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Footprints in the forest: The future of the Sumatran rhino

John Cannon 23 Jun 2017

Warnings and protests mark Brazilian President Temer’s trip to Norway

Mike Gaworecki 22 Jun 2017

Unexamined synergies: dam building and mining go together in the Amazon

Zoe Sullivan 22 Jun 2017

Illegal logging and hunting threaten Yasuní isolated indigenous groups

Daniela Aguilar 22 Jun 2017

New highway brings deforestation near two Colombian national parks

Taran Volckhausen 21 Jun 2017

Five new species in world’s largest tree genus found on Sulawesi

Mike Gaworecki 21 Jun 2017

Brazil evicts 80 rural peasant families, awards land thieves parcel

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 21 Jun 2017

Religious leaders: Rainforest protection a ‘moral imperative’

Mongabay.com 20 Jun 2017

Indonesian coal mining firm gets its license reinstated despite a history of violations

Taufik Wijaya 19 Jun 2017

Borneo’s ‘biocultural holocaust’: an interview with author Alex Shoumatoff

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Jun 2017
Ring-tailed lemur. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Ring-tailed lemurs down by 95 percent? Maybe not.

Matthew P. Reed 19 Jun 2017

International action a must to stop irreversible harm of Amazon dams, say experts

Claire Salisbury 19 Jun 2017

If Brazil okays Terra Legal changes, land grabbers win, Amazon loses, say environmentalists

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 16 Jun 2017

Groundwater may play key role in forest fires

Sandhya Sekar 16 Jun 2017

The ‘interval squeeze’: Climate change makes it less likely conifer forests will regenerate after wildfires

Mike Gaworecki 15 Jun 2017

If we wish to save the Javan rhinoceros, we must work to know it (commentary)

Francesco Nardelli 15 Jun 2017

Brazil on verge of legitimizing Amazon land theft on a grand scale, warn NGOs

Mauricio Torres, Isabel Harari, Sue Branford 15 Jun 2017

Mangrove loss threatens migratory shorebird route in North Sumatra

Ayat S. Karokaro 15 Jun 2017

‘Communities should be involved from the beginning’: Kalimantan villagers demand development plans respect their needs

Indra Nugraha 14 Jun 2017

Why losing big animals causes big problems in tropical forests

John Cannon 14 Jun 2017

Norway bans government purchasing of palm oil biofuel

Morgan Erickson-Davis 13 Jun 2017

Activists determined to protect newly discovered Amazon Reef from oil drilling

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jun 2017

30 years of protecting the mysterious Okapi

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jun 2017

Tropical forest diversity and carbon richness not linked, study finds

Claire Salisbury 12 Jun 2017
Gullele Botanic Garden. Photo by Asaye Nigusie.

Ethiopia’s first botanic garden aims to preserve country’s flora heritage

Elias Gebreselassie 12 Jun 2017
Confiscated guns, snares and chainsaws in Cambodia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Long plagued by illegal logging, Cambodia faces accusations of corruption

Lauren Crothers 12 Jun 2017

In rare move, Brazil’s Temer ups conserved lands by 282,000 hectares

Jenny Gonzales 9 Jun 2017

‘Give us back our land’: paper giants struggle to resolve conflicts with communities in Sumatra

Alice Cuddy 9 Jun 2017

Indigenous Guarani leader appeals to Europe to save people and forests

Lucy EJ Woods 7 Jun 2017

‘Crunch time for biodiversity’: Farming, hunting push thousands of species toward extinction

John Cannon 7 Jun 2017

FSC to investigate Korean conglomerate’s palm oil operations in Indonesia

Mike Gaworecki 7 Jun 2017
Fire set for peatland clearing in Riau Province, Indonesia in July 2015. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia’s plantation lobby challenges environmental law

Basten Gokkon, Lusia Arumingtyas 7 Jun 2017

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