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Next big idea in forest conservation? Making community protection economically viable

Plan to shrink World Heritage forest in Tasmania ‘clearly inappropriate,’ says IUCN

Happy Amazon: $215 million raised for world’s largest protected area network

Australians rally to save World Heritage Site from chopping block

The remarkable story of how a bat scientist took on Russia’s most powerful…and won

Brazil strips protected status from 5.2M ha

Sharp jump in deforestation when Amazon parks lose protected status

Ecotourism pays: study finds lower poverty where nature-based tourism is prevalent

The lemur end-game: scientists propose ambitious plan to save the world’s most imperiled mammal family

REDD+ should finance corridors between protected areas, argues study

Cambodia protects forest for giant ibis

Proposed rail and road projects could devastate Nepal’s tigers and rhinos

Total says it will not drill in any World Heritage Sites

Key highland habitat for rare condor protected in Ecuador

Snow leopards and other mammals caught on camera trap in Uzbekistan (photos)

High-living frogs hurt by remote oil roads in the Amazon

Rewilding Chile’s savanna with guanacos could increase biodiversity and livestock

A bird’s eye view of hornbills in northeast India

Big data shows tropical mammals on the decline

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2013

Sky islands: exploring East Africa’s last frontier

Asia’s most precious wood is soaked in blood

Scientists identify 137 protected areas most important for preserving biodiversity

Could camera trap videos galvanize the world to protect Yasuni from oil drilling?

Rebranded as the Rainforest Trust, green group launches push to protect 6M acres of Amazon rainforest

Map reveals gas company flying over Manu National Park

Tapirs, drug-trafficking, and eco-police: practicing conservation amidst chaos in Nicaragua

Over 100 scientists warn Ecuadorian Congress against oil development in Yasuni

Wildlife in Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve suffers from lack of a transition zone

Has Brazil turned against its progressive environmental policies?

Lions rising: community conservation making a difference for Africa’s kings in Mozambique

Brazil establishes 2 Amazon parks covering 2.4m acres

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