Global Forests News

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

Purus-Madeira: the Amazon arc of deforestation marches north

Gustavo Faleiros, Marcio Isensee e Sá 20 Nov 2018

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Nov 2018

Republic of Congo names new national park, home to gorillas, elephants

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Nov 2018

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

Michael Tatarski 13 Nov 2018

The last trees of the Amazon

Nelly Luna Amancio 12 Nov 2018

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

Mike Gaworecki 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

Clergymen at Tsegur Michael Church near Debretabor, Ethiopia. Photo by Maheder Haileselassie Tadese for Mongabay.

Land restoration makes progress in Ethiopia

Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 31 Oct 2018

Large-bodied animals like this knobbed hornbill play an important role in forest ecosystems. Studies show that the loss of seed dispersers can have long-term effects on the carbon storage of forests. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Forest report points to opportunity for recovery

Jennifer Rigby 31 Oct 2018

In the Peruvian Amazon, the prized shihuahuaco tree faces a grim future

Leslie Moreno Custodio, Ojo Público 31 Oct 2018

Peru seizes plane with 30kg of cocaine in Bahuaja-Sonene National Park

Vanessa Romo 25 Oct 2018

A woodcarver makes a carving of a rhinoceros on the outskirts of Lunga Lunga, a town on the border between Kenya and Tanzania. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay

African wood industry: 10,000 micro-businesses need support for sustainable trade

Joseph Charpentier 22 Oct 2018

Illegal wildlife trade’s ‘dirty money’ targeted by big banks

James Fair 19 Oct 2018

Guyana deforestation rate hits 7-year low, officials say

Carinya Sharples 19 Oct 2018

Cambodia accuses Vietnam of complicity in illegal cross-border logging

Kit Humphrey 18 Oct 2018

In a first, DRC communities gain legal rights to forests

Mongabay.com 18 Oct 2018

For an Amazon tribe, phone cameras shine a light on their wildlife

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 15 Oct 2018

Fire fundamentally alters carbon dynamics in the Amazon

John Cannon 12 Oct 2018

‘Guardians of the forest:’ Indigenous peoples come together to assert role in climate stability

Justin Catanoso 2 Oct 2018

Purus-Madeira: journey to the Amazon’s newest deforestation frontier

Gustavo Faleiros, Marcio Isensee e Sá 1 Oct 2018

Planet satellite image showing a mosaic of deforestation and rainforest in São Judas Tadeu, Xapuri in the state of Acre, Brazil in August 2018. Courtesy of Planet.

Ahead of election, deforestation continues to climb in the Brazilian Amazon

Mongabay.com 30 Sep 2018

Chalcopyrite from the Huanzala Mine in Peru. Photo by James St. John via Flickr.

Chilling images of illegal mining operations in Peru

Yvette Sierra Praeli 24 Sep 2018

A forestry department ground inspection team checks the timber to be exported and monitors con-tainer loading at the site before sealing the container. Photo by Ann Wang for Mongabay.

Activists blast Myanmar timber deal: ‘There is no transparency at all’

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2018

A non-native smallmouth bass eats a native sucker. Credit: UDWR

Global wildlife trafficking still a ‘lucrative criminal activity,’ expert says

Genevieve Belmaker 20 Sep 2018

How a national reserve stopped the extinction of the Peruvian vicuña

Vanessa Romo 17 Sep 2018

Fresh oil palm fruit bunches. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Palm oil giant’s claim it can’t control Liberian subsidiary a ‘red herring,’ NGO says

Daniel Pye 12 Sep 2018

Climate mitigation has an ally in need of recognition and land rights: indigenous peoples in tropical countries

Justin Catanoso 10 Sep 2018

Cow in Colombia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay

Land hoarding: what Colombia’s new administration has inherited

Natalie Arenas 10 Sep 2018

Criminal mafias take over Colombian forests

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 7 Sep 2018

How land is stolen in Colombia

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 6 Sep 2018

Planet Labs satellite image showing deforestation around the Xingu Basin in Brazil in June 2018.

Deforestation continues upward trend in Brazil, says NGO

Mongabay.com 28 Aug 2018

Indonesia’s land swap program puts communities, companies in a bind

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Aug 2018

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