Featured video: debating the tar sands pipeline as arrests mount
As arrests during a two week long civil action against the Keystone Pipeline XL in Washington DC rose to nearly 600 people, Bill McKibben, head of 350.org, and Robert Bryce,…
One of world’s rarest cats caught on video for the first time
One of the first handheld photos of a living, wild African golden cat. Gabon, 2003. Photo by: Philipp Henschel/Panthera. Africa is known as a continent of felines: leopards, cheetahs, servals,…
Big damage in Papua New Guinea: new film documents how industrial logging destroys lives
Douglas cutting tree in Papua New Guinea. Photo by: David Fedele. In one scene a young man, perhaps not long ago a boy, named Douglas stands shirtless and in shorts…
Featured video: WWF’s Astonish Me
Highlighting new species recently discovered around the world, the short film Astonish Me, was created as apart of a happy 50th birthday celebration for conservation organization WWF. "Astonish Me shows…
Featured video: Trouble in Lemur Land
A new film, Trouble in Lemur Land, showcases the Critically Endangered silky sifaka (Propithecus candidus). With only 300-2,000 silky sifaka's surviving in the wild, this large and distinct lemur is…
Video: Tiger trapped in Asia Pulp and Paper logging concession dies a gruesome death
Dying tiger. Courtesy of Greenpeace. Caught in a snare and left for days without access to food and water, a wild Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) perished from its wounds…
Video: camera trap proves world’s rarest rhino is breeding
A Javan rhino (Rhinoceros sondaicus) captured on a camera trap browses for food. Javan rhinos are herbivores and eat around 110 lbs of food daily. Photo courtesy of WWF. There…
Back from extinction: Tasmanian tiger caught on video?
A 9 second video released today on YouTube claims to show a living Tasmanian tiger. The footage was captured by Murray McAllister last year. McAllister says he has seen the…
Video: Amazon deforestation falls, degradation soars in Sept
Brazil development bank to fund ag emissions reductions Brazil's national development bank, BNDES, launched a 1 billion reais fund to finance projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with agriculture.…
Video: Dutch to ban unsustainable palm oil by 2015
Mongabay.com's Rhett Butler reviews what happened this week in forest news Dutch to use only certified palm oil by 2015 The Netherlands has committed to only using palm oil certified…
Video: Biodiversity gets a boost
Biodiversity conference closes Speaking at the UN's biodiversity meeting in Nagoya, Japan, actor Harrison Ford criticized the failure of the United States to sign the Convention for Biological Diversity. The…
Video: Wal-mart takes on deforestation
Week in Forests, Oct 22, 2010 Biodiversity conference opens Delegates representing 192 nations gathered in Nagoya, Japan for the meeting of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity. The CBD aims…
Video: New carnivorous swamp beast discovered in Madagascar
Week in Forests, Oct 15, 2010 Death toll rises in New Guinea flash floods linked to deforestation The death toll from flash floods in Wasior, West Papua has now topped…
Video: Global deforestation slows
Green party candidate Marina Silva captured 19 percent of the vote in Brazil's presidential election, shocking analysts and forcing a run-off. Silva, a former rubber tapper who was illiterate until…
Video: Forest report for Oct 1, 2010
The top forest news story of the week was the deepening conflict between Asia Pulp & Paper, an Indonesia based forestry company, and Greenpeace, an activist group. On Monday APP…
Special series
Forest Trackers
- Pasture replaces large tract of intact primary forest in Brazilian protected area
- Deforestation on the rise as poverty soars in Nigeria
- Refuge of endangered ‘African unicorn’ threatened by mining, poaching, deforestation
- Endangered chimps ‘on the brink’ as Nigerian reserve is razed for agriculture, timber
Oceans
- For reef mantas, Indonesia’s Komodo National Park is a ray of hope
- Easing of crackdown sees Vietnam boats encroach into Indonesian waters
- Indonesia cancels fisheries infrastructure projects in Maluku region amid lack of funds
- Murky provenance of a Chinese fleet clouds Madagascar shrimp fishery
Amazon Conservation
- Pasture replaces large tract of intact primary forest in Brazilian protected area
- Ecuador’s Pastaza province, Indigenous groups collaborate on forest conservation
- ‘Giving up’: Amazon is losing its resilience under human pressure, study shows
- Pharmaceutical water pollution detected deep in the Brazilian Amazon
Land rights and extractives
- Open-pit mining ban lifted in Philippine province, clearing way for copper project
- Ousted anti-mining mayor heads back to Philippine city hall after landslide win
- Thai gold mine blamed for sickening local villagers is set to reopen
- “Indigenous people are fighting to protect a natural equilibrium”: Q&A with Patricia Gualinga
Endangered Environmentalists
- Citizen participation: a key achievement at the first COP to the Escazú Agreement
- “We are on the front line”: Q&A with Indigenous land defender Adiela Jineth Mera Paz
- Death threats and friction with military force Guatemalan rangers to flee
- Amazon mining threatens dozens of uncontacted Indigenous groups, study shows
Indonesia's Forest Guardians
- From Flores to Papua: Meet 10 of Indonesia’s mangrove guardians
- Why I stand for my tribe’s forest: It gives us food, culture, and life (commentary)
- Reforesting a village in Indonesia, one batch of gourmet beans at a time
- Restoring Sumatra’s Leuser Ecosystem, one small farm at a time
Conservation Effectiveness
- In prioritizing conservation, animal culture should be a factor, study says
- Young forests can help heal tropical aquatic ecosystems: Study
- How sharing and learning from failures can transform conservation (commentary)
- Is planting trees as good for the Earth as everyone says?
Southeast Asian infrastructure
- In Laos, a ‘very dangerous dam’ threatens an ancient world heritage site
- Bali’s new highway project sparks concerns about agriculture and conservation areas
- Deforestation notches up along logging roads on PNG’s New Britain Island
- Plantations and roads strip away Papua’s forests. They’re just getting started
