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Red ruffed lemur (Varecia rubra), a species that lives in northeastern Madagascar, where rosewood logging has been severe. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

CITES rejects Madagascar’s bid to sell rosewood and ebony stockpiles

Edward Carver 12 Dec 2017

New study: Gorillas fare better in logged forests than chimps

John Cannon 11 Dec 2017

Tanzania used as case study for quickly and cheaply identifying wildlife corridors in need of conservation

Mike Gaworecki 8 Dec 2017
Coquerel's sifaka (Propithecus coquereli), a species that lives in Bongolava. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Abandoned by their sponsors, Madagascar’s orphaned parks struggle on

Rowan Moore Gerety 8 Dec 2017

Counting tigers on smartphones

Deepa Padmanabhan 8 Dec 2017

Papua New Guinea gets its largest-ever conservation area

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 Dec 2017

Forest Code falls short in protecting Amazonian fish

Mongabay.com 7 Dec 2017

In rural Indonesia, a village learns to embrace its forest through sustainability

Dedek Hendry 6 Dec 2017

Deforestation in Sumatra carves up tiger habitats into ever smaller patches

Basten Gokkon 5 Dec 2017

Huge new ocean reserves announced in Mexico, Arctic

Mike Gaworecki 5 Dec 2017

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

Morgan Erickson-Davis 1 Dec 2017
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

New carbon maps of Sabah’s forests guide conservation in Borneo

John Cannon 29 Nov 2017

Indonesia to kick off 10-year plan to save critically endangered helmeted hornbill

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Nov 2017

Water sources under threat from mining in Ecuador’s mountains

Marlon Puertas 22 Nov 2017

Biofuel project near India’s rhino heartland sparks protests

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 22 Nov 2017
An endangered Sambirano mouse lemur (Microcebus sambiranensis), which is found only in two or three small populations in northwest Madagascar, including one on the Ampasindava peninsula. Photo by Leslie Wilmet.

Another blow to troubled Madagascar rare earth mine

Edward Carver 22 Nov 2017

Chocolate makers agree to stop cutting down forests in West Africa for cocoa

Mike Gaworecki 21 Nov 2017

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

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Nov 2017

A tranquilizer shortage is holding back rhino management plans in India

Moushumi Basu 16 Nov 2017
Jane Goodall. Photo credit: Jane Goodall Institute.

Dr. Jane Goodall on being proven right about animals having personalities, plus updates direct from COP23

Mike Gaworecki 15 Nov 2017
Franco Rajaonarison, a guide, shows a rosewood stump in Marojejy National Park. Photo by Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor for Mongabay.

Madagascar petitions CITES to sell millions in stolen rosewood

Dan Ashby, Lucy Taylor 13 Nov 2017

The fate of the Sumatran rhino is in the Indonesian government’s hands

Jeremy Hance 10 Nov 2017

Is anyone going to save the Sumatran rhino?

Jeremy Hance 9 Nov 2017
A fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox), a species that lives in Marojejy National Park, which was ground zero for Madagascar’s rosewood logging crisis in 2009. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Logjam: Inside Madagascar’s illegal-rosewood stockpiles

Rowan Moore Gerety 8 Nov 2017

Where, oh where, are the rhinos of Bukit Barisan Selatan?

Jeremy Hance 8 Nov 2017

Scientists plan to map a ‘safety net’ for Planet Earth

Mike Gaworecki 7 Nov 2017

Worst-case scenario: There could be only 30 wild Sumatran rhinos left

Jeremy Hance 7 Nov 2017

Indonesia races against time to save new orangutan species

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Nov 2017
Dani man in Indonesian papua. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Does community-based forest management work in the tropics?

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Nov 2017

The Eighth Great Ape: New orangutan species discovered in Sumatra

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Nov 2017

Interoceanic Highway incites deforestation in Peru, threatens more to come

Bart Crezee 1 Nov 2017

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