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Forests as important as farming for some rural communities

Diana Parker 14 Jul 2014

New palm oil sustainability manifesto met with criticism from environmentalists

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Jul 2014

Downturn in shade-grown coffee putting forests, wildlife, people at risk

Nika Levikov 11 Jul 2014

DRC deforestation escalates despite resource shortages, protests, rape, homicide

John Cannon 10 Jul 2014

Good intentions, collateral damage: forest conservation may be hurting grasslands

Anna Ikarashi 10 Jul 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Rewards for reforestation

Dr Liz Kimbrough 10 Jul 2014

The last best place no more: massive deforestation destroying prime chimp habitat in Uganda

Benon Herbert Oluka 9 Jul 2014

A garden or a wilderness? One-fifth of the Amazon may have been savannah before the arrival of Europeans

Jeremy Hance 9 Jul 2014

Cats’ best friend? A new role for guard dogs in South Africa

Erin Crandall 9 Jul 2014

Sold into extinction: great apes betrayed by protectors

Daniel Stiles 9 Jul 2014

Stuff of fairy tales: stepping into Europe’s last old-growth forest

Jeremy Hance 9 Jul 2014

Despite el Nino threat, palm oil prices dive

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2014

APP won’t acquire companies that continue to destroy forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Jul 2014

Climate-linked drought cutting forests’ carbon-storing ability

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2014

Pope Francis: ‘this is our sin: we exploit the earth’

Jeremy Hance 8 Jul 2014

An end to India’s ‘Wild West’? Meghalaya bans coal mining… for now

Janaki Lenin 8 Jul 2014

A tale of two fish: cyanide fishing and foreign bosses off Sulawesi’s coast (Part I)

Melati Kaye 8 Jul 2014

From triumph to tragedy: famine could hit world’s newest country by August

Jeremy Hance 8 Jul 2014

Booming populations, rising economies, threatened biodiversity: the tropics will never be the same

Jeremy Hance 7 Jul 2014

Oil, wildlife, and people: competing visions of development collide in Virunga National Park

Analysis Daniel Stiles 7 Jul 2014

They think, therefore they spread: plants can make complex conditional decisions

Andrew Mann 7 Jul 2014

Price of ivory triples in China

Jeremy Hance 7 Jul 2014

APP: Indonesia needs a new business model

Mongabay.com 4 Jul 2014

Do Indonesians really want more big plantations?

Erik Meijaard 4 Jul 2014

No restrictions: Japan’s demand for illegal wood driving rampant deforestation in Siberia

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Jul 2014

A fine line: new program predicts when human impact becomes too much

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Jul 2014

U.S should sanction Mozambique for its role in elephant, rhino poaching, urges NGOs

Jeremy Hance 3 Jul 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? The ‘double-edged sword’ of democracy

Dr Liz Kimbrough 3 Jul 2014

On a whim: Equatorial Guinea building new capital city in the middle of the rainforest

Fidelis Zvomuya 2 Jul 2014

Horror movie bugs: new wasp species builds nest with the bodies of dead ants

Jeremy Hance 2 Jul 2014

NASA successfully launches carbon-sensing satellite

Mongabay.com 2 Jul 2014

Bigfoot found? Nope, ‘sasquatch hairs’ come from cows, raccoons, and humans

Jeremy Hance 1 Jul 2014

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