Belo Monte location. Courtesy of Google Earth. Construction on Brazil's megadam, Belo Monte, has been halted again as around 150 demonstrators, most of them from nearby indigenous tribes, have occupied…
For those living in North America, this animal is one of the most commonly sighted: the grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis). It is also an invasive species in Britain, Ireland, Italy,…
Elephant and human conflict is a common issue in India, exacerbated by habitat loss. Photo courtesy of Nishant Srinivasaiah. To prevent conflicts between humans and elephants in developed areas, a…
Aerial view of illegal logging in Cambodia. Photo by: Paul Mason USAID/Cambodia/OGD. An investigation into the mysterious death of Cambodian forest activist, Chut Wutty, has been dismissed by the courts,…
The yellow slime mold Physarum polycephalum exploring a petri dish. Slime deposits to the left of the image tell the slime mold where it has previously explored. Photo by: Audrey…
Cuban Amazon in the Grand Cayman islands, a different subspecies than the Bahamas' Cuban Amazon. Photo by: Lhb1239. I think about extinction a lot. It’s only natural for someone in…
Rainforest in Borneo. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Thank you Professor Anthony Hall. After many years, we finally have a REDD textbook that can be used in the undergraduate and…
Peatland forest being drained in Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. From 1990 to 2010 almost all palm oil expansion in Kalimantan came at the expense of forest…
Over 300 Penan people are living in makeshift shelters as they blockade roads to the Murum dam construction site. Photo courtesy of Sarawak Conservation Alliance for Natural Environment (SCANE). Indigenous…
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) is holding its tenth annual meeting later this month. The initiative, which aims to improve the social and environmental performance of palm oil…
A mother with her severely malnourished child in the Sahel region. Photo: UNICEF/Chad/2012/C Tidey. Food prices increased in September on the FAO Food Price Index after two months of stability,…
Click to enlarge. The hour-and-a-half long debate between President Barack Obama and ex-governor Mitt Romney last night ended without a single reference to climate change. Frustrated with the lack of…
Twin red panda girls were recently born at the Zoological Society of London's (ZSL) Whipsnade Zoo. They have been named Ying and Yang. Photo by: ZSL Whipsnade Zoo. Although called…
Frozen stream in Minnesota. Photo by: Tiffany Roufs. Keeping forests standing would lessen both the number and size of spring floods in temperate regions, according to a new study in…
Two satellite images by NASA, one from February 13, 1999 and the other from September 1, 2008 (see below), show that Virunga National Park is under assault from deforestation. Located…
Possible new species of night monkey in the Aotus genus. Photo by: Alexander Pari. Every year scientists describe around 18,000 new species, but mammals make up less than half a…
Screenshot from Rainforest Rangers. The average gamer will spend thousands of hours playing video games by the time they reach adulthood, but the most popular games among some demographics —…
An interview with CEO of Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Mike Watson. Black rhinoceros in Lewa Wildlife Conservancy (LWC). Photo courtesy of LWC. So far this year, South Africa has lost 430…
his the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust's (DWCT) first gorilla baby in nine years. Keepers have yet to establish if its a male or female. Photo courtesy of DWCT. Click to…
Outbreaks of the coral eating crown of thorns starfish have been responsible for 42 percent of the decline in coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef between 1985 and 2012.…
A gray-footed chacma baboon (Papio ursinus griseipes) in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Photo by: Tiffany Roufs. Remember the 'man with no name' played by Clint Eastwood in A Fistful of…
An unidentified species of tarantula laying eggs at night in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon. More Ecuador photos.
by 1 October 2012
Article by Darren Lloyd An agreement signed between Panthera (Worlds’ leading wild cat conservation organization), the Costa Rican government and the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has given Jaguar…
NASA Landset image of Lake Edward in Virunga National Park. Photo by: NASA. The British government has come out in opposition against oil drilling plans by UK-based, SOCO International, in…
Illegal logging accounts for 15-30 percent of forestry in the tropics and is worth $30-100 billion worldwide, alleges a new report published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and…
Lowland gorilla in Gabon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. Cross River gorillas and eastern gorillas lost more than half their habitat since the early 1990s due to deforestation, logging, and…
Close-up of a caracal kitten in Yemen taken by camera trap. Photo by: the Foundation for the Protection of the Arabian Leopard. The first ever research project on the caracal…
The location of the Tripa peat swamps (circled) on the west coast of Aceh province, northern Sumatra, showing rivers, forest cover in 1990, peat, and district boundaries. Tripa is the…
