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Iran’s endangered cheetahs and imperiled conservationists (commentary)

Luke Hunter, Christine Breitenmoser, Urs Breitenmoser, Sarah Durant, Laurie Marker, Stephane Ostrowski, Christian Walzer 8 Mar 2019

Without indigenous leadership, zero-deforestation policies will fail (commentary)

Malika Virah-Sawmy, Tiago Reis 5 Mar 2019

As extinction looms, can Javan rhinos survive in Ujung Kulon? (Commentary)

Haerudin R. Sadjudin 4 Mar 2019

Marine protected areas are getting SMART (commentary)

Drew T. Cronin, Katherine Holmes, Dayne Buddo 3 Mar 2019

Brazil’s Sinop Dam flouts environmental legislation (Commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 1 Mar 2019

Vaquita still doomed without further disruption of totoaba cartels (commentary)

Andrea Crosta 28 Feb 2019

Financiers to discuss hydropower as climate-change mitigation, but dams are not ‘clean energy’ (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 26 Feb 2019

Is there another Javan Rhino habitat as ideal as Ujung Kulon? (Commentary)

Haerudin R. Sadjudin 26 Feb 2019

Will Malaysia become Southeast Asia’s clean energy leader? (commentary)

Christine Milne 25 Feb 2019

How many trees make a forest? (commentary)

Jon Fisher 20 Feb 2019

EU action plan on tropical deforestation must be beefed up, or it will fail (commentary)

Sam Lawson 8 Feb 2019

RSPO should suspend membership of groups undermining Guatemala’s anti-impunity commission (commentary)

Doug Hertzler, Jeff Conant 6 Feb 2019

Wetland forests: What are they worth? (commentary)

Dr. Sam Davis, Lucia Ibarra 1 Feb 2019

A sociological approach to global biodiversity loss (commentary)

Jordan Fox Besek 18 Jan 2019

How wasps saved Asia’s forests (commentary)

Douglas Sheil, Anne Johnson, Louis Reymondin, Alice C. Hughes 16 Jan 2019

Palm oil companies continue to criminalize farmers in Sumatra (commentary)

Gaurav Madan 14 Jan 2019
The Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Image by Christopher Brunner/ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0).

2018’s top 10 ocean news stories (commentary)

Douglas McCauley, Francis Joyce 24 Dec 2018

The long journey to saving the Sumatran rhino, via Borneo (commentary)

Haerudin R. Sadjudin 20 Dec 2018

The global community should address environmental issues as human rights issues (commentary)

Dr. David Ganz, Jeffrey Williamson 18 Dec 2018

Global agreement on ‘conserved areas’ marks new era of conservation (commentary)

Harry D. Jonas, Holly C. Jonas 13 Dec 2018

Tropical forest conservation in the Bolsonaro era (commentary)

Dan Nepstad, João Shimada, Oswaldo Carvalho Jr. 6 Dec 2018

Climate’s last stand: Why Extinction Rebellion protesters are breaking the law (commentary)

Claire Wordley 6 Dec 2018

The nature of conservation evidence: Imperfect, but good enough (commentary)

David Wilkie, Michael Painter 4 Dec 2018

It’s time to strengthen the macroecology–conservation practice interface (commentary)

Giovanni Rapacciuolo 29 Nov 2018

A living planet begins with thriving forests (commentary)

Alistair Monument 27 Nov 2018

New dam set to spoil Sumatran wonderland (commentary)

Gregory McCann, Haray Sampurna Munthe 20 Nov 2018

Could Brazil be on verge of one of world’s biggest conservation agreements? (commentary)

David Cleary 19 Nov 2018

California’s misguided plan to ‘save’ tropical forests (commentary)

Tom Goldtooth, Michelle Chan 16 Nov 2018

California’s Tropical Forest Standard could be the state’s most important climate action (commentary)

Steve Schwartzman, Christina McCain 14 Nov 2018

The ongoing trade in conflict timber (commentary)

Arthur Blundell, Jade Saunders 6 Nov 2018

Chainsaw Massacre: Protected areas in danger in Brazil’s state of Rondônia (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside, Paulo Vilela Cruz 31 Oct 2018

The legal institutionalization of FSC certification in Gabon (commentary)

Alain Karsenty 31 Oct 2018

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