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Wildcat miners: will cyanide displace mercury?

Honduras taps armed forces to eliminate deforestation by 2029. Will it work?

Wildlife busts in Malaysia’s Taman Negara show progress, and gaps, in enforcement

Indonesia’s Farwiza Farhan among Ramon Magsaysay awardees for protecting Leuser Ecosystem

A one-time illegal logger grows back a forest for his people in Sumatra

Sumatran province brings hammer down on illegal oil wells after fatal blasts

Forest degradation releases 5 times more Amazon carbon than deforestation: Study

The Amazon’s most fertile forests are also most vulnerable to drought: Study

In Cambodia, Indigenous villagers lose forest & land amid carbon offset project

What’s at stake for the environment in Venezuela’s upcoming election?

“Game over” for the Amazon forest and global climate if Trump wins? (commentary)

Protected areas benefit nature & people, study says — with caveats

Study: A third of Africa’s great apes at risk from mining of transition metals

Hydropower dams further undermine REDD+ efforts in Cambodia

History repeats as logging linked to Cambodian hydropower dam in Cardamoms

U.K. court to hear lawsuit for victims of Brazilian dam disaster

Revealed: Illegal cattle boom in Arariboia territory in deadliest year for Indigenous Guajajara

How effective is the EU’s marquee policy to reduce the illegal timber trade?

Brazil’s BR-319 Highway: The latest maneuver to obtain approval for an environmental disaster (commentary)

In Peru’s Madre de Dios, deforestation from mining brings huge economic losses

Landmark ruling in Suriname grants protections to local and Indigenous communities — for now

#AllEyesonPapua goes viral to highlight threat to Indigenous forests from palm oil

Mongabay video screening at Chile’s Supreme Court expected to help landmark verdict in Brazil

Honduran environmental defenders hit hard by human rights crisis, report says

Governments are ramping up actions to fight environmental crime across the Amazon, but is it working? (commentary)

Beyond deforestation, oil palm estates pose flood and water contamination risks

A forest restoration project brings birdsong back to Angola’s highest mountain

Organized crime puts unprecedented pressure on Guatemala’s largest rainforest

Hold my ointment: Wild orangutan observed healing wound with medicinal plant

Latest palm oil deforester in Indonesia may also be operating illegally

Indonesian company defies order, still clearing peatlands in orangutan habitat

A web of front people conceals environmental offenders in the Amazon

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