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New laws may turn Brazil’s forests into mines

Morgan Erickson-Davis 7 Nov 2014

Indonesia’s new president, ministers have big plans for fish

Melati Kaye 6 Nov 2014

91% of Kenya’s protected areas shrank in 100 years

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 4 Nov 2014

De-protection of Protected Areas ramps up in Brazil, ‘compromises the capacity’ of ecosystems

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 31 Oct 2014

‘Too many people’: Philippine island being deforested despite extensive protections

Shaira Panela 31 Oct 2014

Dissolving pulp: a growing threat to global forests

Mike Gaworecki 30 Oct 2014

Destroyed habitat, fewer resources, Ebola: the many repercussions of Liberia’s deforestation

David Brown 29 Oct 2014

Tigers vs. diamonds: India’s protected areas rampantly downgraded to make room for people, industry

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 29 Oct 2014

World’s rarest gorilla gets a new protected home

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Oct 2014

How protected are they? Report finds world’s Protected Areas may relax, shrink, even completely disappear

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 28 Oct 2014

Conservationists propose Dracula Reserve in Ecuador

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Oct 2014

Google’s new Gombe Street View lets users ‘walk’ along chimp trails and into Jane Goodall’s house

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Oct 2014

Gold mining expanding rapidly along Guiana Shield, threatening forests, water, wildlife

Dr Liz Kimbrough 22 Oct 2014

‘No forests, no cash’: palm oil giants commit to sustainability, but will they follow through?

Ethan Harfenist 21 Oct 2014

Walking the walk: zoo kicks off campaign for orangutans and sustainable palm oil

Jeremy Hance 20 Oct 2014

India plans huge palm oil expansion, puts forests at risk

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Oct 2014

‘River wolves’ recover in Peruvian park, but still remain threatened inside and out (photos)

Jeremy Hance 14 Oct 2014

Forest restoration commitments: driven by science or politics?

John Cannon 10 Oct 2014

‘A remarkable conservation achievement’: Ecuador reserve expands as forest disappears

Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Oct 2014

Helping orangutans survive: new project aims to connect habitat fragments in Kalimantan (PART II)

Apoorva Joshi 8 Oct 2014

Marooned in shrinking forests, Bornean orangutans hang on as disaster looms (PART I)

Apoorva Joshi 7 Oct 2014

Will ‘Asia’s unicorn’ survive? Hunting and deforestation continue in Vietnam biosphere reserve PART II

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Oct 2014

The largest biosphere reserve in Southeast Asia: Vietnam’s success story or a conservation failure? PART I

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Sep 2014

Studying common birds could help save rare species in Vietnam

Brendan D. Bane 30 Sep 2014

Climate change to boost farmland, diminish harvests, says new study

John Cannon 29 Sep 2014

Diverse, deceptive, declining: orchids threatened by deforestation in South America

Julian Moll-rocek 26 Sep 2014

Scientists use genes, feces to study disappearing monkeys

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Sep 2014

Dissolving pulp: the threat to Indonesia’s forests you’ve probably never heard of

Mike Gaworecki 23 Sep 2014

From ‘production’ forests to protected forests, groups work to save Sumatran orangutan habitat. But will it be enough?

Ethan Harfenist 16 Sep 2014

WCS-led raids lead to six arrests near Mozambique’s largest reserve

John Cannon 12 Sep 2014

The last of her kind: centennial of the death of the world’s last passenger pigeon

Morgan Erickson-Davis 1 Sep 2014

Where should the roads go? New map offers a solution to the ‘Pandora’s Box of environmental problems’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 27 Aug 2014

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