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Habitat loss drives deadly conflict in Indonesia’s tiger country

Taufik Wijaya 30 Dec 2019
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

2019: The year rainforests burned

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2019

Sumatra’s dwindling forests face extra pressure from a major highway project

Basten Gokkon 6 Dec 2019
A white-nosed saki (Chiropotes albinasus) in the Amazon rainforest canopy. Climate change will shrink the habitat of these endangered primates and deforestation may limit their ability to find new homes, a new study reports. Photo by João Paulo Krajewski.

Amazon primates face barriers in responding to climate change

Erin Malsbury 3 Dec 2019

Carbon emissions from loss of intact tropical forest a ‘ticking time bomb’

Malavika Vyawahare 31 Oct 2019

What makes community ecotourism succeed? In Madagascar, location, location, location

Rowan Moore Gerety 25 Oct 2019

The sink and the safeguard: Benefits of protecting and restoring intact forests for people and planet (commentary)

Lauren E. Oakes 25 Sep 2019

The thinning fabric of Earth’s forest cover (commentary)

Tom Evans 24 Sep 2019
Google Earth satellite image showing a forest fragment in a deforested landscape in Rondonia, Brazil.

Connected forests key to more sustainable palm oil industry: report

Lauren Crothers 5 Sep 2019

The Pan Borneo Highway could divide threatened wildlife populations

John Cannon 26 Aug 2019

Sumatran elephant sanctuary under threat from bridge, port projects

Taufik Wijaya 26 Aug 2019

The Pan Borneo Highway brings wildlife threats to nat’l park doorstep

John Cannon 21 Aug 2019

Study shows how to protect more species for less money in western Amazon

Liz Kimbrough 31 Jul 2019

Debunking myths about sloths is crucial to stopping the sloth crisis

Mike Gaworecki 2 Apr 2019

Protecting small, old-growth forests fails to preserve bird diversity: Study

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2019

Combined effects of fire, fragmentation, and windstorms leave Amazonian trees particularly vulnerable

Mongabay.com 11 Mar 2019
A view of the Soarano wetland, cleared of forest by illegal gold miners. Image by Daniel Burgas.

Illegal gold mining destroys wetland forest in Madagascar park

Rowan Moore Gerety 19 Feb 2019

Brazil sees growing wave of anti-indigenous threats, reserve invasions

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 19 Feb 2019

In Borneo, dwindling forests face further fragmentation as roads spread

Basten Gokkon 22 Jan 2019

Critically endangered Philippine eagle hangs on despite horde of threats

Brad Miller 24 Dec 2018

Invisible plant-enemy interactions drive diversity in forest fragments

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Nov 2018

The ‘Godfather of Biodiversity’ on why it’s time to manage Earth as a system

Mike Gaworecki 5 Sep 2018

Extractive industries threaten a million square kilometers of intact tropical forests around the globe

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jul 2018

In Peru, coca puts one of the world’s best coffee crops at risk

Vanessa Romo 18 Jun 2018
A Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) nursing. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Sifaka lemurs listed as “critically endangered” amid mysterious die-off

Edward Carver 15 May 2018

Restoring flagging oil palm plantations to forest may benefit clouded leopards, study finds

Mongabay.com 24 Apr 2018

NGOs acquire land in Brazil to create wildlife corridor

Ignacio Amigo 12 Apr 2018

Vine-like lianas alter the edges of fragmented forests: New study

John Cannon 6 Apr 2018

Cerrado: appreciation grows for Brazil’s savannah, even as it vanishes

Alicia Prager and Flávia Milhorance 12 Mar 2018

Analysis: the Brazilian Supreme Court’s New Forest Code ruling

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 7 Mar 2018

How effective is environmental restoration?

Mike Gaworecki 6 Mar 2018

Amazon forest to savannah tipping point could be far closer than thought (commentary)

Tom Lovejoy and Carlos Nobre 5 Mar 2018

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