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Rubber plantation in Cameroon edges closer to UNESCO World Heritage Site

Rachel Fritts 6 Apr 2018

Sarawak makes 80% forest preservation commitment, but some have doubts

Morgan Erickson-Davis 12 Mar 2018

Oil palm, rubber could trigger ‘storm’ of deforestation in the Congo Basin

John Cannon 12 Mar 2018

Europe’s beetle species plummet as trees disappear

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Mar 2018

Why intact forests are important

Morgan Erickson-Davis 26 Feb 2018

Tropical forest fragmentation nearing ‘critical point,’ study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Feb 2018

Deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon dropped 13 percent in 2017

Yvette Sierra Praeli 16 Feb 2018

Scientists discover 18 new spider-hunting spiders from Madagascar

Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 Feb 2018

Cattle invade Colombian national park

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 Feb 2018

Study: RSPO certification prunes deforestation in Indonesia — but not by much

John Cannon 12 Dec 2017

‘They want to occupy and take our land’: Land conflicts increase in Brazil

Morgan Erickson-Davis 1 Dec 2017

‘Much deeper than we expected’: Huge peatland offers up more surprises

John Vidal 9 Nov 2017

Indonesia races against time to save new orangutan species

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Nov 2017

The Eighth Great Ape: New orangutan species discovered in Sumatra

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Nov 2017

Estonia’s trees: Valued resource or squandered second chance?

Rachel Fritts 20 Oct 2017

Trending tree cover loss spikes again in Queensland

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2017

Is Norwegian money funding Congo deforestation?

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Jul 2017

First ‘intrusions’ into unbroken forests drive pulses of biodiversity loss

John Cannon 28 Jul 2017
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

How the World Heritage Convention could save more wilderness: Q&A with World Heritage expert Cyril Kormos

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Jul 2017

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

Kate Mayberry 26 Jun 2017

Footprints in the forest: The future of the Sumatran rhino

John Cannon 23 Jun 2017

New highway brings deforestation near two Colombian national parks

Taran Volckhausen 21 Jun 2017

Rebel road expansion brings deforestation to remote Colombian Amazon

Taran Volckhausen 19 May 2017
Not for republication. Image by Rod Harbinson/Rodharbinson.com

Indigenous groups, activists risk arrest to blockade logging in Malaysia

Rod Harbinson 8 May 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

Forest fragmentation may be releasing much more carbon than we think

Morgan Erickson-Davis 31 Mar 2017

In defining plantations as forest, FAO attracts criticism

Benji Jones 21 Mar 2017

Communities in Mexico step up to protect a disappearing forest

Jonathan Levinson 16 Mar 2017

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