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Conservationists to send killer robots after destructive starfish

Jeremy Hance 8 Sep 2015

Indonesian villagers transform ailing forests into oasis of fruit

Sapariah Saturi 8 Sep 2015
Rainforest in Sabah, Malaysia. Malaysia has reported a steep increase in forest cover to FAO, a result of changing how it classifies forest cover.

U.N. data suggests slowdown in forest loss

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Sep 2015

Indonesian officials resist movement to end deforestation for palm oil

Indra Nugraha, Sapariah Saturi 7 Sep 2015

Indonesia’s mercury policy a good start, but kinks remain

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 5 Sep 2015

Researchers find many, many moths in Bolivian national park (Photos)

Morgan Erickson-Davis 4 Sep 2015

Peru’s Conundrum: a Pope’s environmental message divides his people

Justin Catanoso 4 Sep 2015

Endangered fishing cat thought extinct in Cambodia, caught on camera

Glenn Scherer 3 Sep 2015
Red howler monkey, Colombia. Photo by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

Climate change causing big shifts in tropical forests

Apoorva Joshi 3 Sep 2015

Busted: Guinean wildlife official arrested for trafficking chimpanzees

Mongabay 3 Sep 2015

A tiny new catfish for the Amazon Basin

Neelam Pereira 3 Sep 2015

Indonesia pledges to cut emissions 29 percent by 2030

Mongabay.com 3 Sep 2015
Pittsfield State Forest in Massachusetts. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

How many trees are cut down every year?

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2015

California takes step toward banning elephant ivory, rhino horn trades

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2015

Man starts record-breaking walk to protect one of the world’s rarest primates

Greg Norman 2 Sep 2015

Global forest loss reached 46 million acres in 2014

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2015
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Brazil’s deforestation alert system reports surge in Amazon forest clearing

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Sep 2015
Male of the recently rediscovered Azuay Stubfoot-Toad (Atelopus bomolochos) foraging on moss.

Good news: Stunning ‘extinct’ toad rises again in Ecuador (photos)

Mongabay.com 1 Sep 2015

Rhino killing on record pace in South Africa

Mongabay.com 1 Sep 2015

Will Indonesia’s new palm oil subsidy undermine no-deforestation push?

Sapariah Saturi 1 Sep 2015

Sarawak pledges to protect its last remaining orangutans

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Sep 2015

INTERPOL rejects Malaysia’s request to place journalist on Red Notice list

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Aug 2015

The Cat Ba Langur: a primate walks the razor’s edge of extinction

John R. Platt 31 Aug 2015
Lowland rainforest in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Rainforests doomed unless world adopts ‘development without destruction’, warn scientists

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Aug 2015

400+ dams could irrevocably harm Amazon ecology — but solutions exist

Julian Smith 28 Aug 2015

The many paths towards sustainable palm oil in India

Sarah Hucal 28 Aug 2015

Indonesian village opts to protect mangroves, preserve livelihoods

Themmy Doaly 28 Aug 2015

Hundreds of new Amazon dams an “ecological experiment” on global scale

Julian Smith 27 Aug 2015

Indonesian artist prepares another underwater reef-to-be

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 27 Aug 2015

Vacationing couple may have discovered a new dwarf lemur species

Brittany Stewart 27 Aug 2015

Industrial concessions causing massive deforestation in Cambodia

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Aug 2015

Oil exploration plans in Argentine national park fuel local anger

Greg Norman 26 Aug 2015

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