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New report: Brazil’s Cerrado could sidestep conversion for agriculture

John Cannon 13 Nov 2016

Beef consumers’ role in causing deforestation in South America (commentary)

Asha Sharma 13 Sep 2016
Rainstorm approaching across the Mara savanna (East Africa). Photo by Rhett Butler.

Savannas and grasslands are more biodiverse than you might think — and we’re not doing enough to conserve them

Mike Gaworecki 16 Aug 2016
Deforestation for a rubber plantation in Laos. While scientists have been pointing for years to the problems caused by natural forest conversion to rubber plantations, activist groups had been slow to target rubber relative to other commodities like soy, palm oil oil, timber, and wood-fiber.

“Ecological recession”: Researchers say biodiversity loss has hit critical threshold across the globe

Mike Gaworecki 25 Jul 2016

Building roads for agricultural expansion in Brazil is aiding the spread of insects that harm crops

Mike Gaworecki 29 Apr 2016

West African countries come together to stop the illegal rosewood trade

Mike Gaworecki 12 Apr 2016
Fires in Far North Queensland, Australia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Rekindling Australia’s Aboriginal past to fight climate change (Commentary)

Catherine Monagle 8 Apr 2016

Brazil’s Cerrado region: A new tropical deforestation hotspot

Mike Gaworecki 8 Apr 2016

Threatened West African rosewood species gets CITES protection

Mike Gaworecki 16 Feb 2016

Can Cutting-Edge Drone Technology Help Answer the Age-Old Question of Bipedalism?

Andrew Lewis 12 Feb 2016

In the rush to reforest, are the world’s old-growth grasslands losing out?

Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Feb 2016

The Maned wolf: Saving South America’s largest canid

Sean Mowbray 7 Dec 2015

Tiny Brazilian opossum could be farmers’ friend

Brendan Borrell 7 Apr 2015

King of the jungle returns to Gabon after nearly 20 year absence

Jeremy Hance 16 Mar 2015

How termites hold back the desert

Jeremy Hance 5 Feb 2015

Videos: new film series highlights bringing Gorongosa back to life

Jeremy Hance 29 Jan 2015

Good intentions, collateral damage: forest conservation may be hurting grasslands

Anna Ikarashi 10 Jul 2014

Regional court kills controversial Serengeti Highway

Jeremy Hance 23 Jun 2014

Good news: Refuge for last blue-throated macaws doubles in size in Bolivia

Mongabay.com 2 Jan 2014

Scientists make one of the biggest animal discoveries of the century: a new tapir

Jeremy Hance 16 Dec 2013

Scientists discover that threatened bird migrates entirely within Amazon Basin

Jeremy Hance 11 Sep 2013

Zoo races to save extreme butterfly from extinction

Jeremy Hance 15 Aug 2013

Little NGO takes on goliath task: conserving the vanishing ecosystems of Paraguay

Dr Liz Kimbrough 12 Aug 2013

Saving the Raja of India’s grasslands: new efforts to conserve the Critically Endangered Great Indian Bustard

Mark Szotek 30 Jun 2013

Cambodia loses half its seasonal wetlands in 10 years

Mongabay.com 18 Mar 2013

Africa’s great savannahs may be more endangered than the world’s rainforests

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2012

Illegal hunting threatens iconic animals across Africa’s great savannas, especially predators

Jeremy Hance 25 Oct 2012

Conflict and perseverance: rehabilitating a forgotten park in the Congo

Jeremy Hance 19 Sep 2012

Buffer zones key to survival of maned wolf

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2012

Chart: Forest loss in Latin America

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Aug 2012

Climate change to favor trees over grasses in Africa

Tyler Lark 29 Jun 2012

Humans drove rainforest into savannah in ancient Africa

Jeremy Hance 9 Feb 2012

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