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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
A villager from Mahu cuts down a tree using a midsize chainsaw. A chainsaw can cut down a tree four times faster than an axe and handsaw. Photo by Ann Wang for Mongabay.

A fight to control chainsaws in Myanmar could turn the tide on illegal logging

Ann Wang, Genevieve Belmaker 4 May 2017

“We don’t believe in words anymore”: Indians stand against Temer govt.

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 3 May 2017

A return to mixed roots in a Sumatran forest

Dedek Hendry 2 May 2017

Saving Congo’s sea turtles: progress made but dangers ahead

William Clowes 1 May 2017

Amazon’s fate hangs on outcome of war between opposing worldviews

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 27 Apr 2017
Indigenous Arhuaco peoples ride toward the forest in Colombia. Photo by Bram Ebus for Mongabay.

Colombia’s indigenous Arhuaco awarded 500 hectares in ongoing bid to regain ancestral lands

Bram Ebus 26 Apr 2017
The coast of DRC. Photo by William Clowes for Mongabay.

Conserving Congo’s wild places on a shoestring

William Clowes 25 Apr 2017
Park rangers on patrol in Garamba National Park in DRC earlier this month. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

2 wildlife rangers shot and killed by poachers in Congo park

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Apr 2017

Brazil moves to cut Amazon conservation units by 1.2 million hectares

Sue Branford 19 Apr 2017

Deforestation has become big business in the Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 18 Apr 2017

Land titling for indigenous communities leads to forest protection, peer-reviewed study finds

Mike Gaworecki 10 Apr 2017
Rhinella granulosa toad in Chocó-Darien, Colombia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Successful Colombian rainforest project exposes problems with carbon emissions trading

Bart Crezee 6 Apr 2017

Indigenous groups, Amazon’s best land stewards, under federal attack

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 5 Apr 2017
A yellow-fronted woodpecker (Melanerpes flavifrons) in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Photo by Germano Woehl Junior for the Instituto Rã-bugio para Conservação da Biodiversidade.

In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, conservation efforts drown in a sea of eucalyptus

Ignacio Amigo 5 Apr 2017

Rotten beef and illegal deforestation: Brazil’s largest meatpacker rocked by scandals

Mike Gaworecki 5 Apr 2017
Two Chaco Chachalacas in Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Photo by Dario Sanches via Wikimedia Commons.

Jurisdictional certification approach aims to strengthen protections against deforestation

Tara MacIsaac 4 Apr 2017
From the series "The Blood Forest" by photographer Philippe Echaroux.

Indigenous peoples in Colombia play crucial role in the fight against climate change

Bart Crezee 30 Mar 2017
The main road passing through the Lindi region is lined by plots of scorched earth from sesame farming. Photo by Sophie Tremblay for Mongabay.

In Tanzania, a surge in sesame farming poses threat to natural forest

Sophie Tremblay, Willy Lowry 29 Mar 2017

Survey of previously inaccessible region of Myanmar reveals many endangered species

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Mar 2017

A Sumatran king’s 1,400-year-old vision for sustainable landscape planning

Taufik Wijaya 27 Mar 2017
Residents celebrate in town square after the results of the vote were announced in Cajamarca, Colombia on March 26, 2017. Photo by Bram Ebus for Mongabay.

Villagers vote to ban ‘La Colosa’ gold mining project in Colombia

Bram Ebus 27 Mar 2017

Amazon land speculators poised to gain control of vast public lands

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 27 Mar 2017
The Pastaza Ecological Area of Sustainable Development has more than 2.5 million hectares. Photo courtesy of the Provincial Council of Pastaza

Ecuadorian province protects 90% of its land area

Joaquín Ortiz 27 Mar 2017
Flooded sugar cane fields near Colombia's third largest city, Cali, in the department of Valle Del Cauca, during an intense rainy season. Photo by Neil Palmer (CIAT)

Colombia’s cane industry efficient but potentially damaging

Kimberley Brown 27 Mar 2017

New cave catfish threatened by deforestation, mining, pollution

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Mar 2017
Santurban moorlands in Colombia. Photo by Grupo Areas Protegidas CORPONOR via Wikimedia Commons

World Bank exits controversial Angostura goldmine project in Colombian moorland

Bram Ebus 23 Mar 2017
Ewing Lopongo, conservationist with the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN), in charge of the Monkoto sector of the Salonga National Park, in Monkoto, Tshuapa, DRC, October 2016. Photo by Leonora Baumann for Mongabay.

The people of DRC’s forests

Etienne Maury 21 Mar 2017

Denmark prohibits companies from selling Myanmar teak on European Union markets

Mike Gaworecki 20 Mar 2017

World’s biggest indigenous peoples alliance to choose new leader today in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 19 Mar 2017

Indonesia’s indigenous peoples will have to keep waiting for a promised task force on their rights

Mongabay.com 18 Mar 2017
A woman and donkey carry firewood and tree material from the Entoto forest. Photo by Ji-Elle via Wikimedia Commons.

Despite population growth and management challenges, hope for forests in Ethiopia

Elias Meseret 17 Mar 2017

13,000 acres of cloud forest now protected in Colombia

Lillie Howell 16 Mar 2017

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