November most popular

  • World’s tallest tropical tree discovered, along with nearly 50 other record-breakers [43,638]
  • Hunted to the brink: Mammals in crisis [36,307]
  • Things you want to know about Mongabay [12,595]
  • Nigerian superhighway project draws international attention over threats to local communities and wildlife [11,783]
  • Off-the-shelf hobby drones are helping save elephants in Tanzania [6,623]
  • From Indonesia to Ohio: the struggle to breed Sumatran rhinos in captivity [5,176]
  • Company poised to destroy critical orangutan habitat in breach of Indonesia’s moratorium [4,012]
  • What does Nature give us? A special Earth Day article [3,359]
  • Rhinos to get new homes in India [2,947]
  • Morocco plants millions of trees along roads to fight climate change [2,901]
  • Discovery of baby Chinese alligators boosts hope for rare species [2,810]
  • Peru’s Manu National Park declared world’s top biodiversity hotspot [2,643]
  • The people of Ethiopia’s forests [2,460]
  • New millipede discovered in California has 414 legs, 4 penises [2,324]
  • Was Borneo once a land of tigers? [2,271]
  • Industry, NGOs agree to single approach to eliminating deforestation from palm oil supply chain [2,232]
  • These 3 new miniature salamanders are already headed for extinction [2,009]
  • Asia races to save the Critically Endangered helmeted hornbill [2,007]
  • New frog species discovered near Australian airport [1,929]
  • RSPO loses key backer in Australia: ‘We just can’t trust them anymore’ [1,921]
  • Nepal goes high-tech in its fight against rhino poachers [1,893]
  • Small oil palm plantations are having big impacts on Peru rainforest [1,886]
  • Ancient hunter-gatherer tribe protects traditional forest with help from carbon trading [1,868]
  • Another pipeline spill reported in Peruvian Amazon as indigenous protests enter eighth week [1,826]
  • Deep sea mining plans for Papua New Guinea raise alarm [1,822]
  • How many trees are cut down every year? [1,814]
  • Endangered species database ‘outdated’, underestimates risk of extinction: new study [1,772]
  • Can fig trees regrow lost rainforests? [1,766]
  • Meet the world’s 25 most endangered primates [1,758]
  • It only took 2,500 people to kill off the world’s biggest birds [1,725]
  • Where have all the lutungs gone? Mystery monkeys fast disappearing [1,706]
  • Palm oil culprits apprehended in the Leuser Ecosystem. Who sent them? [1,704]
  • Peru rainforest lost to illegal gold mining eclipses 10 Manhattans [1,645]
  • Seven African countries pledge to protect their tropical forests from unsustainable oil palm development [1,555]
  • 400-year-old Greenland shark might be oldest vertebrate on Earth [1,540]
  • Protecting gorillas at all costs: park rangers of the Congo [1,528]
  • For the palm oil industry, ‘engagement’ means turning a blind eye to deforestation [1,494]
  • Indonesia ships first containers of timber under EU legality scheme [1,480]
  • Computing cost-effective wildlife corridors [1,423]
  • Trump election leaves COP22 climate delegates aghast, shaken but firm [1,390]
  • Ranking the world’s best – and worst – palm oil companies in terms of sustainability [1,389]
  • Trump vows Paris Agreement pull out; world unites behind green economy [1,386]
  • The top 10 most biodiverse countries [1,384]
  • Indonesian court shuts down legal challenge to Aceh land-use plan [1,382]
  • One Tanzanian man’s quest to save the forest [1,374]
  • Feral pigs, vampire bats, and infectious diseases in rural Brazil [1,351]
  • Thirst for coltan, gold threatens Venezuelan forests, indigenous lands [1,349]
  • Climate change is impacting all aspects of life on Earth: new study [1,344]
  • Complaint against a palm oil company in Papua held in limbo by RSPO [1,294]
  • What’s the current deforestation rate in the Amazon rainforest? [1,272]
  • Sweden sets legal precedent with prosecution of Myanmar teak trader [1,254]
  • Damming the Salween: what next for Southeast Asia’s last great free-flowing river? [1,229]
  • The beloved Hawaiian honeycreeper birds are at risk of extinction from avian malaria [1,202]
  • New species of pea-sized crab discovered — inside a mussel [1,196]
  • Don’t feed the orangutans — a warning unheeded at popular ecotourism stop [1,181]
  • From Ohio to Indonesia: captive-bred Sumatran rhinos may be the species’ only hope for a future [1,152]
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