Indonesia will revoke existing forestry licenses to cut down natural forests under the billion dollar deal climate deal signed with Norway last week, reports Reuters. Agus Purnomo, head of the…
The US government has now confirmed that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the United States' largest oil spill and perhaps the nation's worst environmental disaster. While…
Governor of Hawaii, Linda Lingle, has signed into law a ban on shark-fin soup beginning July 1st, 2011, according to Reuters. The soup is currently served in a number of…
World governments have missed their goal of stemming biodiversity loss by this year, instead biodiversity loss has worsened according to scientists and policy-makers, and a little rusty-colored bird, the Alaotra…
Penjualan minyak kelapa sawit yang tersertifikasi oleh kriteria green yang ditetapkan oleh Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) mencapai rekor tinggi pada bulan Maret, hampir mencapai 8 persen pada akhir…
Hingga saat ini, menyelamatkan hutan hujan seperti sebuah misi yang mustahil. Namun saat ini dunia telah mulai menerima ide bahwa solusi yang ditawarkan untuk membantu menghadapi perubahan iklim dapat memberikan…
BP has failed to stop oil gushing from over a mile below the surface in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil spill, which has been confirmed as the worst in…
Juan Carlos Cantu, Director of Defenders of Wildlife’s Mexico office, spoke with Laurel Neme on her "The WildLife" radio show and podcast about the illegal parrot trade in Mexico and…
Malaysia plans to build a coal plant on the northern edge of Lahad Datu Bay in Sabah, Borneo. The plant will sit between a pristine rainforest, home to a number…
With one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world, the world's third largest greenhouse gas emissions due mostly to forest loss, and with a rich biodiversity that is…
A new policy paper in Science warns that several species of Madagascar's rosewood could be pushed to extinction due to a current illegal logging crisis on the island. These hardwood…
In the 2010 State of Observed Species researchers have announced that 18,225 living species were discovered in 2008. In addition, 2,140 new extinct species were discovered byway of fossils. For…
An unidentified rodent from Xinjiang, China. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 2006. I have not been able to indentify this species. If you can help, please contact me. To see…
Researchers have discovered a new species of antpitta in the montane cloud forests of the Colibri del Sol Bird Reserve in western Colombia. A thrush-like bird, the new cinnamon and…
With no end in sight to the environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, some may wonder whether BP’s spill could become truly international in scope. That, at least, is…
Archey's frog is a survivor: virtually unchanged evolutionarily for 150 million years, the species has survived the comet that decimated the dinosaurs, the Ice Age, and the splitting of continents.…
Tensions are flaring after Brazil's approval of the Belo Monte dam project last month to divert the flow of the Xingu River. The dam, which will be the world's third…
As a White House official today announced that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the worst in US history—surpassing even the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska in…
Forests make way for a palm oil plantation on the Indonesia island of Sumatra adjacent to Gunung Leuser National Park. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 2009. Norway has promised Indonesia…
Indonesia akan mengarahkan perbatasan terakhirnya - wilayahnya di Nugini - seiring dengan usahanya menjadi eksportir agrikultur utama, menurut laporan AFP. Dalam pencariannya untuk menjadi salah satu produsen nasi, jagung, gula,…
by 25 May 2010
Pembayaran untuk pelestarian hutan di bawah mekanisme REDD sepertinya tidak memberikan alternatif ekonomi yang akan terus berlangsung dibandingkan dengan pertanian kelapa sawit dengan harga saat ini. Catatan dari Rhett Butler:…
Peruvian oil abandons plan to drill in uncontacted indigenous zone, but opens up new areas. Perupetro, the Peruvian government's oil and gas corporate leasing body, announced last week that it…
The fourth in an interview series with participants in the 5th Frugivore and Seed Dispersal International Symposium. Scientists are just beginning to uncover the complex relationship between healthy biodiverse tropical…
The red bird of paradise flower in Amacayacu National Park, Colombia. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 201o. To see more photos Colombian plant life: Flora in Colombia.
Para penebang liar mengarahkan tujuan mereka ke hutan-hutan yang dikelola masyarakat di Sumatera Selatan, memunculkan kembali pertanyaan mengenai pemerintah kehutanan dan penegak hukum saat Indonesia bersiap-siap untuk mengkapitalisasi pembayaran untuk…
The International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University has released its annual top 10 list of new species discovered last year. This time the list includes a two…
To the degree that Americans are paying attention to the environmental plight of marine wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico, they may focus most upon dolphins and whales. However, the…
A Rough-skinned newt (Taricha granulosa) in Big Basin State Park, California. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 2007. This species is known for its poison, tetrodotoxin, a strong toxin that causes…
Spoiler Alert: artikel ini mengungkapkan akhir dari cerita di film Avatar. Dalam film terbaru James Cameron Avatar sebuah suku alien di planet yang jauh melawan untuk menyelamatkan rumah hutan mereka…
Konservasi hutan melalui REDD bisa saja tidak efektif tanpa mengalamatkan pada konsumsi dan perdagangan komoditas, pendapat sebuah koran yang menyoroti implikasi perubahan penggerak penggundulan hutan pada ukuran kebijakan baru untuk…
