NEWS AND VIEWS (COMMENT): There is a war going on in the Amazon jungle between companies who have been issued with licences to log the forest and illegal operators who work alongside them at much reduced costs and who can … Continue reading →
Chinese conservationists and researchers have built an arboreal highway by using a rope to span between two areas of a fragmented habitat lived in by the Hainan gibbon. This is the world’s rarest primate. It is also the most critically … Continue reading →
Corporations in Europe are failing to do the right thing in respect of conservation and it is time for governments to force them to behave ethically in protecting nature. A non-profit group that investigates environmental crime, Earthsight, have linked the … Continue reading →
It pays to protect nature. It pays because the better you protect nature the less likelihood there is of people being infected by a zoonotic disease. This is because the kinds of animals that thrive in landscapes degredaded by people … Continue reading →
A pristine African forest, the home to some of the world’s most precious and endangered species such as apes and birds is to be opened up for logging. The forest is in Cameroon and China is now Cameroon’s biggest customer … Continue reading →
Just at the time when humanity should be preserving forests as they are vital to curb global warming, deforestation in the Amazon rose sharply in April as shown in satellite data from the Brazilian space research agency INPE. In Brazil … Continue reading →
