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A group of Yiaku youth scouts, who have been trained by the Kenya Forest Service to take part in forest patrols and other conservation activities. Image by Shadrack Kavilu for Mongabay.

A forest of their own: The Yiaku as Kenya’s model forest stewards

Shadrack Kavilu 26 Nov 2018
Chocolate is wrapped in a cocoa tree leaf. Photo by Sarita Reed.

Smallholder farmers defy cocoa’s production model in Brazil

Sarita Reed, Vinícius Fontana 26 Nov 2018

Amazon deforestation at highest level in 10 years, says Brazil

Mongabay.com 24 Nov 2018

Climate change may turn Amazon peatlands from carbon sinks to sources

Morgan Erickson-Davis 22 Nov 2018

Stop importing illegal timber, PNG activists tell China at APEC Summit

John Cannon 22 Nov 2018
Indigenous leaders in Ecuador stand with Roger Waters at a press conference in Quito on November 20, 2018. Photo by Jonatan Rosas.

Rock icon Roger Waters denounces Chevron in Ecuador

Kimberley Brown 21 Nov 2018

New dam set to spoil Sumatran wonderland (commentary)

Gregory McCann, Haray Sampurna Munthe 20 Nov 2018

Deforested, degraded land restoration a top priority for African leaders

Mongabay.com 19 Nov 2018

California’s misguided plan to ‘save’ tropical forests (commentary)

Tom Goldtooth and Michelle Chan 16 Nov 2018

Brazil could lose Nepal-size area of rainforest due to policy revision

Morgan Erickson-Davis 16 Nov 2018

RSPO adopts total ban on deforestation under sweeping new standards

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Nov 2018

More than one-third of critically endangered plants cannot be conserved in seed banks

Mike Gaworecki 15 Nov 2018

For the two Congos, lessons in a peatland partnership with Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Nov 2018

California’s Tropical Forest Standard could be the state’s most important climate action (commentary)

Steve Schwartzman, Christina McCain 14 Nov 2018

‘Not all hope is lost’ as outlook for mountain gorillas brightens

John Cannon 14 Nov 2018

Oreo maker linked to destruction of orangutan habitat in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Nov 2018

Vietnam-EU legal timber agreement signed, but much work remains

Michael Tatarski 13 Nov 2018

Honduras aims to save vital wildlife corridor from deforestation

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2018

The last trees of the Amazon

Nelly Luna Amancio 12 Nov 2018

Haiti may lose all primary forest by 2035, mass extinction underway

Carinya Sharples, Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Nov 2018

Novel research method reveals small-scale gold mining’s impact on Peruvian Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 9 Nov 2018

End of funding dims hopes for a Sumatran forest targeted by palm oil growers

Elviza Diana, Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Nov 2018
A spectacled bear in the rehabilitation and reintroduction program at Chaparrí. Photo by Matthew Weaver.

Peru cracks down after environmental defenders’ murders

Matthew Weaver, Rajmonda Rexhi 9 Nov 2018

In West Papua’s Arfak Mountains, local leaders plot ecotourism boom

Christopel Paino 9 Nov 2018
A map of Biacou (also spelled Beacou) made by residents of the village shows the location of various protected sites. Click here to enlarge. Image courtesy of RFLP/Sergio Pedroco.

Timor-Leste: With sacrifice and ceremony, tribe sets eco rules

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 8 Nov 2018

Roads divide opinions along with forests, study finds

John Cannon 8 Nov 2018

Congo Basin rainforest may be gone by 2100, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 7 Nov 2018

In funding palm oil giants, banks may share in ‘sins of the companies’

Tessa Toumbourou 7 Nov 2018

Invisible plant-enemy interactions drive diversity in forest fragments

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Nov 2018

Call to protect dwindling wilderness ‘before it disappears forever’

John Cannon 1 Nov 2018
Satellite image from Google Earth: Tanguro, Brazil -12.262600, -52.733553

Deforestation continues upward trend in the Brazilian Amazon

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2018

Thousands of radiated tortoises seized from traffickers in Madagascar

John Cannon 31 Oct 2018

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