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Here are a few stories published this week by other news outlets. Tropical forests A look at what goes into caring for tapirs in Malaysia (The Sun Daily). The peace…

Tropical forests Scientists call for interbreeding between subspecies to save the Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) (Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/EurekAlert). Is "utility" the best…

Tropical forestsScientists are taking advantage of Colombia's peace deal to investigate areas that used to be off-limits (Science Magazine). Protecting Africa's forest elephants will encourage plant diversity, a new study…

Tropical forests Zimbabwe’s Matobo National Park is a haven for birdwatchers (The New York Times). Drinking water threatened by logging in the Solomon Islands (Wildlife Conservation Society/EurekAlert). A campaigner who…

Tropical forests A government agency in Indonesia aims to restore peatlands and help communities (CIFOR Forests News). Planting cocoa trees could help farmers and ranchers avoid further deforestation in the…

Tropical forests A construction magnate in Thailand has been charged with poaching (Reuters). Restoring forests requires the right tools, and we don’t have them all yet (CIFOR Forests News). Might…

Tropical forests Questions arise about new agreement to protect the Congo Basin's peatlands (REDD Monitor). Dozens of ancient villages, possibly home to 1 million people, found in the Amazon rainforest…

Tropical forests A new study finds that deforestation rates of 20 to 25 percent in the Amazon could cause a collapse of the hydrological cycle (Fundação de Amparo ' Pesquisa…

Tropical forests Cash convinces forest dwellers to cut down fewer trees, a new study in five developing countries finds (University of Colorado at Boulder/EurekAlert). The loss of Central Africa’s elephants…

Tropical forests Sabah (Malaysia) protects critically endangered pangolin (World Land Trust). Armed rebels in eastern DRC kidnap 18 staff members of Kahuzi-Biega gorilla sanctuary (The Guardian). Climate change will endanger…

Tropical forests Rangers key to saving forest-rich national park in the Congo Basin (WWF). Community-led ecotourism gives bonobos a fighting chance (WWF). Indigenous reserve 15 years in the making nears…

Tropical forests DRC reissues logging concession licenses, violating its own moratorium (Mareeg). NGOs charge that reinstated logging rights in DRC are on peatlands (Nasdaq/Reuters). No-deforestation pineapples available from Costa Rica…

Tropical forests Study finds that tigers may help herders and farmers (The Revelator). Physicists and mathematicians pin down method to measure fragmentation in tropical forests (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research/EurekAlert).…

Tropical forests More dry forests falling to deforestation than climate change in Ecuador: new study (Technical University of Munich/EurekAlert). NGOs call on pulp and paper producers in Asia to do…

Tropical forests Illegal loggers allowed to continue logging in Mato Grosso, Brazil (Climate Change News). Podcast: Brazil's increase in illegal deforestation (Financial Times). South America's indigenous communities ready to share…

Tropical forests EU blamed for tardy response to death of forest activist in Kenya (The Guardian). Baby okapi to greet visitors at Los Angeles Zoo (The Seattle Times). Gabon arrests…

Tropical forests Virgin Atlantic has stopped buying REDD+ carbon credits from a conservation project in Cambodia (Phnom Penh Post). Orangutans use plants to treat pain (Borneo Nature Foundation). Elections seem…