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Scientists reveal yet another reason fig trees are titans of biodiversity

Mike Shanahan 6 Jul 2018

India’s foxes and monkeys are dumpster diving and eating food scraps

Bhanu Sridharan 4 May 2018

In the Canary Islands, a good seed disperser is hard to find

Bhanu Sridharan 25 Apr 2018

Trees need a little help to reclaim deforested land, study finds

Mike Gaworecki 13 Feb 2017

Big animals have big impacts on tropical forest carbon storage

Shreya Dasgupta 5 May 2016

Seed dispersal by fruit-eating bats essential to tropical reforestation

Alexander Montoro 8 Jul 2015

Large animals invaluable for tree-seed dispersal and regeneration of tropical forests

Alexander Montoro 30 Mar 2015

Scientists reintroduce agoutis in rainforest in city of 12 million

Jeremy Hance 17 Dec 2014

‘Guns kill trees too’: overhunting raises extinction threat for trees

Jeremy Hance 12 Nov 2014

A weed by any other name: remnant shrubs and trees play vital role in regenerating forests

Heather D'angelo 29 Sep 2014

Planting meadows in the ocean: technique may help restore disappearing seagrass beds

Anna Ikarashi 11 Aug 2014

Logging in Vietnam still affecting rare trees 30 years later

Andrew Mann 25 Jun 2014

Small monkeys take over when big primates have been hunted out in the Amazon

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 21 Apr 2014

Ants plant rainforests, one seed at a time

Jordanna Dulaney 14 Apr 2014

Bonobos: the Congo Basin’s great gardeners

Christina Pham 11 Dec 2013

Scientists discover that even crocs have a fetish for fruit

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 10 Sep 2013

Scientists discover that marine animals disperse seagrass

Jeremy Hance 9 May 2013

An insidious threat to tropical forests: over-hunting endangers tree species in Asia and Africa

Jeremy Hance 4 Apr 2013

Seeing the forest through the elephants: slaughtered elephants taking rainforest trees with them

Jeremy Hance 11 Mar 2013

Selective logging changes character of tropical forest

Jeremy Hance 28 Feb 2013

Learning to live with elephants in Malaysia

Jeremy Hance 18 Sep 2012

Rodent robbers fill role of mega mammals, help spread tropical trees

Tyler Lark 7 Aug 2012

Struggling to conserve seed biodiversity: the gaps and wisdom in current research

Emily Eggleston 18 Jul 2012

Majority of protected tropical forests “empty” due to hunting

Jeremy Hance 8 Feb 2012

How lemurs fight climate change

Jeremy Hance 9 Jan 2012

Royal Society offers free special issue on rainforest conservation

Jeremy Hance 1 Dec 2011

Giant rat plays big ecological role in dispersing seeds

Jeremy Hance 16 Nov 2011

Critically Endangered lemurs disperse seeds, store carbon

Jeremy Hance 13 Nov 2011

Repeated burning undercuts Amazon rainforest recovery

Jeremy Hance 26 Sep 2011

Loving the tapir: pioneering conservation for South America’s biggest animal

Jeremy Hance 11 Sep 2011

How fruit defines Borneo

Janie Dubman 1 Aug 2011

Elephants: the gardeners of Asia’s and Africa’s forests

Jeremy Hance 25 Apr 2011

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