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Saving the Serranía de San Lucas, a vital link in the ‘jaguar corridor’

Sean Mowbray 1 Sep 2017

Doubts cloud Kenya’s renewed palm oil ambitions

David Njagi 21 Aug 2017

Stopping climate change may be harder than scientists thought

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Jul 2017

Is Brazil’s Forest Code failing to reduce deforestation?

John Cannon 6 Jul 2017

Tropical forest diversity and carbon richness not linked, study finds

Claire Salisbury 12 Jun 2017

Communities band together to protect El Salvador’s last mangroves

Martha Pskowski 23 May 2017

Drylands greener with forests than previously thought

John Cannon 12 May 2017

Over the bridge: The battle for the future of the Kinabatangan

John Cannon 3 May 2017

Rainforest conservation may be aimed at the wrong places, study finds

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 13 Apr 2017

Land titling for indigenous communities leads to forest protection, peer-reviewed study finds

Mike Gaworecki 10 Apr 2017
Rhinella granulosa toad in Chocó-Darien, Colombia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Successful Colombian rainforest project exposes problems with carbon emissions trading

Bart Crezee 6 Apr 2017
Two Chaco Chachalacas in Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Photo by Dario Sanches via Wikimedia Commons.

Jurisdictional certification approach aims to strengthen protections against deforestation

Tara MacIsaac 4 Apr 2017

Warming climate coaxes carbon from down deep in temperate soils

John Cannon 14 Mar 2017

Successful forest protection in DRC hinges on community participation

John Cannon 12 Mar 2017

Science needed for more transparency in Paris climate projections

Mongabay.com 6 Mar 2017

The Republic of Congo: on the cusp of forest conservation

John Cannon 27 Feb 2017

Investors learning to pay heed to community land rights

John Cannon 13 Feb 2017

Forest protection funds flow to DRC despite ‘illegal’ logging permits

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 2017
Deforestation for pulp and paper production in Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Norway starts $400-million fund to halt deforestation, help farmers

Mongabay 31 Jan 2017

Deforestation rises with incomes in developing economies

John Cannon 30 Jan 2017

‘Revolutionary’ new biodiversity maps reveal big gaps in conservation

John Cannon 27 Jan 2017

Trump chokes information flow from EPA, DOI, and USDA

Mongabay.com 25 Jan 2017

Guyana focuses deforestation prevention efforts on conservation and management

Gaulbert Sutherland 24 Jan 2017

Fragmentation boosts carbon storage along temperate forest edges

John Cannon 9 Jan 2017

Sudden sale may doom carbon-rich rainforest in Borneo

John Cannon 2 Jan 2017

Companies need to do more to avoid deforestation, study finds

John Cannon 10 Dec 2016

Peru rainforest lost to illegal gold mining eclipses 10 Manhattans

Benji Jones 24 Nov 2016

Gold mining invades new areas of Peruvian Amazon

Benji Jones 11 Nov 2016

Higher incomes driving Indonesian smallholders to oil palm and rubber

John Cannon 3 Nov 2016

Nearly $1 billion in forest carbon finance committed in 2015

Mike Gaworecki 1 Nov 2016
Auyna Tepui in Parque Nacional Canaima, part of the Guiana Shield. Photo by Christoph Kühnhanss via Wikimedia Commons.

The Guiana Shield, the ‘greenhouse of the world’

Akola Thompson 19 Oct 2016

Gold mining deforestation in Peruvian reserve surpasses 450 hectares

Benji Jones 13 Oct 2016

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