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Deforestation for a rubber plantation in Laos. While scientists have been pointing for years to the problems caused by natural forest conversion to rubber plantations, activist groups had been slow to target rubber relative to other commodities like soy, palm oil oil, timber, and wood-fiber.

“Ecological recession”: Researchers say biodiversity loss has hit critical threshold across the globe

Mike Gaworecki 25 Jul 2016

Ivory poaching kingpin gets 20 years in jail

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Jul 2016

On eve of Olympics, Amazon deforestation surges in Brazil

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Jul 2016

Haze epicenter receives environmental award in Indonesia

Aria Danaparamita 23 Jul 2016

Military sent to clear fish farms in Indonesia’s Lake Toba

Aria Danaparamita 22 Jul 2016

Big city living doesn’t stop peregrine falcons from mating for life

Mike Gaworecki 22 Jul 2016

Vietnam is one of world’s biggest illegal ivory markets

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Jul 2016

Massive relocation of 500 elephants begins in Malawi

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Jul 2016

Luzon Island in the Philippines is an endemic mammalian hotspot

Mike Gaworecki 21 Jul 2016

Study: Drought impedes tree growth, shuts down Amazon carbon sink

Claire Asher 21 Jul 2016

Piloting PALM Risk to detect palm oil-driven deforestation

Julia John 20 Jul 2016

Amazon, eBay involved in illegal wildlife trade: Indian government

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Jul 2016

Some global brands are getting creative to lower their carbon footprints

Mike Gaworecki 20 Jul 2016

Cattle driving big forest loss in Peru’s ‘under-appreciated’ Amazon

Jeremy Hance 19 Jul 2016

Whale sharks inch closer to extinction

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Jul 2016

Looks like Casper: Expedition captures first-ever live footage of ghostlike fish

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Jul 2016

California regulators approve plan to log 100-year-old redwoods

Mike Gaworecki 19 Jul 2016

Cargill suspends new purchase agreements with Malaysian palm oil giant IOI

Mongabay.com 18 Jul 2016

Indonesia’s palm oil permit moratorium to last five years

Mongabay.com 18 Jul 2016

New video emerges of wildlife abuses by safari company in Tanzania

Mike Gaworecki 18 Jul 2016

9 new natural sites added to World Heritage List

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Jul 2016
Borneo orangutan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia’s energy, agriculture targets could undermine its climate goals: report

Mongabay.com 16 Jul 2016

Huge cacao plantation in Peru illegally developed on forest-zoned land

Morgan Erickson-Davis 16 Jul 2016

NASA images show the Amazon could be facing an intense wildfire season this year

Mike Gaworecki 15 Jul 2016

What future is there for Africa’s lions?

Bill Konstant, Rick Barongi 15 Jul 2016
Red passion vine flower in the Amazon rainforest of Colombia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Heavy toll for green and indigenous activists among Colombian killings

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 15 Jul 2016

Wildlife Law Enforcement in Sub-Saharan African Protected Areas: A Review of Best Practices

Taylor Robb-McCord 15 Jul 2016

India at heart of illegal otter trade

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Jul 2016

South China Sea ruling slams China for poaching, reef destruction

David E. Brown 14 Jul 2016

Scientists have discovered six new dancing peacock spiders in Australia

Mike Gaworecki 14 Jul 2016

Scientists compile list of all known Amazon tree species, say it could take three centuries to find the rest

Mike Gaworecki 14 Jul 2016

Warming seas causing massive die-off of Australia’s reef forests

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Jul 2016

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