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Army officers try to extinguish fires in peatland areas in Central Kalimantan.

2023 fires increase fivefold in Indonesia amid El Niño

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jan 2024

Forest restoration planned for Colombia’s Farallones de Cali National Park

Maxwell Radwin 9 Jan 2024

Reversing progress, Indonesia pulp & paper drives up deforestation rates again

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jan 2024

Palm oil giants push out smallholders in Guatemala; deforestation risks remain

Shanna Hanbury 8 Jan 2024

Newly described tree species from Sumatra could be vital for threatened orangutans

Liz Kimbrough 28 Dec 2023

Major soy producers announce improved deforestation commitments—with caveats

Maxwell Radwin 15 Dec 2023

Suriname preparing to clear Amazon for agriculture, documents suggest

Maxwell Radwin 14 Dec 2023

Activists slam ‘independent’ probe by Indonesian palm oil giant into violations

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Dec 2023

Indigenous groups rebuke court OK for palm oil company to raze Papua forests

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Dec 2023

Indonesia pushes carbon-intensive ‘false solutions’ in its energy transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Dec 2023

Brazil cattle traceability program to limit deforestation in Pará state

Maxwell Radwin 4 Dec 2023

As RSPO celebrates 20 years of work, Indigenous groups lament unresolved grievances

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Dec 2023

Guatemala braces for unprecedented year of deforestation in Maya reserve

Maxwell Radwin 30 Nov 2023

Cargill widens its deforestation-free goals, but critics say it’s not enough

Maxwell Radwin 29 Nov 2023

Jane Goodall and Dax Dasilva partner with Amazon Indigenous youth for new Roots & Shoots program

Liz Kimbrough 24 Nov 2023
A river in the Amazon rainforest interior of Suriname. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler.

U.N. carbon trading scheme holds promise and peril for tropical forests

Sarah Sax 23 Nov 2023
Bow Lake in Banff, Canada. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Vizzuality data set aims to give companies full view of supply chain impacts

Maxwell Radwin 21 Nov 2023
Forest in British Columbia. Photo: Rhett A. Butler

Calls for FSC to drop Canada’s Paper Excellence over ties to deforester

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Nov 2023

Can blockchain clean up the gold industry in Brazil and across the globe?

Charlie Espinosa and Charles Lyons 14 Nov 2023

Amazon deforestation has a regional, not just local impact: study

Maxwell Radwin 10 Nov 2023

Burn now, pay later: Fines trickle in from Indonesia’s crackdown on forest fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Nov 2023
Long-house at Sungai Utik, an Iban community in West Kalimantan that has successfully defended its customary forests against loggers. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

Independent project steps in as government slow to map Indonesian ancestral lands

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Nov 2023

As fire season worsens, Indonesian activists report four companies for burning

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Nov 2023

Report alleges APP continues deforestation 10 years after pledge to stop

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Oct 2023
Palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Indigenous Dayak ‘furious’ as RSPO dismisses land rights violation complaint

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Oct 2023

For 1st time, Indonesia government recognizes ancestral forests in Aceh — but only some

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Oct 2023

New Paraguay law aims to improve carbon credit market

Maxwell Radwin 20 Oct 2023
An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo

Deforestation surges in hotspot of critically endangered Bornean orangutans

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Oct 2023
Haze rising from an oil palm plantation and forest in Riau province.

‘Wasn’t us,’ fire-hit Indonesia claims as Malaysia chokes on poor air quality

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Oct 2023
An aerial view of a new road that leads from Think Biotech’s concession into the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary where illegal logging is taking place. Image by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Logging route cut into Cambodia’s Prey Lang from Think Biotech’s concession

Gerald Flynn | Andy Ball | Meng Kroypunlok 5 Oct 2023

Indonesia’s peatland restoration claims in question as fires flare up

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Oct 2023

Experts slam massive ‘discount’ in fines for Indonesian palm oil billionaire

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Sep 2023

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