Global Forests News

Indonesian forests put at risk by South Korean and Japanese biomass subsidies

Annelise Giseburt 12 Dec 2024

Deforestation in Kapuas Hulu regency, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Global forest loss increased in 2020

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Mar 2021

Remote river in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo credit: Microsoft Zoom Earth

For International Day of Forests, an update on rainforest developments

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Mar 2021

The Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay.

Colombia’s national parks at a crossroads as new director installed

Aurora Solá 3 Mar 2021

Over half of global environmental defender murders in 2020 in Colombia: report

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 2 Mar 2021

Squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) play in the trees, along the Yasuni river. Image by Kimberley Brown for Mongabay.

France contributes to protection of Amazon stronghold, Yasuní National Park

Vincent Ricci 27 Jan 2021

Rainforest in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

What are the tropical forest storylines to watch in 2021?

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jan 2021

Blue Anole from Colombia. Photo by Thomas Marent

For Latin America’s environmental defenders, Escazú Agreement is a voice and a shield

Genevieve Glatsky 7 Jan 2021

Rainforest mantis in Suriname. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Rainforests: 11 things to watch in 2021

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jan 2021

Colombia’s sustainable forestry drive boosts biodiversity and business

Dimitri Selibas 30 Dec 2020

Geography on the plate: The culinary rediscovery of Colombia’s biodiversity

Aurora Solá 29 Dec 2020

Weak policy oversight could be pushing Brazilian forests closer to a tipping point

Meghie Rodrigues 28 Dec 2020

Red passion vine flower in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Colombia’s forests lurch between deforestation and the hope for a sustainable future

Dimitri Selibas 24 Dec 2020

A village near a community forest in River Cess County, Liberia, 2016. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Liberia gave villagers control over their forests. Then a mining company showed up

Ashoka Mukpo, James Giahyue 22 Dec 2020

Poor governance fuels ‘horrible dynamic’ of deforestation in DRC

Victoria Schneider 21 Dec 2020

In an oil spill’s aftermath in Peru, new voices lead an Indigenous fight for justice

Francesca García Delgado, Vanessa Romo 18 Dec 2020

Nazareth Cabrera fights for Colombia’s Indigenous Uitoto with the strength of her words

Carol Sánchez 17 Dec 2020

In the Colombian Amazon, a leader trains her people to save the forest

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 16 Dec 2020

Brazil scientists map forest regrowth keeping Amazon from collapse: Study

Shanna Hanbury 15 Dec 2020

‘She goes and helps’: Noemí Gualinga, Ecuador’s mother of the jungle

Mayuri Castro 13 Dec 2020

Brazilians impacted by mining assert: ‘Genocide legalized by the state’

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 10 Dec 2020

Park rangers on patrol in Garamba National Park in DRC earlier this month. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

Report: WWF knew about rights abuses by park rangers, but didn’t respond effectively

Ashoka Mukpo 8 Dec 2020

Colombian environmental official assassinated in southern Meta department

Antonio José Paz Cardona 7 Dec 2020

Norway bumps rate to protect rainforests amid anticipated U.S. climate return

Vincent Ricci 4 Dec 2020

A small village nestled in the Ha Giang province in Vietnam near the border with China. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Sexual harassment rife in Vietnam’s conservation sector, survey reveals

Michael Tatarski 25 Nov 2020

Indigenous leader who fought for communities and conservation mourned in Peru

Anna-Catherine Brigida 25 Nov 2020

France falls short in ending deforestation linked to imported soy

Mongabay.com 20 Nov 2020

A Grauer's Gorilla in Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in late 2016. There are fewer than 4,000 of the gorilla subspecies left. Photo by Thomas Nicolon

As energy needs drive demand for minerals, forests face greater threats

Victoria Schneider 11 Nov 2020

Technology innovations look to change the cacao landscape in Colombia

Aurora Solá 10 Nov 2020

Environmental democracy in Ecuador promotes anti-mining agenda

Vincent Ricci 9 Nov 2020

Peru prosecutors probe Amazon deforestation linked to Mennonite communities

Yvette Sierra Praeli 6 Nov 2020

Land and language: Indigenous cultures key to protecting Amazon biodiversity

Miguel Pinheiro 5 Nov 2020

Indigenous Colombians mount a spiritual defense of the Amazon

Ocean Malandra 4 Nov 2020

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