This is the fourth part of a four-part series examining trends in Protected Area Downgrading, Downsizing, and Degazettement (PADDD). Read the first, second, and third parts for a more comprehensive…
Almost completely covered in Protected Areas, Palawan lost 6.4 percent of its tree cover in just over a decade About an hour and a half plane ride from the Philippine…
100 million trees are cut down every year to make dissolving pulp for clothing, toothpaste, food Dissolving pulp is not just a threat to the forests of Indonesia. It is…
West African country lost 4.4 percent of forests in 12 years, new incentives may help stymie future destruction Liberia is one of the last strongholds of intact forest in West…
This is the second part of a four-part series examining trends in Protected Area Downgrading, Downsizing, and Degazettement (PADDD). Read the first and third parts for a more comprehensive look…
Tofala Wildlife Sanctuary will help protect 20-30 Cross River gorillas - about 10 percent of the subspecies The Cross River Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli), the rarest and most threatened of…
This is the first part of a four-part series examining trends in Protected Area Downgrading, Downsizing, and Degazettement (PADDD). Read the second and third parts for a more comprehensive look…
Rainforest Trust holds Halloween drive to raise $28,000 towards purchase of 652 acres of Chocó forest Deep in the dark, cool forests of Ecuador live strange and mysterious organisms. Some…
New maps allow public exploration of the area Goodall has used for research for nearly fifty years Google Maps is now available for Tanzanian forest paths. Users can walk virtually…
Alto Maues designated a federal reserve to curb carbon emissions Earlier this week, the Brazilian government announced the declaration of a new federal reserve deep in the Amazon rainforest. The…
Land cleared for mines spotted by innovative mapping technology Gold mining is on the rise in the Guiana Shield, a geographic region of South America that holds one of the…
Indonesia Chamber of Commerce plans to lobby for expansion of sustainable business practices Four of Indonesia’s largest palm oil producers signed a landmark commitment in New York in September to…
Little-known 'biological-jewel' faces commercial logging A number of the world's top conservation scientists have raised concerns about plans for commercial logging on Woodlark Island, a hugely biodiverse rainforest island off…
Indonesian govt won't allow palm oil companies to protect forests Oil palm plantation in Borneo. A law passed by the Indonesian government last month makes it even more difficult for…
Mine located near and within pristine forest, company asserts precautions will be taken to protect surrounding environment Global miner BHP Billiton and Indonesian partner PT Adaro are developing what could…
Of Indonesia’s 100 GW in new power generation capacity by 2035, half will be coal-fired, says IEA. Indonesia cannot build power stations fast enough. And neither can most of its…
21 million hectares earmarked for coal mining, including more than half of East Kalimantan Out of the jungles of East Borneo in Indonesia comes the fire that fuels Asia’s burgeoning…
More than one million hectares allocated for conversion Palm oil, a ubiquitous ingredient in supermarket products ranging from shampoos and cosmetics to processed foods, comes at a huge environmental cost.…
Less than 10 percent of Ecuadorian Chocó forest remains, many endemic species under threat from development, logging A strip of rainforest running along the northwestern Ecuadorian coast and up through…
This is the second of a two-part series, Part I of which overviews the status of Bornean orangutans in southern Kalimantan. Two decades ago, a project to convert one million…
This is the first part of a two-part series, the second of which goes more in-depth about the efforts to connect habitat fragments and help secure the future of the…
Peat forest clearing for oil palm in Central Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler The Indonesian province of Central Kalimantan is moving forward on an oil palm plantation monitoring system…
This is the second of a series of two articles examining Western Nghe An Biosphere Reserve, the impetus behind its creation, and the efficacy of its protections. Part 1 can…
This is the first of a series of two articles examining Western Nghe An Biosphere Reserve, the impetus behind its creation, and the efficacy of its protections. Part II can…
Orchids indicate ecosystem health, can be used to predict extinction of other species, manage forests High in a humid tropical forest in the Sierra de Cayey, Puerto Rico, Benjamin Crain…
Hunting, deforestation decimated species in Mexico; reintroduced macaws have high survival rate While listed as Least Concern by the IUCN, the scarlet macaw (Ara macao) has disappeared from almost all…
Norway pledges $300 million if Peru tackles deforestation crisis by 2021 From the Andes to the Amazon, Peru houses some of the world's most spectacular forests. Proud and culturally-diverse indigenous…
Technique may offer effective, easy way to monitor hard-to-find animals Human pressures through tree clearing and poaching are reducing both forest and fauna in West Africa. In response to dwindling…
Crisis-racked nation gets help, hope from European benefactor In one of the many major announcements that have come out of the UN Climate Summit in New York this week, Norway…