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According to the Forest Code, rural properties located in the Cerrado biome of Mato Grosso state must maintain 35% of their native vegetation.

Brazil bill seeks to redraw Amazon borders in favor of agribusiness

Jenny Gonzales 25 Apr 2022

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

John Cannon 22 Apr 2022
Detroit Dam in Oregon

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

Petro Kotzé 21 Apr 2022
A great hornbill in a Malaysian rainforest.

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

Rachel Donald 15 Apr 2022
A landslide near Manizales in the Central Andes. In 2011, a landslide broke a pipe supplying water from the cloud forests and paramos into city, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without access to water for 10 days.

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

Gianluca Cerullo 13 Apr 2022
Piñatex fibers in the drying stage. The pineapple leaf fiber has great tensile strength and flexibility. Image courtesy of Riikka Juva/Ananas Anam.

Sustainable fashion: Biomaterial revolution replacing fur and skins

Jenny Gonzales 8 Apr 2022
Rosewood stacked for river transport in Madagascar, 2010.

Madagascar’s insistence on using seized rosewood rattles conservationists

Malavika Vyawahare 29 Mar 2022

2021 Amazon deforestation map shows devastating impact of ranching, agriculture

Maxwell Radwin 21 Mar 2022

To fight invaders, Munduruku women wield drone cameras and cellphones

Joana Moncau and Elpida Nikou from Repórter Brasil 15 Mar 2022

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

Andrew Johnson 14 Mar 2022

From teak farms to agroforestry: Panama tests reforestation strategies

Colin Sytsma 10 Mar 2022

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

Loren Bell 3 Mar 2022

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

Sean Mowbray 17 Feb 2022

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

Sharon Guynup 4 Feb 2022
Solitary figure in a partly cultivated field, Nimba mountain range in the background. Image by Maarten van der Bent via Flickr CC BY-SA-2.0

Liberian villagers threaten to leave mining agreement, citing broken promises

Varney Kamara 27 Jan 2022
New oil palm planting near a protected area in Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Jan 2022

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

Christina Noriega 10 Jan 2022
Natural forest (left) versus an oil palm plantation (right) in Indonesia. Photo credits: Rhett A. Butler

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jan 2022
Fire line moves through a degraded forest area in an undesignated public forest area in Porto Velho, Rondônia on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2021

Mongabay’s coverage of palm oil in 2021

Ashoka Mukpo 27 Dec 2021

Indonesia’s three most consequential forestry stories of 2021

Philip Jacobson 24 Dec 2021

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

Meghie Rodrigues 20 Dec 2021

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

Sue Branford 15 Dec 2021

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

Victoria Schneider 15 Dec 2021
These women, who are part of the Mam indigenous community, are harvesting pine nuts in a forest in Cajolá, Quetzaltenango, to be sold later at a local market. Our work supports reforestation efforts and helps local families sustain themselves economically. Photo credit: Sergio Izquierdo

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

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 13 Dec 2021
Global Forest Watch tree cover loss 2001-2021 set on Planet imagery from Jun-Sep 2020.

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

Mongabay.com 10 Dec 2021

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

Yogi Eka Sahputra 10 Dec 2021

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Dec 2021
Planted mangrove seedlings. Image by Irwandi wancaleu via Wikimedia Commons (CC 4.0)

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

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 7 Dec 2021

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Dec 2021

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

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Dec 2021

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

Latoya Abulu, Laurel Sutherland 3 Dec 2021

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