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Conservationists in peril: Scientists, campaigners risk their lives for their work

James Fair 13 Jan 2020
Oil palm plantation in West Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Activists seek purge after Indonesia court rules forest plantations illegal

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jan 2020
Deforestation in Novo Progresso in the state of Para

Forest loss moves swiftly once 50% deforestation ‘tipping point’ reached

Mongabay.com 9 Jan 2020
Proboscis monkeys in Borneo have lost habitat to oil palm plantations and shrimp farms. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Palm oil processors top plantations in destroying proboscis monkey habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Jan 2020

Indigenous artists from the Amazon use art for environmental advocacy

Débora Menezes 7 Jan 2020

Report identifies tycoons controlling site of new Indonesian capital

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jan 2020
The spider Pamphobeteus sp. (Theraphosidae) and Chiasmocleis royi. Photo by Emanuele Biggi.

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Mongabay.com 3 Jan 2020

Communities in Ecuador fight back against palm oil

Alejandro Pérez 3 Jan 2020

‘Rediscovered’ after 100 years, Gurney’s pitta is in peril once again

Megan Stannard 2 Jan 2020

Illegal tin mining leaves trail of ruin in protected Brazilian rainforest

Ana Ionova 30 Dec 2019

Palm oil, fire pushing protected areas in Honduras to the ‘point of no return’

Leonardo Guevara, Lesly Frazier 30 Dec 2019

Habitat loss drives deadly conflict in Indonesia’s tiger country

Taufik Wijaya 30 Dec 2019

Brazil knows how to fight Amazon deforestation: Monitoring and law enforcement must be strengthened (commentary)

Juliano Assunção, Clarissa Gandour 30 Dec 2019
Forest canopy in Volcano on the big island of Hawaii. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Rainforests in 2020: 10 things to watch

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2019
Bamboo lemur in Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Global consumer demands fuel the extinction crisis facing the world’s primates

Alejandro Estrada, Paul A. Garber 29 Dec 2019
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

2019: The year rainforests burned

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2019

Photos: Top 15 new species of 2019

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Dec 2019

Action plan for red colobus

Esther Nakkazi 26 Dec 2019
Camvert has moved to establish a nursery in anticipation of logging FMU 0925. Image courtesy John Takang.

NGOs reject new oil palm plantation in southern Cameroon

Eugene N. Nforngwa 25 Dec 2019

New monkey discovered on “island” amid deforestation in Brazil

Mongabay.com 23 Dec 2019

Indonesian palm oil firm hit with $1.8m fine for 2015 fires

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Dec 2019

10 noteworthy books on conservation and the environment from 2019

John Cannon 23 Dec 2019

Illegal gold rush causing ‘irreversible damage’ to rivers in the Brazilian Amazon

Ana Ionova 20 Dec 2019

Indonesia fires cost nation $5 billion this year: World Bank

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Dec 2019

Deforestation for potential rubber plantation raises concerns in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 19 Dec 2019

Malaysia to let RSPO publish oil palm concession maps

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Dec 2019

Three pangolin species closer to extinction: IUCN

Mongabay.com 18 Dec 2019

Fighting to save an endangered ape, Indonesian activists fear for their lives

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Dec 2019
Sunrise in East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tropical forests’ lost decade: the 2010s

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Dec 2019

Arhuaco community of Colombia allows scientists to photograph ‘lost’ toad

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2019

Mountain gorilla census reveals further increase in numbers

John Cannon 17 Dec 2019

Dodgy science and corporate concessions in Indonesia’s bid for clean palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Dec 2019

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