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Cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Brazilian legislators break law, attack Amazon, trade freely with world: report

Sue Branford 11 Sep 2018
Cow in Colombia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay

Land hoarding: what Colombia’s new administration has inherited

Natalie Arenas 10 Sep 2018

Criminal mafias take over Colombian forests

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 7 Sep 2018

How land is stolen in Colombia

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 6 Sep 2018

The ‘Godfather of Biodiversity’ on why it’s time to manage Earth as a system

Mike Gaworecki 5 Sep 2018

The forested path to climate stability (commentary)

Belinda Morris, Frances Seymour 30 Aug 2018
Planet Labs satellite image showing deforestation around the Xingu Basin in Brazil in June 2018.

Deforestation continues upward trend in Brazil, says NGO

Mongabay.com 28 Aug 2018

Brazil’s pesticide poisoning problem poses global dilemma, say critics

Anna Sophie Gross 27 Aug 2018

Report finds APP and APRIL violating zero-deforestation policies with wood purchases from Djarum Group concessions in East Kalimantan

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2018

South American soy fed to EU livestock drives Gran Chaco deforestation

Jenny Gonzales 15 Aug 2018

Brazil austerity policies devastating to rural communities: analysis

Anna Sophie Gross 14 Aug 2018

Ruralists in Brazilian congress put nation’s protected areas at risk

Liz Kimbrough 14 Aug 2018

Trase.earth tracks commodities, links supply chains to deforestation risk

Claire Asher 13 Aug 2018

Death foretold? A courageous Amazon peasant couple resists illegal loggers

Thais Borges, Mauricio Torres 10 Aug 2018
Wood that was cut for charcoal production near Katha, northern Myanmar. Villages in this area used to cut teak and other valuable trees for export, but have since started producing charcoal. The charcoal being exported to China can be made from any tree, regardless of size or kind. This amount of trees could produce about 150 bags of charcoal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

Myanmar’s milling industry devastated by new logging policies

Genevieve Belmaker 7 Aug 2018
Coatimundi in Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

More companies sign on to Cerrado Manifesto

Genevieve Belmaker 6 Aug 2018

95 percent of all lemur species face high risk of extinction, experts say

Mongabay.com 2 Aug 2018
The once threatened black caiman (Melanosuchus niger) is recovering and now listed as ‘conservation dependent’ on the IUCN Red List. Photo courtesy Jason Houston/Upper Amazon Conservancy.

In Peru, a new president is faced with old conservation challenges

Justin Catanoso 2 Aug 2018

Chinese / Western financing of roads, dams led to major Andes Amazon deforestation

Gus Greenstein 1 Aug 2018

Researchers are looking into the past to help ensure a future for tropical forests

Mike Gaworecki 30 Jul 2018

Shadow companies and the Indonesian land crisis

Mike Gaworecki 24 Jul 2018

Temer’s deforestation policies put Paris goals at risk, scientists warn

Sue Branford 24 Jul 2018

Soy giant Louis Dreyfus pledges deforestation-free supply chain

Anna Sophie Gross 16 Jul 2018

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

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jul 2018

How to use drones without stressing wildlife

Mike Gaworecki 10 Jul 2018

Brazil’s political storm driving Amazon deforestation higher

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 9 Jul 2018

Cerrado: traditional communities win back land from agribusiness firm

Flávia Milhorance 5 Jul 2018

‘Saving the rainforest 2.0:’ New report makes recommendations for improving forest protection

Mike Gaworecki 2 Jul 2018

Plant response to rising CO2 levels may alter rainfall patterns across tropics

Claire Asher 28 Jun 2018

A most unlikely hope: How the companies that destroyed the world’s forests can save them (commentary)

Glenn Hurowitz 28 Jun 2018

PepsiCo to probe deforestation in palm oil supplier’s Leuser Ecosystem concession

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Jun 2018

Rwandan people and mountain gorillas face changing climate together

Elham Shirin 27 Jun 2018

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