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Illegal ivory demand could wipe out Africa’s elephants by 2025

Tiger success story turns bleak: poachers decimating great cats in Siberia

Major Chinese Lead Smelter Admits Fault in Poisoning, Environmental Contamination

New species of glowing mushrooms named after Mozart’s Requiem

Forests versus oil palm plantations in Sumatra

Malayan tiger rescued from poacher’s snare proves need for increased enforcement

Palm oil industry pledges wildlife corridors to save orangutans

Could agroforestry solve the biodiversity crisis and address poverty?, an interview with Shonil Bhagwat

Two of the world’s most endangered (and strangest) primates receive protection from new reserves in China and Vietnam

Roads are enablers of rainforest destruction

Palm oil both a leading threat to orangutans and a key source of jobs in Sumatra

Indonesia: emissions to rise 50% by 2030, 3rd largest GHG emitter

EU biofuels policy undermines governance in Indonesia, alleges report

Fashion labels drop APP after party highlights the plight of Indonesian forests

After declining 95% in 15 years, Saiga antelope begins to rebound with help from conservationists

Carbon Financing and Community Forestry

Dangers for journalists who expose environmental issues

‘Greening’ logging concessions could help save great apes

Fifteen indigenous leaders arrested in Borneo for protesting dams that would flood their lands

Independent review finds logging company has abused rights of indigenous Penan in Borneo

Saving the last megafauna of Malaysia, an interview with Reuben Clements

Rhino poaching epidemic underway in South Africa

World’s only Sumatran rhino to give birth in captivity dies at Cincinnati Zoo

Slaughter of dolphins and whales begins in cove made famous by film

South Korea’s frogs have avoided amphibian crisis so far, an interview with Pierre Fidenci

Britain bans palm oil ad campaign

World Bank’s IFC suspends lending to palm oil companies

Concerns over deforestation may drive new approach to cattle ranching in the Amazon

Elephants on the rampage in India: 500 homes destroyed, seven people dead

Japan throws down gauntlet, vows to cut greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent by 2020

Apple’s Snow Leopard helps real-life cats

46 rescued orangutans returned to the wild by helicopter in Borneo

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