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At least one species has been lost on more than half of Earth’s land area

Mongabay.com 18 Jun 2019

Despite a decade of zero-deforestation vows, forest loss continues: Greenpeace

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Jun 2019

How to save insects and ourselves

Jeremy Hance 13 Jun 2019

The tropics in trouble and some hope

Jeremy Hance 10 Jun 2019

Vanishing act in Europe and North America

Jeremy Hance 6 Jun 2019
A venomous snake in the DRC. Photo by Hugh Kinsella Cunningham.

Congo’s hidden crisis: Snakebites and envenomation

Hugh Kinsella Cunningham 5 Jun 2019

A global look at a deepening crisis

Jeremy Hance 3 Jun 2019

Land grabbing, cattle ranching ravage Colombian Amazon after FARC demobilization

Taran Volckhausen 30 May 2019

A forest beset by oil palms, logging, now contends with a coal-trucking road

Elviza Diana 28 May 2019

How climate change could throw Māori culture off-balance

Ashley Stumvoll 23 May 2019

Indonesia calls on palm oil industry, obscured by secrecy, to remain opaque

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 May 2019

Solomon Islanders imprisoned for trying to stop the logging of their forests

Louise Hunt 17 May 2019

A new election brings little hope for Solomon Islands’ vanishing forests

Louise Hunt 17 May 2019

Canopy-dwelling rainforest mammals most sensitive to human disturbance

Mongabay.com 15 May 2019

‘To save a forest you have to destroy a nicer one’: U.S. Marines target forest in Guam

Nina Finley 8 May 2019

Malaysia calls on Southeast Asia to back palm oil against ‘unfair’ claims

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 May 2019
Western Chimpanzees at Tacugama Chimp Sanctuary in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photo by BigMikeSndTech, licensed under CC by 2.0

Western chimp numbers revised up to 53,000, but development threats loom

Ashoka Mukpo 1 May 2019

The world lost a Belgium-size area of old growth rainforest in 2018

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Apr 2019
A worker at Myo Myat Mon Co. rice factory sorts rice husk bricks. Photo by Victoria Milko.

Can rice husk briquettes stem the tide of mangrove deforestation in Myanmar?

Wudan Yan 23 Apr 2019

Cities may save some species from extinction, but they don’t save species’ ecological functions

Mike Gaworecki 19 Apr 2019

How a sheriff in Brazil is using satellites to stop deforestation

Jenny Gonzales 12 Apr 2019

‘It’s getting worse’: National parks in Honduras hit hard by palm oil

Maxwell Radwin 11 Apr 2019

Debunking myths about sloths is crucial to stopping the sloth crisis

Mike Gaworecki 2 Apr 2019

Leading Amazon dam rights activist, spouse and friend murdered in Brazil

Jenny Gonzales 27 Mar 2019
The primary reason for large plantations of Eucalyptus is for cooking. Here a woman makes a traditional non-alcoholic beer served at Islamic celebrations. Photo by Christopher Lett/Mongabay.

In Ethiopia, women and faith drive effort to restore biodiversity

Christopher Lett 20 Mar 2019
Julio Cusurichi. Image courtesy of FENAMAD.

Defending the Amazon’s uncontacted peoples: Q&A with Julio Cusurichi

Dan Collyns 13 Mar 2019

In East Africa, spread of sickle bush drives conflict with wildlife

David Njagi 13 Mar 2019

Freshwater fishes and other threatened but overlooked biodiversity must be new flagships for conservation (commentary)

Mike Baltzer 12 Mar 2019

New study finds young forests have a huge climate impact

Morgan Erickson-Davis 26 Feb 2019

New map shows every forest matters in helping save the Javan leopard

Gianluca Cerullo 26 Feb 2019

What the Congo Basin can learn from Filipino community forestry laws (commentary)

Tanja Venisnik 21 Feb 2019
A view of the Soarano wetland, cleared of forest by illegal gold miners. Image by Daniel Burgas.

Illegal gold mining destroys wetland forest in Madagascar park

Rowan Moore Gerety 19 Feb 2019

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