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Good stewards of forests at home outsource deforestation abroad

Pictures: Belize Zoo devastated by hurricane

Belize lost 10,000 ha of forest per year since 1980

Photos: ants take top prize at Veolia Wildlife Environment Photography contest

Loss of old growth forest continues

How the overlooked peccary engineers the Amazon, an interview with Harald Beck

Photos: world’s top ten ‘lost frogs’

30 frog species, including 5 unknown to science, killed off by amphibian plague in Panama

With ‘psychological cunning’ wild cat lures monkeys by mimicking their babies’ calls

Inga alley cropping: a sustainable alternative to slash and burn agriculture

Two new frogs discovered in Panama amidst amphibian plague

How an agricultural revolution could save the world’s biodiversity, an interview with Ivette Perfecto

Diverse habitats needed for survival of small mammals in Mexico

Forgotten Species: the marooned pygmy three-toed sloth

How tree communities respond to distance to edges and canopy openness

Costa Rica proposes to downgrade Las Baulas National Park, threatening leatherback sea turtles

Developer uses cover of national holiday to clear rainforest near Colon, Panama

The faster, fiercer, and always surprising sloth, an interview with Bryson Voirin

New species of glowing mushrooms named after Mozart’s Requiem

Guatemala latest country to declare food crisis: nearly half a million families face food shortages

Concerns over deforestation may drive new approach to cattle ranching in the Amazon

Largely unexplored rainforest slated to be leveled for gold mining in Colombia

Tropical plant expert Stephen P. Hubbell wins this year’s Eminent Ecologist Award

Extinction debt can last millions of years

Protection of land crabs critical to the conservation of coastal tropical forests

REDD readiness plans for Panama, Guyana approved but rejected for Indonesia

Saving one of the last tropical dry forests, an interview with Edwina von Gal

Conservation through commerce in Costa Rica

First-ever photo of jaguar on Barro Colorado Island

New protections for coral reefs and dwindling fish species in Belize

Plant communities changing across the globe, says scientist Sasha Wright

Territorial disputes and conservation

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