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Are biodiversity credits just another business-as-usual finance scheme?

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Mar 2024

Illegal sand and gold mining in West Kalimantan

Study tracks global forest decline and expansion over six decades

John Cannon 17 Aug 2022

Misak women, men and children observe the contrast between the monoculture pine and eucalyptus plantation, on the right, and the natural forest in their territory, on the left, from a distance.

FSC-certified paper plantation faces farmer backlash in Colombia

Natalia Torres Garzón 15 Aug 2022

Study co-author Corneille Ewango.

In Congo, a carbon sink like no other risks being carved up for oil

John Cannon 28 Jul 2022

Plantations in Cuesta del Ternero that burned in January 2021. Image courtesy of Denali DeGraf.

Tree plantations in Patagonia are the site of wildfires and land dispute

Denali DeGraf 6 Jul 2022

Caroline Chepkoeh poses for a photo with her husband and extended family outside of her home near the Mau Forest Complex in western Kenya. Image by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

African court rules in favor of Indigenous land titles, reparations from the Kenyan government

Laurel Sutherland 28 Jun 2022

Kibiwot displaying his archery skills at his makeshift home in the Embobut, which has been burned down many times by KFS as part of forceful evictions.

Kenyan hunter-gatherers forced to farm now face increased evictions from their forest

Kang-Chun Cheng 22 Jun 2022

The Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher (Terenotriccus erythrurus) is a common species that forages on insects in the forest understory (an understory insectivore). Image courtesy of Dr. John Whitelaw.

Drastic declines in Neotropical birds in a protected Panamanian forest

Neha Jain 31 May 2022

A river running through an old-growth lowland rainforest in Brunei.

Fossil evidence confirms persistence of prehistoric forests in Brunei

John Cannon 31 May 2022

Gold mine in South Kivu, Congo. Image courtesy of the Sasha Lezhnev Enough Project.

Results of mining tax for reforestation in the DRC leave more questions than answers

Didier Makal 19 May 2022

Bonga enjoying the feeling of the cooler part of our walk through the forest one afternoon in 2018. Copyright Ana Verahrami/Elephant Listening Project.

To conserve the vibrant diversity of Central Africa’s forests, include Indigenous people (commentary)

Anahita Verahrami 16 May 2022

Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

2021 tropical forest loss figures put zero-deforestation goal by 2030 out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Apr 2022

Old-growth redwood trees in Redwood National Park, California. Image courtesy of Erik Cooper via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

President Biden signs order aimed at protecting old-growth forests across U.S.

Liz Kimbrough 22 Apr 2022

Beyond CO2, tropical forests a ‘cool’ solution to climate crisis, study finds

John Cannon 22 Apr 2022

A group of community workers from the Ejido Santa Ana rest after a day working in the forest. Image courtesy of UCDFI Topia, S.C.

Opium production down as communities in Mexico’s Golden Triangle turn to forestry

Rodrigo Soberanes 29 Mar 2022

Can a reforestation project stop land grabs? Villagers in the DRC give it a try

Didier Makal 17 Mar 2022

Tropical deforestation emitting far more carbon than previously thought: Study

John Cannon 15 Mar 2022

From teak farms to agroforestry: Panama tests reforestation strategies

Colin Sytsma 10 Mar 2022

Forest enterprise in Mexico attempts to present opportunities for Indigenous communities

Agustín del Castillo 3 Mar 2022

Sabino Gualinga, Amazon shaman and defender of the ‘living forest,’ passes away

Kimberley Brown 23 Feb 2022

Kenya forest service

Indigenous communities uncertain over proposed change to Kenyan forest law

Kang-Chun Cheng 21 Feb 2022

Tukupu: The women of the Kariña community, guardians of Venezuela’s forests

Astrid Arellano 2 Feb 2022

Baka people

Indigenous hunter-gatherers in Cameroon diversify food sources in the face of change

Laurel Sutherland 1 Feb 2022

Redwood forest in Muir Woods, Marin County, California. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

California redwood forest returned to Indigenous guardianship, conservation

Laurel Sutherland 28 Jan 2022

Park rangers

What went wrong with conservation at Kahuzi-Biega National Park and how to transform it (commentary)

Deborah S. Rogers 27 Jan 2022

Here’s how science is trying to conserve the monarch butterfly’s forests

Thelma Gómez Durán 17 Jan 2022

Colombia’s new anti-deforestation law provokes concern for small-scale farmers

Christina Noriega 10 Jan 2022

Rainforests in 2022: A look at the year ahead

Rhett A. Butler 4 Jan 2022

Mexican firm profits from reforestation, empowers Indigenous people

Maxwell Radwin 21 Dec 2021

Death threats and friction with military force Guatemalan rangers to flee

Maxwell Radwin 20 Dec 2021

How wildlife crossings in Canada are inspiring safer roads for global species

Shannon Kelleher 17 Dec 2021

French deforestation database pressures Brazilian soy traders to clean up supply chain

Maxwell Radwin 14 Dec 2021

Indigenous community saves Colombia’s poison dart frog from coca and logging

Maxwell Radwin 30 Nov 2021

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