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When poor people pay the price for forest conservation

Mike Gaworecki 18 Feb 2016

Tracking technologies help to identify key marine areas for basking sharks

Katie Taylor 16 Feb 2016

Study gauges use of tea as buffer crop to curb mountain gorilla raids

Sean Mowbray 16 Feb 2016

Focus on great apes, draws attention from other species, finds study

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Feb 2016

Aceh citizens ask governor to keep bulldozers out of a crucial rainforest

Junaidi Hanafiah 12 Feb 2016

Tropical forest protected areas might be working better than you think

Mike Gaworecki 27 Jan 2016

Aceh citizens sue government to save Leuser Ecosystem

Cory Rogers 22 Jan 2016

Photos: Can helping local people save an embattled Nigerian park?

Lawal Sani Kona 20 Jan 2016

A new reserve for the world’s smallest deer

Ethan Harfenist 19 Jan 2016

India, China, Indonesia score lowest when it comes to tropical forest protection

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Jan 2016

Illegal gold mining spreads to protected Peruvian reserve

Apoorva Joshi 7 Jan 2016

Will Uganda be able to fulfill its pledge to protect its forests?

Arnest Tumwesige 6 Jan 2016

What’s ahead for rainforests in 2016? 10 things to watch

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2016

Needed: Old-age homes for coral reef fish

Sandra Cuffe 31 Dec 2015

Komodo dragon: one of Indonesia’s rare conservation success stories

Jeremy Hance 30 Dec 2015

Cocaine-linked airstrip appears in Peruvian national park

Ethan Harfenist 29 Dec 2015

The year in rainforests: 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2015
Young orangutan in Sabah, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Christmas gift to the planet: massive rainforest reserve created in Borneo

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Dec 2015
Chevron's Duri oil field in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

How does the global commodity collapse impact forest conservation?

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Dec 2015

New research sheds light on how to help birds in the vanishing Atlantic Forest

Apoorva Joshi 18 Dec 2015

Aceh official takes chainsaw to illegal oil palm trees

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Dec 2015

Biomass: a burning issue for European and U.S. forests

Greg Norman 8 Dec 2015

Roads to ruin: Africa’s massive infrastructure expansions could have major consequences

John Cannon 25 Nov 2015

New fund lands $4M to protect the Amazon

Mongabay.com 20 Nov 2015

Trouble in paradise: Wakatobi’s ‘sea gypsies’ adjust to life in a marine park

Melati Kaye 20 Nov 2015

After the NGOs: can Wakatobi National Park survive on its own?

Melati Kaye 18 Nov 2015

Superhighway construction surges forward in Nigeria

John Cannon 17 Nov 2015
A giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) climbs a tree at the Bifengxia Giant Panda Breeding and Conservation Center in Sichuan, China. Photo by Binbin Li, Duke University

Protecting pandas shields other species in China

Laurel Hamers 17 Nov 2015

To tackle climate change cheaply, first secure indigenous forest rights

Sandra Cuffe 17 Nov 2015
Sumatran tiger

Aceh’s priceless Leuser Ecosystem still shrinking as oil palm spreads

Cory Rogers 17 Nov 2015

The Holy Trinity: how Wakatobi’s coral stays healthy and diverse

Melati Kaye 16 Nov 2015

Community plants green shoots of hope in the land of the lost Javan tiger

Petrus Riski 11 Nov 2015

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