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A mine in Likasi on November 26, 2025. Image by Glody MURHABAZI / AFP).

In the race for DRC’s critical minerals, community forests are on the frontline

Didier Makal, Latoya Abulu 16 Jan 2026

Oil palm plantation in West Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Activists seek purge after Indonesia court rules forest plantations illegal

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jan 2020

Deforestation in Novo Progresso in the state of Para

Forest loss moves swiftly once 50% deforestation ‘tipping point’ reached

Mongabay.com 9 Jan 2020

Communities in Ecuador fight back against palm oil

Alejandro Pérez 3 Jan 2020

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)

2019: The year rainforests burned

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2019

‘Tainted timber’ from Myanmar widely used in yachts seized in the Netherlands

Malavika Vyawahare 25 Dec 2019

Paris accord ‘impossible to implement’ if tropical forest loss not stopped

Taran Volckhausen 19 Dec 2019

Women from the Xingu Territory unite against threats from Bolsonaro administration

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro, Nádia Pontes 18 Dec 2019

Sunrise in East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tropical forests’ lost decade: the 2010s

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Dec 2019

A white-nosed saki (Chiropotes albinasus) in the Amazon rainforest canopy. Climate change will shrink the habitat of these endangered primates and deforestation may limit their ability to find new homes, a new study reports. Photo by João Paulo Krajewski.

Amazon primates face barriers in responding to climate change

Erin Malsbury 3 Dec 2019

Extinct in the wild, a Brazilian bird makes a tentative return to the jungle

Pedro Biondi 2 Dec 2019

COP25 may put climate at greater risk by failing to address forests

Justin Catanoso 2 Dec 2019

‘Everything is dying’: Q&A with Brazilian indigenous leader Alessandra Munduruku

Camila Nobrega 27 Nov 2019

Guyana refutes findings that deforestation skyrocketed after REDD+ payments stopped

Gabriel Popkin 25 Nov 2019

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

Nanticha Ocharoenchai 18 Nov 2019

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

John Cannon 14 Nov 2019

Myanmar risks losing forests to oil palm, but there’s time to pivot

Nanditha Chandraprakash 13 Nov 2019

Brazil’s ‘coconut breakers’ feel the squeeze of Cerrado development

Sarah Sax and Maurício Angelo 12 Nov 2019

Palm owner charged with ordering murder of two journalists in Indonesia

Ayat S. Karokaro 11 Nov 2019

Indonesia protests: Land bill at center of unrest

Basten Gokkon, Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Nov 2019

Indigenous communities ‘robbed’ as land grabbers lay waste to Brazilian rainforest

Ana Ionova 28 Oct 2019

Peat fire in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesian court fines palm oil firm $18.5m over forest fires in 2015

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Oct 2019

Bonobo conservation stymied by deforestation, human rights abuses

Taran Volckhausen 24 Oct 2019

Malaria surges in deforested parts of the Amazon, study finds

John Cannon 23 Oct 2019

Combining negotiation, legal backing and orchids to create ecotourism reserve

Sarah Foster 22 Oct 2019

DRC’s Okapi Wildlife Reserve gets new management partner in WCS

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Oct 2019

Reforesting a village in Indonesia, one batch of gourmet beans at a time

Donny Iqbal 17 Oct 2019

‘Bring it on,’ EU MP says of trade fight over palm biofuel phase-out

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Oct 2019

$65 million deal to protect Congo’s forests raises concerns

John Cannon 14 Oct 2019

British armed forces supplied by Brazilian meat firm linked to Amazon deforestation, corruption: Report

Mongabay.com 14 Oct 2019

‘Witnessing extinction in the flames’ as the Amazon burns for agribusiness

Ana Ionova 10 Oct 2019

Study tracks first incursion of poachers into ‘pristine’ African forest

John Cannon 3 Oct 2019

Indonesian enforcement questioned as fires flare up on the same concessions

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Oct 2019

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