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As minister and activists trade barbs, Madagascar’s forests burn

Malavika Vyawahare 17 Dec 2020

Tiger on the highway

Mongabay.com 16 Dec 2020

Restaura Cerrado: Saving Brazil’s savanna by reseeding and restoring it

Sarah Sax 14 Dec 2020

Palm oil giant Wilmar unfazed as watchdogs cry foul over Papua deforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Dec 2020

Norway bumps rate to protect rainforests amid anticipated U.S. climate return

Vincent Ricci 4 Dec 2020

Planned road to bisect pristine, biodiverse Brazilian Amazon national park

Ana Ionova 3 Dec 2020

French Guiana soy biofuel power plants risk massive Amazon deforestation

Justin Catanoso 2 Dec 2020

Trans-Purus: Brazil’s last intact Amazon forest at immediate risk (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside, Lucas Ferrante, Aurora M. Yanai, Marcos Antonio Isaac Júnior 24 Nov 2020

Crimefighting NGO tracks Brazil wildlife trade on WhatsApp and Facebook

Peter Yeung 23 Nov 2020

The Amazon’s Yanomami utterly abandoned by Brazilian authorities: Report

Sue Branford 19 Nov 2020

Sumatra’s deforestation demystified

Mongabay.com 18 Nov 2020
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Lábrea, Amazonas state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

As 2020 Amazon fire season winds down, Brazil carbon emissions rise

Liz Kimbrough 16 Nov 2020

Brazil’s Bem Querer dam: An impending Amazon disaster (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 16 Nov 2020

Satellites, maps and the flow of cattle: Brazilian solutions for reducing deforestation are already in use

Naira Hofmeister, Fernanda Wenzel, Pedro Papini 12 Nov 2020

One year on: Insects still in peril as world struggles with global pandemic

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2020

As fire season ends, Brazil cited for failed Amazon and Pantanal policies

Jenny Gonzales 9 Nov 2020

Peru prosecutors probe Amazon deforestation linked to Mennonite communities

Yvette Sierra Praeli 6 Nov 2020

Brazilian and international banks financing global deforestation: Reports

Sue Branford, Thais Borges, Diego Rebouças 5 Nov 2020

BR-319: The beginning of the end for Brazil’s Amazon forest (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 3 Nov 2020

Report: Soy, cattle industries trail palm oil, timber on deforestation risk

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Nov 2020
An uncontacted tribe in the Brazilian Amazon photographed in . © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI.

2020 fires endangering uncontacted Amazon Indigenous groups

Liz Kimbrough 28 Oct 2020

Long entrenched Brazilian military mindset is key to Amazon policy: Expert

Peter Speetjens 26 Oct 2020

Planned road projects threaten Sumatran rhino habitat, experts say

Junaidi Hanafiah 26 Oct 2020

Brazil’s Amazon dam plans: Ominous warnings of future destruction (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 22 Oct 2020

Paper giant APRIL linked to Borneo forest clearing despite zero-deforestation vow

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Oct 2020

‘Digital land grab’ deprives traditional LatAm peoples of ancestral lands: Report

Sue Branford 21 Oct 2020

Mining covers more than 20% of Indigenous territory in the Amazon

John Cannon 9 Oct 2020

On a Philippine mountain, researchers describe a ‘fire flower’ orchid species

Keith Anthony Fabro 9 Oct 2020

In a drier Amazon, small farmers and researchers work together to reduce fire damage

Letícia Klein, Thiago Medaglia 8 Oct 2020

The murky process of licensing Amazonian meat plants

Flávia Milhorance / Diálogo Chino 8 Oct 2020

Sumatran bridge project in elephant habitat may exacerbate degradation

Taufik Wijaya 7 Oct 2020

Stock indices let Brazil meatpackers shed ties to deforestation, draw investors

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 6 Oct 2020

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