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US retailers halt sales of hardwood flooring linked to illegal logging in PNG

Mike Gaworecki 1 Aug 2017

Brazil’s Temer threatens constitutional indigenous land rights

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 1 Aug 2017

Randomized controlled trial in Uganda finds that paying people not to cut down trees works

Mike Gaworecki 27 Jul 2017

Study links most Amazon deforestation to 128 slaughterhouses

Eduardo Pegurier 27 Jul 2017

Visualizing the impacts of human disturbance on tropical forest biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 26 Jul 2017

Colombia expands indigenous reserves near key deforestation hotspot

Mike Gaworecki 14 Jul 2017

Soy King Blairo Maggi wields power over Amazon’s fate, say critics

Jenny Gonzales 13 Jul 2017

Temer signs law that could see millions of acres lost in the Amazon

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 13 Jul 2017

Amazon infrastructure EIAs under-assess biodiversity; scientists offer solutions

Claire Salisbury 6 Jul 2017

Study: Brazilian mega-dams caused far more flooding than EIA predicted

Claire Salisbury 5 Jul 2017

Norway vexed as Brazil sends mixed message on Amazon forest protection

Jenny Gonzales 27 Jun 2017

Is intensification of beef production really a solution to Amazonian deforestation?

Mike Gaworecki 23 Jun 2017

Warnings and protests mark Brazilian President Temer’s trip to Norway

Mike Gaworecki 22 Jun 2017

Unexamined synergies: dam building and mining go together in the Amazon

Zoe Sullivan 22 Jun 2017

Five new species in world’s largest tree genus found on Sulawesi

Mike Gaworecki 21 Jun 2017

Brazil evicts 80 rural peasant families, awards land thieves parcel

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 21 Jun 2017

International action a must to stop irreversible harm of Amazon dams, say experts

Claire Salisbury 19 Jun 2017

If Brazil okays Terra Legal changes, land grabbers win, Amazon loses, say environmentalists

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 16 Jun 2017

Brazil on verge of legitimizing Amazon land theft on a grand scale, warn NGOs

Mauricio Torres and Isabel Harari, Sue Branford 15 Jun 2017

Tropical forest diversity and carbon richness not linked, study finds

Claire Salisbury 12 Jun 2017

FSC to investigate Korean conglomerate’s palm oil operations in Indonesia

Mike Gaworecki 7 Jun 2017

A Whitley Award winner’s 20-year battle to save the world’s largest eagle in Venezuela

Bruno Moraes 18 May 2017
Adult harpy eagle image courtesy of Tom Ambrose.

Goddesses of the wind: How researchers saved Venezuela’s harpy eagles

Bruno Moraes 17 May 2017

Industry-NGO coalition releases toolkit for making ‘No Deforestation’ commitments a reality on the ground

Mike Gaworecki 10 May 2017

Study finds hundreds of thousands of tropical species at risk of extinction due to deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 5 May 2017
A villager from Mahu cuts down a tree using a midsize chainsaw. A chainsaw can cut down a tree four times faster than an axe and handsaw. Photo by Ann Wang for Mongabay.

A fight to control chainsaws in Myanmar could turn the tide on illegal logging

Ann Wang, Genevieve Belmaker 4 May 2017

Study finds there are ways to mitigate deforestation risks of palm oil expansion in Africa

Mike Gaworecki 20 Apr 2017

Governments must do more to help companies end deforestation in commodities supply chains, companies say

Mike Gaworecki 11 Apr 2017

Land titling for indigenous communities leads to forest protection, peer-reviewed study finds

Mike Gaworecki 10 Apr 2017

Rotten beef and illegal deforestation: Brazil’s largest meatpacker rocked by scandals

Mike Gaworecki 5 Apr 2017

Climate change driving widespread local extinctions; tropics most at risk

Claire Salisbury 9 Mar 2017
Hydropower in Asia

Building environmental community and transparency through maps

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 7 Mar 2017

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