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Why helping civil society investigate illegal timber is about much more than protecting forests and forest peoples [commentary]

Sam Lawson 25 Jul 2016
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

No more fires in Indonesia?

Erik Meijaard 20 Jun 2016
Sumatran orangutan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Hype and secrecy in wildlife conservation

Erik Meijaard 18 Jun 2016

In the Crosshairs of Development

Peter Bosshard 2 May 2016

Do we really want to save the Sumatran rhinoceros? (commentary)

Francesco Nardelli 21 Apr 2016

‘Five years, that’s all we’ve got’: a prognosis of the Paris Agreement (Commentary)

Anukriti Hittle, Alexander Hittle 19 Apr 2016

India’s “environmentalism of convenience” threatens forest-dwellers’ rights

Arpitha Kodiveri 14 Apr 2016

Making sense of a rare rhino’s death in Indonesian Borneo (commentary)

Erik Meijaard 14 Apr 2016
Fires in Far North Queensland, Australia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Rekindling Australia’s Aboriginal past to fight climate change (Commentary)

Catherine Monagle 8 Apr 2016

What will climate change mean for Borneo’s carnivorous pitcher-plants?

Kevin Curran 24 Mar 2016
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Mato Grosso leading the fight against climate change and deforestation (commentary)

Daniel Nepstad 10 Mar 2016

World Wildlife Day 2016: Why Wildlife Needs YOU

Paul Rosolie 3 Mar 2016

For Leap Day, 35 pictures of frogs

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Feb 2016

Zika virus and climate change

Fred Bercovitch 17 Feb 2016

77 inspiring rainforest pictures

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Feb 2016

Primate-Watching: In the Year of the Monkey, let’s build a Conservation Movement

Russell A. Mittermeier 3 Feb 2016

Fighting climate change means protecting forests and wildlife

Russell A. Mittermeier 19 Jan 2016

Reproductive technology (and understanding of experimental psychology) needed to save a critically endangered rhino

John Payne 14 Jan 2016
A Bornean tarsier. Photo by Russ Mittermeier.

Potential crisis in Sabah’s amazing Kinabatangan rainforest

Russell A. Mittermeier 13 Jan 2016

Why should I care about endangered species?

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Jan 2016

An unconventional trinity: conservation, religion, and evolution

Fred Bercovitch 22 Dec 2015

After Paris: Charting the ‘psychological distance’ of climate change

Simon Pollock 14 Dec 2015

Indonesia’s massive haze problem is Jokowi’s big opportunity

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Oct 2015

Sneak Peek into Paris: new climate change draft treaty revealed

Patrick Cage and John O. Niles 9 Oct 2015

A pre-game analysis of what to expect, and not expect, at COP 21

Patrick Cage and John O. Niles 25 Sep 2015
Giraffes at sunset. Photo by Francois Deacon.

Disappearing giraffes

Fred Bercovitch 13 Sep 2015

Trapped between zoo and sanctuary: the dilemma of the institutionalized ape named Sandra (commentary)

Shawn Thompson 26 Aug 2015

Controversy and awareness-raising (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Aug 2015

To accelerate conservation progress in Africa, improve support to African civil society organizations (commentary)

Fred Nelson and Emily Wilson 30 Jul 2015

Greenpeace responds to Tropical Forest Trust on moving ‘Beyond Certification’

8 Jul 2015

Rising seas, sinking peat to swamp Malaysian and Indonesian palm oil

Erik Meijaard 13 Jun 2015

The ivory trade and the war on wildlife (rangers) [commentary]

Fred Bercovitch 13 Jun 2015

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