Global Forests News

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

Annelise Giseburt 12 Dec 2024

Indonesia drops panned plan to scrap legality license for wood exports

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 May 2020

Mining company pressing to enter Ecuador’s Los Cedros Protected Forest

Ana Cristina Basantes 22 May 2020

Ecuador’s Kichwa implement innovative approach to rainforest conservation

Matthew Wilburn King 20 May 2020

Land scarcity and disease threaten a multifaceted indigenous crop in Ethiopia

Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 19 May 2020

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund drops major Brazil miner, utility from its portfolio

Ashoka Mukpo 19 May 2020

Naga tribes of Myanmar face loss of land and forest under new law

Robert Bociaga 14 May 2020

In Colombia’s La Guajira, the native Wayuu are forgotten in the dust

Nicoló Filippo Rosso 13 May 2020

Seed by seed, a women’s collective helps reforest Brazil’s Xingu River Basin

JoAnna Haugen 12 May 2020

Yehimi Fajardo: A voice for the birds of Putumayo

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 11 May 2020

New bill could legalize ‘land banking’ by Indonesian plantation firms

Loren Bell 10 May 2020

World lost forest ‘the size of Libya’ since 1990, FAO says

Lauren Crothers 8 May 2020

‘It was like a church’: Ecuador’s Kichwa community mourns death of sacred tree

Johnny Magdaleno 8 May 2020
Oil palm fruit in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Dayak women of Indonesia resist gender inequality exacerbated by palm oil production

Lauren Bowman 7 May 2020

Forest clearing proceeds for dam in Sumatra despite locals’ land claims

Barita News Lumbanbatu 7 May 2020

Massive erosion likely due to hydropower dam causes oil spill on Ecuador’s Coca River

Antonio José Paz Cardona 6 May 2020

Soy made the Cerrado a breadbasket; climate change may end that

Sarah Sax and Maurício Angelo 5 May 2020
Matsés woman with traditional facial tattoos, piercings, and face paint. Photo: Alicia Fox

Painstaking mapping initiative helps indigenous Peruvians defend their land

Yvette Sierra Praeli 5 May 2020

‘We are invisible’: Brazilian Cerrado quilombos fight for land and lives

Sarah Sax and Maurício Angelo 30 Apr 2020

Campaigners call for transparency in Myanmar timber trade after 850 tons of wood seized

Michael Tatarski 28 Apr 2020

Indigenous groups in Myanmar lash out at ‘restrictive’ conservation policies

Emily Fishbein 27 Apr 2020
ICCN ranger with a gorilla in Virunga National Park, DRC. Image courtesy Nelis Wolmarans.

Twelve rangers killed in latest Virunga Park incident

Fred Kockott 25 Apr 2020
Flowering rainforest tree in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Colombia wants to plant 180 million trees: Is it a realistic goal?

Antonio José Paz Cardona 23 Apr 2020

Satellite data show Amazon rainforest likely drier, more fire-prone this year

Shanna Hanbury 23 Apr 2020

A vital mangrove forest hidden in Vietnam’s largest city could be at risk

Michael Tatarski 21 Apr 2020
IBAMA, Brazil’s environmental regulatory agency, and Federal Police investigate illegal logging in the Arara Indigenous Reserve in Pará state. IBAMA, which saw its budget slashed by half under President Temer, is increasingly unable to respond to indigenous reserve invasions. Image courtesy of IBAMA.

Fight against Amazon destruction at stake after enforcement chief fired

Sam Cowie 21 Apr 2020

Brazilian indigenous chiefs act to halt illegal logging in historical landmark area

Spensy Pimentel 16 Apr 2020

Low-cost satellite forest monitoring for all: Q&A with CLASlite creator Greg Asner

Liz Kimbrough 16 Apr 2020

Indonesia’s new capital in the Bornean jungle on hold amid COVID-19 crisis

Basten Gokkon 15 Apr 2020

Study projects 30% more forest cover if wood biomass is managed right; critics call it a disaster

Lauren Crothers 15 Apr 2020

Rescuing orangutans ‘doesn’t work’ for apes or forests, studies find

James Fair 15 Apr 2020

Land conflicts escalate with spread of COVID-19 in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Apr 2020

South American indigenous peoples close territories in response to COVID-19

Yvette Sierra Praeli 14 Apr 2020

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