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Earth has more trees now than 35 years ago

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Aug 2018

Millipedes might soothe itchy lemurs, research finds

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2018

Peru: Marañón dry forests protected as a regional conservation area

Vanessa Romo 20 Jul 2018

Scientists find new snail-eating snakes, auction naming rights to save them

Morgan Erickson-Davis 15 Jun 2018

Climate change could be killing Africa’s giant baobabs

Mongabay.com 13 Jun 2018

How soundscapes are helping us better understand animal behavior and landscape ecology

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jun 2018

Cooperative agroforestry empowers indigenous women in Honduras

Monica Pelliccia 16 Apr 2018

Cerrado: can the empire of soy coexist with savannah conservation?

Alicia Prager, Flávia Milhorance 15 Mar 2018
Argemiros Capela stands on his lot in front a small patch of forest that has started to grow back after years of desertification, Montes de Maria. Photo by Ana Cristina Vallejo/Mongabay.

Scorched earth: Colombia’s ‘refugee farmers’ returning to land

Maximo Anderson 9 Feb 2018

Scientists find ‘surprising’ connections between tropical forests

Morgan Erickson-Davis 5 Feb 2018

Camera trap captures spotted hyena in Gabon national park, the first in 20 years

Mongabay.com 29 Jan 2018

Lions deal blow to giraffe numbers by targeting young, study finds

Mongabay.com 11 Jan 2018

Meet Indonesia’s new honeyeater species from Rote Island

Basten Gokkon 5 Jan 2018
A dead tree in the Sierra Nevadas in California. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Scientists predict tree death from drought in California’s Sierra Nevadas

Ignacio Amigo 20 Nov 2017

Suite of free, open-source tools to help even non-experts monitor large-scale land use change

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 20 Oct 2017

Charcoal and cattle ranching tearing apart the Gran Chaco

John Cannon 19 Jul 2017

Big mammals flourish as Cerrado park’s savanna comes back

John Cannon 14 Jul 2017

Conservation group African Parks to look after West African wildlife

Mongabay.com 5 Jun 2017

New soy-driven forest destruction exposed in South America

John Cannon 22 May 2017

Drylands greener with forests than previously thought

John Cannon 12 May 2017

Rwanda welcomes 20 black rhinos to Akagera National Park

Mongabay.com 3 May 2017

‘We can save life on Earth’: study reveals how to stop mass extinction

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 Apr 2017

‘Racing against time’ to save the taguá and its vanishing Chaco home

John Cannon 5 Jan 2017

Smuggled to death: how loopholes and lax enforcement have sealed the fate of Siamese rosewood

Demelza Stokes 5 Jan 2017

No let-up in Thailand’s relentless, violent Siamese rosewood poaching

Demelza Stokes 4 Jan 2017

Study points to El Niño-like global connections between forests

John Cannon 7 Dec 2016

West African countries come together to stop the illegal rosewood trade

Mike Gaworecki 12 Apr 2016

Amazon rainforests could transition to savannah-like states in response to climate change, new study predicts

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Dec 2015

Big increase in little farms is whittling away Angola’s woodlands

Apoorva Joshi 17 Dec 2015

Environmentalists win ‘landmark’ case against biofuel project in Sri Lanka

Jeremy Hance 15 Oct 2015

Industrial concessions causing massive deforestation in Cambodia

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Aug 2015

Major expedition uncovers new species in Bolivia

Morgan Erickson-Davis 20 Aug 2015

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