Where does your timber come from? Genetic analysis may soon tell...
Illegal trade in tropical timber costs countries billions of dollars in revenue each year and threatens regional and national biodiversity.Researchers tested the potential of...
Carbon credit prices too low to protect forests from rubber, study...
Data indicate rubber plantations cover around 86,000 square kilometers – an area equivalent to around 67 percent of that of oil palm in 2014.As...
NGOs seek suspension of forest-related funding to DRC in response to...
More than 50 conservation and human rights organizations have called on international donors to halt forest conservation-related funding to the Democratic Republic of Congo.The...
the need for a strategy adjustment (commentary)
Ecologist Dan Nepstad is the founder and executive director of the Earth Innovation Institute.In this commentary, Nepstad makes the case for building stronger government...
Only 12 vaquita porpoises remain, watchdog group reports
The International Committee for the Recovery of the Vaquita reported in 2017 that there were just 30 vaquita left in the Upper Gulf of...
Public access to Indonesian plantation data still mired in bureaucracy
Indonesia’s agrarian ministry continues to hold out on releasing oil palm plantation data to the public, a year after the Supreme Court ordered it...
Trump to allow elephant and lion trophies on case-by-case basis
President Obama banned U.S. citizens from bringing home elephant and lion trophies from Zambia and Zimbabwe. In November, 2017, Trump’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife...
Arkani, the Dayak known as Jenggot Naga — Dragon Beard
“The palm oil fiefdom” is an investigation by Mongabay and The Gecko Project, an initiative of the UK-based research house Earthsight.The article reveals how...
Arctic animals share in vulnerable climate future
The media has long focused on the impacts of climate change on polar bears. But with Arctic temperatures rising fast (this winter saw the...
Brazilian ‘quilombo’ community entitled with 220,000 hectares of rainforest
Longtime residents of one of the country’s thousands of Quilombo communities have been given land titles for the first time.Quilombo communities are Brazilian peoples...
Jaguar numbers rising at field sites, WCS says
WCS reports that jaguar numbers have risen by almost 8 percent a year between 2002 and 2016 at study sites in Central and South...
How Tibetan Buddhism and conservation efforts helped Eurasian otters thrive in...
The Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) is now locally extinct in most of its former range in China due to hunting for its pelt, water...
