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Back to the skies: the unlikely comeback of one of Brazil’s rarest parrots

Xavier Bartaburu 14 Apr 2025
Equipped with drones and other technologies, young people from the Yanomami Indigenous Land actively monitor their territory, which has faced a serious humanitarian and environmental crisis due to illegal gold and cassiterite mining. Image courtesy of Evilene Paixão/HAY.

Yanomami youth turn to drones to watch their Amazon territory

Elizabeth Oliveira 28 Feb 2025

What’s the TFFF? A forest finance tool ‘like no other’ shows potential

Mike DiGirolamo 16 Dec 2024
Oil palm estate and rainforest in Malaysian Borneo.

New tool aims to help palm oil firms comply with deforestation regulations

Abhishyant Kidangoor 26 Jan 2024
A toucan in a tropical rainforest.

Tropical deforestation increases even as a few hotspots see respite, new data shows

Abhishyant Kidangoor 11 Dec 2023
Bioacoustic researcher

The more degraded a forest, the quieter its wildlife, new study shows

Carolyn Cowan 24 Apr 2023

Researchers turn to drones for that big-picture view of the forest canopy

Caitlin Looby 21 Mar 2022
Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge needs a makeover. Is rainforest lumber still in style?

Ashoka Mukpo 8 Jul 2021

Agroforestry, an ancient climate solution that boosts food production and biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 27 Jan 2021
Rainforest in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

What are the tropical forest storylines to watch in 2021?

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jan 2021

Restaura Cerrado: Saving Brazil’s savanna by reseeding and restoring it

Sarah Sax 14 Dec 2020
Planet satellite image showing a mosaic of deforestation and rainforest in São Judas Tadeu, Xapuri in the state of Acre, Brazil in August 2018. Courtesy of Planet.

Amazon REDD+ scheme side-steps land rights to reward small forest producers

Claire Asher 3 Jul 2019

Rhett Butler on how sound can save forests and top rainforest storylines to watch in 2019

Mike Gaworecki 8 Jan 2019

For an Amazon tribe, phone cameras shine a light on their wildlife

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 15 Oct 2018
Chalcopyrite from the Huanzala Mine in Peru. Photo by James St. John via Flickr.

Chilling images of illegal mining operations in Peru

Yvette Sierra Praeli 24 Sep 2018
A golden tamarin monkey, a species known to use forest corridors. Photo courtesy of Stuart Pimm/SavingSpecies.

Identifying the world’s top biodiversity investment returns

Genevieve Belmaker 21 Aug 2017

Footprints in the forest: The future of the Sumatran rhino

John Cannon 23 Jun 2017

Tropical forest diversity and carbon richness not linked, study finds

Claire Salisbury 12 Jun 2017

Financing sustainable agriculture possible, if terms fit farmers’ needs

John Cannon 2 Jun 2017

‘Revolutionary’ new biodiversity maps reveal big gaps in conservation

John Cannon 27 Jan 2017

Airbus to marshal its satellites against deforestation

Philip Jacobson 12 Oct 2016

The key to tropical conservation: scrap big projects, invest in people

Liz Kimbrough 27 May 2016

Critically endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles are in even more trouble than scientists thought

Mike Gaworecki 5 Apr 2016

Forest restoration: from Stone Age to drone age

Giovanni Ortolani 9 Mar 2016

$1m for devising best way to map Indonesia’s peatlands

Sapariah Saturi 5 Mar 2016
Peat forest cleared for pulp and paper in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

New tool seeks end to Indonesian paper giants’ secret links

Loren Bell 26 Feb 2016

How are NGOs innovating to reach palm oil financiers and companies?

Pek Shibao 4 Feb 2016

Next big idea in forest conservation? Recognize the value of novel forests

Dr Liz Kimbrough 23 Oct 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Harness the power of marketing

Dr Liz Kimbrough 11 Sep 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? DNA fingerprinting trees to stem illegal logging

Dr Liz Kimbrough 21 Aug 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation: Reconnecting faith and forests

Dr Liz Kimbrough 24 Jul 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Rewards for reforestation

Dr Liz Kimbrough 10 Jul 2014

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