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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
