Vegetation change in Colombia's moist forest biome Colombia gained nearly 17,000 square kilometers of forest between 2001 and 2010 as forests recovered in mountainous regions in the Andes, reports a…
Forest cover in Sumatra, 1990-2010. The extent of old-growth forest in Sumatra shrank by 40 percent over the past 20 years, while overall forest on the Indonesian island declined by…
Change in vegetation cover by biome across Latin America, 2001-2010. Click image to enlarge. Latin America lost nearly 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 square miles) of forest — an area larger…
Comparison of carbon emissions from six leading countries. Click image to enlarge. Earlier this month the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration announced an 8 percent drop in U.S.…
Last month the International Union for Conservation of Nature — better known as IUCN — released an update on the conservation status of the world's lemurs. The update was not…
Gross forest loss in tropical countries, 2000-2005 according to Harris et al (2012). A study published last month in the journal Science came up with new estimates of tropical forest…
A brief overview of Indonesia's moratorium on new forestry concessions Indonesia has had one of the world’s highest deforestation rates since 1990 due largely to logging, pulp and paper production,…
Chart: Percent forest cover change in Indonesia and Malaysia between 2000 and 2010. Background satellite image courtesy of Google Earth, design by mongabay.com. Click image to enlarge. Indonesia and Malaysia…
