most popular – 2016-10

October most popular

  • Hunting, not deforestation, biggest threat to Southeast Asian biodiversity: Study 53,216
  • Hunted to the brink: Mammals in crisis 32,836
  • Indonesia’s oil palm plantations are rife with spitting cobras 18,252
  • Lakes in community hands spur gains for people and fish 14,675
  • Company poised to destroy critical orangutan habitat in breach of Indonesia’s moratorium 9,647
  • 139 scientists shoot down ‘misleading’ reports from Malaysia peat congress 9,524
  • Exclusive: New satellite images show Ecuador drilling in Yasuni’s ITT 8,742
  • Vietnam sweats bullets as China and Laos dam the Mekong 5,876
  • The salmon crisis in Chile’s Chiloé Island 5,804
  • Park ranger murdered while trying to protect rare gorillas 4,626
  • Scientists say Amazon biodiversity could help fuel Fourth Industrial Revolution 4,342
  • New film documents real-life Avatar story 4,338
  • Economic impacts of climate change on global fisheries could be worse than we thought 4,140
  • RSPO loses key backer in Australia: ‘We just can’t trust them anymore’ 3,983
  • Environmental official murdered in Brazilian Amazon 3,958
  • Man surrenders pet crocodile he raised for 13 years 3,911
  • First-ever video of squirrel rumored to kill and eat deer3,562
  • Only 3 Irrawaddy dolphins remain in Laos 3,557
  • It’s a bear, it’s a cat; no, it’s a binturong and it’s threatened 3,201
  • Photos: Hundreds of new species discovered in the Eastern Himalayas3,136
  • Another pipeline spill reported in Peruvian Amazon as indigenous protests enter eighth week 3,122
  • From paper to tablet: A new way to record animal behavior 2,823
  • Jane Goodall on zoos and tech as conservation tools 2,781
  • Will climate change sink the Mekong Delta? 2,716
  • What does Nature give us? A special Earth Day article2,487
  • Mountain gorillas & Tree lions: experiencing nature’s biggest and baddest with Gryphon Productions 2,295
  • The Myanmar snub-nosed monkey: discovered and immediately endangered 2,108
  • Exclusive: Rainforest rapidly cleared for sugarcane in Bolivia 2,048
  • Small oil palm plantations are having big impacts on Peru rainforest 2,014
  • For the first time, bees get added to US endangered species list 1,930
  • How many trees are cut down every year?1,899
  • Tree biodiversity critical to forest productivity, study finds 1,894
  • Scientists dive deep to discover new fish species at 150 meters 1,854
  • Airbus to marshal its satellites against deforestation 1,841
  • Mother Nature and a hydropower onslaught aren’t the Mekong Delta’s only problems 1,821
  • New parasitic plant doesn’t use photosynthesis; its flowers never bloom 1,813
  • Hectare by hectare, an indigenous man reforested a jungle in Indonesia’s burned-out heartland 1,605
  • Study finds Brazil isn’t counting all deforestation in official estimates 1,440
  • Logged but not out: Altered landscapes important for conservation 1,428
  • The top 10 most biodiverse countries1,356
  • Experts warn more monitoring needed for the Guiana Shield, the ‘greenhouse of the world’ 1,348
  • What’s the current deforestation rate in the Amazon rainforest?1,346
  • Malaysia has the world’s highest deforestation rate, reveals Google forest map1,336
  • Russia’s Far East: then and now 1,300
  • A plan to save the Mekong Delta 1,285
  • Romania announces ban on trophy hunting of bears, wolves and wildcats 1,271
  • Strongest drought in 25 years hits Bolivia 1,232
  • A photographer’s journey into a Peruvian oil spill 1,213
  • Scoring palm oil buyers on their sustainability commitments 1,186
  • More than 20 labor law violations by Indofood alleged in Indonesia 1,088