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Restoring degraded land could mean big financial gains for Latin America

Morgan Erickson-Davis 4 Nov 2016

One-Year Anniversary of Brazil dam disaster brings prosecutions

Jenny Gonzales 2 Nov 2016

UNESCO urges Bangladesh to cancel or relocate Sundarbans coal plant

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Oct 2016
The binturong or bearcat (Arctictis binturong). Photographed in Cambodia by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

What is a binturong?

Carly Nairn 13 Oct 2016

Exclusive: Rainforest rapidly cleared for sugarcane in Bolivia

Eduardo Franco Berton 12 Oct 2016

The Myanmar snub-nosed monkey: discovered and immediately endangered

Sean Mowbray 4 Oct 2016

China’s reforestation program a letdown for wildlife, study finds

Benji Jones 27 Sep 2016

Proposed sale of timber from palm oil concession sparks alarm in Liberia

Jeremy Hance 21 Sep 2016

Field Notes: Wooing wolverines with high-tech lures

Elizabeth Devitt 21 Sep 2016

Philippine Bleeding-heart doves flutter at the brink, but NGOs respond

Claire Salisbury 20 Sep 2016

Wildfires threaten Peruvian Indigenous communities and national park

Alexa Eunoé Vélez Zuazo 19 Sep 2016

Forests in Colombia fall victim to illegal coca plantations

María Lourdes Zimmermann 16 Sep 2016
Flowers in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Photo by Jeremy Hance

Ecuador begins pumping oil from famed ITT-block in Yasuní

Jeremy Hance 13 Sep 2016

‘A major concern’: plantation-driven deforestation ramps up in Borneo

Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Sep 2016

Black, white and unique: the Malayan tapir struggles for recognition

Kate Mayberry 7 Sep 2016

Korean palm oil firm burned large tracts of forestland in Indonesia, NGOs allege

Alice Cuddy 1 Sep 2016

Logging roads have long-lasting impacts on forests

Morgan Erickson-Davis 29 Aug 2016

Yosemite as a case study in protected area downsizing and habitat fragmentation

Mike Gaworecki 26 Aug 2016

New ‘sleeping beauty’ frog discovered in fragmented Peruvian forest

Apoorva Joshi 25 Aug 2016

Pet trade’s “cute” and “adorable” label endangers the slow loris

Linda Lombardi 25 Aug 2016

Nixed Bolivian highway offers environmental lessons to big Brazil bank

Ana Rosa de Lima, Alexandra Ellerbeck 24 Aug 2016

Pulling the stunningly unique painted terrapin back from the brink

Diane Toomey 17 Aug 2016

Climate change pledges not nearly enough to save tropical ecosystems

Jeremy Hance 16 Aug 2016

Field Notes: Saving America’s last wild meat-eating Venus flytraps

Elizabeth Devitt 15 Aug 2016

Illegal gold mining eats up more protected Peruvian rainforest

Morgan Erickson-Davis 12 Aug 2016

Indonesia mulls revision of orangutan conservation plan

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 11 Aug 2016

Out of sight, out of mind: Asia’s elusive Fishing Cat in trouble

Sean Mowbray 11 Aug 2016

Deforestation: a lingering legacy

John Cannon 10 Aug 2016

How to use the Bloomberg Terminal for advocacy work: advanced tools

Dan Williams 8 Aug 2016

A dangerous, illegal necessity: charcoal reform comes to Virunga

Sophie Mbugua 2 Aug 2016

Malayan Sun bear: bile trade threatens the World’s smallest bear

Claire Asher 1 Aug 2016
A mangrove forest in Daintree, Australia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

On World Mangrove Day, 9 things to know about these tough plants

Melati Kaye 26 Jul 2016

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