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Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett A. Butler 30 Dec 2018

New research quantifies ecosystem services provided by Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 28 Nov 2018

Tracking the shift of tropical forests from carbon sink to source

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2018

Forest communities pay the price for conservation in Madagascar

John Cannon 25 Jul 2018

Payments for ecosystem services can boost social capital in addition to forest management: Study

Mike Gaworecki 3 Jul 2018

Researchers propose framework for designing PES programs that better deliver socioeconomic benefits

Mike Gaworecki 24 May 2018

New research examines spread of payments for ecosystem services around the globe

Mike Gaworecki 6 Apr 2018

Report finds projects in DRC ‘REDD+ laboratory’ fall short of development, conservation goals

John Cannon 16 Mar 2018

Illegal cattle ranching deforests Mexico’s massive Lacandon Jungle

Rodrigo Soberanes 14 Mar 2018

Ecotourism payments for more wildlife sightings linked to conservation benefits in Laos

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2018

Carbon pricing could save millions of hectares of tropical forest: new study

John Cannon 5 Feb 2018

Maps tease apart complex relationship between agriculture and deforestation in DRC

John Cannon 2 Feb 2018
An indri (Indri indri), another critically endangered lemur that lives in Makira Natural Park. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Carbon dreams: Can REDD+ save a Yosemite-size forest in Madagascar?

Rowan Moore Gerety 29 Nov 2017

Experience or evidence: How do big conservation NGOs make decisions?

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Nov 2017

Cash for conservation: Do payments for ecosystem services work?

Mike Gaworecki 12 Oct 2017

Randomized controlled trial in Uganda finds that paying people not to cut down trees works

Mike Gaworecki 27 Jul 2017
Rhinella granulosa toad in Chocó-Darien, Colombia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Successful Colombian rainforest project exposes problems with carbon emissions trading

Bart Crezee 6 Apr 2017
Two Chaco Chachalacas in Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Photo by Dario Sanches via Wikimedia Commons.

Jurisdictional certification approach aims to strengthen protections against deforestation

Tara MacIsaac 4 Apr 2017

Guyana focuses deforestation prevention efforts on conservation and management

Gaulbert Sutherland 24 Jan 2017

World’s most endangered fruit bat could soon be extinct due to rapid forest loss

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Jan 2017

Sudden sale may doom carbon-rich rainforest in Borneo

John Cannon 2 Jan 2017

Which tropical forest conservation strategies are proving most effective?

Mike Gaworecki 30 Nov 2016

Could REDD help save an embattled forest in Cambodia?

Rhett A. Butler 28 Oct 2016
Auyna Tepui in Parque Nacional Canaima, part of the Guiana Shield. Photo by Christoph Kühnhanss via Wikimedia Commons.

The Guiana Shield, the ‘greenhouse of the world’

Akola Thompson 19 Oct 2016

Can conservationists overcome their differences to save life on Earth?

Mongabay 7 Jun 2016
Greenpeace protesting against a company's palm oil policy. Courtesy of Greenpeace

10 reasons to be optimistic for forests

Rhett A. Butler 5 Jun 2016

Epilogue: Conservation still divided, looking for a way forward

Jeremy Hance 24 May 2016

Conservation’s people problem

Jeremy Hance 17 May 2016

Conservation today, the old-fashioned way

Jeremy Hance 10 May 2016

How big donors and corporations shape conservation goals

Jeremy Hance 3 May 2016

Has big conservation gone astray?

Jeremy Hance 26 Apr 2016

Conservation, Divided: in-depth series starts Tuesday

Jeremy Hance 21 Apr 2016

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