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On the road to ‘smart development’

John Cannon 25 May 2017

Nepal tests fencing approach to protect farms and elephants

Erik Meijaard 17 Apr 2017

Forest fragmentation may be releasing much more carbon than we think

Morgan Erickson-Davis 31 Mar 2017

Among their many impacts, roads are driving rapid evolutionary adaptation in adjacent populations

Mike Gaworecki 15 Mar 2017

Aceh governor-elect: ‘I myself will cancel’ controversial geothermal project in Sumatran rainforest

Junaidi Hanafiah 11 Mar 2017

Environmental costs, benefits and possibilities: Q&A with anthropologist Eben Kirksey

John Cannon 28 Feb 2017

Trees need a little help to reclaim deforested land, study finds

Mike Gaworecki 13 Feb 2017

Thap Lan: Thailand’s unsung forest gem under threat, but still abrim with life

Demelza Stokes 31 Jan 2017
Rainforest timber on a barge in Gabon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

Logging in certified concessions drove intact forest landscape loss in Congo Basin

Mike Gaworecki 30 Jan 2017

‘Last frontiers of wilderness’: Intact forest plummets globally

John Cannon 13 Jan 2017

Fragmentation boosts carbon storage along temperate forest edges

John Cannon 9 Jan 2017

An ‘infrastructure tsunami’ for Asia: Q&A with researcher William Laurance

Isabel Esterman 6 Jan 2017

Sudden sale may doom carbon-rich rainforest in Borneo

John Cannon 2 Jan 2017

93% of world’s roadless areas are less than half the size of Cincinnati

Morgan Erickson-Davis 19 Dec 2016

Nations come together to save Kenya’s disappearing coastal forests

Sophie Mbugua 3 Nov 2016

Hunted to the brink: Mammals in crisis

John Cannon 24 Oct 2016
An Amur tiger and its prey, a local farmer’s cow, photographed by a camera trap near Hunchun National Nature Reserve in China’s northeastern province of Jilin. Photo courtesy of Hunchun Forestry Bureau

China considers a huge national park for Amur tigers and leopards

Wang Yan 22 Sep 2016
Borneo orangutan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Bornean orangutan declared ‘critically endangered’ as forests shrink

Loren Bell 5 Jul 2016

NGOs and oil-palm growers team up to help orangutans, but progress is slow

Melati Kaye 21 Apr 2016

Enough habitat left to double wild tiger numbers by 2022, study finds

Apoorva Joshi 8 Apr 2016

Study gauges use of tea as buffer crop to curb mountain gorilla raids

Sean Mowbray 16 Feb 2016

Republic of Congo awards two million hectares of timber concessions

John Cannon 11 Feb 2016

Researchers find the world’s forests are fragmenting at a quick pace

Mike Gaworecki 4 Feb 2016

Malaysia plans road expansion through dwindling elephant, orangutan habitat

John Cannon 14 Jan 2016

‘Bear-moving’ revamped: a better way to reduce conflict in the Himalayas?

Esther Wullschleger Schättin 31 Dec 2015

Noise: an invisible threat that harms wildlife, degrades habitats

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Oct 2015

Man starts record-breaking walk to protect one of the world’s rarest primates

Greg Norman 2 Sep 2015

On the fence about wildlife fencing: new paper outlines research needed to resolve debate

Neelam Pereira 23 Jun 2015

Energy Sprawl: Comparing biodiversity impacts of oil, gas and wind production

Taryn Farber 8 May 2015

World’s fragmented forests are deteriorating

Loren Bell 24 Mar 2015

Deforestation taking toll on nesting birds in Cameroon

Ariel Mark 17 Dec 2014

Forest fragmentation’s carbon bomb: 736 million tonnes C02 annually

Jeremy Hance 9 Oct 2014

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