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Nations should redirect 1% of military spending towards reforestation, Mexico proposes

Maxwell Radwin 27 Nov 2024

In Costa Rica, sustainable tourism is no longer enough for conservation

Michele Bertelli 21 Oct 2024
Prince Bissiemou measures a tree in a logged forest in Gabon. Image by Megan Sullivan.

Logging done sustainably doesn’t have to harm ecosystem services, study finds

Leocadia Bongben 22 Aug 2024

3D ‘digital twin’ rainforest maps could help reforestation programs in Costa Rica

Mark Hillsdon 20 Aug 2024
Two men planting trees in the Yokadouma Council Forest, Cameroon. Image courtesy WWF.

Reforestation to capture carbon could be done much more cheaply, study says

Liz Kimbrough 14 Aug 2024
Two male proboscis monkeys in Malaysian Borneo.

Indonesian capital project finally gets guidelines to avoid harm to biodiversity

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Apr 2024
In the heart of the Cardamom Mountains, new hydropower dams threaten both protected forest and REDD+ projects. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Protected areas bear the brunt as forest loss continues across Cambodia

Gerald Flynn 17 Apr 2024
Jokowi visiting the location of Indonesia's new capital Nusantara with the Governor of East Kalimantan in 2019.

Indonesia to offer tax perks to companies investing in reforestation of its new capital city

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Feb 2024

Mini rainforest project aims to serve as Kalimantan reforestation blueprint

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Feb 2024

Reforestation of Indonesia’s new capital city stumped by haphazard planting

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Feb 2024

Brazil’s mammals help humanity, but those services are at risk, study says

Liz Kimbrough 15 Dec 2023
Rainforest and an oil palm plantation in Sumatra. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Forests hold massive carbon storage potential — if we cut emissions

Liz Kimbrough 14 Nov 2023
16 February, 2023 - Sal Sophea Peanich economic land concession, Stung Treng Province (Cambodia). A timber processing facility and depot within the Sal Sophea Peanich economic land concession (8,645 hectares) that was issued in August 2005 as a rubber plantation. Satellite imagery reveals that clearing of a forested section adjacent to the depot started around October 2021. Image by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Calls grow to repurpose land squandered in Cambodia’s concession policy

Gerald Flynn 8 Nov 2023
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Ex-FARC members aim to restore 1 million native trees in the Colombian Amazon

Monica Pelliccia 7 Nov 2023
Andean cock of the rock bird in Manu. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Sound recordings and AI tell us if forests are recovering, new study from Ecuador shows

Liz Kimbrough 23 Oct 2023

Can agroforestry chocolate help save the world’s most endangered rainforest?

Liz Kimbrough 12 Sep 2023
Squirrel monkeys are one of many creatures of Yasuni National Park. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

What drives and halts tropical deforestation? Analyzing 24 years of data

Liz Kimbrough 24 Aug 2023

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