Mongabay series: Global Forests

Brazil pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 300 million metric tons per year by 2030, making it the first major 'developing country' to commit to an absolute reduction…

A new analysis finds many of the 1.5 billion people living in indigenous and local communities don't have rights to the land on which they live and depend.

Palm oil is one of the most popular vegetable oils in the world, though much of it comes with well-documented, severe impacts for forests and the people who depend on…

Norway and several European Nations, along with the United Nations and the World Bank, today committed to a new initiative that takes aim at the underlying causes of deforestation in…

Critics say funding for palm oil monitoring is "woefully inadequate."

Subsidies aimed at helping farmers produce food more efficiently often end up leading to the loss of forests, according to a recent report.

Conservation strategist Lucy Dablin shares her experiences in the Amazon and her thoughts on how to preserve it.

Environmental protection efforts by local communities are often unrecognized and even undermined, according to a recent study that examines what it calls “the tragedy of the unseen sentinels.”

The Norwegian government has fulfilled its billion dollar commitment to Brazil for the South American country's success in reducing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. In a statement issued Wednesday, Norway…

Buoyed by the raft of recent research demonstrating how local control is often a boon for forest health, a UN agency calls for greater investment in smallholder farmer organizations.

wo weeks ago, senior Indonesian officials slammed a commitment by five giant palm oil companies to purge their supply chains of deforestation, saying it hurts farmers, usurps the government's authority…

A major expedition happening right now in Bolivia's Madidi National Park is aimed at figuring out just how many vertebrates live in this little-explored region. But along the way, it's also shedding light on the park's invertebrate diversity.

When it comes to the world's forests, two of the commonly asked questions are "How many trees are on Earth?" and "How many trees are cut down each year?" A…

ith the demand landscape for Indonesian palm oil set for a seismic shift from export to domestic consumption, the result of a huge new government intervention, experts are wondering how…

Malaysian police requested INTERPOL to place Clare Rewcastle-Brown on its international "Red Notice" after she reported on corruption allegedly involving Malaysia's prime minister. But INTERPOL has refused to do so.

Preserving mangrove forests is instrumental to bringing down emissions rates in Indonesia, a leading carbon polluter. Residents of Deaga village in North Sulawesi province also believe it is key to safeguarding their…

One degree of warming would drastically reduce the habitat of nearly all of the region's endemic vertebrates, according to a recent study.

The last Sumatran rhinoceros in the Malaysian wild has died, the latest grim milestone for a species on the brink of extinction. No more than 100 of the creatures are…

While deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has fallen sharply over the past decade, a larger share of forest loss is now being driven by actors who are more difficult to…

A recent report discusses how regreening may offer a possible solution to the chronic economic and political instability in some regions of Africa.