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World Heritage Committee takes ten minutes to reject Australia’s bid to strip forests of protection

Jeremy Hance 23 Jun 2014

Regional court kills controversial Serengeti Highway

Jeremy Hance 23 Jun 2014

U.S. raises $800 million for oceans, including $7 million from Leonardo DiCaprio

Jeremy Hance 19 Jun 2014

Bigger than Mexico? Obama announces major expansion of Pacific protected area

Jeremy Hance 18 Jun 2014

Oil overthrow: Soco to suspend operations in Virunga National Park after sustained campaign by WWF

Jeremy Hance 11 Jun 2014

Bears, cats, and mystery mammals: camera traps in ‘paper park’ prove it’s worth protecting

Jeremy Hance 9 Jun 2014

Oil company breaks agreement, builds big roads in Yasuni rainforest

Jeremy Hance 5 Jun 2014

Guatemala establishes new reserve for endangered animals

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2014

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

Nika Levikov 29 May 2014

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

Jeremy Hance 27 May 2014

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

Jeremy Hance 21 May 2014

Camera trap catches rare feline attempting to tackle armored prey (VIDEO)

Jeremy Hance 19 May 2014

‘Simmering conflict’: the delicate balancing act of protecting India’s wilderness

Sandhya Sekar 13 May 2014

Coral could prevent HIV: newly discovered protein blocks infection

Morgan Erickson-Davis 9 May 2014

Australians rally to save World Heritage Site from chopping block

Jeremy Hance 28 Apr 2014

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

Jeremy Hance 28 Apr 2014

Brazil strips protected status from 5.2M ha

Mongabay.com 21 Apr 2014

Malaysia imperils forest reserves and sea turtle nesting ground for industrial site (photos)

Jeremy Hance 15 Apr 2014

APP pledges to restore forests, if given the opportunity

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Mar 2014

Europe votes for an Arctic Sanctuary

Jeremy Hance 13 Mar 2014

Peatlands biosphere reserve facing severe encroachment in Sumatra

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Mar 2014

Can the millions in urban India live among greenery?

Sandhya Sekar 6 Mar 2014

Scientists blast Australian leader’s proposed ban on parks

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2014

Sharp jump in deforestation when Amazon parks lose protected status

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Mar 2014

Will tigers march ahead? Scientists find surprising connections between isolated populations in Central India

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Feb 2014

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Feb 2014

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

Jeremy Hance 20 Feb 2014

REDD+ should finance corridors between protected areas, argues study

Dyna Rochmyaningsih 14 Feb 2014

Helping the Amazon’s ‘Jaguar People’ protect their culture and traditional wisdom

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Feb 2014

Cambodia protects forest for giant ibis

Jeremy Hance 10 Feb 2014

Study: 59% of Marine Protected Areas are ineffective

Loren Bell 10 Feb 2014

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

Jeremy Hance 6 Feb 2014

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