in Tanintharyi, Myanmar

Morgan Erickson-Davis 30 Mar 2021
An Indigenous woman crossing a river. Image by Alicia MucúChoc/FAO.

Nearly half the Amazon’s intact forest on Indigenous-held lands: Report

John Cannon 25 Mar 2021

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