Multiple pressures are acting simultaneously in threatening Tapanuli orangutan — from extractive industries to logging to agricultural expansion and, increasingly, climate-related disasters.
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In the past 11 years, we’ve lost roughly 300 million hectares of forest. Three ecologists explain why our current conservation strategies aren’t working.
Climate change is already reshaping the towering mountain ash forests of southeastern Australia, new research shows.
It’s vital we find cost-effective ways to get and keep more trees in the ground. Our research looked at where natural regeneration is likely to be successful due to environmental conditions.
Shifting from native forest logging to sustainable plantations will help protect these essential forests and the many threatened species that depend on them.
Forest fragmentation is causing the deepest and darkest parts of the world’s forests to shrink.
Two states will soon end logging of native forests, but what about the other states? The federal government has powers to intervene but also faces obstacles to nationwide protection of these forests.
More than 60% of global intact forest loss is unrelated to farming, our research shows
Deforestation in Brazil was falling before 2014. Under Bolsonaro, it’s back to record highs.
World leaders are slowly learning from decades of failure on tropical forest conservation.
Halting forest loss is a crucial milestone on the road to net zero.
Many are concerned that the highway is being built to benefit powerful commercial interests and not Indigenous people and will accelerate forest loss as seen in Sumatra and Kalimantan.
Attempts to formalise charcoal production have been largely unsuccessful.
New findings show how changes in land use have complex effects on animal and plant species.
Tanzania faces the challenge of conserving forests in a developing country with a rapidly expanding population.
A new survey has identified millions of hectares of forest in dryland areas, a finding that boosts the total global forest cover by 9% and has significant consequences for carbon budgets.
A time-series analysis of tree cover loss before, during and after road construction reveals a strong relationship between infrastructure development and accelerating deforestation.
Combining new technologies, including Global Forest Watch, a Forest Monitoring App and Participatory 3D Modelling, brings out traditional knowledge of the elders.
It’s important to close roads from further vehicle use after the end of logging operations. But these roads ought to be re-opened when the next phase of logging takes place in each area of forest.
More than 90% of Madagascar’s lemurs face extinction. Losing them will mean a loss of the valuable function they serve to the forests in which they live.
Top contributors
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Distinguished Professor of Ecology, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Conservation Director, Wildlife Ecologist and Microbiologist at the African Conservation Foundation. Lecturer and board member at the Institute of Biodiversity and Non-Profit Studies, University of Buea
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Director, Environment Institute, Adelaide University
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Scientist, member of the IUCN Oil Palm Task Force, International Union for the Conservation of Nature
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PhD student studying evolutionary mechanisms underlying spatial patterns in diversity, Yale University
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Professor of Forest Sciences, Bangor University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Environmental Engineering, Fudan University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Oxford
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Professor at the Center for Marcoecology, Evolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen
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Reader in Biology, University of St Andrews
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Lecturer in Conservation and Forestry, Bangor University
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Honorary Associate Professor, ANU College of Law, Australian National University
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Researcher on Environmental Economics, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Business and Society, University of Bath
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Postdoctoral research fellow, ETH Zurich