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Study concludes that nature benefits when more women make land management decisions

Mongabay.com 8 Apr 2019
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018

Tracking the shift of tropical forests from carbon sink to source

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2018

Forest communities pay the price for conservation in Madagascar

John Cannon 25 Jul 2018

Payments for ecosystem services can boost social capital in addition to forest management: Study

Mike Gaworecki 3 Jul 2018

Researchers propose framework for designing PES programs that better deliver socioeconomic benefits

Mike Gaworecki 24 May 2018

New research examines spread of payments for ecosystem services around the globe

Mike Gaworecki 6 Apr 2018

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

John Cannon 16 Mar 2018

Mangrove deforestation may be releasing more CO2 than Poland, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Mar 2018

Carbon pricing could save millions of hectares of tropical forest: new study

John Cannon 5 Feb 2018

Maps tease apart complex relationship between agriculture and deforestation in DRC

John Cannon 2 Feb 2018
An indri (Indri indri), another critically endangered lemur that lives in Makira Natural Park. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Carbon dreams: Can REDD+ save a Yosemite-size forest in Madagascar?

Rowan Moore Gerety 29 Nov 2017

Cash for conservation: Do payments for ecosystem services work?

Mike Gaworecki 12 Oct 2017

Sudden sale may doom carbon-rich rainforest in Borneo

John Cannon 2 Jan 2017

Conservation, Divided: in-depth series starts Tuesday

Jeremy Hance 21 Apr 2016

Researchers say you get what you pay for when it comes to payments for ecosystem services

Mike Gaworecki 9 Feb 2016

The state of the market for ecosystem services

John Cannon 17 Dec 2015

Carbon storage for sale: USDA grants promote markets for ‘ecosystem services’

Peter Mellgard 12 Nov 2015

Norway pays Brazil $1B to fulfill pledge for curbing deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Sep 2015

REDD+ carbon market stabilizes, but risk of supply glut looms

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2013

Developer of Indonesia’s first REDD+ project confirms status of forest conservation initiative

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2013

Market for REDD+ carbon credits declines 8% in 2012

Mongabay.com 30 May 2013

Progress in incentive-based protection of forests and other watersheds

Brian Loux 29 Mar 2013

The need to jump-start REDD to save forests

Michael Jenkins 8 Mar 2013

Over $8 billion invested in watersheds in 2011

Jeremy Hance 28 Jan 2013

South Sudan’s choice: resource curse or wild wonder?

Jeremy Hance 11 Jul 2011

Despite setbacks, voluntary carbon markets booming

Karimeh Moukaddem 6 Jun 2011

Environmental sustainability—the new economic bottom line

Gabriel Thoumi 28 Mar 2011

As South Sudan eyes independence, will it choose choose to protect its wildlife?

Jeremy Hance 11 Feb 2011

Obama’s State of the Union salmon joke highlights complexity of coastal ecosystem services

Mongabay.com 29 Jan 2011

Jackpot: how international community could raise $141 billion for biodiversity

Jeremy Hance 20 Oct 2010

Conserving nature with economics

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Sep 2010

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