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Rainforest in Malaysian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Conserving the World’s Remaining Intact Forests (commentary)

Michael Painter, David Wilkie 25 Jul 2017

Orangutans find home in degraded forests

John Cannon 24 Jul 2017
Sumatran elephants by Rhett Butler.

As Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem faces multiple threats, local resistance grows

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Jul 2017

Logging in Malaysia’s Ulu Muda forest threatens wildlife and water supplies

Kate Mayberry 26 Jun 2017

Delicate Solomon Island ecosystem in danger of heavy logging

Elliot Dawea, John Cannon 1 May 2017

Corruption drives dealings with logging companies in the Solomon Islands

Elliot Dawea, John Cannon 1 May 2017

Environmental costs, benefits and possibilities: Q&A with anthropologist Eben Kirksey

John Cannon 28 Feb 2017

Birds wanted: Recovering forests need avian assist 

Mongabay.com 2 Feb 2017

HSBC financing tied to deforestation, rights violations for palm oil in Indonesia

John Cannon 18 Jan 2017

‘Last frontiers of wilderness’: Intact forest plummets globally

John Cannon 13 Jan 2017

Smuggled to death: how loopholes and lax enforcement have sealed the fate of Siamese rosewood

Demelza Stokes 5 Jan 2017

No let-up in Thailand’s relentless, violent Siamese rosewood poaching

Demelza Stokes 4 Jan 2017

Sudden sale may doom carbon-rich rainforest in Borneo

John Cannon 2 Jan 2017

Ignoring scientists, Poland begins logging famous primeval forest  

Jeremy Hance 3 Jun 2016

Old-growth forests can help preserve biodiversity in a warming world

Mike Gaworecki 6 May 2016

How effective will Indonesia’s palm oil permit freeze really be?

Mongabay Haze Beat 4 May 2016

Conservationists part ways on primary forest logging

Saul Elbein 29 Feb 2016

Secondary forests offer big opportunity to fight global warming

Mike Gaworecki 12 Feb 2016

Romania struggles to turn the tide of illegal logging

Greg Norman 4 Dec 2015

Primary rainforest cleared for massive palm oil plantations in Peru

John Cannon 20 May 2015

Researchers find treasure trove of unique, threatened animals in Philippine forest

Shaira Panela 8 May 2015

Indian fabric giant adopts forest policy

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 May 2015

Condition of tropical forests ‘worsening’, could become ‘critical’

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Apr 2015

Selective logging causes long-term changes to forest structure

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Feb 2015

Scientists call on Obama to stop logging in old growth forests

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2015

Boosting the conservation value of 4M sq km of rainforest logging concessions

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Dec 2014

Termites suffer in logged forests and palm oil plantations

Heather D'angelo 25 Sep 2014

FSC meeting weighs old-growth forest protection, smallholder participation

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Sep 2014

Canada, Russia, Brazil lead world in old-growth forest loss

Morgan Erickson-Davis 5 Sep 2014

A path to becoming a conservation scientist

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Sep 2014

How do we save the world’s vanishing old-growth forests?

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2014

Selective logging hurts rainforest frogs

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Aug 2014

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