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A bouquet of discovery: Three new orchid species described from Ecuador

Liz Kimbrough 20 Aug 2021

Half of burned forests across Latin America don’t survive, study finds

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 20 Aug 2021

Indonesian pulpwood firms told to protect peat are doing the opposite: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Aug 2021

Deforestation-free supply chains in Vietnam rely on working with small scale farmers (commentary)

Phuc Xuan To 20 Aug 2021

Burning forests to make energy: EU and world wrestle with biomass science

Justin Catanoso 19 Aug 2021

Malaysian timber giant Samling takes conflict over logging activity to court

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 19 Aug 2021

Climate change threatens to squeeze out Indonesia’s medicinal plants

Basten Gokkon 18 Aug 2021

Even as the government bets big on carbon, REDD+ flounders in Madagascar

Malavika Vyawahare 18 Aug 2021

Indigenous Amazonian communities bear the burden of Ecuador’s balsa boom

Diego Cazar Baquero 17 Aug 2021

A bad fire year predicted in Brazil’s Acre state. What’s to be done?

Liz Kimbrough 17 Aug 2021

Plantations and roads strip away Papua’s forests. They’re just getting started

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Aug 2021

2015-2016 El Niño caused 2.5 billion trees to die in just 1% of the Amazon

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 16 Aug 2021
Fireflies illuminate the forest. Image by Roberto Marchegiani via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Loss of mangroves dims the light on firefly populations in Malaysia

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 15 Aug 2021
Fire line moves through a degraded forest area in an undesignated public forest area in Porto Velho, Rondônia on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Amazon forest loss hits second highest level since 2008

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2021
Kahuzi Biega National Park

Advocates raise alarm over proposal to reopen DRC forests to loggers

Ashoka Mukpo 13 Aug 2021

The Kichwa woman fighting drug traffickers and loggers in the Peruvian Amazon

Gloria Alvitres 13 Aug 2021

In Peru, a corrupt land-titling scheme sees forests sold off as farms

Yvette Sierra Praeli 12 Aug 2021

UNESCO calls for closure of road running through World Heritage park in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Aug 2021

In Indonesia, an unassuming brown bird is proof of turbo-charged evolution

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 10 Aug 2021

Shoe-leather science helps quadruple protected area in Peruvian Amazon

Yvette Sierra Praeli 10 Aug 2021

Soil and its promise as a climate solution: A primer

Mareli Sanchez-Julia 10 Aug 2021

Planned dam in Philippine national park catches flak from activists, officials

Jun N. Aguirre 10 Aug 2021

Seed dispersal is just as important as pollination (commentary)

Ariek Norford 10 Aug 2021
The Rietholzbach catchment is a hilly pre-alpine basin in north eastern Switzerland

Reforestation holds promise for Europe’s increasingly drier summers

Jim Tan 10 Aug 2021
A buffy-headed marmoset

Meet the kitten-sized, clown-faced monkey that’s leaping toward extinction

Jeremy Hance 10 Aug 2021

New artificial intelligence tool helps forecast Amazon deforestation

Juliana Ennes 9 Aug 2021

Black Death aside, we know surprisingly little about rodents and disease

Liz Kimbrough 9 Aug 2021

Protecting undesignated forests seen as key to slowing Amazon deforestation

Sibélia Zanon 9 Aug 2021
Forest fire in a deforested area in an undesignated public forest in Porto Velho, Rondônia on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

July data put Brazil on track for slight reduction in Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 6 Aug 2021

In a drier Amazon, Indigenous people recalibrate their relationship with fire

Suzana Camargo 6 Aug 2021
Recently deforested and burnt area in Porto Velho, Rondônia state July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Why we need the government to curb Amazon deforestation? (commentary)

Daniela Castro, Silvia Gonçalves 5 Aug 2021

USAID redirects funding in Cambodia as future of Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary hangs in the balance

Gerald Flynn 5 Aug 2021

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