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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, 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

Environmental policy under the Kuczynski Administration: Steps forward for conservation efforts in Peru (commentary)

Haley Wiebel, Enrique Ortiz 2 Nov 2017

Is the Forest Stewardship Council going to stay ‘fit for purpose’ for this century? (commentary)

Grant Rosoman 31 Oct 2017

Supporting conservation by playing a game? Seriously? (commentary)

Claude Garcia 26 Oct 2017

Life and death and the jaguars of the mind (commentary)

Mike Shanahan 23 Oct 2017

Questioning militarization is essential for successful and socially just conservation (commentary)

Rosaleen Duffy 16 Oct 2017

Attacks on ‘militarized conservation’ are naive (commentary)

Niall McCann 10 Oct 2017

When will cattle ranchers be proud to show their farms in the Amazon? (commentary)

Paulo Barreto, Ritaumaria Pereira 21 Sep 2017

Amazon dam defeats Brazil’s environment agency (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 20 Sep 2017

Pursuing a decent life for all on a sustainable planet (commentary)

Michael Painter, David Wilkie 18 Sep 2017

Does social forestry always decrease deforestation and poverty? (commentary)

Erik Meijaard 17 Sep 2017

Amazon mining unleashed (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 15 Sep 2017

Three years after the tragedy of Saweto, where is the justice and security? (commentary)

David S. Salisbury 8 Sep 2017

Healthy soils can boost food security and climate resilience for millions (commentary)

Inger Andersen 6 Sep 2017

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