Blue-eyed butterfly (species unknown) in North Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler, 2009.

Sebuah proyek terkemuka RED di Aceh, Indonesia kemungkinan tidak cukup untuk menyelamatkan hutan hujan dataran rendah di Sumatera Utara yang terancam akibat penebangan dan pengubahan ke perkebunan sawit, lapor para…

Pengembang minyak kelapa di bagian Indonesia dari Papua Nugini menandatangani perjanjian yang meragukan yang mengeksploitasi masyarakat lokal dan menempatkan ekosistem hutan yang cukup penting beresiko, menurut sebuah laporan baru dari…

Empat puluh persen dari hutan dataran rendah di Sumatera dan Kalimantan (Borneo Indonesia) telah dibabat sejak 1990 hingga 2005, lapor sebuah taksiran resolusi tinggi dari perubahan lahan di Indonesia. Penelitian…

Rangkuman: Google memasukkan teknologi terbaru untuk pelacakan dan penaksiran penggundulan hutan ke dalam Google Earth Kemitraan ini akan memungkinkan respon cepat pada penggundulan hutan yang terjadi di lapangan Amazon sebagai…

Blueberry poison arrow frog (Dendrobates pumilio) in Bocas de Toro, Panama. Photo by Rhett A. Butler, 2007. This is just one of many color forms for Dendrobates pumilio. More commonly,…

Maule Earthquake On February 27, 2010 a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck Maule, Chile causing widespread damage and casualties. The quake ranks as one of the ten strongest earthquakes ever recorded…

An iceberg the size of Luxembourg broke off from Antarctica after it was hit by another iceberg, reports Reuters. The separation could impact ocean circulation and affect marine life say…

Cargill will sell off its palm oil holdings in Papua New Guinea (PNG) to focus on operations in Indonesia, reports the Star Tribune. The $175 million sale involves 62,000 ha…

Senecio keniodendron, endemic to Mount Kenya. Giant Rosette Plant (Lobelia keniensis). ?. Lobelia telekii. Senecio plant. Senecio keniodendron, endemic to Mount Kenya. Lobelia keniensis. Photos by Rhett A. Butler, 2007.…

The U.N. will appoint an independent board of scientists to review the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the embattled U.N. climate body charged with evaluating the risk of climate…

Rosewood tree felled deep within a protected area last week. This photo illustrates an example in which five trees were cut in order to gain access to a single rosewood…

Delmas, a French shipping company that has been under pressure for facilitating the destruction of Madagascar's rainforest parks, has been cleared to begin picking up contraband rosewood as soon as…

Crocodile-expert and conservationist, Dr. John Thorbjarnarson, died of falciparum malaria in India on February 14th at the age of fifty-two. While many conservationists work with publicly popular animals like tigers…

As suggested by their name, the Galapagos fur seals were once endemic to the Galapagos island chain off the coast of Ecuador. But in a warming world species are on…

As a child when I came down with pneumonia my parents did not rush me to see a policeman, a cattle rancher, or a local businessman. Instead they took me…

Two of the world's largest land carnivores are converging on the same territory, according to data recently published in Canadian Field Naturalist. Grizzly bears ( Ursus arctos horribilis) are moving…

Vietnam's central province of Thua Thien-Hue has approved a project to save the enigmatic saola. Listed as Critically Endangered, the saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis) —a type of forest antelope—is so rare…

Entrance to St. Herman's Cave in Belize. Photo by Rhett A. Butler 2008.

Unilever has told Indonesian suppliers to stop sourcing palm oil from Duta Palma due to concerns over deforestation, reports Reuters. Unilever's warning comes shortly after a BBC documentary linked palm…

Anole in Las Cruces Biological Station, Costa Rica. Photo by Rhett A. Butler 2008.

Even megafauna can be quickly forgotten: the baiji and shifting baselines In 2006 a survey in China to locate the endangered Yangtze River dolphin, known as the baiji, found no…

The US Geological Survey (USGS) has found that every ice front in the southern part of the Antarctic Peninsula—the coldest part—has been retreating overall for the past sixty years with…

Indonesia will not allow the conversion of natural forest for oil palm plantations, claimed the country's Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan in comments reported by the Jakarta Post. Speaking at a…

A recent study by a team of researchers from Bar Ilan University suggests that endangered plants in water-saturated habitats can be taken as indicators for climate change in the Levant…

Tonight, the BBC's Panorama will broadcast a program looking closely at the palm oil issue and how it is affecting orangutans in Borneo. Dying for a Biscuit investigates the palm…

A local medical doctor, a marine ecologist, and oyster farmers are raising an alarm that a nearby monoculture plantation of Eucalyptus nitens may be poisoning local water reserves, leading to…

The Gulf of California's once rich marine ecosystem is in trouble. Surveys from 1999 and 2009 revealed that during the ten-year-period 60 percent of the areas showed signs of degradation,…

Payments for forest conservation under the proposed REDD mechanism are unlikely to provide a viable economic alternative to oil palm agriculture at current prices. Note from Rhett Butler: History: The…

Reed Frog (Heterixalus alboguttatus) I spotted this colorful frog near Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. It's common name is misleading: the White Spotted Reed Frog. Madagascar is thought to have more…