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The Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest species of great ape. Photo © Maxime Aliaga.

Belt and Road Initiative could doom the world’s rarest ape (commentary)

William F. Laurance 2 Aug 2018

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

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jul 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

How effective is environmental restoration?

Mike Gaworecki 6 Mar 2018

Tropical forest fragmentation nearing ‘critical point,’ study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Feb 2018

Drought-driven wildfires on rise in Amazon basin, upping CO2 release

Claire Asher 22 Feb 2018

Maps tease apart complex relationship between agriculture and deforestation in DRC

John Cannon 2 Feb 2018

Smallest wild cat in the Americas faces big problems — but hope exists

Niki Rust 24 Jan 2018

Critically endangered monkeys found in Ghana forest slated for mining

Morgan Erickson-Davis 11 Jan 2018

Scientists surprised by orchid bee biodiversity near oil palm plantations

Anna Katrina Hunter 4 Jan 2018

Amazon dam impacts underestimated due to overlooked vine growth: study

Claire Salisbury 20 Dec 2017

Leading US plywood firm linked to alleged destruction, rights violations in Malaysia

John Cannon 19 Oct 2017
Each dry season, members of the community group VOI Sohisika try to keep brush fires at bay with controlled burns that run along firebreaks on the perimeter of the preserve. Photo courtesy of Missouri Botanical Garden.

How small is too small? The uncertain fate of Madagascar’s forest fragments

Rowan Moore Gerety 18 Oct 2017
chameleon, a species that lives in Ranomafana National Park. Photo by

Conservation in a weak state: Madagascar struggles with enforcement

Rowan Moore Gerety 10 Oct 2017

Dogs, dung, and DNA: mapping multi-species corridors to conserve threatened carnivores

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 9 Oct 2017

Experts seek ways to mitigate environmental impacts of infrastructure boom in Asia Pacific

Basten Gokkon 9 Oct 2017

Can community forestry deliver for Madagascar’s forests and people?

Rowan Moore Gerety 2 Oct 2017

How effective is conservation in Madagascar? Series starts next week

Rowan Moore Gerety 28 Sep 2017
Snow leopards (Panthera uncial) in the Sanjiangyuan region of China, a still from “Ghost of the Mountains.” Photo courtesy of Disneynature.

Stalking snow leopards: Q&A with the director of “Ghost of the Mountains”

Rebecca Kessler 20 Sep 2017

‘Ecological disaster’: controversial bridge puts East Kalimantan’s green commitment to the test

Basten Gokkon 30 Aug 2017
A golden tamarin monkey, a species known to use forest corridors. Photo courtesy of Stuart Pimm/SavingSpecies.

Identifying the world’s top biodiversity investment returns

Genevieve Belmaker 21 Aug 2017

Malaysia’s East Coast Rail Link a double-edged sword for environment, wildlife

Kate Mayberry 9 Aug 2017

Sixth mass extinction ‘tsunami’ coming, but preventable

John Cannon 4 Aug 2017

Study examines sex-specific responses of Neotropical bats to habitat fragmentation

Mike Gaworecki 2 Aug 2017

Western Chimpanzee numbers declined by more than 80 percent over the past quarter century

Mike Gaworecki 31 Jul 2017

Orangutans find home in degraded forests

John Cannon 24 Jul 2017

Charcoal and cattle ranching tearing apart the Gran Chaco

John Cannon 19 Jul 2017

Big mammals flourish as Cerrado park’s savanna comes back

John Cannon 14 Jul 2017

Is Brazil’s Forest Code failing to reduce deforestation?

John Cannon 6 Jul 2017

As habitat fragmentation increases, so does extinction risk: study

Isabel Esterman 3 Jul 2017

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