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Brazil bill seeks to redraw Amazon borders in favor of agribusiness

Beyond CO2, tropical forests a ‘cool’ solution to climate crisis, study finds

The world’s dams: Doing major harm but a manageable problem?

Outcry in Malaysia as failure to replant forests sparks ‘cover-up’ accusation

In landslide-prone Colombia, forests can serve as an inexpensive shield

Sustainable fashion: Biomaterial revolution replacing fur and skins

Madagascar’s insistence on using seized rosewood rattles conservationists

2021 Amazon deforestation map shows devastating impact of ranching, agriculture

To fight invaders, Munduruku women wield drone cameras and cellphones

In Brazil, Indigenous Ka’apor take their territory’s defense into their own hands

From teak farms to agroforestry: Panama tests reforestation strategies

Banning high-deforestation palm oil has limited impact on saving forests: Study

The small cats nobody knows: Wild felines face intensifying planetary risks

Preventing the next pandemic is vastly cheaper than reacting to it: Study

Liberian villagers threaten to leave mining agreement, citing broken promises

Indonesia is clearing less forest for palm oil, but it’s still not sustainable, activists say

Colombia’s new anti-deforestation law provokes concern for small-scale farmers

Proposal could redefine palm oil-driven deforestation as reforestation in Indonesia

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021

Mongabay’s coverage of palm oil in 2021

Indonesia’s three most consequential forestry stories of 2021

To end illegal deforestation, Brazil may legalize it entirely, experts warn

Brazil’s Suzano boasts its pulpwood plantations are green; critics disagree

Across Latin America, Mennonites seek out isolation at the expense of forests

Conservation and food production must work in tandem, new study says

Mongabay reporter sued in what appears to be a pattern of legal intimidation by Peruvian cacao company

Illegal mangrove logging surges in Indonesia’s Batam amid economic hardship

‘Thousands of trees’ burned and logged in Cambodia: Q&A with filmmaker Sean Gallagher

Tree-planting goals miss the forest for the lack of diverse, good-quality seeds

‘Forests will disappear again,’ activists warn as Indonesia ends plantation freeze

‘They will die’: Fears for the last Piripkura as Amazon invasion ramps up

Indigenous groups unveil plan to protect 80% of the Amazon in Peru and Ecuador

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