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Increasing tree cover threatens world’s most endangered antelope

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Feb 2017

Meet one of the filmmakers behind Planet Earth 2

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Jan 2017

‘Last frontiers of wilderness’: Intact forest plummets globally

John Cannon 13 Jan 2017

‘Racing against time’ to save the taguá and its vanishing Chaco home

John Cannon 5 Jan 2017

Grasslands in US Great Plains are being destroyed at “alarming rate”

Mike Gaworecki 1 Dec 2016

Land-use change and management failures in China lead to significant amounts of carbon emissions: Study

Mike Gaworecki 23 Nov 2016

Over-fertilization diminishes the biodiversity of global grasslands

Emma Hiolski 21 Nov 2016

New report: Brazil’s Cerrado could sidestep conversion for agriculture

John Cannon 13 Nov 2016

Beef consumers’ role in causing deforestation in South America (commentary)

Asha Sharma 13 Sep 2016

‘All they need is a head start’: reforesting India’s Western Ghats

Sibi Arasu 16 Aug 2016
Rainstorm approaching across the Mara savanna (East Africa). Photo by Rhett Butler.

Savannas and grasslands are more biodiverse than you might think — and we’re not doing enough to conserve them

Mike Gaworecki 16 Aug 2016
Deforestation for a rubber plantation in Laos. While scientists have been pointing for years to the problems caused by natural forest conversion to rubber plantations, activist groups had been slow to target rubber relative to other commodities like soy, palm oil oil, timber, and wood-fiber.

“Ecological recession”: Researchers say biodiversity loss has hit critical threshold across the globe

Mike Gaworecki 25 Jul 2016
Fires in Far North Queensland, Australia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Rekindling Australia’s Aboriginal past to fight climate change (Commentary)

Catherine Monagle 8 Apr 2016

In the rush to reforest, are the world’s old-growth grasslands losing out?

Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Feb 2016

Turning prairies into gas: study finds U.S. biofuel production has big impacts on grasslands

Glenn Scherer 2 Apr 2015

King of the jungle returns to Gabon after nearly 20 year absence

Jeremy Hance 16 Mar 2015

Plant wars: some tree species compete better against grasses for reforestation

Brittany Stewart 18 Dec 2014

Too much of a good thing: fertilizer ‘one of the three major drivers of biodiversity loss this century’

Paul Sutherland 14 Jul 2014

Good intentions, collateral damage: forest conservation may be hurting grasslands

Anna Ikarashi 10 Jul 2014

New study finds environmental damage globally may cost more than U.S. GDP

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Jun 2014

Key highland habitat for rare condor protected in Ecuador

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2014

Population growth and associated food demand to take heavy toll on rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Jan 2014

Good news: Refuge for last blue-throated macaws doubles in size in Bolivia

Mongabay.com 2 Jan 2014

Scientists make one of the biggest animal discoveries of the century: a new tapir

Jeremy Hance 16 Dec 2013

Climate change could kill off Andean cloud forests, home to thousands of species found nowhere else

Jeremy Hance 18 Sep 2013

Zoo races to save extreme butterfly from extinction

Jeremy Hance 15 Aug 2013

Little NGO takes on goliath task: conserving the vanishing ecosystems of Paraguay

Dr Liz Kimbrough 12 Aug 2013

Saving the Raja of India’s grasslands: new efforts to conserve the Critically Endangered Great Indian Bustard

Mark Szotek 30 Jun 2013

Higher CO2 levels cause ‘greening’ from fertilization effect

Mongabay.com 31 May 2013

Africa’s great savannahs may be more endangered than the world’s rainforests

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2012

Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change: Renewing Damaged Ecosystems – book review

Gabriel Thoumi 3 Dec 2012

Photos: new mammal menagerie uncovered in remote Peruvian cloud forest

Jeremy Hance 3 Oct 2012

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