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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

Can improved oil palm productivity and Indonesia’s forestry moratorium go hand in hand?

Ridzki R. Sigit 27 May 2015

Malaysian palm oil body encourages fiction over fact

David Dellatore Of The Sumatran Orangutan Society 17 May 2015

50 nature pictures for Earth Day

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Apr 2015

Paper or paperless? Navigating the ecological impact strait between Scylla and Charybdis

Fred Bercovitch 6 Apr 2015

Common ground: balancing rights and responsibilities for natural resource investments and community development

Kirk Talbott, Gabriel Thoumi 3 Apr 2015

Seeing the trees but not the forest (commentary)

Kenneth G. Macdicken 20 Mar 2015

Can voluntary sustainability standards survive in emerging markets?

Philip Schleifer 17 Mar 2015

Are small-scale hydro projects always greener?

Niren Jain 23 Feb 2015

Happy World Pangolin Day. What are we celebrating?

Laura Kehoe 21 Feb 2015

Earthworms under threat

Jaboury Ghazoul 6 Jan 2015

Indonesia’s silent wildlife killer: hunting

Erik Meijaard 26 Dec 2014

Connecting the Dots: from Christmas Cookies to Climate Change

Jeff Horowitz 26 Dec 2014

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2014

Rhett A. Butler, Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Dec 2014

Edited Reality: What I Learned from Filming Eaten Alive

Paul Rosolie 22 Dec 2014

Conservation and the rights of indigenous communities (commentary)

Michael Painter 12 Dec 2014

10 years following tsunami, Aceh aims to create its own, new, and totally preventable disaster

Erik Meijaard 11 Dec 2014

Indonesia’s ambitious plan to reforest 2M ha annually

Erik Meijaard 5 Dec 2014

A landmark year for forests (commentary)

Glenn Hurowitz 5 Dec 2014

Earthworm farming in the West Bank (commentary)

Scott Poynton 25 Nov 2014

Shifting the way the world shops (commentary)

Alex Diment 17 Nov 2014

An end to unjust conservation? (commentary)

Harry Jonas, Dilys Roe 16 Nov 2014

Local communities rise to the forefront of global conservation practice (commentary)

Fred Nelson 29 Oct 2014

Scientists rebut NYTimes op-ed ‘To Save the Planet, Don’t Plant Trees’

Daniel Nepstad 22 Sep 2014

Indonesia’s secret treasures: islands passed over by loggers, hunters and conservationists

Erik Meijaard 14 Sep 2014

Domestic conservation: Indonesia’s rich should step up to save nation’s dwindling natural resources

Erik Meijaard 13 Sep 2014

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