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Billions Lost as Secret Financial Networks Fuel Forest Destruction in Brazil and Cameroon

SRINAGAR, India, June 8 (IPS) - A new report has found that billions of dollars linked to illegal deforestation are flowing through global supply chains, with secrecy around land...

Honduras taps armed forces to eliminate deforestation by 2029. Is it working?

RÍO PLÁTANO BIOSPHERE RESERVE, Honduras — Deep inside Honduras’ protected forests, a battle is taking place between environmental defenders and deforestation. Deforestation rates i...

Amazon deforestation declines as Brazil reduces forest loss nationwide

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon biome fell by 23.5% in 2025 compared with 2024, according to a new report from MapBiomas, a Brazil-based land-use mapping project. Reductions in de...

Deforestation is just a symptom. The disease is de-governance (commentary)

For decades, deforestation has been treated as the central problem. It’s measured in hectares lost, monitored through satellites, and addressed through conservation programs, carbo...

Amazon deforestation alerts fall to lowest 12-month level since 2014, show Brazilian data

  Satellite alerts suggest deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is continuing to fall, putting the country on pace for one of its lowest forest-clearing years in more than a decad...

Loopholes undermine palm oil industry’s antideforestation pledges

JAKARTA — More than a decade after the palm oil industry embraced a pledge to not deforest, clear tropical peatlands, or use exploitative practices, policies to that end now cover...

World’s forests in a race against time, warns UN global forest report

The world is losing its forests faster than it can save them, with severe consequences for the climate, biodiversity and over one billion people who depend on forests for their liv...

Rainforests are being pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources

How Government Inaction Turned Sumatra’s Rains Into a National Catastrophe

The Indonesian political system has enabled deforestation through weak oversight, opaque licensing, and regulations designed to favor extractive industries.

Organized crime adds to environmental destruction in the Amazon, report finds

A new report by the International Crisis Group finds that organized crime has become a “major obstacle” to protecting the Amazon. Criminal groups often operate across borders and a...

How Brazil’s federal fiscal policy hinders Amazon Rainforest conservation (commentary)

The forests of the Brazilian Amazon are, by any measure, among the most important ecosystems on Earth. They absorb carbon on a planetary scale, regulate rainfall across South Ameri...

The Amazon’s path from crisis to durability

In the Amazon, a forest can remain on the map while losing much of what makes it function. The Amazon rainforest is often discussed through a few familiar measures: deforestation,...

Letter: Development tears up North Shore forests

I was alarmed to see recent forest destruction between the Turtle Bay Hotel and the new Arete Collective development, and also in corridors well past the new development. Huge swat...

Gold mining damages dung beetle communities in the Amazon, study finds

Small-scale gold mining is a major cause of deforestation in the Amazon, and researchers found that in Guyana it destroys dung beetle communities and prevents their recovery for de...

Fire surge threatens Indigenous livelihoods and isolated peoples in Brazil

In 2025, fires were responsible for a significant spike in forest loss in three territories in Brazil that are home to Indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation, according t...

Brazil curbs Amazon deforestation in Piripkura, but ranchers’ cattle linger

A crackdown by the Brazilian government on land-grabbers who cleared primary Amazon forest for ranching and other agricultural activities in the Piripkura Indigenous Territory is y...

Desflorestação. Acha que não é para a sua empresa?

A partir do final de 2026, quem colocar no mercado da União Europeia produtos associados a gado, cacau, café, óleo de palma, borracha, soja ou madeira terá de provar, antes da prim...

Massive fire destroys green gold in Bathuni forests in J&K’s Rajouri | GKTV report

How to conserve tropical forests

STANFORD — Six months after last year’s United Nations Climate Conference (COP30), the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) has gone from being a headline-grabbing promise to a...

Jaguars vs Cows: JBS Fueling Biodiversity Collapse in Brazil’s Forests

A single supplier to JBS, the world’s largest meat company, illegally cleared over 1,200 hectares of protected jaguar habitat in just a decade. The post Jaguars vs Cows: JBS Fuelin...

Is it a SINS? More than $1tr of GDP in Europe, China, and US at risk from deforestation, study warns

New report illustrates how Systemically Important Natural Systems are critical for sustaining economic activity and supply chains

How narcos moved 108 tons of timber infused with drugs from Bolivia to Chile

New risks to South American forests emerge as trees becomes a key element in drug trafficking.

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...

IMF lending programs linked with deforestation should be rethought (commentary)

The price of financial stability should not be environmental destruction. Yet when countries turn to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for help, their forests may quietly suffe...