rainforest

China-owned MMG is proposing to turn 140 hectares of the Tarkine rainforest, known as Australia’s “amazon” in Tasmania’s northwest, into a tailings dam where it will hold the company’s mining ...

One Australian photographer’s quest for an elusive bird Down Under has born fruit after months of searching. Having ...

Massive swaths of rainforest have been bulldozed on the southwestern Asian island of Borneo recently to keep up ...

When a female orangutan was shot, separated from her baby, and left to starve on the rainforest floor ...

Can immersing yourself in a South American jungle and the high-fiber, unprocessed diet of its villagers make your ...

A new online platform traces the funds from companies that destroy rainforests in Southeast Asia to the banks ...

Papua, Indonesia, has the country's largest area of previously untouched rainforest. More than 300 indigenous tribes live there, ...

The Brazilian Carnival season is nearly over at Kew Gardens. It's the last weekend to see The Orchids ...

The past year has been a momentous time for the world’s forests, with both good and bad news.

Jaco, Costa Rica is a perfect vacation place as it has something for everyone. Lush rainforests abut sand ...

What big teeth you have, my dear! The better to eat insects with—and make one's own ecological niche. ...

The Brazilian government has released footage showing 'first contact' with an isolated group of indigenous people in the ...

Dr. Douglas Sheil on forest conservation: "Combine democracy with modern communication technology and improved information access, and it ...

A technology that uses discarded mobile phones to create a real-time alert system against logging and poaching will ...

Greenpeace showed through a recently published two-year, in-depth investigation just how rampant timber laundering is in the Amazon ...

Monitoring the populations of “uncontacted” tribes via Google Earth satellite images may be a noninvasive way help insure ...

Deforestation and fragmentation of forests in the Amazon help create tinderbox conditions for wildfires in remnant forests and ...

Deforestation is destroying forests around the world but a recent study offers a unique solution to replanting the ...

For more than twenty five years, an international non-profit known as the World Land Trust has been working ...