WCS-led raids lead to six arrests near Mozambique’s largest reserve
Sep 12, 2014, 1:05 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
A joint force of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and government authorities are in the midst…Brazil confirms last year's rise in Amazon deforestation
Sep 11, 2014, 8:57 pm By Rhett Butler
Brazil's National Space Agency INPE has officially confirmed last year's rise in Amazon…Illegal tropical deforestation driven globally by “agro-conversion”
Sep 11, 2014, 5:23 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
Nearly 50 percent of tropical deforestation to make room for commercial agriculture between 2000 and…FSC meeting weighs old-growth forest protection, smallholder participation
Sep 11, 2014, 2:17 pm By Rhett Butler
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), a body that sets social and environmental certification…Meet the newest enemy to India's wildlife
Sep 11, 2014, 12:35 pm By Jeremy Hance
A boom in infrastructure and population has forced India's wildlife to eke out a creative existence…Next big idea in forest conservation? Harness the power of marketing
Sep 11, 2014, 11:26 am By Jeremy Hance
As a whole, conservationists have been slow to adapt the strategies of marketing or to market…Why are great apes treated like second-class species by CITES?
Sep 11, 2014, 11:20 am By Jeremy Hance
The illegal trade in live chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans showed no signs of weakening…'We are running out of time': CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere surprise scientists
Sep 10, 2014, 6:22 pm By Jeremy Hance
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere made the biggest jump last year since 1984,…Bolivian vice president proposes unprecedented agricultural expansion (PART 1)
Sep 10, 2014, 3:45 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
On August 14, the Bolivian Vice President, Alvaro Garcia Linera, made a startling announcement: by…Elephants pay the price for palm in Malaysian Borneo, impact may reach far beyond reported kills
Sep 10, 2014, 2:27 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
More than a dozen elephant kills were reported in Sabah in 2013 alone, but it is unknown exactly how…Malaysian palm oil chief misleads on deforestation
Sep 9, 2014, 10:36 pm By Rhett Butler
One of Malaysia's top palm oil officials has once again misled the public on the state of forests in…Thought wiped out by climate change, 'extinct' snail rediscovered in Seychelles
Sep 9, 2014, 2:06 pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
The Aldabra banded snail was declared extinct in 1997 as one of the world’s first recorded direct…Zambia ends trophy hunting ban, elephants fair game
Sep 9, 2014, 1:39 pm By Jeremy Hance
After 20 months, Zambia has lifted its ban on hunting, allowing trophy hunters to target numerous…Parker/Gentry Award for Conservation
11:52pm By Rhett Butler
Last week I was honored with the Parker/Gentry Award for Conservation from the Field Museum. Several…4 Ashaninka tribesmen killed by loggers in Peru
5:03pm By Rhett Butler
One of those killed was Edwin Chota, the leader of the Alto Tamaya-Saweto indigenous community who…'Canary in the cornfield': monarch butterfly may get threatened species status
4:51pm By Morgan Erickson-Davis
Monarch butterflies were once a common sight throughout the North American heartland. But declines…Norway slaughters over 700 whales this season
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As of late August, Norway has killed 729 northern minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) during…Conservationist, indigenous leader killed in plane crash in Colombia
Sun 7:47pm By Rhett Butler
A conservationist who worked to protect voluntarily isolated tribes in the Amazon rainforest was…Pictures of endangered animals for Threatened Species Day
Sun 3:15pm By Rhett Butler
September 7 is Threatened Species Day, a designation established by the Australian government to…World's rainforests could be mapped in 3D at high resolution by 2020 for under $250M
Sep 5, 2014, 5:27 pm By Rhett Butler
Mapping the world's tropical forests with a fleet of airplanes outfitted with advanced LiDAR could…
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