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Young boys labor outside a saw mill in the town of Njoro in Kenya’s Rift Valley. Photo by David Njagi

Youth, women, indigenous group pay the price of logging in Kenya

David Njagi 16 Sep 2016
Sime Darby plantation in Cape Mount County. Photo courtesy JPN Liberia

Liberia land policy a ‘challenge to national development’

Mark M. Dahn 14 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

World’s watersheds lost 6 percent of their forests in 14 years

Morgan Erickson-Davis 31 Aug 2016

Field Notes: Expedition to Cuba seeks out new and endemic species

Elizabeth Devitt 30 Aug 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

Timber from Peru 90 percent illegal, finds report issued by U.S. gov’t

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 Aug 2016

Researchers say addressing the second D in REDD can benefit the climate while ensuring timber harvests

Mike Gaworecki 17 Aug 2016

Pulling the stunningly unique painted terrapin back from the brink

Diane Toomey 17 Aug 2016

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

Sibi Arasu 16 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
A family of Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) in Tanjung Puting National Park, Borneo. The mother was rescued from a palm oil development and re-released as a juvenile here, but unable to survive in the wild because she lacked the careful upbringing required to find food throughout the year. Photo by Matthew Luskin / NGS.

10 orangutans released into the wild in Borneo

Indra Nugraha 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

Field Notes: Scientist seeks long-term stress trends in Africa’s hyenas

Elizabeth Devitt 3 Aug 2016

‘An optimistic place to start’: Myanmar enacts national logging ban

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 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

International Tiger Day: How are tigers faring now?

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Jul 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

Cattle driving big forest loss in Peru’s ‘under-appreciated’ Amazon

Jeremy Hance 19 Jul 2016

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