Deforestation in Colombia appears to have declined in 2025, with notable reductions in several departments like Meta, Caquetá and Guaviare.

Officials attribute the declining trend to collaboration with Indigenous communities and environmental zoning in rural areas, as well as ecotourism and a program providing financial incentives for communities involved in forest conservation.

By Maxwell Radwin

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/colombia-poised-for-another-drop-in-deforestation-in-2025-data-show/

#news #conservation #environment #deforestation #forests #Colombia

Deforestation in Colombia appears to have declined in 2025, with notable reductions in several departments like Meta, Caquetá and Guaviare.

Officials attribute the declining trend to collaboration with Indigenous communities and environmental zoning in rural areas, as well as ecotourism and a program providing financial incentives for communities involved in forest conservation.

By Maxwell Radwin

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/colombia-poised-for-another-drop-in-deforestation-in-2025-data-show/

#news #conservation #environment #deforestation #forests #Colombia

#Forests cool the planet, like natural #aircon. #Deforestation heats areas up to 4.5℃! Keep forests standing for #people #animals! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🪔🧐🙊⛔️ #BoycottGold 🥇🪙🧐🙊🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/08/14/without-tropical-forests-global-temperatures-would-be-1c-warmer/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

#Forests cool the planet, like natural #aircon. #Deforestation heats areas up to 4.5℃! Keep forests standing for #people #animals! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🪔🧐🙊⛔️ #BoycottGold 🥇🪙🧐🙊🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/08/14/without-tropical-forests-global-temperatures-would-be-1c-warmer/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

Major soy buyers plan to exit the Amazon Soy Moratorium, a voluntary pact that kept deforestation-linked soy out of global supply chains for nearly 20 years.

Critics warn the move could undo hard-won gains, especially in Mato Grosso, where deforestation is rising despite national declines.

by Shanna Hanbury
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/soy-giants-drop-amazon-no-deforestation-pledge-as-subsidies-come-under-threat/

#news #amazon #conservation #soy #deforestation #environment

Major soy buyers plan to exit the Amazon Soy Moratorium, a voluntary pact that kept deforestation-linked soy out of global supply chains for nearly 20 years.

Critics warn the move could undo hard-won gains, especially in Mato Grosso, where deforestation is rising despite national declines.

by Shanna Hanbury
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/soy-giants-drop-amazon-no-deforestation-pledge-as-subsidies-come-under-threat/

#news #amazon #conservation #soy #deforestation #environment

After Cyclone Senyar killed more than 1,100 people across Sumatra, Indonesia’s government is now linking disaster impacts to development and corporate activity, launching audits of 100+ companies and reviews of zoning plans.

Civil society welcomes the shift, but warns real reform depends on revising permissive zoning that enables large-scale forest conversion.

by Hans Nicholas Jong
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/indonesia-launches-sweeping-environmental-audits-after-sumatra-flood-disaster/

#news #deforestation #Indonesia #cyclonesenyar

After Cyclone Senyar killed more than 1,100 people across Sumatra, Indonesia’s government is now linking disaster impacts to development and corporate activity, launching audits of 100+ companies and reviews of zoning plans.

Civil society welcomes the shift, but warns real reform depends on revising permissive zoning that enables large-scale forest conversion.

by Hans Nicholas Jong
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/indonesia-launches-sweeping-environmental-audits-after-sumatra-flood-disaster/

#news #deforestation #Indonesia #cyclonesenyar

#Deforestation climbs in #CentralAmerica ’s largest biosphere reserve

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/deforestation-climbs-in-central-americas-largest-biosphere-reserve/

> Encompassing some 7,400 square kilometers, or 2,860 square miles, along the Honduran border, Nicaragua’s Bosawás Biosphere Reserve is the largest biosphere reserve in Central America. It’s home to the Miskito and Mayanga Indigenous groups as well as countless species; endangered Geoffrey’s spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) and Baird’s tapirs (Tapirus bairdii) inhabit Bosawas, as do critically endangered Saslaya moss salamanders (Nototriton saslaya), that are found nowhere else in the world.

EU legislation intended to fight deforestation has been effectively dismantled

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/31/eu-legislation-intended-to-fight-deforestation-has-been-effectively-dismantled

Law’s original author points to removal of obligations for downstream traders to verify origin of commodities

#WarOnEnvironment #EU #Deforestation #Toothless #Legislation #Politics #Ecocide #Profit #Capitalism

Stopping tropical #deforestation and illegal #wildlife trade is a minor cost compared to stopping #zoonotic #diseases - Prof. Stuart Pimm @DukeEnvironment #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/06/04/preventing-pandemics-costs-far-less-than-controlling-them/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

EU votes to delay EUDR antideforestation law for second year in a row https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/eu-votes-to-delay-eudr-antideforestation-law-for-second-year-in-a-row/

#EU #environment #forest #deforestation #EUpol

Stopping tropical #deforestation and illegal #wildlife trade is a minor cost compared to stopping #zoonotic #diseases - Prof. Stuart Pimm @DukeEnvironment #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/06/04/preventing-pandemics-costs-far-less-than-controlling-them/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

EU votes to delay EUDR antideforestation law for second year in a row https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/eu-votes-to-delay-eudr-antideforestation-law-for-second-year-in-a-row/

#EU #environment #forest #deforestation #EUpol

The two-week COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, saw the largest global participation of Indigenous leaders in the conference’s history.

But sources say frustrations grew as negotiators failed to establish pathways for rapid climate finance for adaptation, loss and damage, or to create road maps for reversing deforestation and phasing out fossil fuels.

by Sonam Lama Hyolmo
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/what-was-achieved-for-indigenous-peoples-at-cop30/

#news #COP30 #indigenouspeople #climatechange #deforestation #fossilfuels #Brazil

The two-week COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, saw the largest global participation of Indigenous leaders in the conference’s history.

But sources say frustrations grew as negotiators failed to establish pathways for rapid climate finance for adaptation, loss and damage, or to create road maps for reversing deforestation and phasing out fossil fuels.

by Sonam Lama Hyolmo
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/what-was-achieved-for-indigenous-peoples-at-cop30/

#news #COP30 #indigenouspeople #climatechange #deforestation #fossilfuels #Brazil

In defence of the status quo, we are made to belief that asking for richer public space, safety for our children or a higher quality of live is 'Radical Activism'. 🌳🚲

You are not a radical. They are! 🚩

#ActOnClimate

#ClimateChange #deforestation #ActNow #environment #EndFossilCrimes #ClimateCrisis #Science #warming #Nature #climate #development #gasemissions #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #wildlife #ClimateAction #photo #photography #GlobalWarming #pollution #news #earth #amazon

Where the Amazon rainforest meets the Atlantic Ocean, the Brazilian river island of Marajo is losing ground against sea-level rise as coastal erosion destroys the rich mangrove forests that act as its natural buffers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/11/23/climate-change/tech-cop30-amazon-rainforest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #amazon #environment #cop30 #rainforest #deforestation

Fewer than 600 Sumatran #Tigers 🐅🐯 remain wild today 😭 Their number slashed by #palmoil #deforestation and illegal #poaching for body parts. Fight for their survival every time you #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife 🌴⛔️ in the shops @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://wp.me/pcFhgU-8QT?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer