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Cincinnati-born Harapan the rhino adjusting well to life in Sumatra

Rahmadi Rahmad, Ridzki R. Sigit 10 Feb 2016

Is this Malaysian palm oil firm still destroying forest in Borneo — and selling to Wilmar?

Jonathan Vit 9 Feb 2016

Meet the new spider named after Johnny Cash

Mike Gaworecki 9 Feb 2016

What’s that forest worth? Disaster assistance (finally!) takes nature into account

Guest Commentary 9 Feb 2016

Researchers say you get what you pay for when it comes to payments for ecosystem services

Mike Gaworecki 9 Feb 2016

Illegal gold mining pushes deeper into protected Peruvian reserve

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Feb 2016

‘Where Have All the Animals Gone?’ – a journey through Africa and Asia

Shreya Dasgupta 8 Feb 2016

Munduruku building new alliances to fight Tapajós Basin dams in Amazon

Guilherme Rosa from Repórter Brasil, Benjamin Blocksom translator 8 Feb 2016

Drop in commodity prices isn’t necessarily helping indigenous peoples and the environment in Brazil

Carolina Torres 8 Feb 2016

How can banks spur the palm oil industry toward sustainability?

Pek Shibao 8 Feb 2016

Geospatial data for the people, by the people

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 6 Feb 2016

The week in environmental news – Feb 05, 2016

Brittany Stewart 5 Feb 2016

Study finds logging helps black rats invade tropical rainforests, push native species out

Mike Gaworecki 5 Feb 2016

Prospective Congo palm oil plantation wrecking prime great ape habitat

Jeremy Hance 5 Feb 2016
Burning peat forest and oil palm in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Norway pledges $50m to fund Indonesia’s peat restoration

Mongabay Haze Beat 5 Feb 2016

The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund just announced a groundbreaking human rights policy

Mike Gaworecki 4 Feb 2016

Researchers find the world’s forests are fragmenting at a quick pace

Mike Gaworecki 4 Feb 2016

Rare video: young orangutan and gibbon play together in the Borneo jungle

Sophie Furnival 4 Feb 2016

Fires burned 26% of forestry giant’s South Sumatra plantations in 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Feb 2016

A railroad that crosses the Amazon could be an infeasible, expensive dream for Peru

Barbara Fraser 4 Feb 2016

Two new jewel-eyed tree frog species discovered in Taiwan, display strange reproductive behavior

Shreya Dasgupta 4 Feb 2016

With haze threatening return, Indonesian forestry giant pushes peatlands restoration model

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Feb 2016

How are NGOs innovating to reach palm oil financiers and companies?

Pek Shibao 4 Feb 2016

Lack of land rights for local communities could scare away investment

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Feb 2016

Oil extraction threatens to expand further into Ecuadorean rainforest under new 20-year contract

Isabel Riofrio 3 Feb 2016

Previously undiscovered lion population found in Ethiopia

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Feb 2016

Primate-Watching: In the Year of the Monkey, let’s build a Conservation Movement

Russell A. Mittermeier 3 Feb 2016

New deforestation hotspot threatens southern Peru’s tremendous biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 2 Feb 2016

Managing fish stock –and fishermen– along Brazil’s Canaticu River

Jenny Gonzales 2 Feb 2016

Studying Cecil: development and deployment of lion-tracking technology

Caleb O'Brien, Katie Taylor, Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 2 Feb 2016

India has most cases of social and environmental conflict, according to environmental justice atlas

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Feb 2016
Human-wildlife conflicts could potentially be reduced with the introduction of fully certified palm oil for Sabah. Photo shows an elephant stranded in a smallholder’s farm. Photo and caption courtesy of LEAP.

Do poor environmental practices affect palm oil firms’ bottom lines on a scale meaningful for investors and financiers?

Pek Shibao 1 Feb 2016

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