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Deforestation

July 2024

  • Close up of a saltwater crocodile's eye in the Mangroves

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Roots and refuge: the year’s best mangrove images – in pictures

  • Cattle on a farm in Para state, Brazil.

    Brazilian rancher ordered to pay $50m for damage to Amazon

  • Trees in dense forest

    Australia’s major food companies failing nature, report finds

  • Geoffrey Lean

    How the Observer helped save Scotland’s bogs from destruction

    Geoffrey Lean
  • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Crisis at Tres Fronteras: how criminal syndicates threaten Amazon’s future

  • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Just give me 30 men and a few arms’: Honduran Indigenous groups ready to fight to save land

  • Deforestation in Colombia falls to lowest level in 23 years

  • The Latin oil rush
    Guyana banks on future as a ‘new Qatar’ in high-stakes gamble over oil production

  • ‘Surely we are smarter than mowing down 1,000-year-old trees to make T-shirts’ – the complex rise of viscose

June 2024

  • A sign in tropical jungle that reads in English: "This is a protected area. Entry is barred by law"

    The age of extinction
    Protecting just 1.2% of Earth’s land could save most-threatened species, says study

    Study identifies 16,825 sites around the world where prioritising conservation would prevent extinction of thousands of unique species
  • Rangers from Brazil’s environmental protection agency, Ibama, launch a major offensive against illegal mining gangs operating near the Javari valley Indigenous territory, where Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were killed. Photo by João Laet / The Guardian

    ‘Tomorrow’s our D-day’: on the frontline of the fight to save the Amazon

    A Brazilian special forces unit marks the second anniversary of the murders of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips with what they hope will be a famous offensive against the criminals obliterating the greatest tropical rainforest on Earth
    • First Dog on the Moon
      Who do these Europeans think they are trying to ban goods from areas where land clearing occurs?

    • The age of extinction
      Rare birds at risk as narco-gangs move into forests to evade capture – report

    • World’s top banks ‘greenwashing their role in destruction of the Amazon’

May 2024

  • Nemonte Nenquimo

    ‘I want people to wake up’: Nemonte Nenquimo on growing up in the rainforest and her fight to save it

    The Indigenous campaigner won a historic legal victory to protect Waorani land in the Amazon rainforest. Now she has written a groundbreaking memoir
  • Two people in blue protective overalls and masks use absorbent pads to wipe oil from a small mangrove on a beach

    The age of extinction
    Half of world’s mangrove forests are at risk due to human behaviour – study

    The loss of the ecosystems, which are vast stores of carbon, would ‘be disastrous for nature and people across the globe’, says IUCN
    • The rural network
      Move to protect Australian beef industry from EU land clearing laws criticised by scientists

    • Malaysia plans to give orangutans to countries that buy palm oil

    • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
      Fewer wildfires, great biodiversity: what is the secret to the success of Mexico’s forests?

April 2024

  • Aerial view of a logging road through rainforest

    The age of extinction
    Network of ‘ghost roads’ paves the way for levelling Asia-Pacific rainforests

    Bulldozed tracks and informal byways in tropical forests and palm-oil plantations ‘almost always’ an indicator of future deforestation, say researchers
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