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A muddied river.

Muddied tropical rivers reveal magnitude of global gold mining boom: Study

Shanna Hanbury 5 Sep 2023

Palm oil giants Indonesia, Malaysia start talks with EU over deforestation rule

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Sep 2023
A Luzon tarictic hornbill.

Online trade in Philippine hornbills threatens birds and forests

Jhesset O. Enano 29 Aug 2023
A scaly-breasted munia in Natore, Bangladesh.

A thriving online market for wild birds emerges in Bangladesh

Maksuda Aziz 29 Aug 2023
A worker at Stable Packaging sorts plastic waste ready for recycling.

Zimbabwe sees recycling boom as waste picking becomes lucrative business

Tatenda Chitagu 21 Aug 2023
French President Emmanuel Macron

Macron touts forest conservation while promoting gas project on PNG visit

Rachel Donald 10 Aug 2023
A rescued falcon, likely a peregrine

Falcon trafficking soars in Middle East, fueled by conflict and poverty

Lyse Mauvais 10 Aug 2023

‘Sustainability is a continuous journey’: Q&A with RSPO’s Joseph D’Cruz

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Aug 2023

Researchers detect two of Suriname’s most powerful jaguar trafficking networks

Astrid Arellano 7 Aug 2023
A landfill with mixed waste.

Takin’ out the trash: How do transnational waste traffickers operate?

Guia Baggi, Laura Carrer, Rahma Behi, Virginia Kirst 3 Aug 2023
A woman in a yellow top and bright multicoloured wrapper, smiling as she walks across sandy verge of a paved road to where blue and white bags of dark black charcoal have been set on the ground near Praça das Mangueiras, in southwestern Angola. In the background, more charcoal in tall white sacks. Image by Carsten Ten Brink via Flickr (BY NC-ND 2.0)

Forests & finance: Fears for forests in Angola, flashes of hope from Kenya & Ghana

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2023
A worker in an oil palm plantation.

Most Indonesian palm oil firms not sharing land with small farmers as required: audit

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jul 2023

A just energy transition requires better governance & equity in the DRC

Mike DiGirolamo 19 Jul 2023
A chainsaw cuts through timber near Afi River Forest Reserve. Image by Orji Sunday.

Forests & Finance: Cameroon raw log ban expands and Nigerian villagers act against ‘forest bandits’

Mongabay.com 18 Jul 2023
Trucks loaded with freshly cut logs transported for further processing, Gunung Lumut, East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Indonesia claims record-low deforestation, but accounting raises questions

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Jul 2023
A logger marking a log in Uganda during tree harvesting for timber.

Forests & Finance: Wood export bans and short-staffed regulators

Mongabay.com 14 Jul 2023
Blacktip reef shark, French Polynesia. Image by Hannes Klostermann / Ocean Image Bank

Sharks deserve our appreciation and protection (commentary)

Assaf Levy 13 Jul 2023
A man drives a koy-yun loaded with logs through Choam village in Kampong Speu province, Cambodia. Credit: Andy Ball/Mongabay.

Forests in the furnace: Cambodians risking life and liberty to fuel garment factories

Gerald Flynn, Andy Ball 13 Jul 2023

Indonesia’s No. 2 palm oil firm faces global backlash over community conflict

Agus Mawan 10 Jul 2023
Seized teak logs in Myanmar, 2020. Image courtesy of Environmental Investigation Agency.

Is Jeff Bezos’s $500 million yacht made with ‘blood timber’ from Myanmar? (commentary)

Paul Woolwich 22 Jun 2023

Indonesia to expand ‘smart fisheries’ program aimed at empowering communities

Basten Gokkon 22 Jun 2023
A Maluku fisherman shows his catch of skipjack tuna.

Indonesia looks into tuna farming to boost aquaculture, reduce overfishing

Basten Gokkon 13 Jun 2023
One of the trees uprooted in Kenya arriving at its new home in Shekvetili, Georgia.

Kenyan baobab trees uprooted for export to Georgia; critics call it ‘biopiracy’

Calvin Rock Odhiambo 12 Jun 2023
A giant anteater.

Can the EU’s deforestation law save Argentina’s Gran Chaco from soy?

Kimberley Brown 6 Jun 2023

Palm giants Wilmar, Indofood, RGE fined over Indonesian cooking oil shortage

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 May 2023
Yellowfin tuna catch laid out on leaves.

As one Indian Ocean tuna stock faces collapse, nations scramble to save others

Malavika Vyawahare 29 May 2023

Indonesia, Malaysia deploy ministers to push back on EU palm oil restrictions

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 May 2023
An oil palm plantation adjacent to a forest in East Kalimantan.

Indonesian audit finds taxes unpaid on 22 million acres of oil palm plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 May 2023

Trapping holds back speed of bird recovery in a Sumatran forest, study shows

Basten Gokkon 11 May 2023
Workers fertilizing on an oil palm plantation.

EU deforestation tracking regulation sparks division among groups, producers

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 May 2023

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

Mongabay.com 3 May 2023

EU parliament passes historic law forcing companies to track deforestation

Maxwell Radwin 20 Apr 2023

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