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Indonesia’s fires burned mostly abandoned and degraded land, not forests

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Dec 2019

Analysis: The Tanah Merah project is a bellwether for Jokowi’s permit review

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 11 Dec 2019

Our fires weren’t as bad as in the Amazon, Indonesian officials claim

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Dec 2019
Google Earth image showing deforestation south of Santarém, in the state of Pará.

Amazon deforestation paces ahead of recent historical norm

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Dec 2019

Revealed: Government officials say permits for mega-plantation in Papua were falsified

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 10 Dec 2019

Coca farms close in on protected areas, isolated tribes in Peruvian Amazon

Chris Fagan 9 Dec 2019

Time is running out for Southeast Asia

Jeremy Hance 9 Dec 2019

Illegal hunting a greater threat to wildlife than forest degradation

Nanditha Chandraprakash 9 Dec 2019

Paper and fast fashion fan the flames burning Indonesia’s peat: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Dec 2019

In Indonesia, a tourism village holds off a nickel mine — for now

Ian Morse 8 Dec 2019

Sumatra’s dwindling forests face extra pressure from a major highway project

Basten Gokkon 6 Dec 2019

‘A crisis situation’: Extinctions loom as forests are erased in Mozambique

David Njagi 5 Dec 2019
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

Brazilian president claims Leonardo DiCaprio funded Amazon fires

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2019

Brazil investigates agribusiness bribes to judges for favorable land rulings

Maurício Angelo 27 Nov 2019

Bringing back extinct plants to life: Q&A with ‘plant messiah’ Carlos Magdalena

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Nov 2019

Guyana refutes findings that deforestation skyrocketed after REDD+ payments stopped

Gabriel Popkin 25 Nov 2019

Beyond strikes: For these youths, climate activism starts at home

Nanticha Ocharoenchai 25 Nov 2019

Indonesia fires emitted double the carbon of Amazon fires, research shows

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Nov 2019

Amazonian tree with human-sized leaves finally gets ID’d as new species

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Nov 2019

Madagascar’s bold reforestation goal lacks a coherent plan, experts say

Malavika Vyawahare 22 Nov 2019

Researchers urge sustainability as palm oil tightens its grip on Latin America

Antonio José Paz Cardona 20 Nov 2019
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

Brazil’s new deforestation numbers confirm the “Bolsonaro Effect” despite denials (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 20 Nov 2019

Illegal logging persists in Cambodia’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary: Report

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Nov 2019

Indonesian politician at heart of permit scandal dies ahead of graft trial

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Nov 2019
Inspecting a confiscated truck belonging to illegal loggers. Image courtesy Peace Parks Foundation.

Mozambique’s newly empowered rangers, courts catch up with poachers, loggers

Fred Kockott 19 Nov 2019
CANDEIRAS DO JAMARI, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL: Aerial view of a large burned area in the city of Candeiras do Jamari in the state of Rondônia. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

Amazon deforestation rises to 11 year high in Brazil

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Nov 2019

Conserving wildlife is key to tropical forests’ carbon storage, study finds

Nanticha Ocharoenchai 18 Nov 2019

Indigenous-wildlife ranger collaboration conserves rare Australian rainforests

Nick Rodway 18 Nov 2019

‘Timebomb’: Fires devastate tiger and elephant habitat in Sumatra

Michael Standaert 15 Nov 2019

Mexico plans huge increase in palm oil production in sensitive ecosystems

Rodrigo Soberanes 14 Nov 2019

Deforestation preceded fires in ‘massive’ area of Amazon in 2019

John Cannon 14 Nov 2019

Indonesian fire expert awarded for exposing destruction by plantation firms

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Nov 2019

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