Commentary News

RSS
1246 stories

Taking it slow can help reduce impacts of Arctic shipping on whales (commentary)

Matt Pine 28 Aug 2018

As the DMZ turns 65, a call for Korean peace through conservation (commentary)

Russell A. Mittermeier, Michael I. Crowther 24 Aug 2018

Laos dam collapse highlights global hydropower amnesia (commentary)

Gus Greenstein 20 Aug 2018

The appeal acquittal of Feisal Mohamed Ali: A victory for rule of law, a process corrupted, or both? (commentary)

Chris Morris 17 Aug 2018

Biodiversity and the society of superlatives (commentary)

Esteban Suárez 3 Aug 2018
The Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest species of great ape. Photo © Maxime Aliaga.

Belt and Road Initiative could doom the world’s rarest ape (commentary)

William F. Laurance 2 Aug 2018

The crisis in the European tropical timber sector in Central Africa (commentary)

Alain Karsenty 1 Aug 2018

Indigenous stewardship is critical to success of protected areas (commentary)

Michael Painter, David Wilkie, James Watson 25 Jul 2018

Securing a future for Grevy’s zebras and the cultures of northern Kenya (commentary)

Alex Dudley 19 Jul 2018
Five years after the Rim Fire, abundant natural tree regeneration in the high-severity patches is contributing to carbon sequestration. Photo by Doug Bevington.

Backfire: How misinformation about wildfire harms climate activism (commentary)

Douglas Bevington 10 Jul 2018

And then there were 12: Why don’t we hear about extinction until it’s too late? (commentary)

Sam Turvey 6 Jul 2018

A most unlikely hope: How the companies that destroyed the world’s forests can save them (commentary)

Glenn Hurowitz 28 Jun 2018

Government regulation is the missing ingredient in efforts to end deforestation driven by agriculture (commentary)

Nicole Polsterer 26 Jun 2018
Rainbow over the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Winning farmer support to reduce deforestation (commentary)

Daniel Nepstad, João Shimada 24 Jun 2018

Last Glimpses of a Cambodian Paradise? Documenting an area on the eve of its likely destruction (commentary)

Gregory McCann 22 Jun 2018

Commercial values are a key driver of Zero Deforestation policies (commentary)

Róisín Mortimer 20 Jun 2018

Time is running out for palm oil certification (commentary)

Nusa Urbancic 6 Jun 2018

To protect the Congolese peatlands, protect local land rights (commentary)

Bart Crezee 4 Jun 2018

Can cryptocurrencies save Indonesia’s carbon forests? (commentary)

Peter Howson 4 Jun 2018

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

you're currently offline