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The year in tropical rainforests: 2016

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Dec 2016

Illegal logging shows little sign of slowing

Morgan Erickson-Davis 30 Dec 2016
A Kenyan ranger guards poached elephant tusks in preparation for the destruction of 105 tons of ivory and a ton of rhino horn in April. Photo by Mwangi Kirubi via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

China to ban its elephant ivory trade within a year

Mongabay.com 30 Dec 2016

Top climate stories to watch in 2017

Mike Gaworecki 29 Dec 2016

Obama creates two new national monuments, protecting 1.65 million acres

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Dec 2016

China seizes over 3,000 kg of pangolin scales in biggest-ever smuggling case

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Dec 2016

Whistleblowing for wildlife

Julia John 28 Dec 2016

Protest against oil pollution ends with accords on pipeline inspection, remediation, compensation

Barbara Fraser 28 Dec 2016

2016’s top 10 developments for the world’s oceans

Caroline Jablonicky, Douglas McCauley 28 Dec 2016

Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2016

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Dec 2016

Consumer pressure to ditch deforestation begins to reach Indonesia’s oil palm plantation giants

Tara MacIsaac 27 Dec 2016

‘Casper’ the octopod threatened by deep-sea mining

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Dec 2016

Cheetah populations crash as fastest-animal disappears from 91% of its range

Mongabay.com 26 Dec 2016

Indonesia’s rich list stacked with palm oil billionaires

Mongabay.com 26 Dec 2016

Photos: Top 20 new species of 2016

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Dec 2016

Study looks at positive and negative impacts of biodiversity offsets on local communities

Mike Gaworecki 23 Dec 2016

What do experts have to say about Latin American wildlife trafficking?

Alexa Eunoé Vélez Zuazo 23 Dec 2016

Hairy crabs and deep-sea worms: 6 new species discovered in undersea hot springs

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Dec 2016

Explore the “Wonders of the Annamites” in this new children’s book

Mike Gaworecki 22 Dec 2016

Papua New Guinea’s oil and gas boom – blessing or curse?

David Hutt 22 Dec 2016

Bastion of biodiversity protected in eastern DRC

Mongabay.com 22 Dec 2016

Hong Kong to ban ivory trade by 2021

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Dec 2016
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

As accusations fly, paper giant appears to stand by its replanting of burned peat in Sumatra

Mongabay Haze Beat 22 Dec 2016

Why should we care about the endemism hotspot of São Tomé and Príncipe

Ricardo F. de Lima, Sara Saraiva 21 Dec 2016

Temer government set to overthrow Brazil’s environmental agenda

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 21 Dec 2016

Wildlife for sale: More than 5,000 traffickers arrested this year in Colombia

María Lourdes Zimmermann 21 Dec 2016

Stone, Sand, Water: the key ingredients changing the Salween landscape

Demelza Stokes 21 Dec 2016

Video: Two rescued pet orangutans return to the wild

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Dec 2016

Lessons from the $2 billion coal mining lawsuit against Indonesia

Isabel Esterman 20 Dec 2016

How tropical deforestation and land-use change is driving emerging infectious diseases

Mike Gaworecki 20 Dec 2016

Study maps 187 land conflicts as palm oil expands in Kalimantan

Rachel Diaz-Bastin 20 Dec 2016

All I want for Christmas… a wildlife researcher’s holiday wish list

Glenn Scherer 20 Dec 2016

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