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Juvenile and subadult of the new species Paroedura hordiesi. Credit: Jörn Köhler. Researchers have described a previously undocumented species of gecko in Madagascar. The species, named Paroedura hordiesi, lives among…

A pair of bottlenose dolphins frolic in the waters of Mayumba National Park, previously Gabon's only national park dedicated to the protection of marine species. Photo credit: Peadar Brehony /…

Oil palm plantation and natural forest in Costa Rica. All photos by Rhett Butler. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has signed an agreement with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm…

Rhino in South Africa. Photo by Rhett Butler. Conservationists are successfully developing mobile apps that enable authorities to identify illegal wildlife products, making it more difficult for traffickers to smuggle…

Elephants in Tanzania. All photos by Rhett A. Butler Corruption in Tanzania is enabling large volumes of illegal elephant ivory to be smuggled out of the country, alleges a new…

Cleared forest in Indonesia. Indonesia's newly elected president Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has merged the country's ministries of forestry and environment into a single entity and installed a woman at its…

Landsat image showing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. With scientists rapidly adopting and using a range of remote sensing tools for monitoring environmental change, tracking wildlife and measuring biological processes,…

Coquerel's Sifaka (Propithecus coquereli) in Madagascar. Photos by Rhett Butler. On the heels of a report showing that the world is far behind on targets to halve habitat loss, cut…

Another Cambodian journalist has been gunned down while investigating illegal logging by state officials, reports Reporters Without Borders. Taing Try, a freelance journalist who contributed to several newspapers, was killed…

White rhino in South Africa. Photo by Rhett A. Butler To help fight illegal poaching and trafficking, INTERPOL, the world's largest international police organization, has launched an environmental crimes unit…

"Oil palm fruit. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. Malaysian palm oil company Genting Plantations is continuing to destroy forests despite a high-profile pledge by one of its customers to eliminate…

Cleared timber plantation and peat forest in Indonesia. Photos by Rhett A. Butler. Dozens of companies, non-profit organizations, and governments pledged to work together to halve forest loss by 2020…

Illegal forest for an oil palm plantation within a protected area in Indonesia Five of the world's largest palm oil producers have announced an immediate moratorium on palm oil sourced…

Fire burning on an oil palm plantation in Malaysia Two of the world's largest doughnut brands this week committed to sourcing safeguards that move them toward eliminating deforestation from their…

Brazilian authorities have suspended the auction of the centerpiece of the massive Tapajós hydroelectric complex, reports Agência Brasil. The auction, scheduled for this December, was for the 6.1-gigawatt São Luiz…

Deforestation for oil palm in Sumatra A group of palm oil and timber companies that have pledged to eliminate deforestation from their supply chains have agreed to establish a standard…

An orphaned Sumatran orangutan at a rescue facility run by the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme Activists have launched an urgent appeal calling upon outgoing Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to…

Forest conversion for oil palm plantations in Malaysian Borneo in 2012. One of Malaysia's top palm oil officials has once again misled the public on the state of forests in…

9/9/14 update below Four Ashaninka were killed last week by illegal loggers in the Peruvian Amazon, reports El Comercio. One of those killed was Edwin Chota, the leader of the…

Morelet's tree frog or the Black-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis moreletii) from Central America is Critically Endangered. September 7 is Threatened Species Day, a designation established by the Australian government to…

California or North Pacific Blue Whales can exceed 100 feet (30m) long and weigh 190 tons. Photo courtesy of Gilpatrick/Lynn/NOAA The population of blue whales in the Eastern Pacific has…

The Bukit Batabuh tiger corridor within the RIMBA Corridor. Courtesy of Tiger in your tank? Major palm oil suppliers may be continuing to buy tainted palm oil despite high-profile commitments…

Coquerel's Sifaka (Propithecus coquereli) September 1 is World Primate Day, a designation intended to raise awareness about apes, monkeys, and prosimians like lemurs, lorises, and tarsiers. Many non-human primates are…

Oil palm fruit. Photo by Rhett A. Butler Indonesia's national airline, Garuda Indonesia, says it will start mixing palm oil-based biofuel with its jet fuel as part of an initiative…

Aposphragisma brunomanseri goblin spider. Courtesy of the Natural History Museum of Berne Swiss researchers have honored the memory of a missing indigenous peoples activist by naming an undescribed species of…

Greenpeace Canada has filed a Statement of Defense in response to a $7 million lawsuit by Resolute Forest Products (NYSE:RFP) over allegations that the logging company destroyed forests in Quebec…

Tropical rainforest. Photos by Rhett Butler. Since 2008 Norway has been the single largest foreign donor to tropical forest conservation, putting more than 10 billion Norwegian Krone, or $1.6 billion,…

At around 7-8 cm long, the Mount Mabu pygmy chameleon (Rhampholeon maspictus) is a relatively large species. Its name comes from the Latin for ‘painted man’, reflecting the striking green,…

Forest conversion for an oil palm plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia. Photos by Rhett Butler. U.S. food giant ConAgra has adopted a new sourcing policy that will exclude palm oil produced…