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2019: The year rainforests burned

Tropical forests’ lost decade: the 2010s

Female gorillas recognize and respond to contagious disease

The Great Insect Dying: The tropics in trouble and some hope

The hidden costs of hydro: We need to reconsider world’s dam plans

Saving the forests of the Congo Basin: Q&A with author Meindert Brouwer

Rapid population drop weakened the Grauer’s gorilla gene pool

Rainforests: storylines to watch in 2019

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Earth has more trees now than 35 years ago

Study links US demand for Chinese furniture to deforestation in Africa

Logging roads drive loss of intact forest in FSC-certified logging concessions

Could El Niño and climate change spell the end for tropical forests?

DRC adopts a strategy that will bolster community forestry, conservation group says

DRC’s Virunga National Park closes until 2019 due to violence

East Africa’s mountain gorilla population now numbers more than 1,000

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

Save intact forests for humanity’s sake, urge experts

Report finds projects in DRC ‘REDD+ laboratory’ fall short of development, conservation goals

Oil palm, rubber could trigger ‘storm’ of deforestation in the Congo Basin

NGOs seek suspension of forest-related funding to DRC in response to proposed end to logging moratorium

‘It’s our home’: Pygmies fight for recognition as forest protectors in new film

East Africa’s Albertine Rift needs protection now, scientists say

Maps tease apart complex relationship between agriculture and deforestation in DRC

Rainforests: the year in review 2017

New study: Gorillas fare better in logged forests than chimps

Waning plantain yields in rural Cameroon hurt college attendance

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

New research suggests tropical forests are now a net source of carbon emissions

Does forest certification really work?

First ‘intrusions’ into unbroken forests drive pulses of biodiversity loss

Pangolin hunting skyrockets in Central Africa, driven by international trade

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