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‘Nobody was expecting this’: range loss puts leopards in big trouble

Shreya Dasgupta 6 May 2016

Kenya’s forests squeezed as government pressures environment groups

David Njagi 6 May 2016
Not for republication. Image by Rod Harbinson/Rodharbinson.com

REDD+ project struggles to find feet as Cambodian national park burns

Rod Harbinson 22 Apr 2016

Gold mining ramps up, pushes deeper into Peruvian reserve

Morgan Erickson-Davis 22 Apr 2016

NGOs and oil-palm growers team up to help orangutans, but progress is slow

Melati Kaye 21 Apr 2016

India’s “environmentalism of convenience” threatens forest-dwellers’ rights

Arpitha Kodiveri 14 Apr 2016

Enough habitat left to double wild tiger numbers by 2022, study finds

Apoorva Joshi 8 Apr 2016

Could a rare rhino’s tragic death in Borneo have been prevented?

Basten Gokkon 8 Apr 2016

Lessons from Herakles: sorting out a road map for palm oil in Africa

John Cannon 7 Apr 2016

China’s forests are growing back – but at a cost

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Apr 2016

A bleak future for the U.S. ‘wood basket’? Southern forests under threat

Apoorva Joshi 6 Apr 2016

‘This is not empty forest’: Africa’s palm oil surge builds in Cameroon

John Cannon 30 Mar 2016

Orangutan refugees: weighing when to rescue the apes

Melati Kaye 30 Mar 2016

Local communities rush to save Kenya’s only lowland rainforest

Isaiah Esipisu 29 Mar 2016

Protests continue amid signs that controversial Borneo dam cancelled

Rod Harbinson 29 Mar 2016

Snake photographed in Ethiopia may be new species of venomous viper

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Mar 2016

Massive wildfire rips through Congo rainforest – is logging to blame?

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Mar 2016

Another catastrophe: Ship carrying 1,235 metric tons of coal sinks in Sundarbans

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Mar 2016

Illegal deforestation for ‘sustainable’ chocolate continues in Peru

Morgan Erickson-Davis 17 Mar 2016

Drop in timber smuggling gives ‘breathing space’ to Myanmar’s forests

Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Mar 2016
Deforestation in Sumatra, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

World’s largest sovereign wealth fund just dropped 11 companies over deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 9 Mar 2016

DRC announces intent to reopen its rainforests to logging companies

Morgan Erickson-Davis 4 Mar 2016

‘Sitting on the edge of a knife’: Deforestation ramps up in Queensland

Morgan Erickson-Davis 29 Feb 2016

Market-based conservation programs slow deforestation in Chile, study finds

Peter Mellgard 29 Feb 2016

Can privatization save parks?

Josh Davis 26 Feb 2016

Eight newly discovered species of whip spiders could soon become extinct

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Feb 2016

To stop the Zika virus from spreading in Brazil, specialists call for an ‘environmental revolution’

Carolina Torres 18 Feb 2016

Bangladesh sticks with coal power plant project despite major backlash

Apoorva Joshi 16 Feb 2016

As the U.S. bans trans fats, palm oil is poised to take over – but at what cost?

Sarah Hucal 11 Feb 2016

Republic of Congo awards two million hectares of timber concessions

John Cannon 11 Feb 2016

Why is Tasmania burning, and why are scientists worried?

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Feb 2016

Illegal gold mining pushes deeper into protected Peruvian reserve

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Feb 2016

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