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Palm oil certification? No silver bullet, but essential for sustainability (commentary)

Anne Rosenbarger 25 May 2018

Making the most of conservation science (commentary)

Claire Wordley 23 May 2018

There is still a chance to save the Sumatran rhino (commentary)

Margaret Kinnaird, Jon Paul Rodriguez 3 May 2018

New short film captures rare spider monkey feeding behavior (commentary)

Eilidh Munro 23 Apr 2018

It’s time to confront the collusion between the palm oil industry and politicians that is driving Indonesia’s deforestation crisis (commentary)

Tom Johnson 18 Apr 2018

Response to critique on Conservation Effectiveness series (commentary)

Zuzana Burivalova 17 Apr 2018

Seek higher standards to honestly assess conservation effectiveness (commentary)

Madeleine McKinnon, Samantha Cheng, Lynn Dicks, Ruth Garside, Andrew Pullin, Claudia Romero 17 Apr 2018

Certified weaknesses: The RSPO’s Liberian fiasco (commentary)

Gaurav Madan 13 Apr 2018

Yellow fever may threaten biophilia in São Paulo city (commentary)

Fabio de Oliveira Roque, Francisco Valente-Neto 4 Apr 2018
The savannah and grasslands of the Mara conservancies are home to a spectacular abundance of wildlife, lying at the northern end of the greater Serengeti ecosystem. Photo Credit: Maasai Mara Wildlife Conservancies Association

Local conservancies create new hope for wildlife in Kenya’s Maasai Mara (commentary)

Daniel Sopia, Fred Nelson 26 Mar 2018

The wind of change blowing through Ghana’s villages (commentary)

Mark Olden 23 Mar 2018

Cities need forests too: A call for forests amid our concrete jungles (commentary)

Alistair Monument 21 Mar 2018

Hope for the rarest hornbill in the world (commentary)

Bee Choo Strange 13 Mar 2018

How deforestation risks for investors can become opportunities for conservation (commentary)

Gabriel Thoumi, Peter Graham 9 Mar 2018
Rainforest in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tropical deforestation: the need for a strategy adjustment (commentary)

Dan Nepstad 8 Mar 2018

How Tibetan Buddhism and conservation efforts helped Eurasian otters thrive in a city of 200,000 people (commentary)

Yifan (Flora) He 7 Mar 2018

Amazon forest to savannah tipping point could be far closer than thought (commentary)

Tom Lovejoy and Carlos Nobre 5 Mar 2018

ICAO and forest offsets: Substantial opportunities and exceptional benefits (commentary)

Lauren T. Cooper 2 Mar 2018

Vanishing species deserve our few cents (commentary)

Katarzyna Nowak 27 Feb 2018

Restoration optimism: Bringing nature back (commentary)

Claire Wordley 13 Feb 2018

To Counter Wildlife Trafficking, Local Enforcement, Not En-Route Interdiction, Is Key (commentary)

Vanda Felbab-Brown 19 Jan 2018

Trees are much more than the lungs of the world (commentary)

Roger Leakey 2 Jan 2018
A manta ray in the South China Sea. Photo by Greg Asner/Divephoto.org.

2017’s top 10 ocean news stories

Douglas McCauley, Paul DeSalles 27 Dec 2017

Armed conflict was not always ‘good’ for preventing deforestation in Colombia (commentary)

Augusto Castro-Nuñez 20 Dec 2017

Monkey business: Building a global database of primate conservation studies (commentary)

Claire Wordley 12 Dec 2017

Harnessing the power of camera trap bycatch data to monitor threatened species (commentary)

Lorraine Scotson 1 Dec 2017

A reflection on COP23: Incremental progress but no industrialized country’s top priority (commentary)

Justin Catanoso 22 Nov 2017

Unquestioning defence of ‘militarized conservation’ is naïve (commentary)

Leejiah Dorward, Paul Barnes 22 Nov 2017

From friends to strangers: The decline of the Irrawaddy dolphin (commentary)

Sabrina Gyorvary with Namthip Khudsavanh 20 Nov 2017

It is time to recognize the limits of certification in agriculture (commentary)

Andre de Freitas 16 Nov 2017

A forgotten promise to forests? (commentary)

Karen Petersen, Josefina Braña-Varela 13 Nov 2017

A new species of orangutan from Indonesia (analysis)

Anthony B. Rylands, Gabriella Fredriksson, Russell A. Mittermeier, Serge Wich 2 Nov 2017

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