Articles by John Cannon

John is a staff features writer with Mongabay. Follow him on Twitter: @johnccannon. John became a correspondent for Mongabay in 2014 and joined the site's team full time in October 2016. John's journalistic work has also appeared in New Scientist, Slate.com, Yale Environment 360, Pacific Standard, Science (online), Business Insider and Bicycle Times. John has been a guest on the BBC as well as NPR's All Things Considered and Living on Earth, and he has also had several short stories published in literary magazines. He studied biology as an undergraduate at the Ohio State University and has a graduate degree in science writing from UC Santa Cruz. Always eager to find local perspectives on globally relevant stories, John has reported from Brunei, Cameroon, Central Africa Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malaysia, Peru and Rwanda. He currently lives in Afghanistan with his wife.

Illegal logging still a big issue in Cameroon

Forest abutting Sanaga river in Cameroon. Photo courtesy of Google Earth. Cameroon is struggling to make progress in combatting illegal logging. Regulatory budgets are too thin to protect the country’s…

Chinese logging company takes over Guyana’s forests

Illegal deforestation occurring despite Guyana’s ground-breaking low carbon development strategy Foreign companies investing in Guyana’s substantial forests are supposed to adhere to national laws and international agreements. But civil society…
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