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Rainforest at Coed Nant Gwernol and Coed Hendrewallog, Wales. Jordan Mansfield/WTML for Woodland Trust

February 13, 2023

Livestock grazing is preventing the return of rainforests to the UK and Ireland

Emma Garnett, University of Oxford

The meat industry is competing with native forest for the same land.

Species lost from the eastern forests of the U.S. – from left to right: Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Passenger Pigeon, Carolina Parakeet and Bachman’s Warbler. Alexander C. Lees ©Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates

April 8, 2016

Will we soon see another wave of bird extinctions in the Americas?

Alexander C. Lees, Cornell University and Jacob B. Socolar, Princeton University

The extinction threat you haven’t heard of: several South American birds teeter on the brink of existence due to habitat loss. And history is not the best guide for how to save them.

Indigenous children depict fish in the sea at a pre-Paris rally in Sao Paulo. Nacho Doce / Reuters

December 10, 2015

Brazil fiddles in Paris while the Amazon burns

Marieke Riethof, University of Liverpool

The country must protect its huge forests from fires and logging.

These frogs are among the world’s smallest vertebrates. Marcio Pie

June 4, 2015

Seven new species of miniature frogs discovered in threatened Brazilian cloud forest

Miranda Dyson, The Open University

These tiny creatures have ditched tadpoles and extra toes to make the most of their habitat.

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