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Oil palm plantations in Sumatran watershed worsen flooding in communities

Basten Gokkon 11 Sep 2020
Chainsawing wood. Image by Mike Smith via Wikimedia Commons (CC 2.0).

Threatened species caught in crossfire of ongoing land conflict in Myanmar

Aimee Gabay 10 Sep 2020
In Mambele, in Eastern Cameroon, an indigenous Baka woman is raising awareness of other Baka indigenous communities on the importance of washing hands to prevent COVID-19. May 2020. Image courtesy of OKANI.

Filling the vacuum: How civil society is battling COVID-19 in Cameroon (commentary)

Madeleine Ngeunga 3 Sep 2020
A rotating blade used for small-scale wood-processing. Photo by Chris Humphrey for Mongabay.

Under cover of COVID-19, loggers plunder Cambodian wildlife sanctuary

Chris Humphrey 31 Aug 2020

‘If they take our lands, we’ll be dead’: Cameroon village battles palm oil giant

Victoria Schneider 26 Jun 2020

How the legacy of colonialism built a palm oil empire

Victoria Schneider 26 Jun 2020

Vietnamese agribusiness firm HAGL accused of clearing indigenous land in Cambodia

Michael Tatarski 15 Jun 2020
Bamboo lemur in Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Global consumer demands fuel the extinction crisis facing the world’s primates

Alejandro Estrada, Paul A. Garber 29 Dec 2019

Deforestation for potential rubber plantation raises concerns in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 19 Dec 2019

How rubber farmers can reduce risk and help the environment (commentary)

Arlene Chang 6 Sep 2019

Illegal logging poised to wipe Cambodian wildlife sanctuary off the map

Chris Humphrey 2 May 2019

Huge rubber plantation in Cameroon halts deforestation following rebuke

Rachel Fritts 1 May 2019

Norway divests from plantation companies linked to deforestation

Morgan Erickson-Davis 1 Mar 2019
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett A. Butler 30 Dec 2018

New research quantifies ecosystem services provided by Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 28 Nov 2018

What’s causing deforestation? New study reveals global drivers

Rachel Fritts 14 Sep 2018

Community groups in Cambodia say logging surged with approaching election

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2018

Deforestation for rubber ramps up near UNESCO site in Cameroon

Morgan Erickson-Davis 27 Jul 2018

New research calculates full carbon cost of oil palm cultivation in Indonesia’s forests

Mike Gaworecki 5 Jul 2018

Rubber plantation in Cameroon edges closer to UNESCO World Heritage Site

Rachel Fritts 6 Apr 2018

Sarawak’s Penan now have detailed maps of their ancestral homeland

John Cannon 20 Mar 2018

Oil palm, rubber could trigger ‘storm’ of deforestation in the Congo Basin

John Cannon 12 Mar 2018

Carbon credit prices too low to protect forests from rubber, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 Mar 2018

Bridgestone aims for full sustainability by 2050

Mongabay.com 13 Feb 2018

Saving Sumatran orchids from deforestation, one plant at a time

Sean Mowbray 12 Dec 2017

Interoceanic Highway incites deforestation in Peru, threatens more to come

Bart Crezee 1 Nov 2017

Sumatran region heats up as forests disappear

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Oct 2017
Caboco on a Sunday fishing trip. Photo by Maximo Anderson for Mongabay.

Amid life and death risks, Brazil’s land defenders stand firm

Maximo Anderson 29 May 2017
Not for republication. Image by Rod Harbinson/Rodharbinson.com

Indigenous groups, activists risk arrest to blockade logging in Malaysia

Rod Harbinson 8 May 2017

No safe forest left: 250 captive orphan chimps stuck in sanctuaries

Eugene N. Nforngwa 20 Apr 2017

Where the forest grants went

Harriet Williams 6 Mar 2017

NASA releases images of dramatic deforestation in Cambodia

Morgan Erickson-Davis 13 Jan 2017

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