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The thinning fabric of Earth’s forest cover (commentary)

Tom Evans 24 Sep 2019

From threat to solution: Rethinking the role of communities in nature conservation (commentary)

Michael Brown, Samantha Cheng, Jim Tolisano 24 Sep 2019

Greta and Mesoamerica’s five great forests (commentary)

Jeremy Radachowsky, Chris Jordan 23 Sep 2019

This land is ours: New law could end age-old injustice faced by Liberian women (commentary)

Alexandra Benjamin 17 Sep 2019

Why I support the California Tropical Forest Standard (commentary)

Adam Gardner 16 Sep 2019

Climate adaptation begins with how we manage water (commentary)

Claudia Sadoff 12 Sep 2019

A lifeline for the last leopards (commentary)

Thomas S. Kaplan 10 Sep 2019
Drone view of Chiquitano forest recently deforested on the edge of the Bolivian Amazon for soy production. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Pro-deforestation policies could be ruinous for farmers (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Sep 2019

How rubber farmers can reduce risk and help the environment (commentary)

Arlene Chang 6 Sep 2019

With new protections, saiga antelope may continue to be a symbol of Central Asia (commentary)

Enkhtuvshin Shiilegdamba 30 Aug 2019
Andean cock of the rock bird in Manu. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

New road risks Pandora’s box of disruption in world’s most biodiverse national park (commentary)

William Laurance, Penny van Oosterzee 28 Aug 2019
Copernicus / Landsat image of the Amazon River as seen via Google Earth.

A healthy and productive Amazon is the foundation of Brazil’s sovereignty (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Aug 2019
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

Michael Shellenberger’s sloppy Forbes diatribe deceives on Amazon fires (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Aug 2019
Wild male saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) visiting a waterhole at the Stepnoi Sanctuary, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. Photo credit: Andrey Giljov [CC BY-SA 4.0]

CITES 2019: What’s Conservation Got To Do With It? (commentary)

Susan Lieberman 16 Aug 2019

Sea Around Us: Global fisheries data and the goose that laid the golden egg (commentary)

Daniel Pauly 13 Aug 2019

A family’s commitment: 30 years of the Goldman Environmental Prize (commentary)

Jackie Krentzman 12 Aug 2019

Forests: A key piece of the land and climate puzzle (commentary)

Pablo Pacheco 8 Aug 2019
Google Earth satellite image showing a deforestation, legal forest reserves, and agriculture in Rondonia, Brazil.

Bolsonaro can bully on deforestation, but he can’t hide from satellites (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Aug 2019

‘The forest is our life’: Hope for change in Guyana’s forests (commentary)

Gaulbert Sutherland 6 Aug 2019

To regulate or not to regulate? EU climate commitments face key test over global deforestation (commentary)

Sam Lawson 26 Jul 2019

Simba’s future depends on putting communities at the forefront of lion conservation (commentary)

Fred Nelson, John Kamanga 25 Jul 2019

Information is key – but lacking for sharks and rays in the Western Indian Ocean (commentary)

Dave van Beuningen, Rhett Bennett 18 Jul 2019

Agroforestry: An ancient ‘indigenous technology’ with wide modern appeal (commentary)

Erik Hoffner 15 Jul 2019
Gold and sand mining near Mandor, West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

A response to “On public interest in conservation and internet data”

Zuzana Burivalova, Rhett A. Butler, David S. Wilcove 15 Jul 2019

On public interest in conservation and internet data (commentary)

Ricardo Correia 15 Jul 2019
Oil palm plantation in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Can jurisdictional certification curb palm oil deforestation in Indonesia? (commentary)

John Watts, Dan Nepstad, Silvia Irawan 10 Jul 2019

Critiques of carbon credits aren’t asking the right question (commentary)

Agus Sari 9 Jul 2019
Google Earth image showing deforestation around Arara in the state of Para, in the Brazilian Amazon.

As Amazon deforestation rises, sensational headlines play into Bolsonaro’s agenda (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Jul 2019

How to make sure your aquarium fish are ethical (commentary)

Robert Woods 3 Jul 2019

Rivers are the world’s heritage. Time to treat them as such (commentary)

Josh Klemm 1 Jul 2019

From flaming to free-flowing: The full lesson of the recovery of the Cuyahoga River (commentary)

Jeff Opperman 21 Jun 2019

Why sustainability should be on your plate when you travel (commentary)

Isolina Boto 19 Jun 2019

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