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New mapping system shows how detailed climate changes will affect species

Developing the world’s most sophisticated program for mapping endangered species

Marine no-take zones are succeeding beyond expectations

Birds face higher risk of extinction than conventionally thought

20% of Amazon timber illegally harvested from protected areas

Parks help people to the detriment of biodiversity, suggests study

Orangutan populations drop due to logging, expansion for palm oil

Kayapo tribe gets trust fund for Amazon protection

Madagascar signs big carbon deal to fund rainforest conservation

Colombia creates rainforest reserve to protect medicinal plants

China’s economic growth may be helping panda habitat recovery

Argentina’s primates under threat from agriculture

Tropical dry evergreen forests in India protected by religious and cultural beliefs

Mexican canyon serves as key refuge for endangered spider monkeys

Guiana Shield forests help preserve biodiversity and climate

Brazil creates 3 Amazon parks

Brazil’s new environmental minister blames ranchers for surge in Amazon deforestation

Brazil to establish huge Amazon preservation fund

Wildlife conservationist in Tanzania awarded prestigious prize

From “kampung boy” to conservation force in the rainforest of Borneo

U.S. government bans oil development in Alaskan Arctic area

Cache of rare and undiscovered species under threat in Panama

Borneo’s pygmy elephants are an alien species

World’s rarest gorilla gets its own forest reserve

Palm oil boycott an unrealistic approach to conserving biodiversity

Lungless frog discovered in Borneo

Monarch butterfly migration threatened by illegal logging in Mexico

Rwanda launches reforestation project to protect chimps, drive ecotourism

Do parks worsen deforestation through ‘leakage’?

India has 1400 tigers — not 3500

Madagascar’s deforestation rate drops 8-fold in parks

Screaming elephant-cousin threatened by logging

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