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Why are forests vanishing in southeastern Liberia?

GRAND GEDEH, Liberia – In the past century, most of West Africa’s Upper Guinean rainforest has been lost to commercial agriculture, infrastructure development and logging. More tha...

Research: UK imports linked to annual destruction of forest areas the size of Bristol

Agricultural products imported to the UK such as beef, cocoa, soy, wood, palm oil, coffee, and cashew nuts are estimated to be responsible for almost 11,000 hectares of forest loss...

KFS Raises Alarm After 350 Trees Cut Down and Abandoned Overnight

Rising cases of illegal logging in Saboti Forest have prompted officials to tighten security and warn residents against destructive activities.

Mining, drilling, and fire are fragmenting the world’s largest forests

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. The world’s largest remaining stretches of undis...

Amazon deforestation falls to 10-year low in first half of 2026

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has fallen to its lowest level in the past 10 years, according to satellite data published by Brazil’s National Space Agency (INPE). Between J...

Legal logging and soaring saplings: the ‘green islands’ bucking the deforestation trend in central America

In Guatemala’s Maya biosphere reserve local people are making a living from trees at the same time as increasing forest cover, showing nature is best protected by those who depend...

Trump moves to end protections for 44 million acres of U.S. forests

The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule protects the nation’s forests from logging and other industry activities

End of Brazil’s Soy Moratorium risks millions of hectares of Amazon rainforest: Study

Millions of hectares of Amazon rainforest are newly at risk of being legally deforested, a new study estimates. The potential increase in deforestation comes as soy companies have...

Thousands Of Trees To Be Cut In Rishikesh Despite Protests, Environmental Concerns

Forest Restoration Solutions

Tree growing has become one of the most widely promoted responses to climate change and ecosystem degradation, with governments, companies and nonprofits pledging to restore hundre...

WWF warns end of Amazon Soy Moratorium could fuel 1.4 million hectares of deforestation

As the voluntary deforestation commitment comes to an end, new research calculates failure to replace the scheme could lead to further deforestation

The vanishing forests on Liberia’s cocoa frontier

(GRAND GEDEH, Liberia) – Off in the woods beyond the ekki trees, a sharp crack cuts through the buzzing of insects. “It’s a tree falling,” says George Bowey, a baby-faced community...

Illegal mining destroys 8,900 hectares of Ghana’s forest reserves

Illegal mining has destroyed about 8,900 hectares of Ghana’s forest reserves, prompting government to tighten regulations on mining equipment, licensing and enforcement as it steps...

‘Cocoa fever’ in Liberia’s Grand Gedeh is wiping out native forests

Until 2020, 99% of Liberia’s Grand Gedeh county was covered by natural forests. Since then, cacao farms have rapidly encroached on those forests, reports Mongabay’s Ashoka Mukpo. G...

Roadless Rule Protecting American Forests on the Chopping Block

The rule prohibits most road construction and logging in these areas, preserving their natural state for future generations. The post Roadless Rule Protecting American Forests on t...

Closing the UK's deforestation footprint needs boots on the ground, not just eyes in the sky

Neither legal loopholes nor remote satellite algorithms will protect tropical ecosystems on their own, writes Priscillia Moulin from responsible sourcing specialist MosaiX

Forestry Commission impounds 20 trucks, seizes 4 000 bags of charcoal in Harare sweep to nip deforestation

THE Forestry Commission has impounded 20 trucks and seized 4 000 bags of charcoal and 300 cubic metres of firewood in Harare Metropolitan Province during a major August 2026 operat...

Singapore spending billions to adapt to climate change, but deforestation continues

SINGAPORE — At a rare public demonstration against a state development plan, 22-year-old environmental studies student Saw Yun Ya called on the Singaporean government to redo an en...

Something strange is happening in Liberia

Liberia is losing its rainforest at an alarming rate. Satellite data reveals rapid deforestation across one of West Africa’s last remaining intact rainforests, driven largely by il...

Vietnam’s coffee boom fueled by decades of deforestation, report finds

Decades of unchecked deforestation for coffee production has devastated Vietnam’s Central Highland forests, according to a new investigation by the Berlin-headquartered watchdog gr...

Without stronger government action, Brazil’s low deforestation in the Amazon is unlikely to last

Researchers say that the rainforest is at risk of losing the equivalent of about 2 million soccer fields over the next 10 years.

How Mennonites in Belize built a land-buying machine taking over forests

Over the past two decades, Belize lost around 20% of its forest cover — more than 350,000 hectares (865,000 acres). Much of it is the result of agricultural expansion by Mennonites...

‘It’s total devastation’: inside the Amazonian war against illegal gold mining

The Guardian goes on the ground with Brazilian forces fighting to eradicate mining that has destroyed protected areas of Indigenous landThe jerry-built bordello at the foot of Vila...

Rutland homeowner cuts down trees over concerns about homeless activity

A Rutland homeowner says he has removed trees from his property in an effort to discourage people from using his yard as a place to hide, store belongings and use drugs