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How one conservationist is sparking a ‘young revolution’ in Indonesia

Joshua Parfitt 13 Jan 2017

2016’s top 10 developments for the world’s oceans

Caroline Jablonicky, Douglas McCauley 28 Dec 2016

How citizen science is transforming river management in Malaysian Borneo (commentary)

Ken Wilson 29 Nov 2016

Conservation in oil palm is possible (commentary)

Erik Meijaard 25 Nov 2016

Silent soldiers of the extreme, or why I’m glad I’m not a wild yak

Joel Berger 22 Nov 2016
A pile of illegally cut timber discovered by a patrol group in Tanzania. Photo by Sophie Tremblay

Are conservation policies a driver of deforestation in Tanzania?

Jens Friis Lund, Jevgeniy Bluwstein, Mathew Bukhi Mabele, Andreas Scheba, Eliezeri Sungusia 14 Nov 2016

For the palm oil industry, ‘engagement’ means turning a blind eye to deforestation

Kiki Taufik 7 Nov 2016

No more mining disasters

Payal Sampat 4 Nov 2016

Rio Doce: The murder of an already dead river (commentary)

Dr. Fabiano de Melo 4 Nov 2016
Coffea Arabica plant. Photo by Forest and Kim Star/Wikimedia Commons

Ethiopia’s vulnerable tropical forests are key to securing future of wild coffee

Fiona Hesselden at the University of Huddersfield 10 Oct 2016

Is REDD+ finance really put to work in the right places?

Andreas Scheba / Jens Friis Lund / Mathew Bukhi / Eliezeri Sungusia 5 Oct 2016

Going green with the aviation industry (commentary)

Devan Wardwell, Jeffrey Chatellier 29 Sep 2016

The Nicaraguan frontier: a treasure trove under siege

Karen Masters, Hector Castaneda, Adam Stein 26 Sep 2016

Beef consumers’ role in causing deforestation in South America (commentary)

Asha Sharma 13 Sep 2016

The good, the bad, and the ugly in palm oil (commentary)

Erik Meijaard, Douglas Sheil 9 Sep 2016

From ‘Silverbacks’ to Systems Leaders: Rethinking African conservation leadership (commentary)

Fred Nelson, Erin Myers Madeira 8 Sep 2016

The alarming number of fires in the Brazilian Amazon

Natália Girão Rodrigues de Mello 8 Sep 2016

Guest Commentary: Are grassroots organizations our best hope for combating the illegal wildlife trade?

Natalie Kyriacou 6 Sep 2016

How humans create as well as destroy species

Jack Peacock 2 Sep 2016

Towards a fairer future for conservation

Phil Franks 1 Sep 2016

Shifting the debate about conservation justice from rights to responsibilities

Harry Jonas, Dilys Roe 31 Aug 2016

The biologist terrifying the US Forest Service and the timber and forest fire-fighting industries

Derek E. Lee 29 Aug 2016

What conservation isn’t: Eating endangered lemurs to save them

Kim Reuter, Marni Lafleur, Tara Clarke 23 Aug 2016

Why is Brazil regressing in its fight against deforestation?

Paulo Barreto 12 Aug 2016

IPOP’s demise undercuts palm oil industry progress [commentary]

Dave McLaughlin 8 Aug 2016

Failure of Indonesia’s palm oil commitment ‘not bad news’ [commentary]

Scott Poynton 27 Jul 2016

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

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