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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
A worker sorts through harvested oil palm.

New book by Mongabay Indonesia & Kaoem Telapak investigates palm oil industry

Elviza Diana, Hans Nicholas Jong 10 May 2023

Not all parts of the Amazon will survive future droughts, study says

Maxwell Radwin 5 May 2023

Guatemala national park nearing ‘collapse’ amid land grabbing, deforestation

Maxwell Radwin 4 May 2023

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

Mongabay.com 3 May 2023

New ‘snug,’ a snail with a too-small shell, described from Brunei rainforest

Basten Gokkon 27 Apr 2023

High-carbon peat among 1,500 hectares cleared for Indonesia’s food estate

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Apr 2023
A girl carries sustainably foraged fruits back to her village. Image courtesy of John Novis / Greenpeace.

Mongabay Explores the Congo Basin: The ‘heart of the world’ is at a turning point

Mike DiGirolamo 25 Apr 2023

EU parliament passes historic law forcing companies to track deforestation

Maxwell Radwin 20 Apr 2023

World’s newest great ape faces habitat loss, multiple threats: Will it survive?

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Apr 2023
Venezuela mine

Brazilian gold miners get free rein in Venezuela’s Indigenous lands

Mie Hoejris Dahl 11 Apr 2023

Brazil pulp and paper company Klabin touts ‘green’ image despite mining interests

Maiara Marinho, Naira Hofmeister, from Repórter Brasil 4 Apr 2023

Ancient fires may be helping the Amazon survive droughts – modern ones, not so much

Maurício Brum 27 Mar 2023
Burned peat forest in Borneo.

Deforestation drives fire risk in Borneo amid a warming climate, study finds

Spoorthy Raman 27 Mar 2023
A river flows through the Amazon Rainforest.

Tropical forest regeneration offsets 26% of carbon emissions from deforestation

Jaqueline Sordi 23 Mar 2023
A coffee farmer carries saplings.

Companies eye ‘carbon insetting’ as winning climate solution, but critics are wary

Ian Morse 13 Mar 2023
Mangrove planting on the coast of Ambon Island.

Indonesia’s mangrove restoration will run out of land well short of target, study warns

Cassie Freund 9 Mar 2023

Climate change lawsuits take aim at French bank BNP Paribas

Maxwell Radwin 3 Mar 2023

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

Mongabay.com 23 Feb 2023
A white-lipped peccary.

Deforestation could pose disease threat to Amazon’s white-lipped peccaries

Sean Mowbray 22 Feb 2023

For some Colombians, vows of mining reform are just a flash in the pan

Charlie Espinosa, Charles Lyons 20 Feb 2023
Two researchers measuring a Victoria boliviana leaf.

Kew Gardens joins local partners to save tropical plants from extinction

Sue Branford 15 Feb 2023

Mapping of no-drill areas in Ecuador’s Amazon can be scaled for entire rainforest: Study

Maurício Brum, Sílvia Lisboa 13 Feb 2023

Amazonian countries must act together to reverse rainforest loss, experts say

Jenny Gonzales 7 Feb 2023

Changing circumstances turn ‘sustainable communities’ into deforestation drivers: Study

Kimberley Brown 1 Feb 2023
Palm oil estate worker

Indonesia and Malaysia assail new EU ban on ‘dirty commodities’ trade

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Jan 2023
An overflight conducted by Greenpeace and Instituto Socioambiental in December 2022 spotted four excavators near an illegal road recently discovered inside the Yanomami Indigenous territory, one of the most endangered areas of Indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon.

Illegal road found in Yanomami land accelerates destruction

Dimitri Selibas 26 Jan 2023

Colombia’s ‘tree of life’ births a new culinary and conservation movement

Ocean Malandra 23 Jan 2023

Dammed, now mined: Indigenous Brazilians fight for the Xingu River’s future

Andrew Johnson 12 Jan 2023

Weakening of agrarian reform program increases violence against settlers in Brazilian Amazon

Andrew Johnson 10 Jan 2023

Indonesia’s biofuel push must go beyond palm oil to reduce risk, experts say

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jan 2023
A man planting a tree.

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

Gianluca Cerullo 5 Jan 2023

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