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Ongoing overkill: loss of big herbivores leading to ’empty landscapes’

Sarawak increases fines for illegal logging

Tapping into evolutionary responses to guard crops against elephants

Selective logging leaves more dead wood in rainforests

Five tons of frozen pangolin: Indonesian authorities make massive bust

‘Deforestation fronts’ revealed

Fracas over Costa Rican shark-fin exports leads American Airlines to stop shipping fins

Officials: Sumatran rhino is extinct in the wild in Sabah

Activists target Roger Federer as brand ambassador for bank linked to deforestation

Photo essay: the flying fox show

Dam proposals for Salween River threaten tentative ceasefire between Myanmar government and minority groups

Growing need for deforestation-free rubber as tire demand destroys native forests

Expert panel rebukes Japan’s new whaling proposal

Scientists raise concern over road proposed through protected forest in Cambodia

Palm oil companies, NGOs endorse new deforestation-limiting toolkit

Fighting fire with money: can finance protect Indonesia’s forests?

Kaiduan dam in Borneo meets fierce opposition

Reservations about Indonesian ‘land reform’ as details unclear

Large animals invaluable for tree-seed dispersal and regeneration of tropical forests

APRIL suspends contractor after environmentalists expose ongoing deforestation

APRIL violates sustainability policy by clearing peat forest after Jan cut-off

Indonesia’s biodiversity-protected areas no match for encroachers, finds study

Destruction of elephant, tiger, and orangutan habitat doubles

‘How about that extension?’ activists ask as forest exploitation moratorium deadline nears

Pleasure palace in Lao facilitates wildlife poaching for Chinese elites

Who’s funding palm oil?

Indonesia’s small islands being rapidly damaged by industrial activities

Indonesia’s indigenous people still suffer human rights violations, says report

Conservationists catch-and-release record-smashing freshwater fish

Declining palm oil prices: Good news and bad news for smallholders

Proposed law could decimate Indonesia’s remaining forests

New wormy amphibians discovered in Southeast Asia

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