Selective logging leaves more dead wood in rainforests
Apr 28, 2015, 7:25 pm By Rhett ButlerUp to 64 percent of above-ground biomass in selectively logged forests may consist of dead wood left…EU votes to scale back on biofuels linked to deforestation
Apr 28, 2015, 5:22 pm By Jeremy HanceThe European Parliament voted overwhelmingly today on a new cap on biofuels derived from edible…Rainforest communities can now report illegal logging with their mobile phones
Apr 28, 2015, 2:10 pm By Rhett ButlerCommunities in the rainforests of Central Africa can now report illegal logging in their territories…Five tons of frozen pangolin: Indonesian authorities make massive bust
Apr 28, 2015, 1:39 pm By Jeremy Hance
Five tons of frozen pangolin, 77 kilograms (169 pounds) of pangolin scales, and 96 live pangolins:…Illegal ivory trade alive and well on Craigslist
Apr 28, 2015, 12:39 pm By Jeremy HanceAs it has become more difficult to buy illegal ivory from slaughtered elephants on places like eBay,…Peru's mega-dam projects threaten Amazon River source and ecosystem collapse
Apr 28, 2015, 10:09 am By Tiffany Roufs
Peru is planning a series of huge hydroelectric dams on the 1,700-kilometer (1,056-mile) Marañón…Leuser Park authorities still trying to move thousands of squatters
Apr 28, 2015, 3:45 am By Philip Jacobson
The Indonesian government will take another stab at relocating thousands of squatters from Mount…Predicting deforestation before it happens
Apr 28, 2015, 1:27 am By Rhett ButlerThe world's leading forest monitoring platform may soon help predict deforestation before it occurs,…'Deforestation fronts' revealed
Apr 27, 2015, 7:57 pm By Rhett Butler
Environmental group WWF has released a new report projecting where the organization believes the…Report: Borneo could save billions while still meeting conservation and development goals
Apr 27, 2015, 3:55 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
The three nations that share Borneo could save themselves $43 billion by more closely coordinating…Two more Sumatran elephants found dead in Aceh
Apr 27, 2015, 8:50 am By Philip Jacobson
A pair of critically endangered Sumatran elephants were found dead this month in Indonesia's Aceh…$100M study to look at how rainforests respond to climate change
Apr 27, 2015, 1:00 am By Rhett ButlerA new $100 million research project will examine how tropical forests interact with the planet's…'Zero Deforestation' not necessarily the answer, environmentalists warn
Apr 27, 2015, 12:03 am By Rhett Butler
Last week, the London-based think tank Innovation Forum convened a two-day conference on the subject…NASA reveals rise in deforestation in remote Peruvian parks
Apr 26, 2015, 11:05 pm By Rhett ButlerNew NASA data shows a jump in forest loss in two remote parks in the Peruvian Amazon during the…Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon continues to accelerate
Apr 26, 2015, 8:53 pm By Rhett Butler
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon — the planet's largest rainforest — continues to pace well…Jokowi must strengthen Indonesia's forest moratorium, not just extend it: activists
Apr 25, 2015, 5:17 am By Philip Jacobson
Less than a month before the expiry of a moratorium on new licenses for land-based exploitation in…Fracas over Costa Rican shark-fin exports leads American Airlines to stop shipping fins
Apr 24, 2015, 3:54 pm By Rebecca Kessler
Several shipments of hammerhead shark fins exported from Costa Rica touched on U.S. soil in…Ocean contributes $2.5 trillion to economy annually
Apr 24, 2015, 2:48 pm By Rhett ButlerA new study attempts to place a value of goods and services afforded by the ocean, estimating that…Conservation in Myanmar: a cause for optimism?
Apr 24, 2015, 1:24 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
Fifty years of relative political and economic isolation have yielded slow economic growth and…Thailand, Indonesia join forces against illegal fishing amid EU ultimatum
Apr 24, 2015, 3:38 am By Philip JacobsonAmid EU threats to blacklist Thai seafood if the industry fails to clean up its act by October, the…
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