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Warnings and protests mark Brazilian President Temer’s trip to Norway

Mike Gaworecki 22 Jun 2017

Religious leaders: Rainforest protection a ‘moral imperative’

Mongabay.com 20 Jun 2017

‘Communities should be involved from the beginning’: Kalimantan villagers demand development plans respect their needs

Indra Nugraha 14 Jun 2017

Over the bridge: The battle for the future of the Kinabatangan

John Cannon 3 May 2017

Cross River superhighway changes course in Nigeria

John Cannon 28 Apr 2017

Women could be a key to great ape conservation in the Congo

Tina Deines 21 Apr 2017

No safe forest left: 250 captive orphan chimps stuck in sanctuaries

Eugene N. Nforngwa 20 Apr 2017

Ebo forest great apes threatened by stalled Cameroon national park

Sean Mowbray 3 Apr 2017

Paying for healthcare with trees: win-win for orangutans and communities

Claire Salisbury 28 Mar 2017

From conflict to communities: Forests in Liberia

John Cannon 10 Mar 2017

Forests provide a nutritional boon to some communities, research shows

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2017

Environmental costs, benefits and possibilities: Q&A with anthropologist Eben Kirksey

John Cannon 28 Feb 2017

The Republic of Congo: on the cusp of forest conservation

John Cannon 27 Feb 2017

Scrapping Nigerian superhighway buffer isn’t enough, say conservation groups

John Cannon 22 Feb 2017

Proposed Trump policy threatens Critically Endangered Grauer’s gorilla

Sharon Guynup 21 Feb 2017

NGO takes action to save great apes in Cameroon’s Lebialem Highlands

Aminateh Nkemngu 31 Jan 2017

Indigenous traditional knowledge revival helps conserve great apes

Giovanni Ortolani 20 Jan 2017

Trade in skulls, body parts severely threatens Cameroon’s great apes

Eugene N. Nforngwa 19 Jan 2017

Pileated gibbons poached as bushmeat to feed illegal rosewood loggers

Demelza Stokes 17 Jan 2017

Great apes and greater challenges: Trafficking in Cameroon

Sean Mowbray 12 Jan 2017

Local NGOs: Ecosystem services, not orangutans, key to saving Leuser

Colleen Kimmett 4 Jan 2017

The year in tropical rainforests: 2016

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Dec 2016

Raging Amazon forest fires threaten uncontacted indigenous tribe

Mike Gaworecki 23 Aug 2016
Etnias, a 620-foot long mural in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, representing indigenous people from five continents by Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra. The mural was commissioned for the Olympics. Photo by Agência Brasil Fotografias.

Olympics to begin amid rising violence against Brazil’s indigenous people

Sandra Cuffe 4 Aug 2016
Levita holds a layer of dried crude oil from her farmland along the Marañon River. Photo by Brett Monroe Garner.

Health concerns, food insecurity linger months after Peruvian oil spills

Kevin Floerke and Rebecca Wolff 25 Jul 2016
Workers scoop oil out a stream near Chiriaco, in northern Peru, where crude spilled from a pipeline in late January. Photo by Barbara Fraser.

Amazon oil spill puts Peruvian communities at risk

Barbara Fraser, Milton López Tarabochia 26 Jun 2016
Blue color form of Dendrobates auratus dart frog. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

10 conservation “fads”: how have they worked in Latin America?

Aldo Orellana López and Alan Forsberg 17 Jun 2016
La Danta pyramid in the Mayan city of Mirador, as seen from a distance. Photo by Ronyrocael/Wikimedia Commons.

Controversial park plans in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve

Sandra Cuffe 17 Jun 2016
Marta Álvarez inspects xate palm fronds harvested in the Uaxactún community forest concession. Photo by Sandra Cuffe.

Communities lead the way in rainforest conservation in Guatemala

Sandra Cuffe 9 Jun 2016
Greenpeace protesting against a company's palm oil policy. Courtesy of Greenpeace

10 reasons to be optimistic for forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Jun 2016

Peruvian presidential candidates spur concerns among environmentalists

Milton López Tarabochia 3 Jun 2016

Successes and many challenges in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve

Sandra Cuffe 2 Jun 2016

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