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The crisis in the European tropical timber sector in Central Africa (commentary)

Alain Karsenty 1 Aug 2018

Tracking the shift of tropical forests from carbon sink to source

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2018

Community groups in Cambodia say logging surged with approaching election

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2018

EU demand siphons illicit timber from Ukraine, investigation finds

John Cannon 17 Jul 2018

Extractive industries threaten a million square kilometers of intact tropical forests around the globe

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jul 2018

Logging roads drive loss of intact forest in FSC-certified logging concessions

John Cannon 27 Jun 2018

The diversity of biodiversity: Connecting shrews, ants and slime molds with carbon storage

Joshua Parfitt 14 Jun 2018

Mexico’s ejidos are finding greater sustainability by involving youth and women

Mike Gaworecki 7 Jun 2018

To protect the Congolese peatlands, protect local land rights (commentary)

Bart Crezee 4 Jun 2018

Hunters are wiping out hornbills in Ghana’s forests

John Cannon 23 May 2018

More gorillas and chimpanzees living in Central Africa’s forests than thought

John Cannon 27 Apr 2018

Restoring flagging oil palm plantations to forest may benefit clouded leopards, study finds

Mongabay.com 24 Apr 2018

Island logging must go beyond current ‘best practices’ to avoid erosion: New study

Mongabay.com 23 Apr 2018

Indonesia land swap, meant to protect peatlands, risks wider deforestation, NGOs say

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Apr 2018

Indonesia’s dying timber concessions, invaded by oil palms, top deforestation table

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Apr 2018

Greenpeace International ends its Forest Stewardship Council membership

John Cannon 30 Mar 2018

Do environmental advocacy campaigns drive successful forest conservation?

Mike Gaworecki 29 Mar 2018

Borneo’s elephants prefer degraded forests, a new study finds

John Cannon 27 Mar 2018

The wind of change blowing through Ghana’s villages (commentary)

Mark Olden 23 Mar 2018

Company outed for fires in Indonesian palm lease still clearing forests in timber concession, NGO finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Mar 2018

Sarawak’s Penan now have detailed maps of their ancestral homeland

John Cannon 20 Mar 2018

Sarawak makes 80% forest preservation commitment, but some have doubts

Morgan Erickson-Davis 12 Mar 2018

How deforestation risks for investors can become opportunities for conservation (commentary)

Gabriel Thoumi, Peter Graham 9 Mar 2018

NGOs seek suspension of forest-related funding to DRC in response to proposed end to logging moratorium

John Cannon 8 Mar 2018

‘It’s our home’: Pygmies fight for recognition as forest protectors in new film

John Cannon 20 Feb 2018

Maps tease apart complex relationship between agriculture and deforestation in DRC

John Cannon 2 Feb 2018
A luxury yacht at the London Boat Show in January 2018. Photo by Sophie Cohen/Mongabay.

Luxury British yacht makers vow to examine supply chains

Sophie Cohen 23 Jan 2018

Musicians and Indigenous communities join to fight illegal logging in Peru

Yvette Sierra Praeli 21 Dec 2017

Companies still not doing enough to cut deforestation from commodities supply chains: report

Mike Gaworecki 12 Dec 2017

New study: Gorillas fare better in logged forests than chimps

John Cannon 11 Dec 2017

Peru: the man who overcomes fear to defend the forest

Jack Lo Lau 27 Nov 2017

Major Dutch timber company found guilty of dealing in illegal teak

Mongabay 2 Nov 2017

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