This is the second in a two-part series about advances in mapping technology and how they're being used to keep a closer eye on the world's forests. Read the first…
This is the first in a two-part series about advances in mapping technology and how they're being used to keep a closer eye on the world's forests. Read the second…
Antonio Brack Egg left a legacy of biodiversity conservation in one of Latin America's most biodiverse countries
New report finds bamboo may help mitigate climate change, reduce fossil fuel use, protect forests Restoring degraded land and forests with the world’s fastest growing plant, bamboo, can contribute to…
Inspiration from the front lines of Ecuador’s Amazon: an interview with Patricia Gualinga Patricia Gualinga, Director of International Relations in the Sarayaku community government. Photo courtesy of Patriia Gualinga. Standing…
Orchids indicate ecosystem health, can be used to predict extinction of other species, manage forests High in a humid tropical forest in the Sierra de Cayey, Puerto Rico, Benjamin Crain…
Wildfires may become more common as temperature and precipitation patterns shift Crackling heat and thick billowing smoke raced across the landscape. After weeks of scorching dry summer weather, the wildfire…
The documentary film, “48 Cantones: The Mayan Forest,” created by brothers Thomas & Julian Moll-Rocek, explores the Mayan Cosmovision and tells the story of the 48 Cantones in their own…
Increased tree cover in Chile is due in large part to expansion of wood fiber farms At first glance, the statistics tell a hopeful story: Chile’s forests are expanding. According…
Researchers urge collaboration between NGOs, corporations At first the forest seems still, with only the sounds of busy insects and slight movement of wind betraying activity in the patchy undergrowth.…
New research refutes previous findings Barbed-wire snares, spent shotgun shells, the lingering smell of gunpowder, and strips of curing meat: glimpses from a bushmeat hunt. Bushmeat hunting is the illegal…
Against an endless blue sky, the blazing sun beat relentlessly onto the sands, throwing off a blinding white glare. Pausing for a moment in the generous shade of a cliff,…
After weeks of slogging through thigh deep mud on hired motorbikes, passing dozens of bushmeat vendors offering everything from okapi skins to monkey meat to chained chimpanzee orphans, Dr. Thurston…
Evening fog settled quickly on Mount Ngoc Linh, as the steady drone of cicadas and crickets took up their usual nighttime chorus. The night calm was broken by sudden crashing…